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Khutab and Durus Explorer

Historical sermons from the khutab collections and recorded lesson series, each linked to its text and its source.

Historical sermons 25 entries

Recorded lesson series 38 entries

  • A'da' al-Islam (lecture series)

    A four-episode series by Omar Abdelkafy on the Assabile archive, titled 'Enemies of Islam', in which he speaks of those he regards as enemies of Islam from within the ranks of Muslims, with digressions on hypocrisy, the hadd penalties, the hijab, knowledge and more. The title and the judgements are the speaker's.

  • Ahalina: Our Families (television programme)

    A short television programme on family life by Abd al-Rahman Mansour, of which the Assabile archive keeps thirteen video episodes of about a quarter of an hour, the speaker alone: skills of communication between spouses, the keys to hearts, parents' love for their children and its signs, the 'ten destroyers' of upbringing, making children love prayer across four stages from early childhood to adolescence, fathers' harshness towards their children and what builds affection between them, and punishment in upbringing; the last episode promises one on the rules of striking a child that is not in the archive.

  • Al-Din al-Qayyim (programme)

    A thirteen-episode programme by Omar Abdelkafy on the Assabile archive, explaining what it means to call the religion 'al-qayyim' (the upright, of supreme worth), and moving between creed, ethics, and Islamic history with its battles and conquests.

  • Al-Fawz al-Mubin (lecture series)

    A fourteen-episode series by Omar Abdelkafy on the Assabile archive, setting out simple, practical paths to 'the manifest triumph' (al-fawz al-mubin); he argues that people belittle simple remedies and think this triumph is reached only through great deeds.

  • Al-Huquq: Rights (sermon series)

    A five-episode series by Omar Abdelkafy on the Assabile archive, given on successive Fridays, on rights: the rights of husband and wife, the right of a Muslim over his brother, the rights of parents, and the rights of children.

  • Practical Management (course)

    A recorded training course by Tareq al-Suwaidan which he named 'Practical Management'. He says he built it around the part of management theory that can be applied at once: strategic planning on a single page, vision, mission and indicators, leadership and how it differs from management, personality analysis, changing organisations and individuals, decision-making and a personal life plan. The Assabile archive holds five of its lectures.

  • Al-Munjiyat (programme)

    A Ramadan programme by Omar Abdelkafy broadcast on Dubai Television, twenty-seven episodes in the Assabile archive, on al-munjiyat, 'the things that save': the deeds and states by which a servant is saved, beginning with repentance and moving on to patience, character, and what corrupts and mends the heart.

  • Al-Mubdi'un (programme)

    Tareq al-Suwaidan's programme 'Al-Mubdi'un': the lives of great figures of Islamic civilisation presented not for entertainment but to set exemplars and change convictions — analysed on his 'quartets of making creatives' methodology; he thought of naming it 'Secrets of the Greats'.

  • Al-Naba' al-Safi (programme)

    A twenty-four-episode video programme by Omar Abdelkafy on the Assabile archive, in which he speaks on the episode's theme and then takes viewers' calls after the break; its themes include provision, contentment, envy, trust and the faults of the tongue.

  • Al-Wasatiyya (panel programme)

    A televised panel programme presented by Tareq al-Suwaidan. Each episode takes an issue that Arabs and Muslims live with and disagree on, polls a studio audience of university students with voting devices, then hears guests, experts and scholars, holding different views, aiming at 'the middle way' (al-wasatiyya) between them. The Assabile archive holds forty episodes, from Islamophobia, democracy, secularism and takfir to women, satellite channels and Islamic banks.

  • Allamani al-Tarikh, History Taught Me (television programme)

    A television programme by Tareq al-Suwaidan of which the Assabile archive keeps twenty-nine short episodes, in which he narrates decisive turning points in Muslim history to draw from them the 'civilisational laws', or sunan, that govern the rise and fall of nations: an introduction on the sunan, then the fall of al-Andalus and Granada, the Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity, the revolt of the Alpujarras, the fall of Baghdad to the Mongols, the rising of al-Husayn ibn Ali, and the conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed II.

  • Asdaf al-Lu'lu': Shells of Pearl

    A filmed Ramadan programme of thirty episodes in Abu Ishaq al-Heweny's home: each episode tours his library, along the shelves of hadith, fiqh, legal theory, history and tafsir, then an interview in which he tells his scholarly life through books, from his boyhood literary reading and the first book he bought to his teachers, al-Albani and Kishk, his trials and his preaching, then his works and projects, closing with a tribute to his companion Shukri. The title is never spoken and the interviewer is not named.

