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## **Full Lecture Timestamps / Chapters** 0:00 – Opening praise of Allah & Shahādah 1:29 – Purpose of creation: worship & test 1:59 – Life and death as a trial 2:07 – Truthfulness vs false claims of īmān 2:39 – Wisdom behind trials & tribulations 2:59 – Most severely tested: the Prophets 3:27 – Trials according to strength of faith 3:59 – Calamities expiate sins & raise ranks 4:14 – Trials increasing toward the end of times 4:44 – Well-being at the beginning of the Ummah 5:02 – Fitnah coming one after another 5:24 – Believer fearing destruction from fitnah 5:46 – Trials entering homes like rainfall 6:25 – Oppression & patience: advice of Anas ibn Mālik 7:07 – Fitnah like waves of the ocean 7:36 – Fitnah exposed to hearts 8:13 – Two hearts: pure vs corrupted 8:54 – Trial of wealth (Fitnat al-Māl) 9:49 – Wealth as the main trial of this Ummah 11:16 – Love of wealth & its danger 11:45 – Selling religion for dunya 12:39 – Mocking the religion for fame & money 13:19 – Wealth leading to arrogance & transgression 13:52 – Story of Qārūn and destruction by wealth 14:29 – True meaning of “your share of the dunya” 15:18 – Earth swallowing Qārūn 15:43 – Scholar deviating due to dunya & desires 16:52 – Knowledge without action: example of the dog 18:52 – Greatest fitnah upon men 19:13 – Scholar deviated due to marriage choice 20:17 – Story of ‘Imrān ibn Ḥiṭṭān 22:30 – Praising the killer of ‘Alī رضي الله عنه 23:26 – Modern example: abandoning Islam for a woman 24:41 – Severity of Fitnat an-Nisā’ 24:59 – Fitnah of Shayṭān & his army 25:10 – Shayṭān’s goal: Hellfire companionship 26:42 – Greatest fitnah: separating families 27:06 – Shayṭān praising his closest follower 27:18 – “How excellent are you” – greatest causer of fitnah 27:27 – Fitnah of Shayṭān and his army 27:32 – How a Muslim conducts himself during fitnah 27:39 – Ikhlāṣ (sincerity) as protection from fitnah 27:47 – People who slip: lack of sincerity 27:53 – Statement of Ibn al-Jawzī on sincerity 28:05 – Evidence: deeds judged by endings 28:48 – Insincerity leads to stumbling in fitnah 28:54 – Sincerity brings firmness & tawfīq 29:02 – Ibn Rajab on good vs bad endings 29:13 – Causes of a bad ending (sū’ al-khātimah) 29:21 – Hidden inward corruption 29:41 – Concealed sins causing evil endings 29:50 – Key benefit: sincerity during fitnah 29:56 – Allah safeguards the sincere 30:02 – Second protection: seeking knowledge 30:08 – Walking, speaking & acting with knowledge 30:26 – Seeking knowledge as protection 30:31 – Hadith of Abū Bakr during fitnah 30:46 – Knowledge preventing involvement in fighting 31:21 – Knowledge as a shield from fitnah 31:31 – Story of Ḥasan ibn ‘Alī رضي الله عنهما 31:54 – Peace treaty to prevent bloodshed 32:14 – Hadith: “This son of mine is a leader” 32:25 – Allah bringing peace through Ḥasan 32:52 – Returning to the scholars 32:58 – Qur’anic command to refer matters back 33:49 – Story of Qārūn revisited 34:23 – Response of the people of knowledge 34:49 – Destruction of Qārūn 35:04 – People realizing wealth was a fitnah 35:42 – Statement of al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī 36:06 – People only realize after fitnah strikes 36:24 – Analogy of the slap (seeing fitnah early vs late) 36:50 – Importance of returning to true scholars 36:54 – Difference between real scholars & pretenders 37:18 – Senior scholars: knowing truth from falsehood 37:28 – Laypeople following whoever is loudest 37:42 – Danger of the “middle group” 38:07 – Hadith: knowledge taken by death of scholars 38:30 – Ignorant leaders issuing fatwas 38:56 – Despite scholars existing, people still take ignorance 39:06 – Salaf returning to scholars during fitnah 39:15 – Fitnah of the Qadariyyah 39:36 – Ibn ‘Umar’s verdict on the Qadariyyah 39:46 – Fitnah of the Murji’ah 39:55 – Not rushing judgments; returning to scholars 40:08 – Scholars refuting deviation with evidence 40:15 – Referring to scholars as a means of ‘āfiyah 40:26 – Scholars of Ahl al-Sunnah vs evil scholars 40:40 – “Thi
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