[Lesson One] Selected Benefits from Madārij Al-Sālikīn of Imām Ibn Al-Qayyim رحمه الله – By Abu ‘Iyaad Amjad Rafīq

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Selected Benefits from Madārij Al-Sālikīn of Imām Ibn Al-Qayyim رحمه الله – By Shaykh Abu ‘Iyaad Amjad Rafīq حفظه الله. Monthly class at Masjid Salafi, Small Heath, Birmingham, UK.

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Some points discussed during this lesson:

• The reason the scholars encourage those involved in da’wah to focus on the books of Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمهم الله).  
• The importance of tying historical facts to what is being studied in order to have a holistic understanding.
• The meaning of the title of the book. 
• The āyah that encapsulates the essence of every single revealed book.  
• A description of the contents of the book (Madārij as-Sālikīn). 
• Manāzil as-Sā’irīn of Shaykh al-Islām Abū Ismā’īl al-Harawī al-Anṣārī (رحمه الله). 
• The political situation in Khurāsān in the late 4th century Hijrī.
• The effect of a ruler on his subjects. 
• The golden age when the people of Khurāsān were upon istiqāmah.
• One of the main reasons Abū Ismā’īl adopted the way of the Salaf. 
• How the ‘Abbāsid Khalīfah al-Qādir Billāh and deputy leader Sulṭān Maḥmūd b. Sabuktakīn  (رحمهم الله) benefitted Ahlus-Sunnah and dealt with Ahlul-Bid’ah. 
• The danger of arguing with kalām and how it leads to inventing principles in creed. 
• The death of Sulṭān Maḥmūd and Khalīfah al-Qādir Billāh. 
• The state of affairs as it relates to knowledge and the ‘ulamā in the time of Shaykh al-Islām Abū Ismā’īl al-Harawī.
• Adh-Dhahabī on the great imām Yaḥyā b. ‘Ammār, a shaykh of Abū Ismā’īl al-Harawī (رحمهم الله). 
• The heads of various fields in that time. 
• Brief biography of Shaykh al-Islām Abū Ismā’īl al-Harawī. 
• Ibn al-Qayyim’s great service to Abū Ismā’īl in exonerating him from the Sūfīs’ misuse of his book. 
• Trials faced by Abū Ismā’īl al-Harawī.  
• Honorary titles given to him after forty years of trials. 
• His tafsīr of the Qur’ān. 

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