 فشرف بي لشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا دادا دالا وياله من شراف عظيمي الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وشدوى لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهد السبيل وشدوى النسيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدينة ما بعد إن شاء الله تعالى today we're going to start the explanation of the Kitab الإصباح في بيان منهج السلف في التربية والإصلاح so the book is called وإص... في بيان منهج السلف في التربية والإصلاح في بيان منهج السلف في التربية في بيان منهج السلف في التربية والإصلاح these are the book inshaAllahu t'a'ala in which we're going to start today هذه الكتابة is written by my شيخ الشيخ عبد الله بن صالح العبيلان وشيخ عبد الله بن صالح العبيلان he resides in a منطقة كولد حائل that is where he lives and that's where the sheikh حفظه الله تعالى he resides and he lives الشيخ عبد الله بن صالح العبيلان إن شاء الله as we are going to see بإذن الله الكريم this book he wrote it to clarify the manhage of the self in two matters في التربية in cultivation and an Islah perfect in the affairs of the people if a person wants to do تربية of the people he wants to nurture them he wants to correct their misconceptions and cure them from the problems and the ills of the community how was the methodology of the self in that way how did they do it today we find organizations some isocs we find messages youth projects a lot of them they put so much work towards the youth and they have a lot of them have sincere intentions to change the affairs of these youngsters and to change the affairs of the students who are studying universities and the community in general but the way that they deal with it and the way that they try to cure it and a lot of the times if you observe it is is incorrect it's wrong so because of that for 10, 15, 20 years this organization is running but it hasn't really done anything for the community so inshallah this book from its name is it's going to clarify for us and it's going to lighten for us the methodology of the pious predecessors and how they rectified situations and how they cultivated the reason why we keep bringing the people back to the menhendry self in the book inshallah it's going to show us a lot of that and explain to us is that my beloved brothers and sisters they succeeded they passed the test they passed this test in making sure that they cultivate their community correctly they did it الله سبحانه وتعالى placed in their hands مشارقة الأرض ومغاربها they east and west Allah gave it to them so their da'wa spread the earth it didn't just stick to their community so what we need is to ask ourselves these people's efforts has been proven to pass so we want to be successful in our da'wa and the things that we're doing the path that we need to tread on is that path the poet he said you are looking for success but you haven't taken its path for verily the boat does not sail on the shore success has a path has a road and for you to get to where you want fast and effectively there's a path already separate so there's no need for you to come and then try and test paths so insha'Allah وتعالى this is the beauty of this book some places I'm going to read him I'm going to read the Arabic and then I'm going to translate and explain it and some places I'm just going to go the overall meaning of what he's trying to say here because as you can see the book is very big what really matters to us is that the book has principles يوترحمه الله he wrote principles in this book and we're going to see how many principles there are insha'Allah وتعالى he's going to mention that in the مقدمة what really concerns us is the قواع and the principles that's what we're going to focus on as for the explanation that he put on it I will take the quotes on there and the explanation here and there and as you're going to see this book initially شيخ عبدالله ابن صالح العبيلان he took it and he read it on his teacher and his teacher who's who العلامة شيخ صالح ابن فوزان الفوزان عبدالله ابن صالح عبيلان originally wrote these principles and he read it on شيخ صالح الفوزان it's recorded and it's on the internet him reading it on the sheikh the sheikh is listening شيخ فوزان is listening and the sheikh is doing تعليقات on the book من تعليق on كوا شيخ عبدالله ابن صالح عبيلان is reading but what is he saying شيخ فوزان يعلق عليه after that شيخ عبدالله ابن صالح الفوزان شيخ شيخ عبدالله ابن صالح العبيلان he went home he added more principles to the book he added more principles to the book and then he sent the book to شيخ صالح الفوزان شيخ فوزان read it he underlined the points that he think he should take out and the things that he should change and شيخ صالح شيخ عبدالله ابن صالح العبيلان did as he was told by شيخ صالح الفوزان and then the book came out and شيخ فوزان praised the book after that this teaches us how those who had