THE IMPORTANCE

OF KNOWING
YOUR AQEEDAH
Islam is founded on the very belief and testimony
that There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad
is His Messenger. In order to know the true God
from the false objects that people have chosen to
worship, one must know and realize the divine
godly qualities.
Allah has revealed the Holy Quran with the truth
about His Divine names and Attributes in order
for us to know who He is and realize His
magnificence. He has laid down the undeniable
fact that He is the sole-Creator of the universe
and the One True God.
Allah informs mankind specifically in Surah al-
Ikhlaas, that He is One and Unique, He is
Eternal, without a beginning and without an end,
and due to this fact, it is impossible for Him to
create another god who is Eternal without
beginning nor end, or even impossible to give
birth to another god, simply because whatever He
creates is from the created and therefore
impossible to be another like Him. This is the
very evidence of His Oneness, His Uniqueness,
His Tawheed.
Surah al-Ikhlaas is therefore known as Surat ul-
Tawheed for this very reason. As some would
say, it is tawheed explained "with-in a nutshell".
Respectively, when it is said la ilaha i.e. there
is no god, we are negating any possibility of the
existence of there being a god, then with the
particle of exception and the name of Allah illa
Allah i.e. except Allah, we are then affirming
that the One True God is Allah alone. Knowing
this simple fact is the very foundation of
knowing Tawheed.
The importance of creed cannot be stressed any
further, as the kalimah of la ilaha illa Allah
Muhammad ur-Rasul Allah There is no god but
Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah
is the ultimate success and salvation.
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However,

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The kalimah is the means of entering Islam, and the key
to paradise. It is the top branch of faith and, the best of all
good deeds, it blots out the bad deeds just by saying it, so
say it often and seek forgiveness and for this is the sword
and shield against Shaytaan, which foils his plot and ruins
his plans.
By this simple testimony of faith Allah forgives sins even
if there are as many as the foam of sea. It is the statement
that is written upon the Throne of Allah, it is the statement
by which Adam repented to His Lord. There is no
loneliness in this life or in the life of the grave for the
people of la ilaha illa Allah, so rejoice in the name of your
Lord, for indeed it is the key to paradise.
The one who believes there is no god but Allah is promised
salvation and paradise, and the sincerity from that is that he
remains aloof from that which Allah has forbidden, out of
gratefulness for this great blessing. It is by such that
supplications are accepted.
there is much more to the science than this point,
for many Muslims say La ilaha illa Allah,
Muhammad ur-Rasulullah but have erred in other
areas of the creed by innovating new ideologies
that was never found or heard previously. Since
the end of the first three generations, false ideas
and cults started to arise, and therefore the
Imaams of the Creed had to codify the creed in
order to preserve it.

It is the protector from the wrath and punishment of Allah
as long as one does not prefer the life of this world over the
religion of Allah, because if one prefers the dunyah over
the deen, then his statement of la ilaha illa Allah is a lie,
and Allah will throw this statement back in his face. La
ilaha illa Allah is a fortress that protects form the
punishment of Allah, so enter it wholeheartedly.
Whichever disbeliever says the kalimah will enter the fold
of Islam and be protected by this statement, and whoever
says it wholeheartedly will gain the intercession of the
Prophet upon yawm ul-Qiyaamah.
The Testimony of La ilaha illa Allah is purification from
all sins and no deed surpasses the utterance of this blessed
statement. It is the noblest word in the sight of Allah, and
by it the truthful have assurance of paradise and the
protection from the fire. It is a phrase that outweighs the
whole of the universe.
It is the remover of worries and sorrows, and the light of a
believers face and the reason to rejoice in the promise of
intercession and salvation. It is written on the preserved
tablet and the heart of the believers. It is written on the
pillars of paradise and upon every leaf therein. Adapted
from the Testimony of Faith by Sunni Publications

