_Summary of the Podcast_ 00:00:00 Ustadh Abu Taymiyyah shares his background and how his upbringing influenced his pursuit of knowledge. Born in the Netherlands but raised in north London, he grew up in an environment that was not conducive to his spiritual growth. His father, who encouraged him to memorize the Quran, played a significant role in shaping his desire for knowledge. After finishing secondary school, Abu Taymiyyah moved to Leicester due to the negative influences in his previous environment. 00:05:00 He discusses his first trip abroad, which was to Yemen when he was around college age He joined a Quran memorizing course but it was his first exposure to grave worship at the institute. He visited the graves of scholars and prophets, which raised questions about the practice's compatibility with Sharia law. 00:10:00 Ustad Taymiyah also clarifies(about Masjid Nawai and the prophet's grave) that praying at graves, which is a controversial practice, is not condoned if the grave is inside the masjid or if it obstructs prayer direction. He emphasizes that the role of teachers is significant in shaping the beliefs and practices of their students, but not all teachers lead their students astray. 00:15:00 He shares an experience where students encouraged him to visit a woman named Shifa to find his lost phone. However, before doing so, he sought the advice of a sheikh, who approved of the visit. Later, they realized that this woman's practices were not in line with Islamic teachings. He emphasizes the importance of verifying knowledge and actions based on the teachings of Allah and His Messenger, rather than emotions or claims alone. He criticizes the tendency to accept everything without questioning and demanding evidence. 00:20:00 Dammaj was not like the structured learning institutions in the West but rather a place where people went to acquire knowledge. The shaykh Muqbil, a graduate of the University of Medina, established this place and initially had very few students. Despite the humble beginnings, the place grew, and students traveled from all over Europe to attend. The students lived in the masjid or rented simple mud houses next to it. Their lifestyle was simple, and their diet consisted of basic foods like noodles. 00:25:00 He discusses a historical disagreement between students in Medina and Yemen over the pursuit of knowledge. about which location offered more knowledge. He notes that while Medina was known for its scholars and access to knowledge, Yemen was also a significant center for memorization due to the lack of luxury and distractions. 00:30:00 He discusses the educational opportunities available for students in various locations, including Medina. He explains that there are small classes taught by students who have studied with the scholars, and these classes can be beneficial for students who cannot directly study with the masters. He shares his personal experience of studying with a lesser-known scholar in Medina and the significant learning he gained from the experience. However, he also mentions that students may struggle to find a teacher in Medina due to the high demand and competition. Instead, he suggests seeking out PhD holders or master's students who can teach a particular book properly. 00:35:00 He also highlights that some students attended classes while others worked, and after Maghrib, the sheikh would teach. He expresses the benefit of hearing this level of knowledge and encourages going to Yemen to study, but advises against it due to safety concerns. Instead, he recommends Egypt as the best place to learn Arabic and Quranic studies, as he believes the Arabic program in Yemen could have been better. He expresses his disagreement with the Medina books and teaching methods. 00:40:00 He discusses the importance of having a basic understanding of Arabic to effectively learn from Islamic texts, specifically those from Medina. He shares an anecdote about an English-speaking convert who struggled to answer a question in Arabic during a class, leading him to leave without completing his studies. He also mentions that while the Medina books are essential, they heavily revolve around Arabic grammar, and one needs to have a foundational knowledge of the language to progress. He suggests that studying in Egypt could be beneficial for those who struggle with Arabic, as the system there is more developed and effective. 00:45:00 shares his experiences of juggling work and studying knowledge during his fifth semester, which was problematic due to early morning classes and work commitments. He recounts how he had to leave Medina for Egypt unexpectedly due to a national lockdown, but managed to complete his Quran studies there. Egypt is known for its renowned scholars and He expresses his admiration for Hussari, emphasizing the importance of listening to history and improving recitation skills. He also mentions that Egypt is money-oriented and acquiring knowledge requires financial resources. He advises those planning to study in Medina to save money beforehand. 