Background

Through the power of youtube video selections I ran across a video by Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad.

BTW, he is a british born convert to Islam.

Videos

Due to the times in which we all live, I find myself blessed from listening to reasoned, measured, and tempered voices.

Here is the one word I have listened to thus far:

1. Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad – The Khilafa of Sayyidina Ali – The Mortal Choice
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Indepth

Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad – The Khilafa of Sayyidina Ali – The Mortal Choice

1. Good for us
   • As there are tragedies in our lives
   • And, often things don’t work out for us
2. Mysteries of our lives
   • Adam
     • Sent out of Eden’s Garden
   • Ibrahim
     • Ibrahim was tested with a knife
   • Jacob
     • Jacob was tested with the loss of Joseph
   • Joseph
     • Joseph was tested in the depths of a well
   • Prophets
     • Prophets were stoned
   • Abubaker
     • Left the words in the anguish of a poisoned sword
   • Koran
     • Martyrdom came to he who ordered the Koran
3. He was content with the love of God alone
   • To him shall pain and anguish ever come
4. Realities of Life
   • Bereavement
     • Parents die
   • We become sick
   • Relationships don’t work
   • We do not get the job we want
5. Books
   • About me, two groups of people will be destroyed
     • He who loves me to the excess
       • so that love takes him from what is correct
     • He who hates me so much to the excess
       • so that the hatred takes him from what is true
     • He who takes the middle course
       • Because Allah is with the unity of the course
       • Be with the great majority of muslims
       • Allah’s heart is with the maintenance of Unity
     • Beware of division
       • Isolation
       • Prey to Satan
       • Isolation from sheep’s lead to being a prey of the wolves
     • Sectarianism & Terrorism
       • He who sojourns under the banner of Terrorism
         • Fight him
6. When they found Allah they found him to have a broad and great mercy
   • Were about the extremist
     • They found Hell
   • So what do we say about all the Prophets
     • All of them were upright witnesses
7. Special Fragrance
   • The great saints
   • Ali drew a veil over people’s misunderstanding
   • Work towards unity
   • One can not be spiritual
   • Two Options
     • Allocate problem
     • Allah is forgiven
       • All of them were following a path which we perceive to be good
   • We can not base a spiritual life on passing blame
   • The necessity of the self
   • Can not operate a successful spirituality without given other people the benefit of doubt, forgiven, and going forward