The Prophet said “Facilitate and do not make things difficult.”
Commenting on this hadeeth, The Sheikh (Abul Abbas Al-Mursi) said:
“In other words, lead people to Allah 
and to nothing else. He who leads you to this world has deceived you and he who leads you to good deeds will wear you down. But he who leads you to Allah has counseled you aright.” [Taken from Lataa'if Al-Minan]
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Monthly Reflection for May 2008: Thoughts by Abul Layth
As I was looking through Al-Hafith Ibn Hajr Al-’Asqalani’s Talkhis Al-Habir I came acrossed a hadith that struck my soul. The author writes as the section heading,
“. It is recommended (mustahabb) for the one placing the deceased into the grave to say,
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ وَعَلَى مِلَّةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ
“Bismillahi, wa ‘Alaa Millati Rasulullah
”
“With Allah
As that is reported by Ibn ‘Umar from the Messenger of Allah
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I have important Q, I always thought that Bukhaari, Muslim, An-Nisa’ee, Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah were Shafi’ee, some1 gave me an article by troid sayin they didnt follow a madhab, please shed some light on this.
Although I know many of the readers here are not Palestinian and have poverty in their own countries, a quick $20 or more will help to feed some Palestinians who are currently being beseiged by the Zionists and their cohorts.
The Nabi said, “Whomever helps his brother, Allah will help him.”
Another example of the pseudo-salafis tampering with the works of the Salaf-us-Salihin is their open and shameless tampering of the Ghunya of Abdul-Qadir Al-Jilani! The following scans provided by the brothers at Islami Education.com:
The Prophet said “Facilitate and do not make things difficult.”
Commenting on this hadeeth, The Sheikh (Abul Abbas Al-Mursi) said:
“In other words, lead people to Allah and to nothing else. He who leads you to this world has deceived you and he who leads you to good deeds will wear you down. But he who leads you to Allah has counseled you aright.” [Taken from Lataa'if Al-Minan]
Compiled by The SeekingIlm Team
The enemies of Islam, primarily those who attempt in vain to attack the authenticity of the Qur’an on the internet and elsewhere, consistently argue that the Qur’an has been changed drastically after the passing of the Prophet Muhammad (’alayhis salaam). One of the “evidences” they forward for their claim is the report from our mother ‘Aa’ishah (radhiya Allahu ‘anha) that goes:
[Abu Ubaid] said, Ibn Abi Maryam narrated to us from Ibn Lahi’ah from Abil Aswad from ‘Urwah ibn Az-Zubayr from ‘A’ishah that she said, “We used to recite Surat Al-Ahzab with 200 verses during the lifetime of the Nabi (’alayhis Salam). Then when ‘Uthman transcribed the manuscripts of the Qur’an (masaahif) he was unable to find [all of the verses] except those [verses] as it currently is today.”
This hadith is weak due to (Abdullah) Ibn Lahi’ah. We have already written a research paper regarding his weakness here. So do not be deceived by the usage of this narrative. Even if we say this is authentic, this would could simply mean that the remaining unfounded verses were abrogated and thus the companions unanimously decided to leave them out of their masahif, as well as memories.
Recently I stumbled upon a video in which it was argued that there is proof from the Qur’an that alien life exists. He based his claim on a particular aayah. The aayah is
“And among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the living creatures that He has scattered through them: and He has power to gather them together when He wills.” [42:29]
This aayah, I will argue, is proof of alien life in the Qur’an.
In an attempt to nullify the established verdicts of Imam As-Suyuti, the Albanite Mash-hur ibn Hasan Aali-Salman, helped produce a work ascribed to Imam As-Suyuti called الأمر بالإتباع والنهي عن الابتداع “The Command of Following and the Forbiddance of Innovating”. A questioner asked as to whether or not this work is authentically ascribed to Imam As-Suyuti to which the brothers at Aslein.net responded that it certainly was not authentically ascribed to him. Some of the glaring reasons it is not:
This is a fatwa I found beneficial from Amja:
Question :
Assalaam Alaikum
Thank you for answering the question 3484 but I don’t think it has completely answered my question. My question was more related to enslaving women after war even young girls who didn’t take any part in the war and just got enslaved because they were related to enemy soldier. I am not sure any woman would like to sleep with the man who killed her father, husband, brother or son irrespective of it being legally or socially acceptable? Does that mean owners of these women can force them to have intercourse and it will not be regarded as rape and it is permitted in Islam to forcefully have intercourse with slave women? Does that also mean that crimes that Serbs committed against Muslim Bosnian women were justified as they were also in a state of war?
