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From Allaah’s blessings &
favors upon us is that the Prophet صلى
الله عليه وسلم left us upon the path of Clarity, as (comes) in his
saying (صلى الله عليه وسلم):
“Indeed I left you upon Baydaa’ (clear guidance), it’s
night is
like it’s day (in it’s clarity), & no one deviates from it after me
And the Lord of Might &
Power جلّ وعلا guaranteed the Ummah of Muhammad
صلى الله عليه وسلم
the protection & preservation of His Book, when He – the Most High – said:
“Indeed it is We Who sent down the Dhikr [the
Qur’aan],
& it is Us Who will preserve & protect it.” [Al-Hijr
(15):9]
So this tremendous blessing was
bestowed by Al-Mawlaa [Allaah] so the Deen, with it’s nusoos
(texts) & it’s ahkaam (rulings), remains far &
removed from deviation, distortion, & alternation, & He increased us in
His Favor & Blessings - سبحانه
– as (comes) in the hadeeth of Allaah’s Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم
with his saying:
“Indeed Allaah will raise up for this Ummah at the end of
every
one hundred years those who will revive & renew the
affairs of
And tajdeed (revival & renewal) here means the
removal of bid’a & the innovated desires, & reviving &
purifying the guidance of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم from the deviation & distortion of
those who go beyond bounds, & the false interpretations of the liars.
And the Favor of Allaah upon us
is not restricted to what was mentioned previously. Rather he صلى الله عليه وسلم said:
“There will not cease to be a group from my Ummah who are
manifest & apparent (upon the Haqq). They will not be harmed
by those who abandon & forsake them, nor those who openly
oppose them, up until the command of Allaah comes & they
are
firmly upon that.”
So this is a Divine guarantee of a group of the ‘Ulamaa’
remaining manifest & clear for the Ummah, those who adhere to the
Book of Allaah & the guidance of His Prophet. And by that, the ‘Aqeedah of Ahlul-Haqq
remains & is permanent until Yawmul-Qiyaamah, by Divine protection
& decree that Allaah has decreed (to come about).
And indeed we have seen – affirming the truthfulness of that
– a man from the remnants of the Salafus-Saalih – رحمهم الله - & he is the ‘Allaamah
Al-Albaanee, who made easy for all of the Ummah to distinguish the
authentic hadeeth from the weak.
And what is amazing is that he [was] one man, a non-‘arab, who had no one
to support or aid him except Allaah, he was able, through working by himself,
to serve the Ummah with a tremendous service in reviving their Deen. Rather he was able to do what the [innovated]
Islaamic political groups & parties could not do, with all of their
resources & capabilities.
So this is a mercy from Allaah’s Mercies towards this Ummah,
& it is upon us to show gratitude & gratefulness for the blessings &
bounties (He has favored us with).”
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Written by Shaykh Muhammad
bin ‘Uthmaan Al-‘Anjaree حفظه الله
تعالى
Originally published in Al-Qabas
Newspaper 15/6/2001
Rendered into English & Edited
by ‘Uthmaan Beecher for Salafiyyah-Kuwait
