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May 29, 2007
The World of Jinn (Spirits)
Throughout history man has always had a deep attraction for the supernatural and the unseen. The existence of a world parallel to our own has always fascinated people. This world is commonly referred to as the spirit world, and almost every set of people have some concept of one. With some people, these spirits are no more then the souls of dead people- or ghosts. With others, spirits are either the forces of good or the forces of evil – both battling against one another to gain influence over humanity. However, both of these explanations are more in tune with folk tales and fantasy. The true…
May 29, 2007
The Actions of the Disbeliever
And whosoever seeks a religion other than Islām it will never be accepted of Him and in the Hereafter he will be of the losers.
Sūrah Āli ʿImrān, 3:85Instead of directly answering your points I will instead insha`Allāh make a number of general points here in which the points you raise will be answered by the permission of Allāh.
1. The Disbelievers are in Hell Forever
“Those who disbelieve and die as disbelievers, on them is the Curse of Allāh, the curse of the Angels and all of mankind. They will abide therein and their penalty will never be lightened nor will they be given respite.”
[2:16…
May 29, 2007
Maintaining the Characteristics of Fiṭrah
Muslims who do these acts with the sole intention of following the Sunnah of God’s Messenger, may God bless him and give him peace, will be rewarded by God Most High
Since Almighty God made all human beings swear to His Unique Divinity and Lordship when He created Ādam (see Holy Qurʾān 7:172), this oath is printed on the human soul even before it enters the mother’s fetus. So when a child is born, it has with it a natural belief in God. This natural belief is called in Arabic the “fiṭrah”. If a child were left alone, it would grow up aware of Almighty God in His Unity, but all children are a…
May 29, 2007
Racism: Is There a Solution?
O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another. Indeed the most honourable of you in the sight of Allāh is the one with the most piety”
Surāh al-Hujjarāt, 49:13Nigger, Paki, Gollywog, Chink, Honkey, Sand-Nigger 1… The list of remarks which signify racism in our world is endless. But to many people in the West, racism no longer exists. Many believe that our ‘free'(?) world has eraḍīcated this problem. The rights of homosexuals and animals are given higher priority, and people believe that the real oppress…
May 29, 2007
The Invalidators of Islām
So the scholars (raḥimahumullāh) have mentioned in judgement upon the apostate that the Muslim apostates from his Religion due to many types of invalidators that make his blood and his wealth permissible and by that he leaves Islām
Al-ʿAllāmah ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn BāzKnow – O Muslim brother – that Allāh has obligated upon all of the servants to enter into Islām and to hold fast to it and to warn against whatever opposes it. So Allāh sent His Prophet Muḥammad (ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) to call to that, and He, the Mighty and Majestic, informed that whoever followed him was inde…
May 29, 2007
ʿAqīdah Comes First!
The ʿaqīdah must come first because the only real cause for the differing and destruction that has come upon our Islamic world is the loss of purified ʿaqīdah.
Al-ʿAllāmah Ṣāliḥ ibn Fawzān al-FawzānThe ʿaqīdah (creed) must come first because it is the foundation of the daʿwah (call) of the Prophets as Allāh the Exalted said upon the tongue of every Prophet He sent to his people:
يَا قَوْمِ اعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ مَا لَكُم مِّنْ إِلَٰهٍ غَيْرُهُ ۖ ﴿٨٤﴾
“O people! Worship Allāh, you do not have a deity other than Him.”
[Sūrah Hūd, 11:84]
The ʿaqīdah (creed) must come first because it is the decisi…
May 28, 2007
True Adherence to Islām Is a Reason for Help in This Life and Salvation in the Hereafter
Imām ibn Bāz (رحمه الله) mentioned:1 The praise is due to Allāh alone. May prayers and peace be upon the one who has no prophet after him, and upon his family, and his companions. As for what proceeds:
So verily Allāh the Glorified and Exalted only created the creation to worship Him alone, not to associate anything with Him. He revealed His books and sent His messengers to command that and to call to it. So Allāh the Glorified said:
وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِ ﴿٥٦﴾
“And I did not create the Jinns or the Mankind, except to worship Me.”
[al-Dhāriyāt, 51:56]
Allāh…
May 28, 2007
Prerequisites to Understanding the Correct Creed
So make yourself patient upon the Sunnah, and stop where the people stopped, and say what they said, and refrain from what they refrained from. Travel upon the path of your righteous Salaf, for verily sufficient for you is what was sufficient for them.
A Censure of the Intellect
Imām Abū al-Muḍaffar al-Samʿānī said:
“Know that the methodology of the people of the Sunnah is that the intellect does not obligate something upon a person, nor does it raise something from him. It does not determine something to be permissible or impermissible for him, nor good or bad. If the person who heard it d…