I swear, I need to hire an editor and a moderator.

Comments closed. Sorry!

Muslims here are discussing with each other a topic that we, as laymen, don’t have the authority to argue about. Aqeedah is such a fragile science of Islam, one wrong belief, and a Muslim can become an unbeliever. Matters of Aqeedah should only be acquired from an authorized scholar. And if one does receive authorization to teach, then open your mouth to spread the knowledge. If you haven’t, then the best solution is silence.

And when “discussing” this topic, they have abandoned what Rasulullah (salla allahu alayhi wa aalihi wa sallam) said constituted half our faith: adab. Honestly, it is very despicable to see that there are Muslims here trying to spread knowledge that the have learned (which is so commendable) yet they forget about the most important component of spreading that knowledge, and that again is adab. ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak said: “I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.” And I think we can learn a lot from this great scholar and piece of advice. Wallahu ‘alam.

Please forgive me for anything wrong I may have said, and forgive me if I have offended anyone, for that was not my intention.

So Amir, step in and prevent this from escalating any further.

As Munzareen said: “Ya Rabb. May Allah help us and guide us and keep us away from speech that is not beneficial and allow us to control our tongues.” Ameen Ya Rabb Ameen!

I agree, but I was talking about your uneccesary usage of terms like “physical”. Your basically throwing out bait for the Asharis to bite.

Right MR?

How’d we get onto the whole Where is Allah discussion from a post on Maliki Fiqh resources?

Ya Rabb. May Allah help us and guide us and keep us away from speech that is not beneficial and allow us to control our tongues.

As for the above comments – Silence is salvation.

Keep me in your du’aa

Anyway I’ve always had affinity towards madhhab of Imam Ahmad but due to lack of resources in english I’ve decided to put a halt on my ambitions of becoming a ‘Hanbali’. Right now I’m following the Shafi’i madhhab due to availability of excellent fiqh resources like al-maqasid, Reliance, Sunni Path Shafi’i fiqh section etc…

May Allah keep us all firm on truth, ameen.

@ Abdul Karim

I am not confused about Aqeedah. I have a degree in Aqeedah. For people to say that we “affirm” without howness but not attribute the meaning to it is to say that we don’t understand what the word Istawaa means. And Imam Malik said, its KNOWN. If the meaning was unknown, how can he say it. So the scholars say that yes, Allah himself is above the throne. BUT, the howness of how he’s above is unknown.