Shaykh Abdul-Azeez Aal Ashaykh
This was a lecture broadcasted through albaseerah.org on Saturday 25, 2006/ 1427H from Saudi Arabia
Translated by: Abu AbdulMalik Marwan Ibn AbdulMola – 2006/1427H
In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Compassionate
To proceed
My brother Muslims in the United States, Asalamu Alaikum Warahmato Allah Wabarkatoh, I ask Allah for me and you the accomplishment, achievement and help for all good. Verily this is from the success of Allah, that we are brought together with our brothers today over the telephone from these lands that are far apart but the hearts that are very close and the ideology that is one. I give you the order and advice you to fear Allah, this is an order and an advice that is ongoing and everlasting. This has been sent to the first and to the last as Allah gives this order in his Book
“And verily, We have recommended to the people of the Scripture before you, and to you (O Muslims) that you (all) fear Allâh”
“Is he whose breast Allâh has opened to Islâm, so that he is in light from His Lord (as he who is non-Muslim)”? (Az-Zumar 39:22)
So this person from the sign of his Islam is his love for Islam and from the signs of his love for Islam is that he is upright upon Islam. He is a person that has believed in Allah, his Messengers, his angels, his books and the rest of pillars of Iman (faith). He understands them, accepts them and believes in them. If Allah has guided a slave from his slaves to this understanding, to this love, then he should thank Allah, for this is a great blessing from Allah upon him. As Allah said
“You are the best of the nations raised up for (the benefit of) men; you enjoin what is right and forbid the wrong and believe in Allah” ( 3:110)
*I order you to preserve the prayer, making the five prayers that are ordered on time in congregation, making the Wudu (ablution) concerning it, preserving these things, upholding the obligatory parts of the prayer, its pillars, and increasing in voluntary prayer (nawafil)
Note: Here, the sheikh stopped for the purpose of translation, then after that he continued on saying
Preserve your prayer, protect your prayer, make sure for the men that they do the prayer in congregation. Make sure you uphold its obligations, its foundations, and its pillars. Make sure you are doing the voluntary, the extra prayers. And when you pray, pray the prayer of the one who is truly preserving his salah (prayer), the one who is upright upon it
Be together O Muslims, hold each other’s hands and go forward, help each other in that which is righteous and good. Be together as one, Help each other upon piety, goodness and the fear of Allah and do not help each other in that which is evil and harmful. The believers are one body. So O believers, be like that one body if one part of it is hurt, the rest of the body stays up at night in pain and fever. Be from the people who are like one wall, hold together as one
“Help you one another in AlBirr and AtTaqwa (virtue, righteousness and piety); but do not help one another in sin and transgression. (Al-Ma’idah 5:2)