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has added a new journalhi. in my random late night insomnia, i was surfing recently to find this image i would like to share with my muslims brothers and sisters. have a nice day & a better week.
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has added a new journalDoes anybody know anything about hasan al banna and any links to the shadhili tariqa?
Please nobody attack him, i just want to know. speak well or don't speak at all.
k, salaams
MullahOmar
founder of the islamic revivalist group al ikhwan and made shaheed under gamal abdelnassers regime. One inspirational Muslim.
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silence is golden i suppose
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has added a new journalOr maybe it'll happen automatically when everyone drops off from being a member.
In either case, I don't want to leave a legacy like this place down the road of time.
Asking others to consider the same.
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i think he's just being sentimental.FlyingRhino
would you care to elaborate?
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has added a new journalWahhabis differ from orthodox Sunnis in many tenets of creed (`aqidah) and worship (`ibadah), including the following:
· Wahhabis follow Islam as represented by the founder of Wahhabism, Muhammad ibn Abdl-Wahhab, and his role model, Ahmed Ibn Taymiyah, who preceeded him by a few hundred years. Support from orthodox Sunni scholars is only used when it conforms to their understanding. Therefore, the entire corpus of Islamic scholarship is subservient mainly to two indivividuals (and their students), both of whom were rejected and opposed by the masses of scholars in their times and afterwards. Lists of scholars opposed to them are presented later in the article.
·Wahhabis have a trinitarin understanding of creed that they divide into three parts. Orthodox Sunnis understand creed simply as: ?There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad (pbuh) is His Messenger.?
· Wahhabis have a literal understanding of God?s Attributes, and is why they are opposed to orthodox Sunni scholars who applied interpretation (ta?wil) to God?s Attributes in conformity with the rules of the Religion and Arabic language, as the Ash?ari Sunni scholars did. (Ash?ari scholars followed Imam Abu al-Hassan al-Ash?ari?s understanding of Islamic creed. Famous Ash?ari scholars include Imam al-Baihaqi, Imam al-Daraqutni, Qadi `Iyad al-Maliki, Imam an-Nawawi, Shaykh al-Qurtubi, Imam Ibn Hajar al-`Asqalani, Imam al-Ghazali, and Imam Fakhr ud-Din al-Razi.) This is the reason why Wahhabis believe that God literally exists above the Throne, therefore believing that God is bound by space and time. Orthodox Sunnis accuse Wahhabis of anthropomorphism (tajsim) and have always believed that God exists without a place, unbound by space and time as all of creation is.
· Wahhabis oppose the Islamic science of purification (tasawwuf), and accuse Sufis of being heretical innovators. They also reject some forms of invokation (dhikr) practiced by many Sufis, such as audible group invokation, use of rosaries (tasbih), etc. The Orthodox Sunni accepts Sufism as a genuine Islamic science who, unlike the Wahhabi, also believes in the special favors (karamat) granted to saints (awliyah) by God as a result of their high piety. Some of the many well known Sufis include Imam al-Ghazali, Imam Abd al-Qadir al-Jeelani, Imam Rabbani Ahmad as-Sirhindi, Imam Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri, Imam Jalal ud-Din al-Suyooti, and Imam an-Nawawi.
·Wahhabis believe that asking something from God through an intermediary (tawassul), when the latter is living the life of the grave (barzakh) is polytheism (shirk). Asking God for things through other means, such as amulets having protective/healing Words from the Qur?an (ruqiyya), or through objects associated with the pious (tabarruk) is also polytheism to Wahhabism. All practices, however, are orthodox Sunni practices. Because of this, Wahhabis prevent many Muslims from visiting graves, despite the high reward in it, for fear that Muslims will do tawassul and commit shirk. This will be explained in more detail below.
· Wahhabis classify all types of innovation (bid?ah) as heretical, whereas orthodox Sunnis have divided innovation into permissible and impermissible categories. It is because of this that Wahhabis accuse the masses of Muslims who commemorate the birth of Prophet Muhammad (Mawleed ash-Sharif) to be reprehensible. Some orthodox Sunni scholars who support Mawleed include but are not limited to Ibn Kathir, Imam Abu Shaama (teacher of Imam an-Nawawi), Ibn al-Jawzi, Imam Sakhawi, Imam Jalal ud-Din al-Suyooti, and Imam Ibn Hajar al-`Asqalani, Imam Ibn Hajar al-Haytami, and Syed Mutawali ad-Darsh.