00:50:00 He discusses the importance of patience and preparation when it comes to seeking knowledge in Islamic studies. He emphasizes that acquiring knowledge takes time and that one should be patient and persistent. He also touches upon the topic of financial preparation, suggesting that individuals should save up before embarking on a journey to study in places like Egypt or Medina(300 pound). He mentions that even small amounts of money saved over time can make a significant difference, allowing for more comfortable living conditions and saving time by avoiding long commutes. 00:55:00 He discusses his decision to study Sharia instead of Hadith at the University of Medina. He sought advice from various scholars, who all encouraged him to pursue Hadith due to its significance as the "mother of all faculties." However, another graduate, who was also a Hadith graduate and PhD holder, advised him that the subjects studied in Sharia are more difficult to find outside of the university. He then decided to study Sharia and found it to be beneficial for addressing the doubts and contemporary issues people have, as well as providing tools to reconcile between evidences and put things in context. 01:00:00 He discusses the importance of understanding both Hadith and Shariah in Islamic studies. Ustad Wahid reflects on the early days of Islamic education in the UK and how the lack of comprehension between these two fields led to a narrow-minded approach among some students. Abu Taymiyah notes that Hadith and Shariah have always had a contentious relationship, with Hadith students appearing more serious than Shariah students. 01:05:00 He discusses the importance of tolerance and increasing knowledge in understanding Islamic texts, specifically when it comes to interpreting hadiths. He uses an example of a complex hadith regarding touching one's private part and the need for beginners in Islamic studies to focus on one view and act upon it, rather than getting overwhelmed by the intricacies of the science of hadith. He also touches upon the emergence of new movements in Islamic scholarship and the importance of staying focused on one's studies without getting distracted by peripheral issues. 01:10:00 He emphasizes the importance of following a reliable methodology as a student of knowledge to avoid blindly following or seeking answers from multiple sources. He also discusses how the method of studying Islamic sciences varies depending on the region, with the Hanafi method becoming prominent due to the influence of the Ottoman Empire and in current times the Hanbali is getting more traction. He concludes by encouraging students to differentiate between the various schools of thought and choose a reliable method to study from. 01:15:00 He discusses the relevance of various Madhab of learning Islamic knowledge, emphasizing that each Madhab has its merits. He mentions the importance of understanding the context of each Madhab and how they all benefited from one another. He highlights the importance of students not only acquiring knowledge but also acting upon it and sharing it with others. Ustad Abu talks about Imam Hanifa’s contribution such as the fiqh of praying in the air, and the importance of understanding their context in today's world 01:20:00 He shares his personal experience of applying to study in Medina, Saudi Arabia multiple times before being accepted. He explains that one of the benefits of the application process is that it provides applicants with information about what they will be studying and the duration of their program. 01:25:00 he recounts a conversation he had with his father about pursuing higher education. At the time,he was studying civil engineering but his father wanted him to obtain a university degree.His persistence paid off as the man was able to secure a visa and pursue his academic goals. He also talks about how one can finish Masters and PHD from Madina and pursue job in Islamic finance and related fields and make a good living in middle east. 01:30:00 He shares a personal story about seeking his teacher's blessing to leave Yemen with his children. He emphasizes the importance of respecting teachers, even if one disagrees with their views, and the benefits of having multiple teachers and perspectives. 01:35:00 He discusses the benefits of studying with him, both in person and online through Knowledge College. He mentions that his explanations are simple and effective, and that online courses are a good option for those in remote areas. He also states that all major madhhabs discuss the same principles, and that students from Sheffield have reported feeling benefited from the classes.

