JazakumAllah khairan for the reminder about death. where can i buy the book from because i tried looking it up but no success. maybe its only in arabic. is there a translation available?

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatulahi wa barakatuhu.

I hope you and your family are well sheikh.
Alhamdullilah!
Living in the west you need to constantly remind yourself of the hereafter. because our ultimate end is with allah and our actions during this life and the mercy of allah will determine were we will end up, May allah bless us with the victory, and make us people of Jannah.
Has this book been translated to english.
Also a good talk on the hereafter is A party in Paradise and a party in Hellfire by Sheikh Abu Ali Nabil al Awadhi

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Jazakumallahu Khayran for the latest post, please keep up the work. I ask to Allah swt that he makes these effects as means to Junnah al Ferdous…Ameen.

أشهد أن لا إله إلاَّ الله و أشهد أن محمد رسول الله

Assalamu Alaikum WaRahmatulahi WaBarakatuhu.

Barak Allahu Feek Shaykh for the insight and review of this book by al Qurtubi. If its not yet translated in to english then I hope it will be soon InshaAllah.

Jazak Allahu Khayr for your works which has benefited me so much over years.

Here is the E-Book of al-Tadhkirah:

http://kalamullah.com/Books/Tadhkirah.pdf

Asalaamu alaykum.
I like this:
“We forget that everything is a blessing, even darkness”
Very deep.
wasalaamu alaykum

JazakAllahukahir again for an excellent review.

Jazakallah for the post sheikh may ALLAH bless you and your family

Jazakumallahu Khayran ya sheikh for the post may Allah bless you.
I have a question if you can please reply to this , is copyright allowed on Islamic lectures and any thing with islamic information like Al Basheer publication does, it makes it difficult to spread your series of lectures among the muslim masses.

Assalamualaikum wr. wb.

Jazakallahu khairan for all your efforts especially this book reviews are really terrific especially for myself who have never been exposed to any of the Islamic books except for the real famous ones. I’m really glad that Allah swt has allowed this blessing for us.

Alhamdulillah. Another quote from your review, which is really deep and captivating is “Looking through the lens of the Hereafter puts everything in this world in the right perspective”. Really great!

Jazakaalhu khayran, may Allah continue to strenghthen you ya shaikh.
hope are preparing for the next paltalk lecture, if not please so.
barkallahu fi

Assalam Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh,

Barakullahu Feekum Ya Shaykh.

May Allah allow you to continue benefiting all of us.

Jazakullah Khairan

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatulahi wa barakatuhu. Jazakallah khair sheikh for your excellent review of this book. Your experience is really strengthening my heart. May Allah reward you and your family for your noble work!

Assalamualaikum Sheikh,

SubahanAllaah,remembering death would indeed prevent us from neglecting our responsibilities towards Allaah. May Allaah gives you the strength and reward you for reminding us. I pray to Allaah that all muslim will be united and lead our lives according to the sunnah of Rasullullaah s.a.w Allaahuakhbar!(x3)

Assalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullah. Jazakum Allahu khairan for yet another post. Before I was even able to read the entire post, I had to stop and say that I must agree about the “romantic” feel of al Andalus. I think I have read every book I was able to get my hands on in English on Muslim Spain and I cannot begin to tell you how long I can sit and daydream about being in Andalus at the height of its glory and splendor. Unfortunately I am awaken from the dream to the reality that it is no longer with us. May Allah restore glory to this ummah.

Asalam Aleikhum dear respected brother Anwar and all the Muslims.
May Allah reward you for all your efforts.
This is one of favourite topic. I would like post my comments what I experienced when I stated listening to your lectures esp this one related to Al Akhera.
I only received the set of Al Akhera lectures in 2006,I was given as a gift by a brother when I was about to start a journey, driving, alone in the car from East to South Africa (more than 4000kms).
My journey was suppose to take 3days but I delayed by driving slowly so I could spend more time in the car listening to all the CD’s after I discovered there were great benefit and learn what were never thought from our childhood about Al Akhera.
What amazed me, I never felt tired during the journey and sometimes I had enough energy to drive throughout the night where the roads were very quiet,dark along the African jungle to ofshore of Indian Ocean.
So all along beside breaking for prayers,refreshment and top up the gas - the rest of the time I was listening to Al Akhera CD’s.
Alhamdulilah,when I reached my destination, I was looking at life in total different perpective.
I found the best recipe of Islam,the importance of elm (Al Qurán),the importance of being a follower of Muhammad SAW, importance of following his ways. I discovered how to value this world and everything in it and many more…
I considered my journey was a blessed one.Alhamdulilah. This is how I came to know about Brother Anwar. I recommend to anyone to buy this lecture of Al Akhera.
May Allah accept our duah.

Assalamu alaikum beloved Shaykh,

“We forget that everything is a blessing, even darkness.”

How very true! SubhanAllah! Even the very air we breathe is a blessing from Allah, but Man is forever ungrateful.

