QSSC Needs Some Help

A message and request from the Qur’an & Sunnah Society of Canada sent today:

Shaikh Muhammad Musa Nasr to Visit This July

It’s just been announced that Shaikh Abū Anas Muhammad Mūsâ Nasr will be visiting us this July and will be staying until August. Exact dates, times and venues haven’t been announced yet, so keep posted for more information.

Quote … Unquote … no. 14

If establishing the obligations from knowledge, jihâd, and other than that, is not feasable except through someone who has heresy whose harm (i.e., the heresy’s) is lesser than the harm of leaving that obligation, obtaining the obligation’s advantage with the likely disadvantage along with it is better than the opposite (i.e., not obtaining the obligation’s advantage at all).

Shaikh of Islam Ibn Taimiyyah
Majmū al-Fatâwâ, vol. 28, pg. 212
Quoted by way of Shaikh Alî al-Halabî’s Manhaj as-Salaf as-Sâlih, pg. 50

Extremists behind anti-war protest driven off the streets by moderate Muslims

May Allah reward and bless brother Abdulhaq for this link; much thanks. Recently, the brothers in Luton took action against a protest staged by Omar Bakri’s crew driving them off the streets. You can read the story below or click on the link above.

Quote … Unquote … no. 13

Here’s another quote from the same brother who sent me the previous one. This one’s quite nice and gives us all (including myself, especially in recent days) something to seriously ponder on.

Allah, glorified and exalted is He, created this human race[1] for Himself and laid special claim to it. He created everything for it and on account of it,[2] just as in the divine narration, “Son of Adam, I created you for Myself and I created everything for you. So by My right upon you, do not distract yourself with what I created for you from what I created you for.”[3] In another narration, [He said], “Son of Adam, I created you for Myself, so do not play.[4] I guaranteed your provision, so do not toil. Son of Adam, seek Me, you will find Me. If you find Me, you will have found everything while if I eluded you, everything will have eluded you—and I am more beloved[5] to you than everything.”[6] He, glorified and exalted is He, made the prayer a connective cause to His closeness, dialogue [with Him], His love, and intimacy with Him.

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah
Kitâb Asrâr as-Salâh wal-Farq wal-Muwâzanah bain Dhawq as-Salâh was-Samâ’, pgs. 68-69.

Quote … Unquote … no. 12

I got this quote from an email one brother sent me, may Allah reward and bless him, and since I haven’t posted anything in quite a while, I thought I’d share it with you folks (sorry for the long period of inactivity on my part; I’ve been preoccupied with worldly matters).

al-Khallâl said,

Muhammad bin Ahmad at-Tarsūsî informed me saying, “I heard Muhammad bin Yazîd al-Mustamilî saying a man asked Ahmad bin Hanbal, ‘Do I write down the books of opinion?’ He (i.e., Ahmad) said, ‘Do not do [it]. Upon you are the narrations and the Hadîth.” So the questioner said to him, ‘Surely ‘Abdallah bin al-Mubârak has written them.’ So Ahmad said to him, ‘Ibn al-Mubârak was not revealed from the heaven! Certainly, we were ordered to take knowledge from above.’”

Tabaqât al-Hanâbilah, vol. 2, pg. 392.