اللهم بارك لي شيخنا أبو تيميه No matter where he is, always dropping knowledge and life gems. Also love the fact that he is so active now

I love Sheikh Abu Taymiyyah for the sake of Allah.

Yessss I’ve been waiting for this! الله اكبر

Alhamdulillah finally after a long awaited wait! May allah bless you for bringing on ustadh Abu taymiyyah

BaarakAllah feekum & Jazaakumullah khair. Nice & beneficial conversation. Especially liked the last point about being in the company of scholars in order to learn from their etiquette and manners esp when responding to abuse & criticism. Shows that sincerity, focus and responding in a patient and dignified manner has a huge impact on the students and importance to keep one’s intention pure for the sake Allah & heart free from sin when both teaching and learning.

Long awaited بارك الله فيكم

Mashaa Allah Tabarak Allah... Always benefit from Ustadh's lessons... The inner goodness reflects on the outer Mashaa Allah! Such a humble person... May Allah keep ustadh so always, bless & increase him in everything. Ameen.

very anticipated video allahumabarik

Had to click straight away.

Thank you , may Allah reward you both. I actually was able to watch the whole video through while delivering. Love the professional and mature discourse and beneficial advice contained in this video. May Allah accept from you and increase us all in knowledge ameen.

Very informative barakallahufeekum you brothers are on point

May Allah bless ustadh abu taymiyyah, there’s always great benefit every time I listen to any of his talks.

بارك الله فيكم Excellent information. Thank you

As a long term student of Hanafi Fiqh, I very much enjoyed listening to this discussion. May Allah reward you brothers for your efforts in propagating the deen.

Such a matured,beautiful conversation between two individuals who have gone through the young over zealous phase. So soothing and calming,wonderful manners & hikmah emanating from the screen,truly behaved like men of the sunnah Shows you what salafiyyah/ahlussunnah is Motivated me a lot to be a talib ul Ilm In Sha Allāh My respect for Abu Taymiyyah حَفِظَهُ اللهُ grew even more. May Allāh allow and ease the journey of ilm for the youngsters watching this.

Alot of great advice for students of knowledge from the UK and the west here ما شاء الله this is stuff you wont find anywhere else as western students have their own specific problems and these Ustaadths tackle many of them here.

Fascinating conversation with a lot of benefit for the ummah in the UK. May Allah preserve you both 🤲🏾

BaarakAllahu Feek.. so lovely to see our Salafee brother and teacher Ustadh Abu Taymiyyah - May Allah reward everyone that contributed to the interview. JazaakAllahu Khair

Mashallah very beneficial chat some us can’t get much information from our own communities either your not liked or popular.

I love you for the sake of Allah ,From France

سبحان الله …طلبة العلم رزقهم الله بالهدوء والسكينة والفطنة والصبر والنشاط وتحمل الصعاب …لله دركم

Jazaakumullahu khayran wa baarakallahu fiikum

As salaam mu alay kum waragmahtuALLAAH hi wabarakahtu beautiful upload, MashaALLAAH, just some advice regarding the audio, take the device and place it on a desktop tripod and place it in the middle of those that are part of the interview. In Sha ALLAAH keep up the good works of teaching the haqq. Mat ALLAAH reward all those involved in this channel with good in this world and the Hereafter

Barakallahu fikum

39:10 Madinah books slowly builds up your vocabulary while side by side having grammar concepts explained to the student. And also there are conversation in every chapter. For me, these books are the best Alhumdulilah.

Salamu 'alaykum from Turkey 🌹

Alhamdulillah, we have Shaykh Jameel Adams in South Africa who studied at Darul Hadith in Damaj. Salafiyyah reached the tip of Africa, Alhamdulillah.

احسن الله اليكم

Shaikh Hassan Saleh was one of my first teacher's in USA. He is amazing. May Allah preserve him.

our beloved shaykh hafidaullah

I love you brothers for the sake of ALLAAH

ما شاء الله. سبحان الله

The book is الصرف للمبتدئين

MashaAllah Abuthaymiyah his lecturers is very influential and touching

May ALLAAH protect you guys from evil and grant you guys Paradise جنة الفردوس آمين

حياكم الله

I feel like this isnt the question I should be asking but where are they getting these thobes from, they're beautiful tabarakallah

In egypt you can study with Shaykh Mustafa al Adawi he was a major student of Shaykh Muqbil and is now one of the major scholars of Egypt upon Sunnah.