knowledge still went back to the scholars and they checked with the scholars words, letters شيخ فوزان would say this word is not appropriate don't use this word change this word to this word and I remember asking شيخ عبدالله ابن صالح العبيلان myself I said to him شيخ was he telling you to take little words out he's like yes he would tell me to move a word and he would say change that word with that word and he said I would underline it and I would change it exactly to the word he told me and he's going to mention it in the مقدمة himself so he says إن مقدمة أرطه يتزخط بطل حاجه he says ثم أما بعد it to proceed فإن من واجب أهل العلم he start the مقدمة of the book شيخ عبدالله ابن صالح العبيلان فإن من واجب أهل العلم that which is obligatory on the people of knowledge is القيامة بأمر الله is to stand to stand with what to stand with the command of Allah that which Allah commanded you تعليما ودراسة in terms of the teaching and educating كما قال تعالى أزال الله سلين القرآن ما كان لبشرين it is not for a person أن يؤتيه الله that Allah gives to him الكتابة والحكمة الكتابة والحكمة الله سبحانه وتعالى he gives him the Kitab الله gives him leadership الله gives him a new prophecy ثم يقول للناس that he says to the people كونوا عبادة اللي من دون الله be slaves for me besides Allah ولكن كونوا ربانيين but rather be ربانيين ربانيين أهو الذي يرب الناسة بالسغار العلم قبل كباره رباني is the one who nurtures the people on small knowledge before he goes and talks to them about big knowledge ولكن كونوا ربانيين بما كنتم تعلمون الكتابة وبما كنتم تدرسون and then he goes on to say شير عبد الله بن صالح العبيلان he says حفظه الله وذلك يتطلب منه الدعوة إلى الله so this ayah shows that what is requested from us is a da'wah إلى الله it occurred to Allah وتطهير الشرعه ومنهاجه and that we also purify what we purify his religion and his legislation we clean it we clear it what is it that we clean it from three things we need to clean from it what are the three things that we need to clean from this religion الشرك والبدع المعاصي شرك which is associated with Allah بدع which is innovation and المعاصي which is sins these three things we have to purify them and cleanse them from what what cleanse them from the religion وقلا يقول عم الله إلا الحق and that we don't say about Allah except the truth ويحذاروا من طريقة علماء اليهود الذين يلبسون الحق بالباطل and that we also warn from the part of the Jews who are mixing the truth with the falsehood ويقتمون and they are also concealing it ويخفونه ويحرفونه they are also hiding it and they are distorting it أو يلوون ألسلاتهم أو as Allah سبحانه وتعالى يسأل in the ayah ومن من خلقنا أمة يهدون بالحق وبيه يعدلون they try to distort the verses with their tongues they try to change its meaning and sway the people away from the truth and they try to distort it by physically changing what the verse actually says الله says in the ayah ومن من خلقنا أمة from the ummah are those who we created يهدون بالحق they guide to the truth from within the ummah there are people الله says يهدون بالحق they guide to the truth there are people like that and the Hadith of the Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم لا تزالوا طائفة من أمة قائمة بأمر الله that there is always a people who are steadfast and upright in what بأمر الله in the command of who سبحانه وتعالى الامام البخاريو narrated this in his Sahih when he narrated it in كتاب العتصام بالكتاب والسنة this Hadith he said that those who are steadfast upon the truth هم أهل العلمي it's the people of knowledge قال الزهري بن شهاب الزهري he said كان علماءنا يقولون our scholars used to say العتصام بالسنة هو النجاه that holding onto the sunnah is what success lies in ماليك بن آنسين رحمه الله he said السنة سفينة نوح مراكبها نجا ومن تخلف عنها غريق that the sunnah is the boat of نبي الله نوح now the sunnah is like the boat it's like the ark of nooh مراكبها whoever went on that ark that day what happened نجا they will become successful right they will not drown ومن تخلف عن anyone who didn't go on that ark of nooh what happened to them غريقه he drowned right the sunnah is like that anyone who holds onto the sunnah will find success and he would pass and the one who didn't then is going to drown so the ark of nooh was the sunnah that's what the author رحمه الله said النلافد له he said ومنه نجاء التصنيف هذه الرسالة وقد بدأت في كتابة عام ثلاثة عشر واربعمائة بعد الألف وقرأت بضع عشر تقاعدة منها على شيخنا صاحب الفضيلة العلامة المحقق صالح من فوزان الفوزان وعلق عليها في حين وهي مسجلة في ثلاثة أشريطة ثم إن الله تبارك وتعال يسر لي إتمامها حيث بلغت أربع وخمسين قاعدة وبعثت بها إلى فضيلته وراجعها واشار علي بحث بحث وتعديل بعض ما جاء فيها وعدلت وحذفت ما أشار به فضيلته جزاه الله خيرا هادا والله أسأل أن يتقبلها ويجعلها من الباقيات الصالحات وإن ينفع بها والحمد لله رب العالمين he says and then this book came this book I wrote when the year was 1413 هجرية he