Theology

True and Everlasting Attachment The word attachment is a term used in Psychology to describe ‘an infant’s tendency to seek closeness to particular people and feel more secure in their presence” (Ernst R Hilgard and Richard C Atkinson 2000-90).[1] John ...

* Click here for Sheikh Haitham’s Special ʿĀshūra Videos. When the Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) migrated to Madīnah, he noticed that the Jews who also lived there fasted on the same day he would fast in Makkah: the ...

As loss, deprivation and suicide are once again brought back into the spotlight, journalist Yasmin Khatun recalls her interview with Yasmin Mogahed and how one deals with difficulties of the dunya. Loss, deprivation, worries, we all face them. There’s no ...

The problem of relapsing in faith, whether due to weak commitment or ideological reasons, is a phenomenon that has existed throughout time in all faiths and traditions. Sadly, this is also a reality for Muslims as well.  Hence, we find ...

Concerning His words: ‘No one knows its ta’wīl except Allāh and those truly grounded in knowledge’[1], there are two readings of this verse. One reading stops after the words, “except Allāh”, and a second reading that does not stop at ...

The belief of a person in the seeing of Allāh by the people of Paradise is not correct if that person tries to imagine what it is like or if he tries to interpret it according to his own understanding, ...

He sways between faith and disbelief, confirmation and denial, and acceptance and rejection. He will be subject to vain suggestions, perplexed and lost, neither a sincere Believer nor an open denier. فَيَتَذبْذبُ بَيْنَ الكُفْرِ وَالإِيْمَانِ، وَالتَّكْذِيبِ، وَالإِقْرَارِ وَالإِنْكَارِ، مُوَسْوَسَاً تَائِهَاً، ...

Points of Benefit: 1) The statement of Ṭaḥāwi: ‘He who seeks knowledge that has been barred from him, and whose intellect is not prepared to surrender…’ was meant to further explain the previous point about the Beatific Vision. Point number ...

فَمَنْ رَامَ عِلْمَ مَا حُظِرَ عَلَيْهِ، وَلَمْ يَقْنَعْ بـِالتَّسْليمِ فَهْمُهُ، حَجَبَهُ مَرَامُهُ عَنْ خَالِصِ التَّوْحيدِ، وَصَافِي المَعْرِفَةِ، وَصَحِيحِ الإِيمَانِ، He who seeks knowledge that has been barred from him, and whose intellect is not prepared to surrender, will find that ...

It is not the role of the intellect to legislate and formulate religious prescriptions independent of revelation. Regarding the case of the scholars (mujtahidūn) who are able to exercise legal reasoning (ijtihād) based on their intimate knowledge of the Sacred ...