Over the next two decades or so (1997 onwards), Shaykh Abu Khadeejah (alongside Shaykh Abu Hakeem and Abu Maryam Tāriq) made annual visits as a teacher and ‘Umrah guide for Five Pillars ‘Umrah Tours and later Premier Hajj and ‘Umrah Tours and arranged conferences which provided the pilgrims with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to seek knowledge directly from the Major scholars of Islam. Eventually similar hajj and umrah pilgrimage packages that were managed by Salafis would collaborate from different cities from all over the world such as, TROID from Toronto, Canada; Sunnah Publishing, and Masjid Bayān, USA; Salafis from Singapore, UAE, Sri Lanka, and the Caribbean. Salafis from around the world would all come together in the holy city of Madinah for these seminar programs to benefit themselves from the knowledge of the scholars. Those who could not attend had the option of tuning into live steamed lectures over the internet (via Paltalk) or by way of recorded lectures uploaded onto sites such as salafisounds.com.
These dawrāt (conferences) which took place annually (until the COVID pandemic was declared) were joined by people coming with their groups from all over the world—they studied the books of the great scholars: Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn Abdul-Wahhāb, Ibn Hajar, etc., and learned rulings related to Prayer, Fasting, Zakah and Hajj. Apart from sitting in some of the classes of the scholars, Abu Khadeejah and the mosque attendees also had the privilege of studying Kitāb At-Tawheed with the renowned noble scholars, Shaykh ‘Abdullāh Al-Ghudayān (may Allah have mercy on him)—a member of the Permanent Committee of Scholars based in Riyadh, a relationship which was maintained via personal communications that lasted for a decade until the Shaykh passed away in 2010 (may Allah have mercy upon him).
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