Theology
[al-Taḥawiyyah Pt 34] Don’t debate about Islam without sound knowledge part 1/2
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…
[al-Taḥawiyyah Pt 33] Raising the Conflict Between Reason & Revelation part 2/2
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)…
[al-Taḥawiyyah Pt 33] Removing the Conflict Between Reason & Revelation part 1/2
وَلا يَثْبُتُ قَدَمُ الإِسْلامِ إِلاَّ عَلَى ظَهْرِ التَّسْليمِ وَالاسْتِسْلامِ The foundation of Islām is not made firm except with the support of unreserved assent and submission to Allāh. The author meant by…
[al- Ṭaḥawiyyah Pt 31 & 32] Seeing Allāh
(31) The Qur’ān is literally the word of Allāh Anyone who attributes something human to Allāh is an infidel. وَمَنْ وَصَفَ اللَّهَ بِمَعْنًى مِنْ مَعَانِي الْبَشَرِ فَقَدْ كَفَرَ The very nature of…
[al- Ṭaḥawiyyah Pt 30] The Qur’ān is The Uncreated Unparalleled Words of Allāh part 3/3
THE ACTUAL KALĀM OF ALLĀH The author said that the believers: ‘are certain that is the actual Kalām of Allāh.’ This statement serves as a refutation for the Mu’tazilites who claimed that…
[al-Taḥawiyyah Pt 30] The Qur’ān is The Uncreated Unparalleled Words of Allāh part 2/3
MISGUIDED VIEWS The Jahmites and the Mu’tazilites, who were among the first deviant sects to emerge, denied the attributes of Allāh claiming that this was the essence of tawḥīd. Therefore, they had…