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On Wednesday evening the 14 of August 2026, millions of Europeans will (in shaa Allah) experience a solar eclipse. A wide band of north and central Spain, plus a sliver of Portugal and parts of Greenland and Iceland will experience a rare total eclipse. The light of the setting sun will be virtually blocked out across much of western Europe, including the UK, France, Belgium, Switzerland and northern Italy.

Here is what you need to know about such an occurrence, from an Islamic perspective as taught by Abu Hakeem Bilal Davis (hafidhahullah Ta'ala)

This a khutbah that was delivered by Mustafa George (hafidhahullah Ta'ala) on the 8th of August 2026, at Masjid ad-Da'wah Ilat-Tawheed and was delivered on their official YouTube channel.

it has been digitally edited before being posted below, walhamdulillah!

Many students of Shaykhul-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullah Ta'ala) are well-known, such in Ibn al-Qayyim, Ibn Kathir and others (rahimahumullah Ta'ala), but do we know that Ibn Taymiyyah even has some female students, from amongst them is Umm Zaynab Fātimah bint Abbās (rahimahaullah Ta'ala).

Here is a benefit about her from a two-part lecture series delivered by Hasan as-Somali (hafidhahullah Ta'ala) that I previously posted, titled: The Biography of Ibn Taymiyyah. In the second lecture, he mentions something about this particular student of his.

The following question is one of many that have been extracted and posted under the title: Questions from the Sisters,

In this particular benefit, Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Waahid (hafidhahullah Ta'ala) was asked the following:

"I have a daughter who is 16 and we have had a marriage proposal for her from a Salafi brother. I know my daughter can see and meet this individual according to the Sunnah with her walee (guardian) present. My question is, what part does the mother play in such a meeting, and is she also present?"

Here is his response, get yourself ready for it!