– كــان الشيخ أبو منصور عبد الرحمن بن محمد فخر الدين بن عساكر (توفي سنة 620 هـ) يدرس العقيدة المرشدة في مدينة القدس في المدرسة الصلاحية قرب المسجد الأقصى. – قال المؤرخ تقي الدين المقريزي (توفي سنة 845 هـ) فـي كـتـابـه (المواعظ والاعتبار بذكر الخطط والآثار) ما نصه: “لما ولي السلطان صلاح الدين يوسف بن ...
It was said: Why We Don’t Celebrate Christmas I wish to explain to those who are not Muslim some of the reasons why Muslims do not celebrate Christmas. Now contrary to what many people may think, Muslim do indeed believe in Jesus—not as the Creator of the universe or as the offspring of the Creator ...
It was said: You must know who your Lord is so you can worship God properly. That is, your `Aqidah needs to be correct. This universe must have a Creator—for it could not have brought itself into being. Know that the Creator’s proper Name is Allah. Allah is One. No one is the Creator except ...
It was said: When Imam Imam Al-Junayd was asked about Tawheed (Islamic Monotheism) he said: “Yaqeen (Certitude).” He was asked to explain. He then said: “Indeed nothing is brought into being, whether from the entities or their actions, except by the creating of Allah.” —related by Al-Khatib al-Baghdadiyy in his book Tarikhul-Baghdad (The History of Baghadad) Commentary ...
It is hard to imagine that a person who is educated in the matters of Islamic Doctrine and has some semblance of sincerity, and fears Allah and the Naar (Hellfire) would fall for Christianity, much less the faaaar out fantasy of (so-called) Evangelical Christianity, whose version was made-up in America (with NO HISTORICAL CONNECTION WHATSOEVER to a ...
Someone Said: The danger of Wahhabism is that it leaves Muslims (or those claiming to be) intellectually defenseless. Simply consider what an atheist would say to a Wahhabbi (quasi-Salafi) if the atheist was familiar with the Wahhabi creed. The atheist might say something along the lines of: “So this imaginary shadow casting sky-buddy of yours ...
AbuFadl At-Tamimiyy wrote in his book: The Doctrine of the Imam Al-Mubajjal (The Revered) Ahmad Ibn Hanbal that Imam Ahmad rejected the claim that Allah is a “jism”. He [Imam Ahmad] said: “The names of things are derived from the Shari`ah (Sacred Law) and from the [Arabic] language. The scholars of the Arabic language applied this term [i.e., jism] to all ...
It was said: “Allah is gloriously clear of having boundaries, extremities, sides, organs, appendages, and instruments. None of the six directions contain Allah, as is the case with all originated beings.” —Abu Ja`far At-Tahawi in his `Aqidah (Creed) Explanation The term “tanzeeh” refers to Allah’s absolute Transcendence (Freedom-of-Need) and Incomparability. Allah is the Eternal Creator. The universe could not ...
It was said: The Difference Between the Sunni and Quasi-Salafi (Wahhabi) Doctrines I want to, in-sha’ Allah, shed a little more clarity on the controversy between the Sunni `aqidah and that of the quasi-salafis (Wahhabis). Sadly, many of those who profess to follow traditional Sunni scholarship and `aqidah have only exacerbated the confusion, for ...
Allah, ta^ala said in the Quran: لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌ Laysa kamithlihi shay. Ayah 11 of Suratush-Shura means: {Nothing resembles Him (Allah) in any way.} This means that Allah, ta^ala, does not resemble any of His creations. It was related that a group of Jews came to the Prophet, sallallahu ^alayhi wa sallam, and said: O ...