said وقرأة to I read بضع عشرة قاعدة 50, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19 that's بضع that's the amount from 13 to 19 roughly within the number I read on شخص صالح الفوزان look what he said على شيخنا صاحب الفضيلة المحقق شخص صالح الفوزان I read on him وعلق عليها في حيني and he would comment on those points and inshallah it's in the book right now he transcribed it from the الشرطة and he put it in here so we're going to see إن شاء الله تعالى we're going to see the what we're going to see the تعليقات meaning the commentary شخص صالح الفوزان وهي مسجلة and it's recorded في ثلاثة الشرطة it's recorded with three tapes تما إن الله تعالى يسر لي إتمامها then الله سبحانه وتعالى he blessed me he completed حيث بلغت 54 قاعد I read some of it on him شخص صالح الفوزان and then he went back to his city and then what he did is he carried on until he completed it toward 54 قاعدة when he finished it he said وبعطت بيها إلى فضيلة I sent it to him وراجعه he revised it وشار علي بيحط he then commanded me to change some things واتعديلي بعضي and he also told me to remove some things ما جاء فيها ده which has come in it وعدلت وحلفت ما أشعر به فضيلة I removed what he told me to remove and I changed what he told me to change جزاغ الله خيرا and may Allah reward him good and this him saying جزاغ الله خيرا reminds me of the line of poetry إذا أفادك إنسان بفائدة فأكثر من العلوم فأكثر شكره أبدا وقول فلان جزاغ الله صالحة أفادريها وألق الكبر والحسدان so many benefits you something good and they educate you and they teach you and you learn from them فأكثر increase in shown gratitude فأكثر شكره أبدا show a lot of gratitude to that person who taught you who educated you وقول and say فلان so-and-so جزاغ الله صالحة اما جزاغ الله صالحة or Allah reward him in good فأفادريها he benefited me this وألق الكبر والحسدان and get rid of arrogance and jealousy get rid of that so the sheikh رحمه الله he shows gratitude towards his sheikh the sheikh صالح شخصالح ابن فوزان الفوزان إن شاء الله تعالى so now we're going to start the Kitab إذن الله الكريم we have an idea of the book the sheikh who authored this book is still alive he still lives in Ha'in he still lives there and is a person who I saw from him سلامة العقيدة his عقيدة is sound and a person who implements his knowledge شعبض الله من صالحة العبيلان was requested to come to the UK for a conference so he said okay no problem awhile the visa came out he got accepted and when he got accepted his visa was given to him he called the organization and he said to them I won't be able to come so he said why can't you come he said my mom doesn't let me my mom hasn't allowed me to go she said you can't go to the UK and so because of that I am not going to come he's a man who he himself is a granddad are you with me brothers at that age he believes that his mother didn't let him so he listens to his mom so he's a person like عامل بعلمه implements his knowledge may Allah make us those who learn and benefit from the knowledge that we have القاعدة الأولى the first قاعدة so write the principles we explain that principle we go to the next principle we explain that principle Insha'Allah القاعدة الأولى القاعدة الأولى INFINITIAL DEEN the religion is built on two fundamental principles the religion is built upon two fundamental principles اخلاص sincerity that's the first one and the second is والمتابعة للنبي صلى الله عليه وسلمة the first one is sincerity and the second one is following and adhering to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم's way so the religion is built upon these two foundations مبنيون على صلين عظيمين الإخلاص وصصيرتي والمتابعة للنبي صلى الله عليه وسلمة and to be what? it's to be in accordance to who? and it's to be in accordance to the Sunnah of the Messenger عليه الصلاة و السلام let's take the first one of the two الإخلاص وصصيرتي الله says in Surah An-Nisa ay 125 in Surah An-Nisa ay 125 الله says ومن أحسنوا دينا من أسلم وجهه لله وهو محسن الله says who is better in terms of religion who is better than this person's religion من من أسلم وجهه لله the person who directs his face towards Allah من من أسلم وجهه لله he directs himself towards Allah that's إخلاص وهو محسنة is in accordance to the Sunnah وهو محسن means what? in accordance to the Sunnah so the ayah says who is greater than the person who comes with sincerity the answer to that question is nothing he directs himself to Allah and the definition we always give to إخلاص is what? إخلاصنا لله صف القلب من إرادة سواه فحذر يا فطن إخلاصنا لله صف القلب من إرادة سواه فحذر يا فطن إخلاصنا our sincerity is for Allah سبحانه وتعالى إخلاصنا لله صف القلب من is to purify your heart from صف القلب من إرادة any want to anything other than Allah there's nothing else that you want and there's nothing else that you you wish anything from except Allah also Allah says سبحانه وتعالى He says وما أميره صورة البيينة