Purification of the Soul

Date page first created: 5th Jan 2022, last updated: 17th July 2025.

Please take the time to go through the following information in your own time (there’s a lot of material here so bookmarking would be good option) and spread to those whom you believe may benefit from this such as friends, family and colleagues, especially those who are close and dear to you, who you want good for (both in this world and the Hereafter) and show mercy to by directing them to sound beneficial knowledge, righteous actions, correct creed and methodology, good manners, character and conduct, rectification of the corruption of the soul (heart) and keeping away from love of the dunya, chasing after it, and being deceived by its pomp and glitter.

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1. Impactful Visual Reminders
2. Videos
3. Audio lectures
4. Posts/articles
5. Recommended books
6. Informative Dawah Leaflets
7. Beneficial Lesson and Seminar Notes
8. Imaams of the Sunnah
9. Islamic websites

1. Impactful Visual Reminders

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2. Videos

Answer to Question: “My life is full of problems with work, marriage, wife, kids. Why is this?”:

Beware of Swindlers & Fraudsters Offering Cheap Salvation Through Tombs of Saints:

Warning Against Following One’s Desires:

Having Taqwaa (Fear) of Allah:

Calling Ones Soul to Account:

Death – The Destroyer of Desires:

Ways to Cure Depression – Knowing the Keys to Happiness:

Short clip – The Spread and Proliferation of Sins and Disobedience:

Short Clip – The Believer Doesn’t Have a Pessimistic Outlook of Life:

Treating Fear, Anxiety and Weakness in Eemaan Caused by “Lockdown” by Abu Iyaad:

Eid Milaad an-Nabee in light of the Qur’aan and Sunnah:

The Salafus-Saalih Warned Against Innovation and Innovators:

A Historical Look at the Splitting of the Muslim Ummah:

The Great Falsehood and Misguidance of Yasir Qadhi Made Plain and Clear:

Lecture: Believe In Allah And Be Upright:

Virtue of being Grateful:

Quick Reminder: The Sahaba Came Before the Four Imaams:

The Salafus-Salih Warned Against ‘ilm al-Kalam and Its People:

Importance Of Knowledge:

Conflict between Revelation and Reason?:

Seeking Cure With The Quraan:

Al-Fawaa’id (Collection of Wise Sayings) by Imam Ibn Al-Qayyim:

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3. Audio lectures

Patience in Da’wah – By Al-‘Allāmah, Ash-Shaykh Sāliḥ Al-Luhaydān رحمه الله – Tele-link 2005
https://www.salafisounds.com/8749-23/

The Path of The Righteous by Shaykh Abdullaah Bukhari
https://www.salafisounds.com/the-path-of-the-righteous-by-shaykh-abdullaah-bukhari/

The Levels Of Restraining The Soul: Knowledge and Action By Shaykh Ubayd al-Jaabiree (2004) 
https://www.salafisounds.com/the-levels-of-restraining-the-soul-knowledge-action-by-shaykh-ubayd-al-jaabiree-2004-part-1/

https://www.salafisounds.com/the-levels-of-restraining-the-soul-dawah-patience-by-shaykh-ubayd-al-jaabiree-2004-part-2/

Purification Of The Soul By Hasan Somali
https://www.salafisounds.com/purification-of-the-soul-by-hasan-somali/

Purification Of The Soul by Abu Khadeejah
https://www.salafisounds.com/purification-of-the-soul-by-abu-khadeejah-sri-lanka-2002/

10 Ways to Achieve Forgiveness From Allah For Our Sins – by Abu Abdir-Rahman Uways Taweel
https://www.salafisounds.com/10-ways-to-achieve-forgiveness-from-allah-for-our-sins-by-abu-abdir-rahman-uways-taweel/

10 Ways to Achieve Allah’s Love – by Abu Abdir-Rahman Uways Taweel
https://www.salafisounds.com/10-ways-to-achieve-the-allahs-love-by-abu-abdir-rahman-uways-taweel/

Ten Ways to be Patient in Times of Trials and Afflictions – by Uways Taweel
https://www.salafisounds.com/ten-ways-to-be-patient-in-times-of-trials-and-afflictions-by-uways-taweel/

A Strong Word Against Lying Upon The People of Truth by Abu Khadeejah
https://www.salafisounds.com/a-strong-word-against-lying-upon-the-people-of-truth-by-abu-khadeejah/

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4. Posts/articles

The Meaning and Importance of ‘Aqidah’:
http://www.aqidah.com/creed/articles/odoyp-the-meaning-of-aqidah.cfm

