Hold Fast to the Rope of Allāh Altogether and Do Not Become Divided – Shaykh Abu Idrees Muhammad Khan

Hold Fast to the Rope of Allāh Altogether and Do Not Become Divided, a lecture with questions and answers by Shaykh Abu Idrees Muhammad Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• The verse "Hold fast to the rope of Allāh altogether and do not become divided" is quoted even by those who oppose the Sunnah, and what it really commands

• The causes of splitting: the People of the Book took what suited them and left the rest after clear proofs came

• Why we call ourselves Salafī and not only Muslim: every sect claims Islām, and the ḥadīth of the seventy-three sects

• The word Salaf used by the Prophet ﷺ, al-Bukhārī, az-Zuhrī and the imāms: the Salafī methodology is nothing new

• Obeying the Messenger ﷺ is obeying Allāh: Ibn Masʿūd and the woman who could not find the curse on tattooing in the Qurʾān

• Understanding the Qurʾān and the Sunnah upon the understanding of the Companions, who witnessed the revelation and were promised al-Ḥusnā

• "I am a safeguard for my Companions": following and not innovating, from al-Barbahārī and al-Ājurrī

• How the people of innovation hide themselves, with an account of meeting followers of Anwar al-Awlaki and their misuse of verses to justify suicide bombing

• Questions: the label "Wahhābī", following a madhhab and blind following, and permissible differences of opinion

• Ibn ʿAbbās: "I say to you the Messenger of Allāh said, and you say Abū Bakr and ʿUmar said?"

Recorded in Middlesbrough