Yemen

make duaa that i go to damaaj aswell plz

i have found this info about damaaj

"Alhamdulillaah wa Salaatu wa Salaam 'Alaa Rasoolillaah wa ba'd

As-Salaamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuh,

This was sent to us by Nawaaz as-Srilaankee, a student in Dammaaj. The objective was to encourage the brothers to travel to seek knowledge. The following is a translation of Shaykh Rabee's praise for Dammaaj and the Salafee Mashaayikh of Yaman Hafidhaahumullaah.



Statements of the Great Scholar, the Imaam of al-Jarh wa ta'deel in the era, Rabee' ibn Hadee al-Madkhalee in praise of Shaykh Yahyaa and Daarul-Hadith in Dammaj.

1. The noble brother Aboo Abdur-Rahmaan the student of the great Scholar Rabee ibn Haadee, informed us when he came to visit Dammaj that he heard a Shaykh Rabee say "Verily ash-Shaykh Yahya is a person who possesess knowledge and Abul-Hassan (al-Misree) is not equivalent to the shoe of Shaykh Yahya al-Haajooree.

2. The Imaam Rabee’ ibn Hadee was asked on the 23rd of Ramadhaan 1424;

"What is your opinion of going to study at Daarul Hadith in Dammaj, Yemen, knowing that I am a new student?

The Imaam answered by saying "Indeed it is befitting that you journey to this strong hold from the strong holds of Islaam, to this light house from the light houses of Islaam. Indeed journey should be made to it and the knowledge should be sought there. He (student of Knowledge) will find - Çááå willing- much good there and he will find the Sunnah and guidance and he will find there adherence to the Prophet (May the peace and blessing of Çááå be upon him). By Çááå we encourage studying at this abode which is from the strong holds and light houses of the Sunnah. In it - Çááå willing- are men from the people of the Sunnah and guidance and knowledge, we ask Allaah that he keeps them firm on the Sunnah and that he bring about benefit by them and that He make them from amongst those who carry the banner of the Sunnah, in this time period in which innovations have accumulated and trials have evolved. We seek refuge in Allaah.

So all praise are due to Allaah so whoever wants good and wants guidance and whoever wants to be far away from tribulations, he must cling to the strongholds of the Sunnah - all praise due to Allaah - They are numerous in many countries and in particular this strong hold which I see in it clear distinction and all praises are due to Allaah to make it go smooth for the one who strives to it seeking the guidance from its source and seeking an enlightenment from the Sunnah and good that is there."

3. The brother Sameer al-Hudaydee mentioned in the preface to questions he presented to a Shaykh Yahya from brothers residing in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. That he went to Shaykh Rabee' and said:

"The followers of Abul Hasan (al-Misree) say there are no 'Ulamaah in Yemen!", so ash-Shaykh Rabee responded by saying "Ash-Shaykh Muhammad (Ibn Abdulwahhab), what is he?! And Shaykh Yahya what is he?! And other then them from their fellow brothers!"

4. The great Scholar Ahmad an-Najmee said in the preface to ash-Shaykh Yahyaa's book 'a Subh-ashaariq " . . . . . .':

"And a Shaykh Yahyaa (May Allaah reward him a good reward) has refuted him "az-Zindaanee". In this short passages and in other places with a refutation that silences the adversary using decisive clear proofs from the Book and the authentic Sunnah, so may Allaah reward him a good reward and bless him and may Allaah make numerous the likes of him those who defend the truth and support Tawheed and gaurds its boundaries. And with Allaah is success".

The noble brother Ameen ibn Ahmad ash-Shaame al-Yemaanee said: I went to Shaykh Muhammad ibn AbdulWahhad al-Wassabee visiting him. So he said in the sitting:

“Verily Allaah has made successful in his choosing Shaykh Yahya for Daarul-Hadith" and also he said" Dammaj still remains as a source of knowledge in Yemen"

format_quote Originally Posted by amirah_87

Newsflash:

For those of you who were planning on going to "Dammaaj" this summer, PLEASE change your plans in doing so.. as a war has broken out in a nearby village and all transport (going to n' fro) , telephone lines etc etc have been cut.

Wa BaarakAllaahu feekum.

jazakAllah khair, please keep us updated!

Im a yemeny gurl .. but neva been to damaj but yes i have been to yemen .. inshallah will goo too damaj once or more in my life tymme .. inshallah make dua for me

I can't believe I missed this thread! Dammaj just sounds too good to be true..

format_quote Originally Posted by Mawaddah

EDIT: Here it is!! www.calgaryislam.net, Check out audio sections

It's saying access is denied when I try to go to the Audio section

Is this somewhere there:

^ access denied? Perhaps you need to sign up maybe?

and YES the Above picture is Dammaj!! The Big white building is the Sheikhs Masjid where all the Sheikhs classes are held and the cluster of Mud houses nearby are the married peoples homes and farther out where you see houses spotted here and there those are the homes of the villagers.

format_quote Originally Posted by Mawaddah

^ access denied? Perhaps you need to sign up maybe?