Amazing Gems Regarding Sincerity: Part (1) – Secret Righteous Actions:
http://www.piousmuslim.com/articles/maqbmmk-amazing-gems-regarding-sincerity-part-1—secret-righteous-actions.cfm

Ibn Al-Qayyim: The Foundation of All Disobedience (Sins) Is Incapacity:
http://www.piousmuslim.com/articles/fjlybar-ibn-al-qayyim-the-foundation-of-all-disobedience-sins-is-incapacity.cfm

Punishment for Sins Can Be Removed by Ten Causes: Three From the Servant, Three From Other Than Him, Three From Calamities and One From Allaah, the Most Merciful:
http://www.ibntaymiyyah.com/articles/vumjffu-punishment-for-sins-can-be-removed-by-ten-causes.cfm

Ibrahim Ibn Adham’s response to “We call upon Him and He does not answer us”:
https://islamtees.uk/2011/09/01/we-call-upon-him-and-he-does-not-answer-us/

Ibn Al-Jawzee (rahimahullah) on the history of Sufi thought, books and authors:
https://islamtees.uk/2011/10/03/ibn-al-jawzee-on-history-of-sufi-thought-books-and-authors/

A critique and Clarification of the Falsehood of “Hidden Knowledge”:
https://islamtees.uk/2011/11/15/a-critique-and-clarification-of-the-falsehood-of-hidden-knowledge/

The Meaning and Importance of ‘Aqidah’:
http://www.aqidah.com/creed/articles/odoyp-the-meaning-of-aqidah.cfm

A warning against Anasheeds:
https://islamtees.uk/2011/12/29/a-warning-against-anasheeds/

Ibn Taymiyyah: Musical Instruments Are the Intoxicant of the Souls:
http://www.aqidah.com/creed/articles/odoyp-the-meaning-of-aqidah.cfm

The Devil’s Deception of the Sufis:
https://islamtees.uk/2025/04/01/the-devils-deception-of-the-sufis/

The Source of All Liberalist Ideologies:
https://islamtees.uk/2013/10/31/the-source-of-all-liberalist-ideologies/

Fatwaa on Unification of Religions:
https://islamtees.uk/2011/10/16/fatwaa-on-unification-of-religions/

The Realities of Democracy:
https://islamtees.uk/2012/09/27/the-realities-of-democracy/

The Definition of Lying (Kadhib) and Its Forms:
https://abuiyaad.com/q/lying

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5. Recommended books

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6. Informative Dawah Leaflets

Read here:

https://www.salafipubs.com/leaflets-m/9194-the-islamic-ruling-on-wearing-charms-amulets-and-talismans

Read here:

https://www.salafipubs.com/leaflets-m/9195-common-doubts-regarding-the-prophet-muhammad-a4

Read here:

https://www.salafipubs.com/leaflets-m/9198-beautiful-yet-simple-supplications

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7. Beneficial Lesson and Seminar Notes

1) Explanation of Hadith no. 34 in An-Nawawi’s 40 Hadith:

“Whosoever of you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand; and if he is not able to so, then let him change it with his tongue; and if he is not able to so, then with his heart – and that is the weakest of faith.” [Sahih Muslim]

https://islamtees.uk/2025/05/05/explanation-of-hadith-no-34-in-an-nawawis-40-hadith/

2) An Explanation of the Tree of Faith based upon Notes taken from a Study Seminar:
https://islamtees.uk/2021/01/14/an-explanation-of-the-tree-of-faith-based-upon-notes-taken-from-a-study-seminar/

Associated PDF:
https://islamtees.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IslamTees_Seminar_Tree_of_Faith.pdf

3) Ways and Actions by Which Reward is Multiplied:
https://soundcloud.com/islamtees/sets/ways-and-actions-by-which-reward-is-multiplied

4) 10 Guidelines to Aid Istiqamah, taken from the lecture “Avoiding Trials by being Steadfast in the Religion”:
https://soundcloud.com/islamtees/avoiding-trials-by-being-steadfast-in-the-religion

5) A Historical Look at the Splitting of the Muslim Ummah:
https://islamtees.uk/2020/06/14/a-historical-look-at-the-splitting-of-the-muslim-ummah/

Associated PDF:
https://islamtees.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Splitting_of_Ummah.pdf

6) “Signposts of the Propagated Sunnah” Lesson 33 Note regarding Allah’s Names and Attributes with a Focus on Tamthil and Takyif :

https://islamtees.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Signposts_Propagated_Sunnah_Lesson33_Notes.pdf

7) A Refutation of Three Doubts of the Khawaarij from the Islamic Lesson Series “40 Hadith on the Virtues of the Kalima”:

https://islamtees.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Virtues-Kalimah-Lesson-11-Refutation-Doubts-Khawaarij.pdf

8. Imaams of the Sunnah

May Allāh have mercy upon all the Imāms of the Sunnah and bless the people living today to greatly benefit from their narrations and works, along with actually implementing and acting upon what they said and narrated rather than just mere lip-service.

