1. All of this Ummah (Nation) is virtuous:

Anas reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “The parable of my nation is like the rain. One does not know if the first part is the best or the last.”

(Sunan al-Tirmidhī 2869, Sahih li ghayrihi (authentic due to external evidence) according to Al-Albani.)

2. The Prophet ﷺ called the Non-Sahaba his brothers:

Anas ibn Malik reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “I wish I could meet my brothers.” The Prophet’s companions said, “Are we not your brothers?” The Prophet said, “You are my companions, but my brothers are those who have faith in me although they never saw me.”

(Musnad Aḥmad 12169, Hasan (fair) according to Al-Albani.)

3. The Prophet ﷺ called the Non-Sahaba those of an ‘astonishing faith’:

Anas reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Who in creation has the most astonishing faith?” They said, “The angels.” The Prophet said, “But how could the angels not believe?” They said, “The prophets.” The Prophet said, “But the prophets were given divine revelation, so how could they not believe?” They said, “Their companions.” The Prophet said, “The companions were with their prophets, so how could they not believe? Rather, the people with the most astonishing faith are those who come after you and they find a book of divine revelation, thus they believe in it and follow it. They are the people with the most astonishing faith.”

(Musnad al-Bazzār 7294, Hasan (fair) according to Al-Albani.)

4. Virtues of worshipping Allah during the later days:

Abu Tha’labah reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Rather, you must enjoin good and forbid evil until you see greed being obeyed, desires being followed, worldly life being preferred, and everyone is impressed by their own opinion. Then you must take care of yourself and leave the common people. Verily, ahead of you are days of patience in which patience will be like grasping a hot coal. The one who does good deeds in that time will have the reward of fifty men who do likewise.”

(Sunan al-Tirmidhī 3058, Hasan (fair) according to Al-Tirmidhi.)

[Also read: https://islamqa.info/en/answers/3374/the-contrast-between-the-deeds-of-the-sahaabah-and-the-deeds-of-the-people-at-the-end-of-time ]

Sources of Ahadith: abuaminaelias . com.

Compiled: Abu Muaaz Mohammed Manna.

الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله…

I visited a young Muslim doctor regarding a patient who was diagnosed with Hepatitis B five years ago. And some current reports of that patient from a competent hospital said that the patient was negative (Hepatitis B negative).

(I didn’t know he was a Muslim, as I was expecting to visit a Non-Muslim doctor, so I didn’t start with a Salam, rather a good morning. Neither did this brother and another Muslim doctor with him give the Salam to me, even though at least from the outside I look like a Muslim with a beard and cap [Allah knows best what’s in my heart.])

When I presented these reports to the Muslim doctor, he wasn’t ready to accept that Hepatitis B can ever become negative.

(For your information Hepatitis B, medically and scientifically speaking, is like the HIV virus, which according to the doctors, once if enters the body, never becomes negative, i.e. it doesn’t go away.)

He kept repeating, ‘no it’s not possible’ even after me telling him that 5 reports from the last ten years did say that the patient was negative. He wasn’t ready to accept that what he studied in his MBBS text books could ever go wrong.

When I told him (after asking him if he’s a Muslim), “See brother don’t you know that Allah says ‘Allah has power over all things…’ (InnAllaha ‘Ala Kulli Shay-in Qadeer), when I’m telling you that I have medical reports for this patient from competent doctors that this patient is negative now, why are you insistent upon denying it? Don’t you know that it is easy for Allah- regardless of whatever disease it is? I appreciate that you’re speaking from the medical perspective, but I would consider it a defect in your Imaan if you remove Allah’s Power from the picture.”

The brother, said, “How can you tell my Imaan is weak, probably I’m a better Muslim than you?” (He said he felt offended.)

I said, “Yes you may be a better Muslim, but this statement that you kept repeating, ‘It is not possible- It is not possible…’ offended me as a Muslim and it shows your lack of recognition of Allah’s Power. At least in front of Muslims, tell, ‘This disease is incurable or this virus can never leave the body, except if Allah wills’, tell ‘except if Allah wills’. Because nothing is impossible for Allah.