  • Asrar al-Qiyada al-Nabawiyya, Secrets of Prophetic Leadership (television programme)

    A thirty-episode television programme by Tareq al-Suwaidan on al-Risala channel, all thirty kept in the Assabile archive, in which he sets out modern leadership science as a series of models of his own design and illustrates each model from the Prophet's life: understanding leadership, the bad leader and the kinds of followers, discovering leaders, leadership upbringing, the leader's eight roles and training in them, specialised leadership, and the environment that fosters leaders.

  • Bustan al-Amal (programme)

    A Ramadan programme by Omar Abdelkafy on the Assabile archive, thirty episodes, addressed to those burdened with worries and hardships, the sick, the fearful, the wronged, the grieving and the indebted, setting out relief after hardship through stories of the Qur'an, the Prophet's life and the righteous.

  • Difaf al-Kawthar: The Banks of al-Kawthar

    A filmed programme by Abu Ishaq al-Heweny of which the Assabile archive keeps sixteen short episodes (episode 10 repeats episode 3), mostly admonitions on the softening of hearts and on character: keeping one's good deeds and repentance, the road to God, sincerity and showing off, Khadija and the beginning of revelation, hadiths from the Book of Softening of Hearts of Sahih al-Bukhari, the men of the cave, the human devil, polygamy, good character, the heart, and the sayings of Abu Hazim; with them are two episodes on the hadith sciences, on the probity of narrators and the forgers and on concealment in chains. Al-Heweny names neither the title nor the date of recording in any episode.

  • Al-Hadara al-Nabawiyya: 'The Prophetic Civilisation' (lesson series)

    A series of thirty audio episodes by Zaghloul El-Naggar on the Assabile archive, in which he sets out the rules and reasons for the 'scientific miracle' in the Prophet's Sunna, then explains hadith on the earth, the sea, the moon, eclipses, the new moons, medicine, food, sleep, rain, suckling, heredity, the tooth-stick, the tailbone, the joints, dates and the signs of the Hour in the light of what he takes to be scientific fact; all of it is his own account.

  • In the Love of al-Mustafa (television programme)

    A short television programme by Abla al-Kahlawi, broadcast in Ramadan 1428 AH on the al-Risala channel according to the Arabic Wikipedia, of which the Assabile archive keeps twenty-seven video episodes (twenty-three distinct) of about ten minutes each: love and its source, the choosing of the Prophet, the women who nursed and raised him, his truthfulness and steadfastness in Mecca, the boycott and the Year of Sorrow, Khadija and Waraqa, the pledges of al-Aqaba and Mus'ab ibn Umayr, the migrations to Abyssinia and to Medina, Ali and Khaybar, ethics in worship, economy and politics, humility and generosity, education, women, tawhid, the hereafter and personal responsibility, and the Prophet's death.

  • In the Courts of the Hadith Qudsi (television programme)

    A television programme of which the Assabile archive keeps thirty video episodes. Each opens with a hadith qudsi or a prophetic hadith that the presenter explains with verses, the views of the commentators and science films, after which Muhammad Mutawalli al-Sha'rawi speaks on it: the definition of the hadith qudsi, the witness of the limbs, rain and the stars, Adam's creation, the embryo and divine decree, illness, pardon, Yunus, Musa and the righteous servant, al-Kawthar, the Fire, the slaughter of death, the covenant, 'Arafat, the miswak, fasting, love for God, kinship, patience, seeking forgiveness and the vision of God.

  • Hadaya al-Rahman: Gifts of the Merciful (Ramadan programme)

    A short Ramadan programme by Mustafa Hosny of which the Assabile archive keeps twenty-nine video episodes of two and a half to five and a half minutes, the speaker alone; each presents one 'gift of the Merciful', a hadith on a small deed with a great reward (asking forgiveness for the believers, caring for the widow and the poor, secret charity, the Friday prayer, the funeral prayer, the two rak'as of repentance, the remembrance on entering the market, feeding a fasting person, the forenoon prayer, the last verses of al-Baqara, the formulas of tahlil and tasbih, the master supplication of forgiveness, guiding to good, removing harm from the road, walking to the mosque, wiping an orphan's head, invoking blessings on the Prophet, sitting after the dawn prayer, much prostration and repeating the call to prayer), explains its meaning and then asks why God placed such a reward in it.

