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Questions asked to Shaykh ‘Abdul-Kareem bin ‘Abdullah al-Khudayr [May Allaah Preserve him]
Member of Permenant Committee of Senior Scholars and Member of Council of Senior Scholars
Jaami’ Shaykh ‘Abdur-Rahmaan ar-Raajihi, Shibrah, ar-Riyadh
17/11/1433 – 3/10/2012

Question: Some people are busy at work so they skip praying Salaah in the congregation or altogether and they say they are busy at work and they may pray later, is this OK or should it be the way around?

Answer: The reason why you are created is to worship Allaah, had we been created to work then the answer would be different and the ruling of working and praying would differ. But this person must remember that this worldly life is connected to the worship of Allah, the Mosth High, so any difficulty within this life, then worship will bring the relief and the cure. Rather, we work in order to worship Allaah and not the other way around.

“…forget not your portion of legal enjoyment in this world, and do good as Allah has been good to you” [Qasas 28:77]

So we work in order to have money in order to worship Allah, so it is not right that one leaves the worship of Allah in order to work. Likewise we don’t say, ‘exaggerate in worship and dont work’, we don’t say, ‘stay at home or in the masjid, the provision will come to you’. How can you worship without food and drink and sleep? So we need to be balanced.

But, unfortunately, the opposite is also true. Many people leave working saying they are only interested in the hereafter, but the Aayah refutes this concept.

Question:  What are the virtues of the ten days of Dhul Hijjah?

Answer: It has come the hadeeth that the Prophet [Peace and Blessings of Allaah be upon him] said that, “There are no days on which good deeds are more beloved to Allaah than these ten days….” [al-Bukhaari (2/457)] 

The Majority of the scholars have explained that there are no better days than the first ten days of Dhu al-Hijjah throughout the year and a point of evidence is that there is ‘Arafah within then, and the virtues of ‘Arafah is immense, so there are no better days than these. But as for the nights, then they have explained that there are no better nights than the last ten in Ramadan and we know this because there is Laylat al-Qadr during these ten, so these days and those nights stand out to be the best throughout the year.

Question: A man wore his Ihraam and travelled to Makkah by car and he fell asleep on the way and then performed Tawaaf and Sa’ee and completed is ‘Umrah with shaving his head and then returned to his home city. Then I realised that I need to be in a state of Wudhoo to do Tawaaf, so what do I do now?

Answer: If you fell asleep but it was a light sleep, meaning you were still aware of your surroundings then you didn’t break your state of Wudhoo and your ‘Umrah is valid but if you fell into a sleep where you lost consciousness, then you must wear your Ihraam again and redo your ‘Umrah again as your Tawaaf without Wudhoo is not correct.

Question: Why don’t you have a Twitter account so that we may follow you?

Answer: I say all goodness is in following the Salaf and I don’t like to take part in these new inventions with disgust. People post things then it gets spread and then people reply, this website is full of non-beneficial things and that which it can be used for beneficial things is very minimal. To Allaah we complain. I’ve even some of the scholars not even using microphones when they were introduced; they preferred to worship Allaah, the Most High, without any new inventions, the way of old. I don’t say it is not allowed but avoiding it is better and maybe a must.

Question: Is there any evidence to suggest that the Angels come down to support he believers in their battles, like what is happening now in Syria?

Answer: The Quraan affirms the fact that the Angels come to help the believers, however we are not aware on when this happens. So for us to say that they are helping the Muslims now is not possible except if we had evidence or if someone was sure that he saw them, however in origin, yes they do come to help us.

Question: Are we allowed to get angry with those who revile the Prophet [Peace and Blessings of Allaah be Upon him]?

Answer: If you, the questioner, were faced with someone who reviled your mother or your father or your brother or your sister, wouldn’t you get angry? Therefore, it is for the believer to get angry with those who say such things against the Prophet [Peace and Blessings of Allaah be Upon him], he should be more beloved than yourself, your mother, your father and all of mankind. Look at the Aayah:

“And it has already been revealed to you in the Book (this Qur'an) that when you hear the Verses of Allah being denied and mocked at, then sit not with them, until they engage in a talk other than that; (but if you stayed with them) certainly in that case you would be like them. Surely, Allah will collect the hypocrites and disbelievers all together in Hell.” [Nisaa 4:140]

This Aayah shows that we are not allowed to sit with them if they say something we don’t like about Allaah and His Messenger, we should be angry and leave and not return until they change the topic.

Question: Are the Ashaa’irah all one sect or are there differences between them and the Mu’awillah and the Mufawiddah?

Answer: The Ashaariah affirm the Names and some of the Attributes of Allaah, but there is no doubt that this belief is an innovation as the Salaf affirmed al of the Names and Attributes of all via the texts. The Mufawidah affirm the text but not the meaning and the Mufawiddah make Ta’weel (i.e. they change the wording and/or the meaning). But the Mufawiddah affirm the Names and words that describe Allaah but they don’t know the meaning. However, the way of the Salaf is to affirm the meaning but to stop at the Kayfiyyah (i.e. asking how) at the Attributes. So they differed between affirming the wording despite not knowing the meaning. For example, if we say Zayd is the opposite of Bakr, one group will interpret that to say don’t know who Zayd is but we know there is a Zayd but the other group say we don’t know Zayd and what Zayd means. Ahl as-Sunnah affirm the everything that has come in the texts but we don’t know how, so doing Tafweed is evil.