Notes on Sharh al-Aqîdah al-Wâsitiyyah with Shaykh Dr. Ali al-Timimi
Author: Me
Al-Salamu `Alaykum Wa Rahmatu 'Llahi Wa BarakaTuhu,
So I decided to see how his lectures on this book were, and turns out - pretty awesome!
So I decided to take notes, and I'll upload them here for supplemental benefit for anyone else who is going through his lectures, or plans to. Hopefully this will lessen the amount of work on your part, in sha Allah.
This post includes part 1 of 6. To be used with Lecture 1.
Lots of Disclaimers :
There are tots of Technical Grammatical Errors. It's not easy to 'almost transcribe' an hour and a half lecture which is what I feel like my note-taking ends up as (not really though). Partially the reason I don't attend most of my regular classes anymore except for tests. I don't feel like I benefit from them since I get so involved in note-taking, sometimes I feel like I'm only listening to what the professor is saying, and not really grasping it.
I tried to include proper supplication where they were due - but as you may understand, it's not easy to type out 'subhana wa ta ala' and 'sallallahu alaihi wa sallam' hundreds of times. I tried though.
Quoting Hadeeth and Qur'an - A lot of this is shorthand. Please do not take it to be exact transliteration, or translation when it comes to ayat quoted. It's only to be understood in context, and the translation were my one with the only source that of Dr. Ali al-Timimi in the lecture (meaning I didn't pause the entire video, and go look it up on Saheeh International or Pickthall and transcribe