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Shaykh Saaleh bin ‘Abdullah bin Humayd [May Allaah Preserve him]
Royal Advisor to the King and Member of Committee of Senior Scholars
Seerah Khulafaa Sayyid al-Mursaleen Conference
Prince Faisal bin Fahad Masjid, Riyadh
11/11/1433 - 28/9/2012

Question: What do we say to someone who says Alee [May Allaah be Pleased with him] himself choose to be Caliph before the others?

Answer: This is not correct as we know he gave allegiance to those before him, so we have enough authentic information to know what is right and wrong when it comes to Islamic history. Yes there is a lot of false narration but we can always find the truth, either chains of narrations are weak or the meaning contradicts what is more authentic or sometimes the information we receive contradicts some of the principles of Islaam. So what we have from what is authentic is sufficient.

Question: What is the meaning of the Ayaah, “So if they believe in the like of that which you believe, then they are rightly guided…” [Baqarah 2: 137]

Answer: The context of the Aayah gives the answer, if we look at the Aayaat that come before it talks about Ibraheem and the other prophets, so the order of believing like them is upon the people of the book. So if they believed like those prophets believed then they will be guided.

Question: Is there is a reason why ‘Umar bin al-Khattaab and ‘Uthmaan bin ‘Affaan [May Allaah be Pleased with them both] were deemed Kuffaar by the Raafidah?

Answer: What appears to be the case is that it is politics, just like ‘Alee was deemed to be Kaafir by with the Khwaarij.

Question: My father travelled in the month of Shawwal to do ‘Umrah and he came back home, can he count this as an ‘Umrah that he does for Hajj at-Tamattu’?

Answer: No, if he returned home then this doesn’t count and he must do another ‘Umrah. This is because when doing ‘Umrah for Hajj at-Tamattu’, it must be done with one travel. So he comes to Makkah, does ‘Umrah for Hajj at-Tamattu’, removes his Ihraam and then remains in Makkah until Hajj begins. So as long as he returned home then he must do another ‘Umrah for Hajj.

Question: When is the time to do the morning and evening Adhkaar?

Answer: Morning Adhkaar start from Fajr but in regards to the evening Adhkaar some said after ‘Asr and others said towards or after Maghrib, but you should what is easy for you but it is better after ‘Asr.

Question: What is the Islamic way of reacting to the depiction of the Prophet [Peace and Blessings of Allaah be Upon him] that we see in the west?

Answer: We should explain to them the Sunnah and that what they accuse him off that he is free of and to resort to the books and the scholars that have been discussed in this regard, all of this needs sensitivity and truth and we should be careful not to transgress the rights of people, as Allaah, the Most High, says:

“…and let not the hatred of some people in (once) stopping you from Al-Masjid-al-Haram (at Makkah) lead you to transgression (and hostility on your part).” [Maaidah 5:2]

This Aayah has a great lesson, that even if they were physically preventing us and we had no way of bringing justice then we instil the rights and not transgress (i.e. by being violent towards them).