Oh right, just realized that
I'm listening now, its just awesome. Duroos's from 6:00 AM until 11:00 at night, and in many many different areas at the same time. It's amazing, I mean it sounds better then Madinah Uni...

and YES the Above picture is Dammaj!! The Big white building is the Sheikhs Masjid where all the Sheikhs classes are held and the cluster of Mud houses nearby are the married peoples homes and farther out where you see houses spotted here and there those are the homes of the villagers.

That's awesome, I'm trying to find more..do you know of others?

format_quote Originally Posted by Al Madani

Oh right, just realized that
I'm listening now, its just awesome. Duroos's from 6:00 AM until 11:00 at night, and in many many different areas at the same time. It's amazing, I mean it sounds better then Madinah Uni...

Well My dad says that it's better than Madinah Uni

He's been to Madinah Uni for 3 years and he's been in Dammaj for 5 years so he should know how to compare.

But both have their wonderful points Masha'allah

More pics of Dammaj

I was going to ask about the War.

There's this brother who sells perfume for us guys at a masjid I go to and he lives in yemen and travels back and forth and he was telling me about this war.

^ So what'd he say about it? So far Dammaj isn't really 'afflicted' as yet but the war is going on in nearby villages, and a little while ago some of the fighters in the bordering villages snuck into Dammaj and killed a French bro and wounded others

format_quote Originally Posted by Mawaddah

^ So what'd he say about it? So far Dammaj isn't really 'afflicted' as yet but the war is going on in nearby villages, and a little while ago some of the fighters in the bordering villages snuck into Dammaj and killed a French bro and wounded others

I cant remember to be sure, I mean I have some things in my mind but I dont want to make mistakes about this.

But I dont think he said Damaj but some areas. Cos I was speaking about Yemen in general about how is it there and so forth.

They just killed him for no reason? And the brother is French too! But I last saw him two weeks or so ago so I hope its not him insha'Allah.


Truly! To Allah we belong and truly, to Him we shall return.

jazakAllah khair, please keep us updated!

Wa Iyyaak, will do so InshaAllah.

They just killed him for no reason? And the brother is French too! But I last saw him two weeks or so ago so I hope its not him insha'Allah.

Na'am, the thing is most Yemeni residents around those areas who arent Taalib 'ilm are Shiite/Rawaafidh, they do not like Ahlus-sunnah and believe such stuff as: The life of one sunniy is a key to paradise.

The brother that got killed Allah Yar'hamuh.. I doubt he's the one you're refering to Akhee, He was a close family freind of ours may Allah bless him. He was a muhaajirr and had been residing in dammaaj for 5 or more years, during his time there he never left Yemen for business purposes n' etc.

Please make duah for him InshaAllah.

Inna lillahi wa ina ilayhi Rajiun^..May Allaah have mercy on him.

The sisters that have been there, can you tell us more of how it is? How are the classes, how things happen, the environment, the people and more? I'm loving this place the more I hear about it..

format_quote Originally Posted by Al Madani

Inna lillahi wa ina ilayhi Rajiun^..May Allaah have mercy on him.

The sisters that have been there, can you tell us more of how it is? How are the classes, how things happen, the environment, the people and more? I'm loving this place the more I hear about it..

Sure! I love talking about the place too.

So as for the classes, they are held either in the Masaajid or in peoples homes. The Sheikhs class which are the ones compulsory for all male students to attend are held in the Masjid (three times a day as mentioned earlier) And there are thousands of students there who sit on the masjid floor. The Sheikh is standing on the minbar and he speaks on the mic and gives the explanations for it, It's just like a huge lecture hall, everyone will be taking their own individual notes ( or no notes at all for some )

If the lesson is on hadeeth, then the Sheikh requires for all the men attending to memorize the hadeeth and he will call upon people randomly to stand up and read the hadeeth (in front of all the other thousands ). At times he will call upon a certain group, for example :

"Today all the people from Britain stand up and read!!" So all around the masjid you see British brothers standing up and reciting the hadeeth.

Sometimes it's " All the boys below 15 recite the hadeeth!!" and then the little boys will stand up and read and it sounds like a huge roar in the masjid because the little boys are yelling on the top of their lungs

Then after the recitation the Sheikh will go on calling on people and asking questions from the previous lessons......It's very wonderful to listen to because The Sheikh has a wonderful sense of humour, and also he's sooooooo knowledgeable Subhanallah so the lesson will sometimes encompass so many different fields at once just branching off from a single hadeeth can come the discussions of fiqh, mustalah, aqidah, usool, nahw etc etc.

