Author: tawheedrochdale_83ttjc52

Lesson 9:

We covered:

• Continuing 5 pillars – Salaah, Zakaah, Sawm, Hajj
• Eemaan: Belief in the heart, statements & actions – it increases & decreases
• Intro to the 6 pillars of Eemaan

Lesson 8:

We covered:

• What is your religion?
• The religion is of 3 levels: Islaam, Eemaan and Ihsaan
• The first pillar of Islaam – The Shahaadah & its conditions

Lesson 6:

We covered:

• Opening to the first principle – ‘Who is your Lord?’
• We know Allaah through His signs and His creation
• Example highlighting the obvious existence of Allaah
• Examples of signs of Allaah
• Allaah’s Lordship necessitates that we worship Him alone

Lesson 5:

We covered:

• The meaning of al-Haneefiyyah – The way of Ibraaheem
• Tawheed is the most important of affairs
• Shirk is the greatest of all prohibitions

Lesson 4:

We covered the following:

• The four main meanings behind the testification that Muhammad sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam is the servant and the Messenger of Allaah.
• A brief overview of some of the events leading up to the death of Firawn (Pharaoh).
• Allaah is not please with shirk that is done – even if it be with an Angel or a Prophet.
• Loving and hating for the sake of Allaah.
• How to interact with family members that oppose the Sunni way.

Lesson 3:

We covered the following:

• Statement of Imaam ash-Shafi’ee
• Statement of Imaam al-Bukhari
• Importance of knowledge
• Consequences of ignorance
• Introduction to the second treatise

Lesson 2:

We covered the following:

• • Knowledge
    • Types of knowledge
    • Types of Waseelah
  • Acting upon knowledge
  • Calling the people to the knowledge of the Qur’aan and Sunnah
  • Patience upon the harms faced along the way
  • Brief tafseer of Surah al-Asr
  • Religion isn’t about using ones intellect but rather what is in the Qur’aan and Sunnah

Lesson 1:

We covered the following:

• The importance of Knowledge
• The story of Muhammad bin ‘Abdurrahman al-‘Awqas who was born with physical disfigurement but became Judge of Makkah
• The story of ‘Umar bin Khattāb & ibn Abzā
• The opening lines into the 3 Principles