Who is a Believing Muslim Whoever knows Allah and His Messenger and uttered the shahadah even once in his life, and he accepted that with conviction, is a believing Muslim. Whoever knew that and uttered that, but he did not have conviction, is not a Muslim and not a believer to Allah. As for us, he is a Muslim, because…
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Ijtihad and Imitation Al-Ijtihad is extraction of judgments for which there is no explicit text that can only have one meaning. The mujtahid is the one who is qualified to do that by having memorized the verses related to judgments, and the hadiths related to judgments, and the knowledge of their chains of narration, and of the situations of…
Confirmation that Tawassul by the Prophets and the Waliyys is Permissible, and not Shirk as Said by the Wahhabiyys Know that there is no true evidence proving the lack of permissibility of tawassul by the Prophets and awliya’ in their absence or after their deaths, claiming that this is worship of other than Allah, because merely calling on one…
The Innovation [Bid^ah] Linguistically, the innovation [bid^ah] is what was invented without a previous example. Religiously, it is the new thing that was not documented in the Qur’an or the hadith. It is divided into two categories, as understood from the hadith of ^A’ishah, may Allah Accept her deeds, that she said: “The Messenger of Allah said: مَن أَحْدَثَ في…
The Mercy of Allah is Inclusive of the Believers and the Blasphemers in the Present Life and Specific to the Believers in the Afterlife Allah the Exalted has Mercy on the believers and the blasphemers in the present life; His Mercy has encompassed all of them. As for the afterlife, His Mercy will be specific to the believers. Allah the…
The Soul It is obligatory to believe in the soul. It is a subtle body; no one knows its reality except Allah. Allah Made the norm that life is sustained in the bodies of angels, humans, jinn and animals as long as that subtle body is with them, and life will depart them if it departed those bodies. It is…
The Intercession The Intercession is true. It is to ask for the good from another for another; and so the Prophet and the practicing scholars and the martyrs and the angels will intercede. Our Prophet will intercede for the major sinners of his nation, and it came in the authentic hadith, شَفَاعَتِي لأَهْلِ الكبَائرِ مِن أمَّتي [which means] “My intercession…
The Description of Hell Hell is true. It is obligatory to believe in it and that it is presently created, as is understood by the verses of the Qur’an and the authentic hadith. It is a place Allah has Prepared for the torture of the blasphemers that never ceases, and it is also prepared for some of the sinful Muslims….
The Description of Paradise Paradise is true. It is obligatory to believe in it and that it is presently created, just as is understood from the Qur’an and the authentic hadith. It is presently above the seventh sky and not connected to it. Its ceiling is the ^Arsh of Ar-Rahman. Its people have the appearance of their father Adam, sixty…
The Basin The Basin is true. It is a place in which Allah has Prepared a drink for the people of Paradise; they drink from it before entering Paradise and after passing the Bridge. For our Prophet there is a Basin to which his nation comes exclusively; no other nation will come to it. Its length is a walking distance…