And then at the end of the classes the Sheikh will end his class by saying " Tafadhdhaluuu......Hafidhakumullah!!!"
Which means "Be dismissed, May Allah watch over you all!"
Then from all the doors of the masjid it will seem as if a bucket of water suddenly overflowed because the men are just streeeeeeaaaaaming out of all the doors, and any sisters who are in the way at the moment are in trouble coz it's pretty embarrassing to be stuck in a flood of brothers


As for the people, then, it's the same as any other place you go to in the world, there are the friendly, there are those who will be aloof, there are those who will spite you and snub you, but overall, There is more good than bad because so many of the students there (men in particular) are of knowledge alhamdulillah.

Perhaps if someone goes over there the students will warn against the villagers (Dammajis) because they are known for trying to rip off the students and cheating them and basically just trying to outwit the poor student as much as they can and it has increased since the former Sheikh Muqbil (rahimahullah) who was a Dammaji himself has passed away. Now, Sheikh Yahya who is running the place is from another place (Hajoor) so the Dammajis dont pay him any mind.......and so he doesn't really have much of a say over what they want to do to the students in terms of ripping them of and all of that since the land is not his and he is not from the people. But not all of the Dammajis are like that of course. It's just that some of them are just outrageous so it makes the students wary of them all


The environment is very niceeeeee like in the pictures which I posted up you can see that it's just a desert with fields dotted here and there.......very beautiful Subhanallah especially if you venture deeper down into the villages ( I have to say that the students quarters are nothing to talk about students seem to have a thing about messing up the natural scenery and beauty with their careless building )

At Fajr time you will be awakened by the call of the Mu'adhin calling from the Masjid.....He calls two adhaans for Fajr, one to wake people up for Sahoor, and the other is the actual Fajr Adhaan and Masha'allah they always have brothers with such Beautiful voices to call the adhaan :'( and to hear that voice echoing over the moutains and the desert is just an experience never to be forgotten Subhanallah. Then because everything is silent (not full of cars blaring and some neighbours music on full blast like we have here sometimes AStaghfirullah) After a while if you are close enough to the masjid you will hear the Fajr Prayers being recited over the microphone and echoing all over the place.

Okay that's that.

Then there will be the villager children who come out from the villages after fajr bringing with them their produce (lol) apples and string beans and juju's (lotus tree fruit) and stuff like that, and they are most often girls (in niqaab) who carry the baskets of their goods on their heads whilst balancing it with their hands, displaying their arms full of bracelets and henna designs and dresses of bright and flashy colors...lol...quite a sight...and they will go knocking on the doors of the students calling out " Baa tishtaraw!! " (Will you buy!!) and then if you do say you want to buy and open the doors for them you will have to haggle with them for 15 minutes because they put the most ridiculous prices at times :enough!: ( I learnt the art of bargaining whilst my stay in Yemen and I have to say it embarrasses me at times :X )

A little after 7 you will see all the children running out on their way to the masjid to start their classes for the day, and from then on until Dhuhr, the streets will be full of people making their way to and fro classes, and whilst walking to the Sheikhs masjid you will See some brothers having their circles of classes here and there in the desert under the shade of a lotus tree........and on the way to the masjid you will see the villagers around the masjid selling their wares, some of them sell the traditional yemeni sweets, some of them spread out blankets on the dirt and spread out apples and grapes and peaches for sale, ( I promise, you will never taste grapes like the ones grow in Dammaj :'( )some of them at times have rabbits and porcupines to sell as fresh meat :blind: , Sometimes they bring little hawks to sell as pets ( My dad bought me and my bros and sis's two at one time ) And you will see the tents for the Hajjaam (the one who does cupping) and other stuff.... they all have their little corners under the trees..really quaint....... And you will see the villagers working in their fields, the women will be cutting the wheat, the men will be watering the plants, or repairing a mud wall, and the Dammajis love to sing so you will often hear them singing....


And then the Adhaan for Dhuhr will call, all the men will be at the masjid for Salaat and the Sheikhs dars, all the women will be at home cooking lunch (no classes for women at midday except maybe private lessons) All the kiddos will either be with their fathers at the masjid, or you see a few playing on the streets........those kids have to be careful though, because if they are 14 and over and are caught by the security guards playing around and not in class they are in for some big time ear pulling

So the streets will be quiet.........silent......with the exception of hearing the Sheikh having his classes over the mic. Then at 2 o'clock, the men will be on their way back home again after class, and it will be silent again in the streets until Asr time when everyone is headed back out for class again.And if they have any Shuyukh who are guests from around Yemen or Saudi it's usually after Asr time when they will have guest Shuyukh give talks, and it will continue until after Ishaa'.........on these occasions the villagers from over the mountains even come at times!! It's a sight really, to see the people climbing down from the mountains to come to the Sheikhs masjid....and the talks are always amazingly good Subhanallah.

Oh, I really hope that the war will not touch Dammaj in any way so such a beautiful life can continue Insha'allah


I'll let Princess come and add some things when she comes online, I have to run right now. Wassalam.

^ SUBHANALLAH!

are there any requirements? to study there?

SUBHANALLAH!!