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The Bridge The Bridge is true. It is a wide, extended bridge over Hell.  All of the creations will come to it.  Among them are those who will come to it and enter Hell, and those are the blasphemers and some of the sinful Muslims; they slip from the Bridge and fall into Hell. Also among them [the creations] are…

Reward and Punishment Reward, according to the people of truth, is not a right of the obedient that is obligatory on Allah, it is only Generosity from Him.  It is the compensation by which Allah Compensates the believer with what pleases him in the Hereafter.  The torture also is not obligatory on Allah to inflict upon the sinners; it is…

The Questioning of Allah It is the presentation of the slave’s deeds to them by Allah Speaking to the slaves in their entirety.  They will understand from the Speech of Allah the Questioning about what they did with the endowments that Allah Gave them. So the pious believer will be pleased, and the blasphemer will not be pleased, because he…

The Resurrection The Resurrection is true. It is the exiting of the dead from the graves after the reconstruction of their bodies that had been eaten by the soil, if they were among the bodies eaten by the soil. Those are the bodies of other than the Prophets, the martyrs of the battlefield, and some of the Waliyys, because of…

Belief in the Torture of the Grave and its Enjoyment and Questioning Allah the Exalted Said, ﴿النَّارُ‌ يُعْرَ‌ضُونَ عَلَيْهَا غُدُوًّا وَعَشِيًّا وَيَوْمَ تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ أَدْخِلُوا آلَ فِرْ‌عَوْنَ أَشَدَّ الْعَذَابِ﴾ [which means] “Hell will be presented to them morning and evening, and on the day when the Hour takes place, insert the aristocracy of Pharaoh into the most severe torture.” Allah…

The Miracle’s Substantiation of the Truthfulness of the Prophet and its Definitiveness and Certainty The supernatural matter that occurs for the one who claims Prophethood when challenged, without any possible opposition by something similar to it, is as if Allah Said, “My slave is truthful in everything that he conveyed from Me.” This means that had it not been that…

The Miracle Know that the way to know the Prophets is the Miracle; it is an extraordinary matter, it happens in compliance with the claim of the one who claims Prophethood, and it is clear of being discredited by something similar.  Any matter that is strange but is not extraordinary is not a Miracle.  Likewise, whatever is extraordinary but is…

What is Necessary for the Prophets and what is Impossible for Them Truthfulness is necessary for the Prophets, and lying is impossible for them; and intelligence is necessary for them, and dullness and stupidity is impossible for them; and trustworthiness is necessary for them; and so the prophets are clear of blasphemy, major sins, and demeaning small sins. This is…

Prophethood   Nubuwwah [Prophethood] is derived from naba’ [news], because Prophethood includes informing from Allah; or it is derived from nabwah [highness].  According to the first possibility, the word Nabiyy has the pattern of fa^il with the meaning of the doer, because he informs from Allah about what was Revealed to him. Or it could be with the meaning of…

The ignorant person is not excused from  the basics of the Creed, and he is not excused if he falls into blasphemy because of his lack of care about the Religion.  Had ignorance excused one from punishment, then ignorance would have been better than knowledge, and this is against the Saying of Allah the Exalted: ﴿قُلْ هَلْ يَسْتَوِي الَّذِينَ يَعْلَمُونَ…