Addressing claims made against the view of the negation of contagion in which some people spoke, without any real knowledge or understanding and made outlandish statements of exaggeration and injustice, devoid of evidence.
"It is upon them not to become sad, and not to consider the attack and revilement upon them to be something strange, because this is the [reality of the] situation from the earliest times of the Salaf to this era of ours."
Shaykh al-Albānī explains that taking the means as part of reliance includes only definitive affairs or those about which there is overwhelming belief that they are successful and efficacious. As for what is less than them, then they are to be abandoned for pure reliance.
"No matter how much strength [of knowledge] and expertise a woman has been given, she will not be able to encompass the hideouts and hiding-places of men [in these affairs]. This is extremely difficult."
Supplication and seeking refuge with Allāh is more useful and more beneficial than treatment with medications, and the effect and influence of that on the body is greater than the effect of bodily medicines.
Statements from the Major Scholars clarifying whether tazkiyah (commendation), takharruj (graduation) or shahādah (certification) are required before one gives da`wah and teaches.
A defence of ʿUthmān [rd] against the claims of Yaḥyā al-Ḥajūrī and his Ḥaddādī followers in light of the taḥqīq (verification) of the Scholars of Ahl al-Sunnah, both past and present, in the matter.
When speaking about the fiṭrah and the ḥadīth, “Every child is born upon the fiṭrah”, Muslims often say that a child is born a “Muslim”, with the meaning of being upon Islām the religion.
We present below some fatāwā (legal verdicts) from the scholars of the daʿwah to Tawḥīd in the Arabian peninsula, from the early 19th century, on smallpox inoculations.