Rasheed Gonzales

By Shaikh ‘Alî bin Hasan bin ‘Abdil-Hamîd al-Halabî
(Taken from The Ruling Regarding the Abandoner of the Prayer, a future QSS publication, may Allah facilitate its completion)

The praise is for Allah with His praise’s due and may the salutations and the peace be upon His prophet and His servant, and upon his family, his companions, and his delegation.

As for what follows, then indeed, the first printing of this beneficial (if Allah willed)[1] treatise was during the life of our shaikh, the great scholar, the imam, Abî ‘Abdir-Rahmân Muhammad Nâsir ad-Dîn al-Albânî (may Allah have mercy on him), and to his pleasure. Now this is the second printing to be prepared for print and distribution … however, after his bereavement and his death—may Allah shower him with His mercy.

Surely it goes without mentioning the emphasis of, that this blessed treatise—and the praise is Allah’s—Allah has caused immense benefit with its previous printing. And that is from two aspects. The first is the return of many from the abandoners of the prayer, the misguided strayers, and the dissolute sinners, to the truth’s main path and Allah’s straight way due to what it included of legislative heavy hits, religious frightenings, and scholastic encourangements that gave life to the lifelessness of their hearts and rectified the corruption of their limbs. The second is the good grasp of the scholastic issue with respect to excommunication[2] and its abscence in such a manner that the statement regarding it is the moderate statement, without loss, nor excess, distant from exaggeration, contrary to insufficiency, and in conformity with the opinions of the splendid People of the Sunnah.[3]

As I mentioned in the introduction of the first printing (on pg. 22), then indeed the origin of this study is a scholastic {hadîth} extraction from our shaikh, may Allah have mercy on him, for a narration from the [various] narrations of the authentically established hadîths of the Intercession, whose foundation groups from the People of Heresies, old and new, have differed on; and that[4] is in his brilliantly beneficial book, Silsilah al-Ahâdîth as-Sahîhah (no. 3054).

Read the rest of this entry »

It is not said about knowledge [that it is] like a treasure, nor [that] one spends from it.

Salmân al-Fârisî, may Allah be pleased with him.
Silsilah al-Âthâr as-Sahîhah by Abū ‘Abdillah ad-Dânî bin Munîr Âl Zahawî, pg. 35

I translated this quote and sent it out on the Aqeedatus-Salaf Yahoo Groups mailing list sometime last year. I thought I would edit it slightly and post it here on my blog for the benefit of the visitors who bother to come here. Allah willing, those who find interest in it will benefit from what the great imam mentions regarding this hadîth.

In his book at-Takhwîf ‘an an-Nâr (Inciting Fear for the Fire), Ibn Rajab writes,

Zaid bin Aslam narrated from ‘Atâ’ bin Yassâr, from Abî Sa’îd al-Khudrî, from the Prophet, may Allah send salutations and peace upon him, in a long hadîth from which mention of the journey over the Bridge (the Sirât) preceded, then he said, « … until when the believers are saved from the Fire. Then by the One in whose hand is my soul, none of you are more intense in earnest appeal to Allah for the fulfillment of a right than the believers to Allah on the Day of Standing for their brothers who are in the Fire. They will say, “Our Lord! Surely, they used to fast with us, and pray and make pilgrimage!” So it is said to them, “Go and take out whoever you recognise for their likenesses are forbidden for the Fire.” So they take out many people [who] the Fire had seized upto the halves of their shins and up to their knees.

Read the rest of this entry »

I recently took part in a discussion in the comments section to Umar Lee’s blog under an entry titled Movies and pretending like you don’t go. Some of the comments made to this entry are what prompted me to write this one.

In the post written by Umar, he was criticizing brothers and sisters who criticized another brother for posting up a review about the movie 300 that was recently released in theatres earlier this month. The brother who wrote the review (who I won’t name here) was apparently chastised for writing the review and was pressured to take it down by some “Muslim phonies (who [Umar’s] sure were watching TV as they were typing)” —how he’s so certain of that, only Allah knows. The brother then posted an apology for the review, which has subsequently been taken down as well (I haven’t read the brother’s blog myself, this info is strictly from what was mentioned on Umar’s blog).

Read the rest of this entry »