Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728 AH) said: “There is a party among the scholars of Kūfah who hold the opinion that vocalising the intention is mustaḥabb (recommended) for a person who is performing wuḍū’, ghusl, [about to] pray, or carry out any other act of worship. They claim that vocalising intentions for these acts of worship is stronger than merely an intention an individual holds in his mind. However, there are no scholars who have ruled the vocalisation of intentions to be wājib. Rather, the scholars of Madīnah have not [even] given it a ruling of mustaḥabb. Their [opinion] is c…
Shaykh Hammūd al-Tuwayjirī [d. 1413 AH] said: “[Ibn Waḍḍāḥ] also narrates [from Al-Awzāʿī] who said: ‘I was told by several people that Asad ibn Mūsá wrote to Asad ibn al-Furāt: I warn you that you should hold any person from among the people of innovation as a brother, a person you sit with regularly, or as a close compatriot. For it has come in a narration: ‘whomsoever sits with a companion of innovation, will have [Allāh’s] protection over him removed. [Rather] he will be entrusted to himself. Whomsoever walks towards a person of innovation, he has indeed walked towards the destruction o…
Al-ʿAllāmah Ḥammūd al-Tuwayjirī said [concerning the leadership of the ṣūfī tablīghī movement]:
The leadership of the tablīghiīn is responsible for the intense ignorance of its followers, and their leaders are the reason for those who have slaughtered their own children based on visions shown to them by shayṭān.
Shaykh Sayf al-Raḥmān ibn AḥmadIn response we add: It is a well-known principle among academics that any structure erected upon a foundation that is as faltering as the edge of a bank about to collapse, then its foundations are closer to complete destruction than wha…
…So if a man carries these Dirhams which contain images or a citizenship card or a license card, and he is in need of them, then there is no embarrassment in that nor a sin, InshāʾAllāh, if Allāh Taʿāla knows that this man hates the fact that it has an image on them and if it were not for necessity, he would not have carried them.
Al-ʿAllāmah Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīnThe following questions were extracted from the book,’ Islamic Rulings on ʿAqīdah’ (Fatāwa al-ʿAqīdah, Dār al-Manhaj Printing)
[Q]: What is the ruling on taking photographic images?
[Q]: What is the ruling on ca…
Al-ʿAllāmah Ḥammūd al-Tuwayjirī related from Shaykh Sayf al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad who said:
From among the most singular ramifications of [tablīghī] ignorance are the actions that have occurred from groups in Pakistan and India of men who claim dīn, steadfastness and god-consciousness. These individuals saw themselves in dreams slaughtering their own children, and some saw their children already slaughtered. This vision was especially common among those with sons, [according to them]. [Out of intense ignorance], in the morning they thought that their dream was an actual vision; a kind of inspir…