  • Hamasat: the Prophet's counsels to women

    A programme of fourteen short episodes by Mosaad Anwar, kept in the Assabile archive as 'Hamasat' and named by him 'The Prophet's Counsels to Women', partly recorded in Ramadan by his own words: each episode rests on a hadith of counsel to women, on women's standing, chastity, asking for divorce without cause, neighbours, night prayer, wailing and patience, the husband's right, immodest display, charity, turning a wife against her husband, an easy dower, prayer and the guardian in marriage.

  • Ish al-Lahza: Live the Moment (Ramadan television programme)

    A Ramadan television programme by Mustafa Hosny, dated by the Arabic Wikipedia to Ramadan 2014, of which the Assabile archive keeps twenty-nine video episodes of about twenty-five to thirty minutes: each takes one of life's great 'moments' (change, hurt, anxiety, longing for sin, love, intimacy with God, regret, bereavement, joy, illness, despair, anger, oppression, sorrow, fear, perplexity, jealousy and others), defines it, gives examples from the Qur'an, the life of the Prophet, the early generations and people's stories, asks why God decreed it, maps the paths it can take and ties it to one of the names of God, before a twenty-ninth episode on the moment of triumph in the hereafter.

  • Qissa wa-Fikra, A Story and an Idea (television programme)

    A television programme by Tareq al-Suwaidan, twenty-nine episodes of which are kept in the Assabile archive; each episode pairs the life of one historical figure, from Islamic or world history, with one idea from which he draws lessons, such as sacrifice for an idea, change, scholars and rulers, despotism, gradual reform, tolerance, and reason and religion.

  • Liqa' al-Iman, Meeting of Faith (television programme)

    A television interview programme of which the Assabile archive keeps twenty-nine short episodes, in which the presenter questions Muhammad Mutawalli al-Sha'rawi and he answers in Egyptian colloquial: the reproach in Surat 'Abasa, emigrating for a living, zakat, the slander against 'A'isha, the people of the house, unregistered marriage, jinn, the sciences of the universe, banks and usury, the story of Shu'ayb, the spirit, envy, a grave in a mosque, his own life and ministry, following a school, divorce, Ayyub, the waiting period, the basmala, inheritance, supplication, the revelation of the Qur'an, the legislation of fasting and the Night of Power.

  • Madrasat al-Hayat: The School of Life (commentary on Sayd al-Khatir)

    A Ramadan lesson series by Abu Ishaq al-Heweny explaining reflections from Ibn al-Jawzi's Sayd al-Khatir, of which the Assabile archive keeps twelve video episodes (episode 7 repeats episode 4): misunderstanding God and His Messenger and the story of Hatib's letter; the reality of beneficial knowledge, Laylat al-Qadr, Sila ibn Ashyam and Khubayb; the friends of God, Julaybib, the death of Sufyan al-Thawri and guarding one's time; perspicacity; and pride and dress. Filed with them in the archive are a lesson on the hadith of the migration to Abyssinia, one from the Book of Knowledge of Sahih al-Bukhari, one on the men of the cave and al-Zubayr's debt, one on evasion, and two parts of lectures on hearing and obeying.

  • Nafahat Ramadaniyya 1436 AH: the faults of the tongue (lecture series)

    A short Ramadan series by Omar Abdelkafy on the Assabile archive, six surviving episodes that he titles 'the faults of the tongue': reminding people of one's gifts, calling on other than God, praying against oneself and one's children, reviling the Companions, failing to cover a Muslim's fault, and the remedy for the faults of the tongue.

  • Osalli Alayh: I Invoke Blessings on Him (television programme)

    A short television programme by Ahmed Abdussalam on invoking blessings on the Prophet, loving him and following him, of which the Assabile archive keeps twenty-two video episodes of nine to twelve minutes, the speaker alone between a short sung refrain at the opening and close; he also calls the episodes 'This is the Messenger of God': the five duties of the testimony to his messengerhood, the meaning and merit of invoking blessing, peace and grace on the Prophet, God's love for the Prophet and the Prophet's love for his Lord in prayer and night vigil, the love the Companions, a camel, trees, a palm trunk and a mountain had for him, then prophetic counsels on seeking refuge, well-being, knowledge and right guidance.

  • Sharh al-Hikam al-'Ata'iyya (lecture series)

    A seventeen-episode series by Omar Abdelkafy on the Assabile archive, explaining the Hikam of Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari maxim by maxim in a study circle, with digressions into stories of prophets and Companions and the manners of supplication, istikhara and companionship.

  • Sharh Kitab al-Fawa'id (lecture series)

    A ten-episode series by Omar Abdelkafy on the Assabile archive explaining Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's al-Fawa'id, which he describes as a book of many subjects; the lessons move between repentance, trust in God, renunciation, the diseases of the heart and more.

  • Shurut Qabul al-Salat: the conditions for the acceptance of prayer (sermon series)

    A series of seven long sermons by Abdul Hamid Kishk on the Assabile archive, explaining a hadith qudsi on the conditions for the acceptance of prayer, one sermon to each condition: humility before God's greatness, not lording it over His creation, not persisting in sin, spending the day in remembrance, and mercy to the poor, the wayfarer, the widow and the afflicted.

  • Qissa wa 'Ibar (lecture series)

    A lesson series by Omar Abdelkafy, given during the blessed month he calls the month of mercy. Each episode takes one story from the Qur'an or from a sound hadith, tells it, and then draws the lessons from it. The first episode sets out his method: the Qur'anic story is told for its lesson, not for the names, places or dates of its people.

  • Ta'ammulat Qur'aniyya 1: Qur'anic reflections (lesson series)

    A series of nine short television episodes by Yusuf al-Qaradawi on the Assabile archive, reflecting on verses of Al Imran, al-Nisa', al-Ma'ida and al-An'am: the People of the Book and the choosing of Adam and Noah, Maryam, Zakariyya and marvels, women, inheritance and the family, the verses of good news and asking forgiveness, good things and oaths, and al-An'am as the sura of God's oneness.

  • Ta'ammulat Qur'aniyya 2: Qur'anic reflections (lesson series)

    A series of twenty-three episodes by Yusuf al-Qaradawi on the Assabile archive, each explaining verses of one sura, from al-Fatiha, the verse of fasting, the Throne Verse and the inheritance verses to the stories of the prophets, the slander affair, the servants of the Most Merciful, fay', juz' 'Amma and Surat Ibrahim; in some he says they are lessons of the last ten nights of Ramadan in Qatar.

  • Tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim (lecture series)

    A ten-episode series by Omar Abdelkafy on the Assabile archive explaining the opening suras of the last part of the Qur'an, al-Naba' and then al-Nazi'at, with many digressions into creed, ethics and the life of the Prophet.

  • Al-Qarib (The Boat): lessons on faith and piety

    A series of twenty-one short video lessons by Ahmad Farid kept in the Assabile archive under the title 'The Boat', though neither the title nor any boat appears in the recordings: fourteen lessons on faith, its honour, the fruits of 'the tree of faith' and the causes of its growth, built on the likeness of the good word and the good tree, then seven on piety, in his words the highest degree of faith: its meanings, its place as the counsel of God, the prophets and the early generations, its role as the goal of worship, its fruits in this world from sura al-Talaq and in paradise.

  • Al-Mubashsharun bil-Janna (Those Given Glad Tidings of Paradise)

    A series of twenty-eight episodes by Mosaad Anwar kept in the Assabile archive: one on the description of Paradise, one on the merits of the Companions, then one or two for each of those he says the Prophet promised Paradise, among them six of the ten (Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf, Sa'id ibn Zayd, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, Talha, Abu Ubayda and al-Zubayr), Bilal, Ukkasha, Abd Allah ibn Salam, Haritha ibn al-Nu'man, Thabit ibn Qays, al-Husayn, Hudhayfa, Ammar, Salman and Ja'far, and among the women Fatima, Khadija, Umm Zufar, Umm Sulaym, Hafsa, Nusayba bint Ka'b and Umm Haram.

  • Wa Nafsin wa ma Sawwaha (programme)

    A short programme by Omar Abdelkafy on the Assabile archive, twenty-nine episodes, titled from the verse of Surat al-Shams, each taking one heading on the Qur'an's training of the human soul: the degrees of the soul, trust in God, supplication, speaking well, sincerity and more.

  • Wa Yatafakkarun: 'And They Reflect' (lesson series)

    A series of twenty-nine video episodes by Zaghloul El-Naggar on the Assabile archive, in which he sets out the aspects of the Qur'an's inimitability and his rules for its 'scientific miracle', then reads the verses on the creation and end of the universe, the heavens, the earth, mountains, iron and water in the light of what he takes to be scientific fact; all of it is his own account.

  • What Did Muslims Bring to the World (television programme)

    A television programme whose regular guest is Ragheb El-Sergani, of which the Assabile archive keeps fifteen video episodes. In them he answers the host's questions on what Islamic civilization gave the world: civilization defined by three relationships, the world and Arabia before Islam, the Qur'an and Sunna as the springs of civilization, the contribution of non-Arabs, the society of Medina and its balance, the rights of human beings, minorities and animals, and the ethics of war.