صورة البيينة آيه فايف الله says وما أميره they were not commanded إلا ليعبود الله except to worship الله سبحانه وتعالى مخلصين له الدين sincerity in the religion for Allah that's what we were commanded brothers and sisters إخلاص is the first pillar of any action if you don't come with sincerity in the action that you're doing you will not get a reward for it and that is why Allah says وما أميره I didn't command them anything إلا ليعبود الله مخلصين له الدينة except that they do this with sincerity إخلاص only for Allah سبحانه وتعالى سيك also Allah سبحانه وتعالى He says قل صورة الزمر آيه 11 الله says قل إني أميره I have commanded أعبد الله قل إني أميره I was commanded أعبد الله to worship Allah مخلص له الدين I was commanded to worship Allah in a state of sincerity I was told and I was commanded to worship Allah with what? with sincerity that was what I was commanded the command that was put to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is the same command that every one of us is told to go through and that's why the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said in a hadith in which Bukhari and Muslim both narrated من حديث أمير المؤمنين عمر بن الخطاب إنما الأعمال بنياتي that verily every action is what is intended from it every action is what? it is what is intended from it so that's the first thing the second pillar that the religion stands on is متابعة النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم following the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام following the messenger means that you are in accordance to his sunnah that whatever action that you are doing you are doing it how he did it عليه الصلاة والسلام when we say following the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام what we mean is that you follow him in doing what he did and you follow him in staying away from what he staying away from as Imam al-Shafi'u said as Hafidr al-Mahajir brings in Fatah al-Bariu and Imam al-Shafi'u he said فإننا نتبع السنة فعلا وتركا that we follow the sunnah فعلا in doing what the Prophet did وتركا and we follow the sunnah by leaving off that witch by that witch that the Prophet left متابعة النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم following the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم بأن يكون العمل and what does he mean follow the Prophet is that your action is موافقا in accordance لما شرعه in that witch he legislated صلى الله عليه وسلم and Allah said in the Quran In Surah al-Mulk ayatuh الذي خلق الموتى Allah is the one who created death والحياتة and Allah is the one who created life ليبلوكم so he can test you test which one who's he gonna test أيوكم which of you is أحسن وعمل whichever of you is the best in actions I want you to ponder here because the ayah says أحسن وكم عملان the best of you in action it does not say أكثر وكم عملان it doesn't say whichever of you has the most action it says the one who has the best of actions why is it the best of actions because religion of Islam it doesn't look at quantity what does it look at quality it's quantity or quality which one huh it is it is in the sharia it's the quality it's not the quantity it's not the amount of ibadat that you come with because that's what Allah says أحسن وكم عملان the best of actions فضيل العياد الرحيمة والله he said أحسن وعملان means أخلصه واصربه فضيل العياد said أخلصه واصربه means that which is done with sincerity and that which is in accordance to the sunnah الخالص ما كان لله والصواب ما كان على السنة إخلاص means that which is done for Allah's sake and صواب means correct means that which is in accordance to the that which is in accordance to the sunnah that which is in accordance to the sunnah look at how shaykh b'ad has fooled the people today you find a person who says in order for me to ask Allah I have to go through the prophet صح brother are you listening so he says I want to go through the prophet so the ibadah which is a rites of Allah who is he going through he's going through the prophet where he should have what he should have asked Allah directly سبحانه وتعالى but when it comes to legislation he doesn't want to go through the prophet when it comes to the legislation and the shara'i and the ahkam he wants to do it based on how he wants he wants to make his own legislation and worship Allah based on that that's why Allah said in the Quran فمن زيين له سوه عمله فراءه حسنة these people their evil deeds have been beautified for them Allah says هل نبئكم بالأخسرين أعمالة الذين ظلس عيهم في الحياة الدنيا وهم يحسبون أنهم يحسنون سلعا الله سبحانه وتعالى those who are destroyed it's those people who are doing a deed يحسبون أنهم يحسنون سلعا but they believe in that deed of theirs that they are doing good this evil deed of theirs they think that they are doing good they are coming with innovation when in reality Allah is