Answer :
All praise be to Allah , and may his peace and blessings be on the last and best prophet and messenger, Muhammad.
Thank you for your interest in learning to be able to clarify unfair misconceptions about God`s last message to humanity, Islam.
The excellent treatment of slaves in Islam is a fact that I will try to highlight by proofs from the reveled text and historical accounts, including testimonies by non-Muslim historians and thinkers.
In the Quraan there are several verses commanding the good treatment of slaves, including:
“We pointed out to him [man] the two conspicuous ways [of good and evil]? But he would not attempt the uphill road [to righteousness]. What will make you comprehend what the uphill road is? It is the setting free of a slave….” (Q:90:11-13)
Az-Zanji: Muslim Ibn Khalid مسلم بن خالد الزنجي the Faqih of Mecca & Imam Ash-Shafi’i
Compiled by Abul Layth
Muslim ibn Khālid Al-Makhzūmī Al- Makkī is well known amongst the scholars as Imām Az-Zanjī. There are several reasons reported as to why he was called “Az-Zanjī”. Az-Zanjī literally means black and is used in modern Arabic to refer to one who is negro. Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal asked Suwayd ibn Sa’id, “Why was he called ‘Az-Zanjī’?” He said, “Because he was extremely black!” Al-Hāfith Ibn Hajr also mentions that he was called Az-Zanjī because he intensely loved dates. A slave girl once said to him, ‘You are nothing but a Zanjī because of your love for dates!’ And so the nickname stuck with him.
A neo-Muqatili Hanbali claimant recently wrote:
However, if a person says, ‘I don’t like the madhab of Ahmad and I am free of it’ as many of Jahmis like Abul-Layth do in terms of theology, then surely this would be heresy, sin and lack of respect, etc, but I don’t know if it would amount to apostasy…
This individual wrote these words in response to the recent article posted here that quotes Shaykh ul Islam Ibn Kamal as stating,
So this neo-Muqatili self-professed-Hanbali claims that Imam Ahmad’s school is the school that he is upon; the belief that the attributes are to be taken literally, that tafwid is heresy, that any ta’wil is heresy, and that the asha’ris are deviant “Jahmis“. Unfortunately for this individual, the scholars have squelched his creed throughout the ages, branded it heresy, and filled the libraries of the Muslims with thousands of pages of refutations. Some have been translated into English, for the benefit of the western Muslims who may have been bamboozled by the pseudo-salafi propoganda machine. Some of those works include:
By Abul Layth
I recently stumbled upon a short treatise called, “Risalah fi takfir ar-rawafid” or ‘Treatise (or letter) regarding the declaration of disbelief upon those who revile the Sahabah’ written by Shaykh ul Islam Ahmad ibn Sulayman Ibn Kamaal Basha (Pasha in Turkish), well known as Ibn Kamaal (d. 940 A.H.). I am not certain, but I think that Ibn Kamaal Basha was the teacher of the famous grand Shaykh of the Ottomans, Abu Su’ud (spelled Ebu Su’ud by some). It is interesting to note that the Ottomans referred to these rawafid as “Qizilbaash” - or those having a ‘red-head’, a term used to refer to the Safawid sect of raafidis who were prevalent in the times of the Turkish Ottomans. The following is a rough translation of an interesting excerpt from the treatise that I would like to share with the readers of Seekingilm. I would like to clearly state that this fatwa was revelant at the time of the Ottomans some 500 years ago, and may not be applicable in todays time for legal reasons one needn’t delve into within this medium. I have chosen to translate and upload this fatwa because I believe it holds historical, as well as academic relevance in the circles of the Sunnis or Muslim Traditionalists. Again, this fatwa must be taken in context and must be understood in the political sphere of 900 A.H. Now to the excerpt:
