"The Commentary of Kitab Al-Akhdari" written by Shaykh Al-Hajj Saad bin Umar bin Sa'eed Jalil Al-Futa Tori, a Malian scholar, who in 1971, wrote the commentary to address the issues of traditional scholarship and the relevance and reliability of traditional text.
Shaykh Al-Futa Tori undertook the arduous task of providing proofs from the Koran, Hadeeth and Consensus of the Rightly Guided Scholars to counter the tide of those of excessive verbosity and pomposity who were hurling abuses and accusations at the great scholars of jurisprudence (Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Malik, Imam Ash-Shafi'i and Imam Ahmad Hanbal and their ilk) and students of sacred knowledge.
We've been blessed to have Shaykh Mas'ud Laryea of Ghana teaching this ancient treatise on classical jurisprudence and clarifying many issues surrounding this brilliant tract.
After participating in the course, a participant should know the following:
- Belief in God and what it entails
- Belief in the Angels and what it entails
- Belief in the Divine Books and what it entails
- Belief in the Messengers and what it entails
- Belief in the Last Day and what it entails
- Belief in the Divine Decree, the good and bad of it and what it entails
- Legal Rulings according to Sacred Law
- Repentance and its conditions
- Unlawful Matters
- Types of Water that fulfill the requirements
- Ritual Purity - Major and Minor impurities
- The Monthly Cycle of Women and its matters
- Post-Partum Bleeding and its matters
- Ritual Prayer
- How to tell the Times of Prayer
- How to make-up Prayers
- How to rectify the Prayer if one makes a mistake during the Prayer
- What to do if the Imam makes a mistake during the Prayer
When: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
Time: Between the prayers of Maghreb and 'Isha
“The learned are the heirs of the Prophets. The Prophets have not bequeathed dinar nor dirham, but have only left Sacred Knowledge, and whoever takes it has taken an enormous share.” (Abu Dawoud and Tirmidhi)
"Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and, once gone, can never be retrieved. Do not be like the deceived fools who are joyous because each day their wealth increases while their life shortens. What good is an increase in wealth when life grows ever shorter? Therefore, be joyous only for an increase in knowledge or in good works, for they are your two companions which will accompany you in your grave when your family, wealth, children and friends stay behind." (Imam Al-Ghazali)
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