(The brother kept telling about what they studied about it …)

I told him whatever you’ve studied, nothing is difficult for Allah right? (He agreed!)

So I left him with a parting advise- “Be mindful of Allah even when you make general statements as a doctor and never forget that Allah is Powerful above all things.” I apologise if I’ve hurt you, but it’s my duty to advise you.

Imagine if this doctor in his heart would really die, actually believing that Allah can’t cure AIDS or some other disease, what do we tell about their Imaan? Are they still Muslims?

The responsibility is due upon Muslim parents. Do teach your kids Imaan in Allah and His Messenger, before the school and college textbooks teach them their ‘Scientific Religion’ contrary to what is mentioned in The Quran and Sunnah.

A largely forgotten hero from the pages of our history, the Mujahid, Lion of the Battle of Boughafer (معركة بوغافر), Ossu Obsalaam (عسو أوبسلام) Rahimahullah., the one who gave nightmares to the occupying French forces.

Ossu Obsalaam, was born in the mountains of the southeast of Morocco, in the Taghia palace in the Amazigh province of Tinghir, 1890 CE, he was from the Berber people. He grew up to see a great number of Berber tribes unite to fight the French colonialist expansion into Morocco.

Soon Ossu Obsalaam was elected as his tribe Eelmshan’s leader (إيملشان\إيلم شان) in 1919 (after his father),& took over the leadership of the Berber Muslim resistance by 1932. He undertook many small skirmishes and raids against the French colonial forces (who entered in 1912).

The French arrived in the region of the tribes of Aayit Atta in the 1930s (Aayit Atta was probably an umbrella name for the Beber tribes in that region),then the ‘Aayit Atta’ met in the Taghia palace (1932), and elected Ossu Obsalaam as the commander-in-chief of resistance.

Some of the battles when the French forces had to get their teeth broken as they entered the Southeast of Morocco, in the Atlas mountains were-Tawza, An-Neef, Tazaarin and Naqoub. All this lead to Battle of Boughafer…

The imposing French army surrounded the Aayit Atta region using 83,000 troops (& this is not an exaggeration), alongside numerous field artillery and around 44 planes. Their bombardment saw no difference between the combatants and non-combatants, as is the case with oppressors.

Ossu Obsalaam fought them with a mere 7000 spirited fighters, frm 13th Feb 1933 to 25th March 1933,resulting in the deaths of around 3500 French troops incl. 10 officers. French bombing killed 4000 innocent Berber Muslim old men, women and children & 700 fighters were martyred.

After the French losses in the initial stages of the Battle of Boughafer, they re-mobilized and attacked with greater ferocity during the month of March of the same year (1933) besieging the Berber Muslim resistance fighters by land and air for a period exceeding forty days and incessantly bombing the civilian population.

Looking at the dire condition of his people under the bloody siege, Ossu Obsalaam with a heavy heart, decided to surrender under some favorable terms, for the sake of the safety of the Aayit Atta people.

He died on the 16th of August 1960 after battling diabetes for a prolonged period and was buried in the graveyard in Taghia Eelmshan, the place where his forefathers were said to have been buried.

May Allah have mercy on this great leader and Mujahid, Ossu Obsalaam, forgive his shortcomings and grant him Jannatul-Firdaws. Aameen.

Source: Summarized from Wikipedia Arabic and maghrebvoices. com.

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-Abu Muaaz Mohammed Manna (Dhul Hijjah 13th, 1433 AH, July 12th 2022)

May Allah reward all the brothers and sisters’ who’ve sacrificed their lives and high paying professions to teach Islam to the masses, with Al-Firdaws. May Allah forgive their shortcomings and raise their levels in the sight of Allah.

The parents who backbite these teachers by calling them ‘bearded bigots’, ‘over-acting for being a woman and covering like a black-box and teaching Islam’, are sadly finally forced to call these ‘black-boxes with Niqab’ when their teenage daughters start saying with the British accent, ‘I don’t believe in Islaaam’. Same with parents of teenage boys when they stop praying altogether.

