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Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid

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Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid (b. 1381 AH / 1962 CE) is an Islamic preacher and scholar based in Saudi Arabia, known for his teaching activities and his religious question-and-answer platform Islam: Question and Answer.

Early Life and Education

Al-Munajjid was born on 30 Dhu al-Hijjah 1381 AH. He completed his primary, intermediate, and secondary schooling in Riyadh, before pursuing his university education in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

During his studies, he attended the learning circles of several prominent scholars. His primary teachers included Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah ibn Baz, Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthaymin, and Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Jibreen. He also studied under Abd al-Rahman ibn Nasir al-Barrak and Muhammad walad Sidi al-Habib al-Shinqiti, and corrected his Quranic recitation under Sa'id Al Abd Allah. Among the other scholars from whom he acquired knowledge were Salih ibn Fawzan al-Fawzan, Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Ghunayman, Abd al-Muhsin al-Zamil, and Abd al-Rahman ibn Salih al-Mahmud.

Preaching and Scholarly Career

Al-Munajjid maintained a close educational relationship with Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz that lasted for fifteen years, relying on him extensively for guidance in answering religious questions. Ibn Baz encouraged him to teach and formally recommended him to the Center for Da'wah and Guidance in Dammam to deliver lectures, sermons, and scholarly lessons, leading to his work as an imam, sermon giver (khatib), and public lecturer.

In addition to delivering oral lessons and sermons, al-Munajjid utilized digital media for religious outreach, overseeing the fatwa portal Islam: Question and Answer (Mawqi al-Islam Su'al wa Jawab) to respond to public inquiries on Islamic doctrine and jurisprudence. He also authored several instructional treatises on spiritual and behavioral cultivation, including Zahirat Da'f al-Iman (The Phenomenon of Weak Faith), which examines the theological factors influencing fluctuations in personal piety and outlines remedies for spiritual lethargy.

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List of Works

  • Silsilat al-Adab - al-Munjid

    Silsilat al-Adab (The Series on Etiquette) is an instructional work on Islamic manners and conduct (al-adab al-shar'iyyah). It expounds the practical and moral etiquettes incumbent upon a Muslim across daily social interactions, personal routines, and religious duties, approaching Islamic etiquette from the premise that the Sharia comprehensively encompasses and orders all spheres of human activity.

  • Kunu ala al-khayr Awana

    Kunu ala al-khayr Awana (Be Helpers in Doing Good) is an Islamic treatise focused on the obligation and virtues of mutual cooperation in righteousness and piety, as well as the prohibition of aiding in sin and transgression. Framed around Quran 5:2, it examines the legal definitions, practical spheres, and religious motives of mutual assistance while warning against forbidden forms of cooperation.

  • Zahirat Da'f al-Iman

    Zahirat Da'f al-Iman: al-A'rad, al-Asbab, al-'Ilaj (The Phenomenon of Weak Faith: Symptoms, Causes, and Cure) is a treatise on spiritual reform and heart purification (tazkiyat al-nafs). Grounded in the doctrine that faith increases through obedience and decreases through disobedience, it examines the theological and practical dimensions of spiritual lethargy and fluctuating faith, diagnosing its manifestations, underlying causes, and prescribed remedies according to the Quran and the Sunnah.

  • Silsilat al-Qisas - al-Munjid

    Silsilat al-Qisas (The Stories Series) is a collection of transcribed educational lectures focused on extracting spiritual admonitions, theological lessons, and legal rulings from prophetic traditions, Quranic accounts, and early Islamic historical events. It employs an analytical and homiletic approach, examining source narrations alongside their variants before deriving structured reflections and rulings.

  • Durus li al-Shaykh Muhammad al-Munajjid

    Durus li al-Shaykh Muhammad al-Munajjid (Lessons of Shaykh Muhammad al-Munajjid) is a compilation of transcribed audio lectures, educational discourses, and sermons. The collection encompasses diverse recorded lessons spanning Islamic creed, history, biographical studies, da'wah methodology, and spiritual and moral purification.