As salaamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu Please forward Insha'allah this e-mail finds everyone in the best of health and highest of iman. For those of you who do not know me my name is Na'eema Umm Zayd. My family and I are studying overseas in Saudi Arabia walhumdulilah. My children's school tuition is $420 per month. I no longer have the means to pay for their schooling, Allahu musta'an. I just lost my job today due to government paperwork issues regarding employment of foreigners, masha'allah. I worked soley to pay their tuition, so what I am asking if anyone is interested in helping out so that I can continue to send the kids to school. If maybe 50 sisters/brothers would be able to donate $9.00 a month or maybe 100 sisters/brothers would donate $4.50 a month via paypal it would cover the cost of the children's tuition insha'allah. If you think that it is possible for you to assist us please let me know insha'allah, or you can send the donation thru this paypal address: [email protected] barakallahu feekum. UmmZayd Giving Assistance To Those Who Call To The Authentic Sunnah Imaam Barbahaaree (rahimahullaah) said: 'Whoever realizes what the innovators have abandoned of the Sunnah and left behind and he clings to it, he is a person of the Sunnah and the Jamaa'ah. He should be followed, helped and protected. He is one of those whom the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) bequeathed should be looked after'[1] Sheikh Saaleh al Fawzaan (hafidha-hullaah) commented saying: that is [in the saying of the Messenger (sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam)]: 'They are those upon that which I and my Companions are upon today' He (sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) advised that one should be with them, with this Jamaa'ah, with this company of people, with this group; which is upon that which the Messenger (sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) and his Companions were upon. However, this requires two affairs: The First Affair Is: Knowledge; that we learn that which the Messenger (sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) and his Companions were upon. As for the Jaahil, he does not learn, whilst thinking that what the one in opposition is upon is what the Messenger was upon, when that is not the case. The Second Affair Is: To be firm upon that which the Messenger (sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) and his Companions were upon; because the one who traverses upon the sunnah will receive grief, trouble and intimidation from the people; but he must exercise patience and not turn away from the truth. He does not bargain (the truth) nor leaves anything of it; and for that reason it has been reported about the one who holds upon his Religion at the end of time, that he is like one holding onto a burning coal or prickles; due to what he will receive of hardship, grief and trouble from the people. So he requires patience.[2] [1]Source: Translated by Aboo Talhah Daawood Burbank (hafidha-hullaah) , Explanation of the Creed [2] Source: Ittihaaful Qaaree Bitta'liqaat Alaa Sharhis Sunnah Lil Imaam Barbahaaree, Vol2, page68-69 TROID
