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The ummah have agreed that when an abomination is attached to a permissible or desirable action and it becomes a means to disobedience or innovation, even though that is not the intention and objective of the doer, it is obligatory to remove this disobedience whatever it may be. Thereafter, they differed: Some of them said: This desirable act should be totally abandoned in order to block the means to disobedience and to sever the substance of innovation in the religion. And some of them...
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The Noble Qur’an is a scripture from Allah (Exalted is He) which is distinguished from other heavenly books in that it is the Seal of the Scriptures, just as the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) is the Seal of the Prophets, and in that it is the only scripture which Allah (Glorified is He) assured would remain protected to the Final Hour (Qur’an 15:9), no word from it changing and no letter from it being disturbed. Indeed it is...
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This humble servant offers the greeting of Islam before this esteemed audience. Allah – Exalted is He – preserve you. We have sensed from you signs of nobility and interest in our condition. We feel an Islamic uprising turning towards us and you, and indeed we are needier of you than you are of us. These are my teachers, my elders and my treasures before Allah in my day and my morrow. They asked me to extend gratitude to you for your generosity and for...
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The Islamic Ummah is united that Imam A‘zam Abu Hanifah Nu‘man ibn Thabit (may Allah mercy him) is one of the four followed imams -- Malik, al-Shafi‘i, Ahmad and Abu Hanifah (may Allah mercy them all and be pleased with them). Among those issues upon which all of the people of knowledge from both the early and latter times are agreed is that these four jurists, and their likes from among the mujtahid imams whose followers have gradually died out, only derived fiqh issues (masa’il)...
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‘Allamah Muhammad ibn Abi Jamrah (may Allah shower His mercy upon him) is from amongst the renowned scholars and sufis of seventh century (Hijri) Spain who adhered to the Sunnah. He authored a commentary of Sahih al-Bukhari, entitled, Bahjat al-Nufus, which was written in a completely unique and rare style. In this commentary, the ‘Allamah has derived rulings of tasawwuf and ihsan in a wonderfully in-depth manner, from which it is made clear that tasawwuf is not a separate entity to the Shari‘ah, but...
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In his masterpiece, Ihya 'Ulum al-Din, Imam al-Ghazali writes passionately about the evils of not acting on knowledge and the signs of the 'ulama of the hereafter. A condensed version of this lengthy passage was rendered into Urdu by Shaykh al-Hadith Mawlana Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhalawi and produced in part two of Fadail-e-Sadaqat, which was subsequently translated from Urdu into English by M. Tayyab Bakhsh Badayuni. These twelve signs have, under the instructions of Dr. Hanif Kamal, been edited and are now being reproduced on Deoband.org;...
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Much confusion has sadly reigned concerning the subject of Taqlid amongst Muslims creating disunity and even animosity. The root cause however has been nothing more than the lack of information and access to the facts. This short but comprehensive work deals authoritatively with this misunderstood concept in Islam. "Understanding Taqlid," explains the basic meaning of Taqlid and its ruling in the light of the Holy Qur'an and Sunnah. Furthermore, it also robustly augments the Islamic ruling quoting no less than a dozen major Classical...
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The upshot is that legal bid'ah is an invented matter which does not have substantiation from the four sources of the religion, while believing it to be from the religion, and something in which one expects to be rewarded from Allah and gain good deeds. According to this, whatever the Lawgiver commanded as an obligation or recommendation of seeking knowledge, memorising it, spreading it, supporting the religion, defending it, purifying the souls and refining them, if its compliance in this age is dependent on...
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"People are subservient to Quraysh in this matter: the Muslims among them to the Muslims among them, and the disbelievers among them to the disbelievers among them." (Sahih Muslim) His statement "from Abu Hurayrah": this hadith was transmitted by al-Bukhari in the beginning of Kitab al-Manaqib (no. 3495) and it was also transmitted by Ahmad in his Musnad (2:243, 261, 395, 433). His statement "People are subservient to Quraysh in this matter": the 'ulama adduced this as proof that Qurayshi ...
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Know, my dear son (Allah give you knowledge and enable you to please Him), that religious knowledge depends on two things: First: earnestness in acquiring it and severing thought about all that is besides it, since 'ilm (knowledge) will not give you a part of it until you give to it all of yourself. Make the identifier of the goodness of a thing and its despicability your hindrance to 'ilm, since your hindrance to a part of 'ilm or your aversion to it, is despicable...
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