·Wahhabis believe that it is not necessary for Muslims to follow a Muslim scholar of the highest calibur (mujtahid mutlaq), and therefore refuse to follow one of the four existing schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence (Hanafi, Shafi?i, Maliki, Hanbali). They believe that following the Qur?an and Sunnah ? the two main sources of Islam ? directly is sufficient, without any required scholarship. Wahhabis, therefore, mostly rely on themselves or self-taught ?scholars? for religious judgments and interpretations of the Islamic sources. For example, they follow Naseerud-Din al-Albani as a master of hadeeth, even though he did not fulfill the minimum requirements of being a hadeeth master. All orthodox Sunnis, however, follow (taqleed) one of the four schools of jurisprudence today, each represented by a scholar of the highest eminence who was most qualified to deduce judgments from the sources (ijtihad) due to their vast knowledge, authentic chains of transmission from previous scholars, impeccable characters, and trustworthiness.
·Wahhabis, unlike orthodox Sunnis, do not believe that the recitation of the Qur?an is a means by which God rewards people in their graves. Wahhabis also rely on people for religious judgments and interpretations of the Islamic sources who fail to fulfill the minimum requisites of scholarship. For example, they follow Naseerud-Din al-Albani as a master of hadeeth, even though he did not fulfill the minimum requirements of being a hadeeth master.
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has added a new journalBecause Wahhabis claim to be true Sunnis, it is difficult for one who is unfamiliar with Wahhabism to distinguish it from orthodox Sunni Islam. If a Wahhabi is asked if he/she is Sunni, he/she will always reply in the affirmative. When asked if they are Wahhabis, they reply with an emphatic no as they consider it an insult to what they believe and stand for: Purity of worship and reverence to God alone. The authentic carriers of Islam from the time of the Prophet (pbuh) {5} until now. Calling them Wahhabis implies that they learned ideas from a man Muhammad ibn Abdl-Wahhab instead of the Qur?an and Sunnah the two great sources of Islam. Irrespective of what they think, they are not following the Islamic sources authentically, but the wrong interpretations of the founder of the Wahhabi movement who appeared in the 1700s. Sunnis and other Wahhabi detractors have labeled them as Wahhabis to differentiate them from orthodox Sunnis.
Wahhabis as Salafis: deceptive semantics
Wahhabis differentiate themselves from orthodox Sunnis by labeling themselves Salafis, which refers to the word Salaf the time period in which the early Muslims lived in the first 300 years after the Hijra, or emigration, of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH& F) from Mecca to Medina in 622. The Companions (Sahaba), those who followed the Companions (Tabieen), and those who followed those who followed the Companions (Taba al-Tabieen) who lived in the time period of the Salaf are exemplars par excellence of what Muslims should be, as Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) had praised these Muslims as being the best of Muslims. Therefore, it has been the aim of every Muslim since the time of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) to adhere to and to follow the footsteps of the adherents of the Salaf. This means that when a Wahhabi calls himself a Salafi, he claims to be a genuine follower of pristine Islam. This, however, is far from the truth.
Orthodox Sunni Muslims believe that they are the true bearers of pristine Islam since the time period of the Salaf. Because there were time gaps between the noble period of the Salaf and centuries that followed, the authentic positions of the early Muslims were passed by scholars in those times and afterwards to later generations via meticulous, systematic, and methodological means of preservation. The knowledge was passed from qualified scholars to other qualified scholars through the centuries, who passed it to the masses. This uninterrupted chain of knowledge from the time of the Salaf until now has been authentically preserved by the orthodox Sunnis. Orthodox Sunnis, therefore, have roots in the Salaf, and are represented today by the four surviving authentic schools of Islamic jurisprudence: Hanafi, Shafi?i, Maliki, and Hanbali schools (madhahib).
The Wahhabis, by calling themselves Salafis, not only claim to follow the footsteps of the early Muslims, but also use semantics to fool and allure less informed Muslims into accepting Wahhabism. Wahhabis say, You must follow the Muslims of the Salaf. (This is undoubtedly true.) Then the Wahhabi semantics: Therefore you must be a Salafi and nothing else. Following anything else means you’re following a path that is different from the Muslims of the Salaf. By such deceptive semantics, the less informed Muslims believe that Salafis must truly represent the pristine interpretations of the early Muslims of the Salaf. After all, the word Salafi sounds like Salaf, so it must truly be representative of it. Far from it. When the less informed goes beyond semantics and blind faith and investigates what a Salafi believes, the truth unveiled is that the understanding of Salafis (Wahhabis) is different and contradictory to the understanding and positions of the pious Muslims who lived in the Salaf and the majority of Muslims who have ever lived (Sunnis).