I desired to write this as a completion for the treatises which are in circulation amongst the people today – about the different fields – especially of worship such as Prayer and Fasting, etc. – which have made easier that which is difficult as regards religious rulings and being guided thereby, as it maybe difficult these days for some to read, research and extract these rulings from their places within the source books – either because of the ignorance of the Muslims or laziness or other worldly problems.
Shaykh Fahd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shuwayb
Introduction
Verily all praise is for All…
Uṣūl al-Fiqh: it is the science concerning the comprehensive evidences of fiqh.
Risālah Latīfah Jāmiʿah fī Uṣūlil-Fiqhil-Muhimmah, which is part of Manhajus-Sālikeen wa Tawdīhul-Fiqh bid-Dīn (pp.101-112)All praise belongs to Allāh. So we praise Him for what He possess from His beautiful Names and lofty and perfect Attributes; and for His Judgement and Decree which encompasses everything in existence; and for His Divinely Prescribed Laws which encompass every field of legislation; and His Judgement concerning rewards for the doers of good, and punishments for the criminals.
I testify that no…
And from amongst mankind there are those who purchase idle talk in order to misguide people from the path of Allāh, without knowledge, and they take it as mockery. For these ones there shall be a humiliating punishment. And when Our āyāt are recited to such a one, he turns away in pride, as if he has not heard them, as if there was deafness in his ear. So give them news of a painful punishment.
Sūrah Luqmān, 31:6–7
Shaykh al-Islām mentioned:1 The ḥadīth of Anas ibn Mālik that ‘a desert Arab said to Allāh’s Messenger (ﷺ): When will the Last Hour be? The Messenger of Allāh replied: “what have you prepared for it?” He said: Love of Allāh and His Messenger. The Prophet (ﷺ) said: “you will be with those who you love.” [Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim Eng. Trans. no.6378]
This ḥadīth contains the excellence of loving Allāh and His Messenger (ﷺ) and the righteous and the People of Goodness – the dead and the living.
Shaykh al-Islām Ibn TaymīyyahThis ḥadīth when looked at in a shallow way, and without consideration of its vario…
Then the aṣl of refutation is that it is something that is legislated and required because it establishes the proof whilst refuting those questions and arguments that are presented by those who oppose (mukhālifūn) the truth, the mushrikūn, or the deviant ones, each according to his condition.
Al-ʿAllāmah Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl al-Shaykh
And it is known that the jihād against the hypocrites is to be carried out with the establishment of proof and the Qurʾān.
Jihād Against the Innovator
Imām ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn Nāṣir al-Saʿdī (d.1376H) – raḥimahullāh– said:
“The Jihād is of two types: a jihād by which the rectification of the Muslims is intended, and their correctness in their beliefs and their manners, and all of their religious and worldly affairs, and in their knowledge and action-related education. And this type is the basis of jihād and its foundation, and built upon it is the second type of jihād. &…
And from the deeds of the people of Paradise is trustworthiness in all affairs, and with all of the creation, even the disbelievers, and similar to these actions.
Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah was asked, what are the deeds of the people of Paradise, and what are the deeds of the people of the Fire?
So He answered – All praise is due to Allāh, Lord of all the worlds – An action of the people of Paradise is Faith (īmān), and righteousness (taqwá), and an action of the people of the Fire is disbelief (kufr), and corruption (fusūq), and disobedience (‘asyaan)…
So whosoever hopes for the meeting with His Lord, let him work righteousness and associate none as a partner in the worship of His Lord.
Al-Imām al-Nawawī (d.676AH), may Allāh have mercy upon him, said:1
Chapter 1: Sincerity and Having an Intention in all Deeds and Statements, Outward and Inward
Allāh, the Most High, said:
وَمَا أُمِرُوا إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُوا اللَّـهَ مُخْلِصِينَ لَهُ الدِّينَ حُنَفَاءَ وَيُقِيمُوا الصَّلَاةَ وَيُؤْتُوا الزَّكَاةَ ۚ وَذَٰلِكَ دِينُ الْقَيِّمَةِ
“And they were commanded not, but that they should worship Allāh, and worship none but Him alone (abstaining from as…