لا إله إلا الله، محمد رسول الله

You recommended Egypt but what institution or madrassa for learning Arabic? Great talk JazakAllahu Khayran!

In 2005 I asked Shaikh Ubaid, may Allaah have Mercy upon him and forgive him of his sin(Ameen), if I should go to Egypt or Yemen to study and he replied strongly that I should go to Yemen to study.

There's no place in the world like Yemen when it comes to seeking knowledge. Yemen is a country that has entire cities that are centers of knowledge in themselves. Some places in Yemen have thousands of students and numerous scholars of sunnah learning and teaching in them. In some of these places there are classes from Fajr until well after Ishaa. There are classes in every science of the deen being taught by scholars and students. There are schools for women and children of all ages to learn their deen. May Allaah preserve and protect the people of Yemen in general and the maraakaz of Ahlus-Sunnah and it's inhabitants in specific from harm, AMEEN.❤

سلام عليكم ورحمه الله وبركاته اخي الكريم

MashALLAH

Salam alaikum jazakallahu khairan for this nice soothing lecture .I'm in Egypt definitely good for quran and arabic. but I'll like to know if you know where exactly I could go for real ilm for myself and the kids.i know of a sheikh in hammamat el kobba cairo sheikh Ibrahim I believe but not much else please guide me if you know. cause I would like my kids to benefit from this during the summer holidays. Jazakallahu khairan.

This video honestly touched my heart. I used to follow the salafi manhaj in college, but gradually started turning away from it as I increased my studies, for various reasons. As I moved to a more moderate madhhabi/non-athari perspective I used to be really turned off by a lot of the self-righteousness and extreme bias from a lot of the salafis, what Abu Taymiyya refers to in the video as that narrow-mindedness. However I soon found myself becoming just as arrogant and closeminded as the those salafis who I would spend time debating. I decided for my own nafs I needed to really try to listen and study from sincere salafi/athari scholars in order to the remove the kibr from my heart. Although I still remained inclined towards madhabi views, and towards believing in tafweed ul-ma'aani in regards to the Sifat, I became a lot more open in my understanding of the deen, and judging speakers based on what they say not what group they belong to. Hearing ustadh Abu Taymiyya say that there were mistakes that people in the salafi da'wah made early on is so refereshing to here. We need people on both sides to acknowledge this in order to bring about a new era tajdeed that will unify the ummah and increase our knowledge of the deen.

Does anyone have the details about the Kuwaiti programme?

Can you plz make clear what you mean by they where praying, where you praying salah in front of the grave or were they making duah...

So Sheikh said, he didn't study hanafi mazhab yet made a judgement that Imam Abu Hanifah had a limited access to the resources. Thats big judgement towards the Imam Abu Hanifah. One should first equip yourself full and deeply about the mazhab or reach out the great scholars of hanafi school. And then come to the conclusion about hanafi school. Wished he had travelled to the countries with great scholars of hanafi fiqh. And, seek more in depth knowledge. I bet he would have get answered for all his misconceptions. They way Hadith science is preserved and thriving is coz of Hanafi schools. Yet, telling them, they have less information about Hadith...

Mashallha

What about if the mosque exists before the grave? Because our beloved prophet ( pbuh) is buried next to mosque, but the mosque exists before the prophet died, or does this is exception? Please advise ان شاء الله

I don’t know how to speak Arabic,so I should go to Egypt first to learn Arabic and Quran? Then inshallah to go Medina once I have a good extensive knowledge of the language Currently working and saving up to go inshallah

You should say the cities for all three options or say the countries for all three options!

Ya ustaz Please I wann contact this man

Nice Moroccan wearings 💞

Nice convo but just want to mention the hanafi madhab in the uk is waaaaaay ahead of any other madhab in the uk the amount of dar ul ulooms that are established in the uk is no joke and every year theres about 500 to 1000 students graduating from dar ul ulooms. And not mention the hifdh programs also.

1:18:11 Is this the same Nafi from Qaloon/Warsh an Nafi ?

