Archive for May, 2010

It has become well-known of Christians that they distinguish between religion and politics by their well-known dictum "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's". It is thus as though religion has no relationship with politics and politics has no connection with religion. This worthless concept has slowly advanced to its ugliest form in recent times in the name of "secularism" (al-'almaniyah) or "secularisation" which expelled religion from all matters of life until it did away with it completely. Truly...
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Some people adduce the poem of Labid (Allah be pleased with him) as proof that the doctrine of the Oneness of Being (Wahdat al-Wujud) is correct. This doctrine along with its corresponding doctrine of the Oneness of Perception (Wahdat al-Shuhud) is not among the doctrines that are necessary in the religion to know or to believe in their validity or invalidity. Rather it is best not to be preoccupied with it and not to discuss it, because it is a dangerous subject, discussion of...
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‘Allamah Sarfaraz Khan Safdar (may Allah have mercy on him) used to love his akabir deeply and used to trust their research fully. He would advise this to his people, and the same advice was printed at the card given at the time of ba’yah, which read: “Dear ones! I do not have an opinion in any matter, rather I trust the unanimous (ijma’i) research of the akabir ‘ulama of Deoband in all matters of the Qur’an, Sunnah, Fiqh, History, etc, and I believe their...
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The hadith ... proves the permissibility of tawassul in du'a through good deeds. As far as tawassul through essences and persons is concerned, there has been much discussion on this among the 'ulama, and many debates on it have taken place, at times one of the debaters being led to accuse the other of deviance. If people were to look at the issue with the eye of judiciousness, free from sectarian bias, it will become clear that this dispute amongst the 'ulama and the...
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The most basic principle of piety and the mainstay of its various aspects is the doctrine of the Unity of God. This is because humility before Lord of the worlds, which is the greatest of the virtues in acquiring ultimate felicity, depends on this. This is the basis of intellectual regulation of which is the more useful of the two regulations. Through this man is able to help himself address completely to learning from the Unseen, and prepare his soul to become...
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The starting point in the issue of ruqyah is that it is done by reciting the Noble Qur'an or some of the names of Allah Most High or His attributes, and thereupon to blow on the sick. This has been established from the Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace) in a number of hadiths. As regards to writing the ruqyahs, hanging them on the neck of children and the sick, or writing them and giving its ink to the sick to drink,...
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Al-Hafiz said in al-Fath (10:195): "The 'ulama are agreed on the permissibility of ruqyahs when three conditions are met: that it is using Allah's speech or using His names and attributes; it is in the Arabic language, or in a manner that its meaning is understood if another language ; and to believe that the ruqyah itself does not have efficacy, rather is through Allah's Essence (Most High)." It is probable he meant by the first condition that it does not...
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