going to reject this innovation from them the Prophet ﷺ he said من عمله ليس عليه أمرنا فهو رد الله الشيخان وهذا لفضل المسلم then the Prophet ﷺ he said anybody who doesn't action and that action is not from our affairs meaning it's not from our religion فهو رد it is rejected in this person's face اي مرضود على صحيبي this person this action will not be accepted from them do you love Allah in his messenger if you do then there is an ayah to test that your iman and your claim of loving Allah in his messenger is going to be put to the test but in reality they used to say ayah to limtihan the verse of testing and that is قال تعالى الله says in Surah Al-Imran ayah 31 الله says قل سيته محمد إن كنتم تحبون الله if you love Allah فتبعوني follow me نبي الله محمد يحببكم الله الله will love you so do you claim that you love Allah if you really claim that you love Allah then follow the messenger follow the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام ولذلك حسنا البصري he said دعا قومون a group of people claim محبت الله فبتلاهم الله بهذه الآية a group of people claim the love of Allah and Allah tested them with his vest Allah said to them do you love Allah okay follow the messenger if you are not following the messenger then you'll claim that you love Allah is what it's questionable and then sheikh Abdullah ibn Salih عبيلان said والناس منقسمون بحسب هادين الأصلين إلى أربعة أقسام the people are dividing in four when it comes to this principle today this principle of what that the religion is built upon two foundations two fundamental foundations are you with me الإخلاص ومتابعة الرسول right sincerity and following the messenger the sheikh said that the people when it comes to this principle they are divided and they are categorized into four the first one is أهل الإخلاص للمعبود والمتابعة the first are the ones who have sincerity and they are in accordance to the sunnah these people are أهل الإخلاص they are people of sincerity they worship Allah based on what from sincerity and they are also in accordance to the what to the sunnah of the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم فعمالهم كلها لله all of their actions is for Allah وأقوالهم لله their speech is for Allah وعطاءهم لله they give for Allah ومنعهم لله their refusal of something is for Allah when they refuse وحبهم لله their love is for Allah وبغضهم لله they hate for Allah فمعاملتهم ظاهرا وباطرا لوشي الله وحدا their dealings the external dealings and the internal dealings all of it is for Allah alone لا يريدون بذلك من الناس جزاء ولا شكورا they don't want from the people any praise and any reward they don't all of it is for Allah ولبتغاء جاهل عندهم and they are not trying to attain from the people any station or any rank that they want the people to put them in so that's what they are وكذلك أعمالهم and also their actions are كلها أول of it وعبادةهم and also their عبادة إزوات موافقة لأمر الله is in accordance to the command of Allah ولما يحبه ويرضاه and it is also in accordance to that which Allah loves and is pleased with my beloved brothers and sisters when you come with an action that is not sanctioned by Allah it is not legislated by Allah how do you know Allah loves this action and how do you know Allah is pleased with this action because there is no way for you to know that Allah loves something and is pleased with something except through who the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام الجنيد رحمه الله what did he say he said اطرق the path اطرق كلها مزدودة all of the paths are blocked إلا طريقة مريقة تفى أثر محمدين except the one who takes the path of the prophet the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم all doors are closed all roads are closed to Allah it is tea junction it is closed the only path that is open in which you can gain happiness from Allah Allah will be pleased with you Allah will forgive you Allah will shower his blessings on you is the path in which the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is treaded on it so these people every single thing that they do is in accordance to that which Allah سبحانه وتعالى sanctioned on whose tongue the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام وليهاليكا my sisters and brothers when the person says وأشهد أنه محمد الرسول الله when the person says وأشهد أنه محمد الرسول الله what is it that they are saying they are saying طاعته فيما أمر وتصديقه فيما أخبر واجتنابوا ما لها عنه وزجر وأن لا يعبد الله إلا بما شرع ما سوء يسيه أشهد أنه محمد الرسول الله that's what he means طاعته فيما أمر obeying him in that which he commands وتصديقه فيما أخبر and trusting and believing everything which he informed you of واجتنابوا ما لها عنه وزجر staying away from that which he prohibited for you from وأن لا يعبد الله إلا بما شرع and that Allah is not worshipped except with that which he was he legislated عليه الصلاة والسلام