The Good Life
Excellent talk by Shaykh Muhammad bin Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Al-Shanqiti. Well worth watching.
Archive for the 'General Talks' Category
She Raised Her Hands
What did she do when she was facing problems and debt? How did she turn to? What should we do when faced with trials?
This video is the second episode of the ‘Take Five’ series of short video blogs about Islam, Muslims and general reminders.
The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said: “Take advantage of five matters before five other matters: your youth, before you become old; your health, before you fall sick; your wealth, before you become poor; your free time before you become busy; and your life, before your death.”
You can subscribe to the series at the Muslim Video Blog: www.youtube.com/muslimvideoblog.
Hajar’s Trial
What did Hajar say when she was ordered to do something by Allah? Did she say it is impractical, difficult?
This video is the first of the ‘Take Five Before Five’ series of short video blogs about Islam, Muslims and general reminders.
The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said: “Take advantage of five matters before five other matters: your youth, before you become old; your health, before you fall sick; your wealth, before you become poor; your free time before you become busy; and your life, before your death.”
You can subscribe to the series at the Muslim Video Blog: www.youtube.com/muslimvideoblog.
Muslims on Trial – Lessons from History
This lecture is from the Islamic Network Seminar – Trials and Tribulations.
Muhammad (SAW) – The Prophet of Mercy
This short talk provides glimpses of the Life of the Last Messenger, Muhammad sall Allahu alayhi wa salam; a talk ideal for Non-Muslims and Muslims
Trials and Tribulations: When is the Help of Allah Coming?
Doesn’t Allah hear the cry of the Orphans in Afghanistan? Doesn’t Allah see the blood of our brothers in Chechnya? Why are the Muslims so ‘humiliated’? When is the Help and Victory of Allah coming?
This lecture is from the Islamic Network Seminar – Operation: Restoring the Balance.
Ka’ab Ibnu Malik
This moving story of Ka’ab ibnu Malik, and the incident of the Tabuk Expedition, has been a story from which the scholars have deliberated countless teachings to generations of muslims.
…Nobody stayed behind except those who were either hindered by a serious excuse or the hypocrites who told lies to Allâh and His Messenger. Some of those hypocrites’ lingering was due to an excuse based on forgery and delusion. Some others tarried, but didn’t ask for instant permission. But there were three believers who unjustifiably lingered. They were the ones whose faith Allâh tried, but later He returned to them in Mercy and accepted their repentance. One of the believers’ stories is recorded in an authentic hadith, from which generations of Muslim’s have taken lessons, morals and derived great benefit from…
The Time to Establish the Prayer
A lecture highlighting the grave consequences of leaving the prayer, and how we should establish the prayer and become steadfast upon it. The speaker discusses (according to the Qur’an and Sunnah) whether the one who leaves the prayer is a Muslim, or has left the fold of Islam?
False Portraits: Women in Islâm and the West
This lecture highlights how the media has falsely portrayed the Woman. The lecture, simply and clearly, dispels the feminist approach which has been enprinted in the minds of the Muslims and Non-Muslims across the world, clarifying the false notion of the ABSOLUTE equality of man and woman. It provides the ‘little known’ history of the West and Islâm with regards to their treatment of women.
Indeed, is it not the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, and all that is within it, who knows what is best for his subjects? The lecture characterises the true nature of man and woman as told to us by Allâh and His Messenger.