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله كنت في دماج و أعرفك ، قد رأيتك في دماج

Is it worth leaving uni to go seek knowledge just as ustadh Abu Taymiyyah left college to go to Yemen ? جزاكم الله خيرا

Can i ask you one question, saudi arabia control only Madjnah since 1926, before that Madinah was once under sufi rule for thousand years, so the sufist was right?

How can I contact ustadh Abu Taymiyyah?

How unfortunate to go and study at Dar Al Mustafa and not receive anything

I didn’t know the brother Ustaad Tayymiyyah parents originated from Somalia! Kudos big brother If I ever met you I will ask you what tribe you belong to, since Somalis is known to have raised with tribalism mentality

Afwan...can translate to indonesia?

Abdul Hamdi

Can I still gain knowledge and where should I go, universitys will not accept me because of my age, pleas help me to get on track to gain knowledge I always wanted it in shaa Allah. Djazak Allah o gairan

I’ve never seen or heard about anything like this in Yemen. It’s got to be some really tiny faction.

Also متممة الصرف

1:04:00

I’m from Yemen and I’ve never seen a masjid with a grave. It’s probably a certain area that you were in.

Important NOTE to our salafi brothers don't dissuade anyone to take a MADHAB We've HEARD it CLEARLY salafi are on the HANABILA FIQH PLEASE DON'T TRY TO CONSTRUE SALAFIYYAH BECAUSE IT CONCLUDES ALL MADHAHIBS AS POINTED OUT IS TO TAKE A TARIKA ( MADHAB ) Was Salaam My Sincere love to our Ustads benefited for this to of happened May you be preserved with long & prosperous life benefitting our Ummah being accepted & elevated to the highest level of Jannatul Firdous Aameen Ya Rab Barakallah hu feek

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Where is he from tho? Is he omani?

Algeria?

Subhanallah how can not mention the Giants of islam ( Aimmah Rahmatullahi Alai )

Water for the brother please

Who is the sri lankan brother? ما شاء الله

More emphasis on who we can&can't seek knowledge from please!!!

Salam, where are some masjids of sunnah in liecester? Might move there soon inshaAllah. Would appreciate some help with this and recommendations on area to live

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته brothers are you implying that u have to followe one of the mazhab and its important brothers are u are trying to say that you should not read books of hadith u are confusing alot of brothers

hmm

After seeing these black Jets many Muslims from around the world come to Pakistan and started to play their role in rebuilding Islam. Muhammad Qasim Dreams

1:11:08

is the Ustaadh Somali?

I would completely disagree with the brother knocking the madinah Book series. They're very well structured and a good teacher will help you go far by Allah's permission. Vocab is important, but you can do that by yourself.

U shud get Sk uthman next ibn farook

1:49

Long live Kurdish citys and Kurdistan in turkey iraq and syria.

Is Abu taymiyyah half Somali??

With the madinah books I don’t believe the issue is the books itself rather its how people teach the book as well the himmah of the student themself. al arabya bayna yadayk and madinah books are just 2 paths to the same objective. If you feel madinah doesn’t have enough vocab then you as a student should go out your way to increase ur vocab, if you believe al arabya bayna yadayk lacks grammar then you as a student should go out your way and make time to learn grammar. If you have the option to learn either book then go for it, don’t abandon a lesson just bcs you believe one curriculum is better.

To be honest the Graves at masajids are mostly at the south of Yemen were the Sofes are concentrated

The Ustadh did not answer the question about studying sharia abroad? Can I please get feedback as soon as possible.

39:25 🤣🤣

المسجد النبوي فيه قبر النبي وبعض الصحابة

The interview has a bad habit of cutting him off. Either way JazakAllahu khair.

If your teachers are doing questionable things, how can you trust what they teach you?

Masjid a nabawi has graves inside it

Kid

He is a liar. I've just come back from Dar ul Mustafa and know one does grave worship and no one prays at the grave. People read Qur'an, make dua, make zikr and recite Qasidah. Praying is done towards the qibla.