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[Dec 2025] How the Salaf Dealt with Injustice and Adversities – By Shaykh Abu Idrees Muhammad Khān حفظه الله. Winter Conference 2025 Masjid Salafi, Small Heath, Birmingham, UK.
Part One: – The two states between which a Muslim alternates, and what is required in each state.
– The abundant mention of ṣabr (patience) in the Qur’ān.
– Aḥādīth and statements of the Salaf regarding patience.
– The three categories as it relates to patience in dealing with the harms of the people.
– The three types of patience.
– The two types of calamities that afflict the servant without his choice.
– Three great benefits derived from the du’ā of the Prophets (عليهم الصلاة والسلام) when they were harmed by their people.
– The two levels of dealing with the harm of the people.
– Explanation of principles that will aid a slave in achieving patience.
– Understanding that Allāh (سبحانه وتعالى) is the Creator of the actions of the servants.
– The role of our sins in calamities.
– Refraining from blaming others and focusing on rectifying ourselves.
– The reward for patience and pardoning others.
– The three categories of people when faced with harm.
– The one who inherits a serene heart.
– The sweetness of pardoning, and becoming from those whom Allāh loves.
– The one who inherits humiliation, and the one who inherits honour.
– The reward for pardoning and forgiving the people despite their transgression against us.
– Caution against becoming preoccupied with revenge.
– A reminder that the Messenger ﷺ, who is the best of the creation of Allāh, did not seek revenge for himself.
– The obligation of patience when harmed in the path of Allāh.
– The Ma’iyyah of Allāh.
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Part Two: – The specific Ma’iyyah of Allāh (سبحانه وتعالى).
– The two parts of īmān, with proof.
– The amazing affair of the believer.
– Protecting one’s īmān from deficiency.
– Subduing and dominating the soul so it does not cast you into destruction.
– Entrusting our affairs to Allāh and seeking His aid.
– How the patience of the oppressed affects the oppressor.
– How seeking revenge can lead to further harm.
– When the oppressed becomes the oppressor.
– The nature of the soul to exceed the bounds when retaliating.
– The mindset we should have when we suffer oppression.
– The greatest of armies against the oppressor.
– The feelings of lowliness inherited by the oppressor if the oppressed exercises patience.
– The multiplication of khayr that results from a person pardoning and overlooking.
– The reward on the Day of Judgement for the one who withheld his anger/rage while he was capable of acting upon it.
– A reminder to constantly think about the ākhirah.
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