[So] my question [is]: Is the reward for listening to these cassette [recordings] the same as the reward for sitting in the masjid itself and the descending of the angels around them, enclosing them with the Mercy [of Allaah]?
Category: Knowledge
Seeking protection
What is your opinion regarding a woman who leaves a copy of the Qur.aan beside her young child, intending by doing so his protection from the jinn whilst she is busy and he is alone?
Forwarding Islaamic messages via mobile phones
In this present time of ours, and in particular [I wish to ask about the issue related to] mobile phone messages (SMS, WhatsApp etc.) which we receive quoting ahaadeeth, and at the end it states: ‘Forward this message, and you will be rewarded in like or more [plentifully]’. So what is your opinion regarding forwarding some of these ahaadeeth, particularly since we do not know their authenticity?
Memorising texts in fiqh, hadeeth and other subjects
He says that he has a desire to memorise the [well-known] texts in fiqh and hadeeth while he is young; he then plans to study them when he is older and apply [that knowledge]. So what do you advise the students of knowledge regarding that [approach]?
Invites others to do good, but does not do himself
If a caller [to Islaam] invites [someone] to [do] something which he is unable to do himself – even after having tried – but finds the one he is inviting will be able to do it, should he [still] invite him to do it?
Reading the Qur.aan without meaning
Will the one who reads the Qur.aan – yet does not know its meaning be rewarded?
Saying [صدق الله العظيم] after reading the Qur.aan
He says we should say [صدق الله العظيم] after reading the Qur.aan.
How to teach our children the authentic ‘aqeedah
How do we teach our children the correct ‘aqeedah?
Burning books of sound knowledge
What is your advice – O Shaykh – to the one who burns these books, namely: “al-Qutbiyyah” and “Madaarik an-Nathar” and attacks their authors?
The excellence of saying “Laa ilaaha il-Allaah”
at-Tahleel (the saying of “Laa ilaaha il-Allaah”) is better than at-Tasbeeh (the saying of “Subhaan-Allaah”) because of the statement of the Prophet ﷺ…