Note: the list (which is not definitive and is a subset of a much larger group) only goes upto around 350H. Obviously there have been many more Imāms of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamā’ah since that time until our era. You’ll find these names and their statements clearly being mentioned, particularly on Salafi sites and in fatāwa of contemporary scholars in our era such as:

1. Shaykh ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān Ibn Nāṣir as-Saʿdī رحمه الله (d. 1376H)
2. Shaykh Aḥmad Muḥammad Shākir رحمه الله (d. 1377H)
3. Shaykh Ḥāfidh al-Ḥakamī رحمه الله (d. 1377H)
4. Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ibrahīm Āl ash-Shaykh رحمه الله (d. 1389H)
5. Shaikh ʿAbdullāh al-Qarʿāwī رحمه الله (d. 1389H)
6. Shaykh Muḥammad al-Amīn al-Shanqītī رحمه الله (d. 1393H)
7. Shaykh Muḥammad Khalīl al-Harrās رحمه الله (d. 1395H)
8. ShaykhʿAbdullāh bin Ḥumaid رحمه الله (d. 1402H)
9. Shaykh Muḥammad Taqī ad-Dīn al-Hilālī al-Maghribī رحمه الله (d. 1407H)
10. Shaykh Badīʿ ad-Dīn Shāh as-Sindī رحمه الله (d. 1416H)
11. Shaykh Muḥammad Amān al-Jāmī رحمه الله (d. 1416H)
12. Shaykh Ḥammād bin Muḥammad al-Ansārī رحمه الله (d. 1418H)
13. Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Bāz رحمه الله (d. 1419H)
14. Shaykh ʿUmar bin Muḥammad al-Fallātah رحمه الله (d. 1419H)
15. Shaykh Muḥammad Nāṣir ad-Dīn al-Albānī رحمه الله (d. 1420H)
16. Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn رحمه الله (d. 1421H)
17. Shaykh Muqbil ibn Hādī al-Wādiʿī رحمه الله (d. 1422H)
18. Shaykh ʿAbdullāh Bassām رحمه الله (d. 1423H)
19. Shaykh ʿAbd as-Salām Burjiss رحمه الله (d. 1425H)
20. Shaykh Ṣafī ar-Raḥmān al-Mubārakfurī رحمه الله (d. 1427H)
21. Shaykh ‘Abd al-Ghāffar Hasan al-Hindī رحمه الله ( d. 1428H)
22. Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá al-Najmī رحمه الله (d. 1429H)
23. Shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Banná رحمه الله (d. 1430H)
24. Shaykh ʿAbdullāh Al-Ghudayān رحمه الله (d. 1431H)
25. Shaykh ʿAbdullāh ʿAqīl رحمه الله (d. 1433H)
26. Shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Waṣṣābī رحمه الله (d. 1436H)
27. Shaykh Zayd Al-Madkhalī رحمه الله (d. 1436H)
28. Shaykh Yāsīn al-ʿAdanī رحمه الله (d. 1439H)
29. Shaykh Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Banná رحمه الله (d. 1442H)
30. Shaykh Muḥammad bin ʿĀlī bin Ādam al-Ithyūbī رحمه الله (d. 1442H)
31. Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Luḥaydān رحمه الله (d. 1443H)
32. Shaykh ʿUbayd ibn ʿAbdullāh al-Jābirī رحمه الله (d. 1444H)
33. Shaykh Rabī’ bin Hādī al-Madkhalī (d. 1447H)

Take the quiz here:
https://islamtees.uk/2025/07/25/new-recent-scholars-and-their-works-quiz

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9. Islamic websites

http://www.thenoblequran.com
http://www.sahihalbukhari.com
http://www.sahihmuslim.com
http://www.piousmuslim.com/
http://nawawis40hadith.com/nw/
http://www.healthymuslim.com/
http://www.fatwaislam.com
http://www.salafisounds.com

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