JazaaKAllah Khairan

Wasslamu alaikum

Assalam-mualykum, i listened to your Al Akhera cds while travelling to work daily, I used to hate the traffic but these cds allowed me to reflect on my lifestyle while listening, it is truely inspirational. i now enjoy travelling even being stuck in traffic as long as i have one of your cds. It is a way of constantly increasing my Islamic knowledge. May Allah Ta ala reward you for all the good you are spreading.

al-salamu `alaykum wa rahmatullah

masha’Allah i have been reading your blog with much interest, especially since you started the book reviews. they are excellent, and you have selected - so far - some of the most reknowned classical books. looking forward to your review of Sharh Sahih Muslim by Imam al-Nawawi (rahimahullah). did you also manage to read [selections] Fath al-Bari by ibn Hajar (rahimahullah) at all?

i would like to ask a question. in the review of al-Tadhkirah, you stated:

“The book is excellent except for the inclusion of many weak hadith”

i just wanted clarification of this. from my [limited] studies, a weak hadith is not fabricated, and most weak ahadith are weak because their isnad, not the actual statement or meaning derived from it. while the ulama agree that legal rulings cannot be derived (matters of halal and haram specifically) from weak ahadith, they can be used for “fada’il al-amal”. i accept that not all ulama concur with this, but some of the biggest usuliyyin and hadith scholars did take this opinion. furthermore, often there are several weak ahadith which provide the same meaning which stregthens the overall hadith.

is it a major problem that the book contains weak ahadith, and if you believe so - can you explain why? [is it because on the scale of weak, they are very weak?]

barakallahu fikum

al Razi,
I concur with what you say about the weak hadiths and the answer to your question is that the book should still be read and recommended even though it does contain weak hadiths. However it should be read with the awareness that not every hadith in it is strong

assalam alikum brother anwar I would like to say thankyou so much for inspiring and helping us understand with clarity about our deen may allah s.w.t.reward you for everything you done for the ummah
I plan to come to yemen very soon is there anyway i can possibly meet you in person or attend any of your lectures
jazzakallah kairan

Sheikh Anwar, can you please let me know about using week hadith for the benefits of doing good deeds or ibadah. I also want to know about jamaat-A dawwah or (tablighi jamaat), when i first accepted Islam I went with this group and learned many good things in Islam. However the more I learned about Sunnah, and the teaching of Islaam, I shyed away and I began to hear that this jamaa was doing bidaah. So I became afraid and stopped going with them. Please Sheikh if you can let me know what you know about jammatul Dawwah, and there teachings and there way. Also about the book they are using (fazaill e amaal), what about the hadith and teachings in this book? I want to know what to say to the brothers and if they are doing mistake then help inshallah correct them in a good way. And if they are doing good then I want to support them inshallah. Jazaak Allah Khair.Salaamu alikum

ya shaik i wal listening to your series on abu bakr r.a. and when you talked about his first speech as the khalifa it was so inspiring to hear those words.
But when you talkes about the leaders and stuff.In the west there is a lot of fitna about learders should you obey them etc.could you do a talk about that whats the stance of the sunnah , sharia about that .May Allah bless you in dunia and Akhira.And make you of the first.

Asalam alikum brother Anwar
Since you live in Yemen. I was wondering if you can tell me if Yemen is good place to seek knowledge. If not which country is and if it is which School would you recommend.

jazzakallah kairan

May Allah meet us all in jannahtul fardos

Asalam alikum

Asalam alykum
Brother Anwar JazakumAllah khairan for relating your experience to us, I can remember hearing one of your lectures about the hereafter and the inevitable outcome which is Jannat. I listened to you for the very first time on CII in South Africa when you were doing this talk! Your insightful talk was very inspirational and your motivation and urge to study Islam is both stimulating and motivating.

It gives me great pleasure that people today still have the zeal to sit down (in prison as well :)) and study the Hadith and contemplate on what has been written by years of collective scripture and documents.

Jazakum Allahu khayran.

Here is the link for the book in arabic available online: http://saaid.net/book/open.php?cat=81&book=1195

Asalamualaykum Sheikh Anwar Al-Awlaki i wanted to ask you a question.Is Music forbidden in Islam?If so why?
Please do reply!
Thank You!

As salaamu aleykum wr wb wm wr,
Ramadan Kariim

I am very pleased to say that Allah swt has guided me to a shop which had this book in english! i bought it yesterday and hope to read it inshaAllah,
however, about the weak ahaadiith, i have noticed the ahaadiith are just mentioned as part of the writing, and the narrators are not always mentioned, and which book of hadiith it is recorded in. is there any way of knowing which of the ahaadiith are the weak ones without having knowledge of the ahaadiith?
Jazakallah Khayra, keep us in your dreams

Wsalaamu aleykum wr wb wm wr

السلام عليكم

May Allah Bless you Shiekh Anwar and reward you for your efforts,i ask you for more lectures Shiekh we are in need of weekley uptades Sheikh,i mean if we look at the media we see weekly shows of songs etc so why cant it be the opposite !!

and to everyone who commented on this site including me and the visitors who are reading the comments and who came across this comment please please spread this site to all the people you know and take part in propogating Islam…May Allah Bless you.

My father bought the book at-tathkirah and it is thick but small in size. It is in arabic and it was hard for me to understand some words because I am stilling learning arabic nahwi. May Allah protect all the true scholars in our time and accept their dua because they have more ikhlas than all of us here.