Imaam Abu Hanifah transmitted the text al-Fiqh
ul-Akbar i.e. the Greatest Understanding which
deals with the false cults who arose in his time.
Likwise, Imaam Ahmad Bin Hanbal compiled
quite a few texts on the subject of Aqeedah, the
most two notable are Kitaab al-Itiqaad and Usul
us-Sunnah.
Imaam at-Tahaawi also penned his well known
unamnously agreed upon text al-Aqeedah ut-
Tahaawiyah, which was originally titles Bayaan
us-Sunnah fi al-Itiqaad and this text became the
most ever studied Aqeedah text even in our times
today.
Imaam Abu Mansur al-Marturtidi also penned
the Aqeedah text named Kitaab ut-Tawheed and
likewise, Imaam Abu Hasan al-Ashari wrote
numerous texts on Aqeedah that refuted his
former cult, the Mutazilah.
Other great scholars also rose throughout the
centuries to compile great works of guidance to
help us find the true positions of the Ahl us-
Sunnah wal-Jamaaah, such as al-Bayhaqis
Kitaab al-Asmaa was-Sifaat, Iamam Nawawis
Kitaab ul-Emaan from his Sharh on Saheeh
Muslim, and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalaanis chapter of
Kitaab us-Sunnah in which he defends the creed
in the last volume of his sharh on Saheeh al-
Bukhaari, Fath ul-Baari.
There are more Aqeedah texts that are worthy of
much mention, however for the sake of brevity,
we should keep it right here as the mentioned
texts do more than suffice in their study of
classical creed and warnings against the many
false cults.
All of the mentioned texts on Aqeedah were
written with the intention of documenting the
fact that there is much more knowledge to this
simple formula, and the subject of tawheed,
commonly referred in the modern age as al-
Aqeedah, and classically known as al-Itiqaad,
and these texts are structured to systematically
teach the orthodox creed and beliefs of the heart
which brings about the development of true
belief [al-Imaan] in a believers heart. We know it
to be the very first subject of importance due to
the hadeeth of Arch-Angel Jibraeel [known as
Gabriel in the Judo-Christian tradition].
It is narrated by 'Umar, may Allah be pleased
with him, there is that he said, "While we were
sitting with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless with him and grant him peace, one day a
man came up to us whose clothes were extremely
white, whose hair was extremely black, upon
whom traces of travelling could not be seen, and
whom none of us knew, until he sat down close
to the Prophet, may Allah bless with him and
grant him peace, so that he rested his knees upon
his knees and placed his two hands upon his
thighs and said, 'Muhammad, tell me about
Islam.'
The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless with
him and grant him peace, said, 'Islam is that you
witness that there is no god but Allah and that
Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and you
establish the prayer, and you give the Zakat, and
you fast Ramadan, and you perform the hajj of
the House if you are able to take a way to it.' He
said, 'You have told the truth,' and we were
amazed at him asking him and [then] telling him
that he told the truth.
He said, 'Tell me about imaan.' He said, 'That
you affirm Allah, His angels, His books, His
messengers, and the Last Day, and that you
affirm the Decree, the good of it and the bad of
it.' He said, 'You have told the truth.'
The Arch-Angel Jibrieel then went on to ask
what is Ihsaan, and the signs of the last day.
However, what is important to note here is the
order of the subjects, because this tells us that the
kalimah of tawheed comes before any form of
worship and that al-Imaan is to believe in Allah,
His Angels, His Books, His Messengers etc. And
this is the very foundation of the creed [al-
Itiqaad], and the pillars of Imaan.
This is the authentic creed of the early
generations of Muslims, and those who followed
them. They are known as the Ahl us-Sunnah wal-
Jamaaah, which is described in this age as
Sunni Islam, Sunni simply being the active
participle for one who ascribes himself to the
creed. This is the truth that obliterates falsehood
and clarifies the right path.
I cannot emphasize the importance of knowing
our 'Aqeedah enough. In-fact it is blameworthy
to do taqleed in 'Aqeedah because this is the
prime knowledge our beliefs are based on and it
is obligatory [waajib] to study and KNOW the
'Aqeedah in order to purify ourselves of any
wrong beliefs for Allah says:
Know that there is no god but Allah
Not just something to merely repeat when
hearing it, but to believe with certainty upon
knowing it. It is something we have to know
through study and not blindly follow. There will
