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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

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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

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Is Learning Arabic and Speaking it Obligatory on the Student of Knowledge?

Questioner: Is it obligatory on the student of legislated knowledge to learn the Arabic language and speak it? Al-Albaani: Learning the Arabic language is an obligatory issue due to what is established with the scholars that: those things which an … Continue reading

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Students of Knowledge not Memorising the Quraan–Why?

Translated by Ahmed Abu Turaab Questioner: One of the other things I noted about this good, alhamdulillaah, [Islamic] awakening, and this interest in knowledge is that [unfortunately] the proportion [of people] turning towards memorising the Book of Allaah and also … Continue reading

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Is there a Trial More Severe than that of Dajjaal?

Questioner: The trial which is more severe than that of Dajjaal … is it after or before Dajjaal? Al-Albani: There is no trial greater than that of Dajjaal according to the clear text of the hadith, ‘From the time of … Continue reading

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There is no place for the question, ‘How?’ in the Matters of the Unseen

Questioner: In the hadith of the Prophet’s Ascent to the Heavens, when the prayer was prescribed upon him صلى الله عليه وسلم and Moosaa عليه السلام asked him to go back [and ask for the number of prayers to be … Continue reading

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Wishing for Death

The Permissibility of Wishing for Death for Religious Reasons, and from the Signs of the Hour is that a Man will Wish for Death Due to Trials and Afflictions that have Come Down on Him The Messenger of Allaah صلى … Continue reading

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Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn al-Qayyim and the Perishing of the Fire

Questioner: In [his book] Al-Waabil as-Sayyib, Ibn al-Qayyim mentioned that the Fire will come to an end.  What do you say [about that]? Al-Albani:  Ibn al-Qayyim has two sayings.  The one which it is fitting to adopt [or rely upon] … Continue reading

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How can a Wife help her Deceased Husband? Can she Send the Reward of her Recitation of the Quraan to him?

Translated by Ahmed Abu Turaab Questioner: Recitation of the Quraan reaches the dead? Al-Albani: If the one reciting the Quraan is the child of the one who has passed away, whether it is the father or mother, then this recitation … Continue reading

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Does the Reward for Reciting the Quraan reach the Dead? How Can You Help Your Deceased Parents?

Translated by Ahmed Abu Turaab Question: O Shaikh, is it allowed to send the reward for reciting the Quraan [to a dead person]? Some people use what you said in your commentary on the Explanation of Al-Aqidah al-Tahaawiyyah as a … Continue reading

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