Author Archives: The Albaani Blog
Can People See The Angels?
Questioner: Can people see the angels? Al-Albaani: In the form Allaah created them in, no. In forms which they may imitate, then of course. And Ai’ishah, may Allaah be pleased with her, and others saw Jibreel in the form of … Continue reading
Filed under Affairs of Creed [Aqeedah]
Are There Companions Who Will be Called to Account and Then Punished and Who Will Then Enter Paradise?
Questioner: Our Shaikh, are there people from the Companions who will be called to account and then punished and who will then enter Paradise? Are any of them of such levels? Al-Albaani: Why are you concerned about that? [Lit: what … Continue reading
Filed under Questions and Answers
Al-Albaani on His Balcony and The Fig Tree
“There used to be a fig tree in his house in Amman [Jordan], from which he would take figs while seated on his balcony. He would do so by using a long stick that he had devised where he had … Continue reading
Is It Okay to Go Out for Da’wah [Khuruj] with the Tablighi Jamaa’ah?
Questioner: If I have turned to [wanting to practise] the religion and have no knowledge and an Islamic group asks me to go out with them for da’wah and some brothers at the mosque warn me stating that this jamaa’ah … Continue reading
Filed under The Tablighi Jamaa'ah
Al-Albaani and His Bicycle: The Turbaned Shaikh was the Talk of the Town But He Didn’t Care
He said, “I bought a bicycle to ride and it was the first time the Damascenes saw such a spectacle: a turbaned Shaikh riding a bicycle! They were astonished at such a sight. There used to be a magazine called … Continue reading
Use Your Brain
Questioner: A questioner says, ‘When some scholars give a religious verdict [fatwaa] in a certain issue and another group of scholars give a verdict which is the opposite of the first, which one should the common Muslim follow?’ Al-Albaani: The … Continue reading
Filed under Methodology
Was al-Hajjaaj ibn Yusuf ath-Thaqafi a Kaafir?
Questioner: What is the correct view regarding al-Hajjaaj ibn Yusuf ath-Thaqafi? Was he a kaafir? Al-Albaani: Even though we attest to the fact that al-Hajjaaj was a profligate oppressor, we do not know that he denied anything known to necessarily … Continue reading
Filed under On Eemaan and Issues of Takfeer
Father Listening to Music and Looking at Female Dancers …
Questioner: A man that Allaah has put to trial through his aged father who does not abstain from sinning, like listening to singing, looking at women dancers and disparaging some of the Companions, and when he advises him he doesn’t … Continue reading
Filed under Questions and Answers
Al-Albaani’s Oath
“Yes, by Allaah, I believe in Allaah and Allaah’s Messenger and in what has reached us from our Salaf as-Saalih.” Su’aalaat, p. 100.
Filed under Methodology
Retraction of Post Entitled: “I think … I say … my saying in this affair is …”
There was a post I translated over a year ago with the title as mentioned above. I happened to be going over it again yesterday and when I referred back to the source mentioned in it, all I could find … Continue reading
Filed under Announcements
