The Aqeeda of Yemenite scholars on asking help from Auliyah Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Jamal al-Din Yusuf ash-Shafiee Yemeni [Shaykh, The Imam, Allama — see Ghayat al-Amani 1/623] wrote قصيدة في الرد على التقي السبكي والدفاع عن ابن تيمية (“A poem in refutation of at-Taqi…
Mulla Ali al-Qari (Al-Maturidi) on the Aqida of Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Ahmad, Ibn Taymiyyah, Abul Hasan Ashari and Ibn Arabi Wahdatul Wujudi. Mulla Ali al-Qari said: وأما ما ورد من الآيات المتشابهة والأحاديث المشكلات حيث جاء فيهما ذكر الوجه واليد والعين والقدم وأمثالها من…
𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: ʿ𝐀𝐥ī 𝐚𝐧𝐝 ʿĀʾ𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐡. 𝟏. ʿ𝐀𝐥ī (رضي الله عنه) 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 ʿĀʾ𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐡 (رضي الله عنها). Adh-Dhahabī narrates that Kulayb said: انتهينا إلى علي رضي الله عنه ، فذكر عائشة ، فقال : خليلة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم . هذا…
𝐌𝐮ʿ𝐭𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐡 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬/𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐡ā𝐫𝐢𝐣𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐑𝐚𝐚𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐡. 1. Abd al-Qāhir al-Baghdādī (d. 429 AH) in al-Farq bayn al-Firaq (p. 9), where he said: ولهذا قيل للمعتزلة: إنهم مخانيث الخوارج “For this reason it was said about the Muʿtazilah: 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞…
𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥-𝐒𝐮𝐲ūṭī’𝐬 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐭 ﷺ 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞. Among the controversial views attributed to 𝐉𝐚𝐥ā𝐥 𝐚𝐥-𝐃ī𝐧 𝐚𝐥-𝐒𝐮𝐲ūṭī (رحمه الله) is the claim that it is possible for a person to see the Prophet ﷺ while awake and to receive knowledge from…
This is one of the clearest verses demonstrating that supplication in times of hardship must not be directed toward the Prophets (Anbiyāʾ), the righteous (Awliyāʾ), or anyone else, since they can neither harm nor benefit. Thus, all supplication must be directed to Allah alone. Allah…
Even Sufi Ibn Hajr al-Haytami said that asking Allah to grant Tasarruf (control) over the world is kufr: ومما يكون من الدعاء كفراً أيضاً أن يطلب الداعي نفي ما دلَّ العقل القطعي على ثبوته مما يخل بإجلال الربوبية، كأن يسأل الله تعالى سلب علمه حتى…
The Best Creation of Allah Narrated Anas ibn Malik: While I was walking with the Prophet ﷺ, who was wearing a Najrani outer garment with a thick hem, a Bedouin came upon the Prophet ﷺ and pulled his garment so violently that I could recognize…
Al-Rifāʿī: He is Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad, known as Ibn al-Rifāʿī, the shaykh of the Aḥmadiyyah, Rifāʿiyyah, and Baṭāʾiḥiyyah orders, so called because he lived in Umm ʿUbaydah, one of the villages of the Baṭāʾiḥ (marshlands), which lie…
Ibn Taymiyyah said: وقد جاء في الأثر : ” {يا عبدي أنا أقول للشيء كن فيكون أطعني أجعلك تقول للشيء كن فيكون يا عبدي أنا الحي الذي لا يموت أطعني أجعلك حيا لا تموت}”And it is reported in the Athar: “O My servant, I say…