[Part 2] O Changer of the Hearts, Make My Heart Firm Upon Your Religion – By Ḥassan Ṣomālī (حفظه الله) – SalafiPublications Summer Conference 1445 | 2023

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[12/08/2023] [Part 2] O Changer of the Hearts, Make My Heart Firm Upon Your Religion – By Ḥassan Ṣomālī (حفظه الله) – SalafiPublications Summer Conference 1445 | 2023. Masjid Salafi, Small Heath, Birmingham, UK.

Listen to part one of this two-part series HERE
 

Some points covered by Ḥassan Ṣomālī حفظه الله:

• Explanation of the du’ā «يَا مُقَلِّبَ الْقُلُوبِ ثَبِّتْ قَلْبِى عَلَى دِينِكَ» O Changer of the hearts! Make my heart firm upon Your religion.
• «مُقَلِّبَ الْقُلُوبِ» O Changer of the hearts!
• The oath the Prophet ﷺ would say most often.
• Proof from the Qur’ān that Allāh changes the hearts.
• How correct belief influences the actions of the servant.
• The reason the heart is called al-Qalb.
• Two examples of how the Prophet described the heart.
• Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) on the three types of hearts. 
• «ثَبِّتْ قَلْبِى» Make my heart firm
• A gift Allāh gave to the Prophet ﷺ.
• The meaning of at-Tathbīt and thabāt. 
• How easily some people today are shaken.
• True manhood.
• The problem with being nurtured by podcasts and taking knowledge from social media personalities. 
• The ghulū of comparing Andrew Tate’s acceptance of Islām to ‘Umar b. al-Khaṭṭāb (رضى الله عنه).
• Proof of the Prophet ﷺ advising the Companions publicly. 
• Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) on the two categories all of the creation fall into.
• Proof that tathbīt comes from Allāh.
• Reasons for Allāh to grant firmness:
• 1. Tawḥīd.
• 2. Studying the Qur’ān.
• 3. Du’ā.
• The meaning of the verse, “Allāh will keep firm those who believe, with the word that stands firm in this world and in the Hereafter.” [Sūrah Ibrāhīm 14:27]
• The firmness of Abū Bakr (رضى الله عنه). 
• Firmness at the point of death, in the grave and in the hereafter. 
• «عَلَى دِينِكَ» upon Your religion.
• The obligation of submitting to Allāh and not following desires and opinions.

Questions:

1. When should you advise in private and when should you advise in public? 
2. What is manliness in Islām?
3. Why do Ibn al-Qayyim and Ibn Taymiyyah get quoted so often?
4. Which explanation of Hā’iyah will be used by Shaykh Khālid adh-Dhafīrī (حفظه الله) when he comes?
5. What is your advice on how to begin in the path to seeking knowledge for a person who has passed thirty years of age?
6. I fear hypocrisy for myself. How do I remove this feeling?

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