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Ramaḍān Reminders 2017: Iʿtikāf – Ustādh Rayaan Barker

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Show Notes

Ramaḍān Reminders 1438H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, by Ustādh Rayaan Barker (hafidhahullāh)

• Allāh ended the verses of fasting with iʿtikāf: "Do not approach them while you are in iʿtikāf in the masājid"

• Iʿtikāf is staying in the masjid in obedience to Allāh: a sunnah, rewarded if done and without sin if left, established by the Qurʾān, the Sunnah and the consensus of the scholars (Shaykh al-Fawzān, hafidhahullāh)

• The best iʿtikāf is in the last ten days of Ramaḍān, as the Prophet ﷺ did until Allāh took his soul (ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah), seeking Laylat al-Qadr

• The conditions of iʿtikāf, beginning with the intention

• Shaykh Ibn ʿUthaymīn (raḥimahullāh): one may intend iʿtikāf with the condition of leaving for a necessity, such as the janāzah of a relative, and then returning

• The aim is to devote oneself to worship, not to sit chatting: beware of the mobile phone, WhatsApp and Telegram groups

Recorded at Masjid al-Furqān, Stoke-on-Trent

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