Tazkiyah

Tazkiyah – Dr Hatem (Elhagaly) Al-Haj
Reference Book: Mukhtasar Minhaj Al-Qasidin by Ahmed ibn Qudamah Al-Maqdisi

Means of Salvation – Fear and it’s Levels

  • Difference between khawf and khashia
  • How to increase khashia:

heightening awareness of the Hereafter; awareness of Allah; and awareness of the shortness of this life

  • Questions on Qadar (Will):
  • What is the difference between universal will and religious will?
  • How do you have free will and qadar (fate)?
  • What do coincidences in life have to do with qadar (fate)?

Reference: Mukhtasar Minhaj Al-Qasidin

Means of Salvation – Hope and Fear (Part 3)

  • Importance of balance between hope and fear
  • How to use fear constructively
  • Example of fear in the Quran
  • Love between hope and fear
  • Clarification of hadiths regarding sin and foregiveness
  • Explanation of Allah’s Will
  • Rationality of Islam and fairness of Allah
  • Refutation to the Shia using rationality of Islam and fairness of Allah

Reference: Mukhtasar Minhaj Al-Qasidin

Tazkiyah

Tazkiyah – Dr Hatem (Elhagaly) Al-Haj
Reference Book: Mukhtasar Minhaj Al-Qasidin by Ahmed ibn Qudamah Al-Maqdisi

Means of Salvation – Patience & Gratitude (Part 4)

  • Relationship between patience and gratitude
  • When to show patience
  • Benefits of hardships (finding grace in every hardship)
  • Aspects to be pleased with when adversity afflicts
  • Which has priority: patience or gratitude?

Who is closer to Allah: the wealthy who is grateful or the poor who is patient?

Reference: Mukhtasar Minhaj Al-Qasidin

Bounties and Grace

Definitions and types of Allah’s bounties, favors and grace

  • What benefits in this world and the hereafter
  • What harms you in this world and the hereafter
  • What benefits in the hereafter but loss in this world
  • What benefits in this world but loss in the hereafter
  • How to tell if a bounty benefits you
  • Distractions of money and how to use it to your benefit
  • Greatest investments: health and time
  • Reference: Mukhtasar Minhaj Al-Qasidin