I’m saying this with a sad experience brothers and sisters. Take your and your families’ Islam seriously. Don’t think that these secular Non-Muslim school and colleges will not attack the ideology of your children. They will and they are already attacking it. The damage to the Ummah has been done. Your love for the convent schools and hi-fi colleges will all go down when you realize that your child no longer believes in Islam, or starts thinking that ‘Islam/Quran/Prophet Muhammad ﷺ have mistakes’.

From LKG to 12th, the only Islamic teaching he/she have received (in 99% cases) is the one-hour Quran class in the evening, without knowledge of Imaan, without meanings of the Quran, without clarifying doubts etc. After 14-15 years of studying with liberal values like, ‘all religions are equal’, ‘just be good religion is not so important’, ‘science is the standard’, ‘men and woman are equal’, ‘Shariah is strict we need freedom’, do you think you crying and calling an Ustadh/Ustadha and telling, ‘Please come and talk for an hour to my child…’ will change the 14-15 years of rubbish they’ve learnt.

Two aspects of Tarbiyyah are important: The second aspect- Sending them to Muslim Majority or Islamic Schools. The first and most important- Having Islam at home and the parents being the teachers and motivators.

Also, no one on this earth says, Islamic/Muslim schools are 100% perfect. They have mistakes, but any day, they’re 200% better than the schools run by Non-Muslims. The parents who tell that, Muslims can’t manage schools well, no discipline in Muslim majority schools’ kids, no proper English there, are the ones who are either blind or are acting blind to what is happening in Non-Muslim schools.

Sending your kids to Non-Muslim schools and telling your kids, ‘Non-Muslim schools are better’ is the first step towards ‘apostasy’ (leaving Islam).

Why? Because- You’re indirectly saying that, ‘those who know The Qur’an and Sunnnah are imperfect idiots who can’t run a school and those who abuse Allah by doing Shirk and Kufr and hate Nabi ﷺ are better’!

Imaan is more important than anything else. And in all Muslim schools Alhamdulillah, they ‘at least’ keep mentioning ‘Allah and Rasoolullah’, they allow the children to pray Zuhr and Asr easily, they praise girls who do the Hijab, they teach them the importance of Islam. All this even if in a weak form done for 5-10-15 years does have an affect on the child. Think about it?

After that, it is very necessary for Muslim parents to continuously learn Islam even at a slow pace. Before marriage, the necessary questions guys and girls should ask each other is, ‘How will you put our children to sleep?’, if he/she tells, “Alhamdulillah I’ve properly read the, ‘Stories of Prophets’, ‘Stories of The Quran’, ‘Seerah of Nabi ﷺ’, ‘Lives of Sahaba’ and I will use them to put them to sleep.” this is the man/woman who can be the shepard for your children!

Sorry for speaking in so much length. We’re seeing children become atheists at an alarming phase!!! I hope you can understand the pain and trauma we as Islamic teachers have to go through when parents call us to rectify the porridge after they burnt it for 14-15 years. My words may be harsh, but what is being spoken about is much more serious.

Quran: “Our obligation is no more than to convey the message clearly.”
وَمَا عَلَيْنَآ اِلَّا الْبَلٰغُ الْمُبِيْنُ!!!

Fatawa by Ash-Shaikh Abdur Rahman Nasir Al-Barraak.

Can we call someone – who listens to explanations of texts (Mutoon) from the internet and tapes (recordings of scholars)- a Talibul-Ilm (student of knowledge)?

Answer: Ajal (Yes)! The student of knowledge is he who seeks knowledge from any means, from the means available to him, that lead him to his goal of seeking knowledge.

Nowadays, in these times, because of these means (modern facilities), the students of knowledge listen to the scholars who’ve passed away. They listen to their recordings as if they’re present (in front of them).

(Shaikh now gives some examples…) This is so-and-so listening to so-and-so, like Shaikh Abdul Azeez bin Baaz, Shaikh Nasiruddin Al-Albani and many other than them, we have (woken up to) now a great blessing (because of these modern means). [End of the answer]

https://sh-albarrak.com/article/7981

– Translated by Mohammed bin Thajammul Hussain Manna (2nd Dhul-Hijjah, 1443 AH, 2nd July 2022)