Beacons of Light – Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh)

Beacons of Light, a lecture by Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), in Arabic with an English translation

• Strive for knowledge: two types of striving, of the heart (a great desire to seek and spread knowledge) and of the body (travelling, or in our time using the internet to connect with scholars)

• Be with the ʿUlamāʾ: life cannot be upon goodness unless affairs are returned to the scholars, directly or indirectly through their books and tapes

• Study your religion: the reward of the one who spreads knowledge and the one who studies it is the same

• Begin with the most important: rectify your belief through the three categories of Tawḥīd, then the pillars of Islām and Īmān, ḥalāl and ḥarām, and the Qurʾān and Sunnah

• Take knowledge from the people of the Sunnah: the person of innovation is advised, and if he refuses he is left and knowledge is not taken from him, even when it is learned through the internet

• Questions answered: collecting donations after Jumuʿah, reading Qurʾān in janābah, Tarāwīḥ and Tahajjud, and the characteristics of the scholars

Recorded in Manchester