be a people that will be confused in the graves
when the Angels question them about their
religion, they will admit that they only said there
is no god but Allah simply because they heard
other people say it.
Therefore, we must have reasons for faith should
we seek to be the sincerest of the believers and
furthermore, to know the right Aqeedah is the
very first step in self purification, and this is also
the first and foremost sense of tazkiyyah, as seen
when Musa alayhis-Salaam calls the Firawn to
purify himself from shirk beliefs. If we look
closely in Surah an-Naaziyah ayah 18, the word
tazzaka is used
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18. "And say to him, 'Would you [accept this doctrine
of tawheed] so that you be purified [from shirk]
Tazkiyyah [purification] is from the same root
and is the very essence of the science of
tassawuf. No Sufi can be a Sufi unless he has
knuckled down and learned his creed. Nobody,
cannot purify the heart, the soul, the mind, the
whole of the nafs if we have a flaw in our
Aqeedah as false beliefs are the najis [impurity]
of the heart and the mind.
It is almost like looking after your living room
with an Elephant residing in it. No matter how
much you try to clean it, the Elephant will keep
on excreting and smashing your furniture to
pieces and wetting the walls, etc. The first step is
getting rid of the Elephant in the living room.
Therefore, knowing the correct Aqeedah, and
adhering to it is extremely important.
Muslims that are already firmly grounded in the
knowledge of Aqeedah may find again and
again that you may have to explain this point to
those Muslims who constantly rant "I am not
Sunni, I am not Shi'a, I am not Wahhabi, I am
Muslim al-Hamdu Lillah" because whether they
like it or not they are part of one of the many
groups that they say they are not from. There is
no such sect as the "Muslim" sect, for all of the
sects are Muslim! [Except those whose kufr takes
them completely out of the fold of Islam"].
We should pity these Muslims, because they
have not took their very first baby step of
purification which is the very main aim of man to
return to his Lord with a "sound heart"
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"The Day whereon neither wealth nor sons will avail,
But only He (will prosper) that brings to Allah a sound
heart Surah ash-Shuara [26] ayaat 88-89
Those who are unaware of the many false beliefs
that are circulating and spreading their fitnah
within this ummah, and the characteristics of
their cult theology, may have one of these, or
ignore, false beliefs and they are not even aware
they have an Elephant in the living room.
Let there be no excuse as the Prophet certainly
has warned us of the false beliefs and false cults
in many ahaadeeth, and has gave us advice on
how to mete out the true saved sect from all the
false cults. Ibn Katheer in his tafseer to Surat al-
Anaam narrates from Imaam Ahmad b. Hanbal
who narrates a saying from 'Abdullah ibn Masud
(Allah be pleased with him) who reported that
the Messenger of Allah (Peace be upon him)
drew a line in the dust with his hand and said:
"This is the straight path of Allah." Then he drew
a series of lines to the right of it and to the left
and said, "Each of these paths has a Shaytaan at
its head calling people to it." He then recited
(Qur'an 6:153), "Indeed this is my straight path
so follow it and do not follow the any deviated
paths."
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From the above Ahaadeeth, the only logical
conclusion is to study the sciences of 'Aqeedah in
order to know who are the people of truth, and to
know who are the people of deception, and
indeed the Holy Prophet salAllahu alayhi
wasallam has not left us without the criteria of
knowing which is the correct methodology and
which scholars are from the saved sect, because
when the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam was
questioned as to who the saved sect are, the
Prophet's response was very clear:
Those who are upon that which I and my
companions are upon today
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Now some may ask: But, how do we know for
sure what the Prophet and His companions are
upon with so many differences and so many cults
that are wolves in sheeps clothing? How do we

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This hadeeth can be found in the Musnad of Imaam
Ahmad, Sunan an-Nisaai, Tafseer Ibn Katheer, vol. 1, p.
509.
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Tirmidhi hadeeth no. 2129
know the correct path? How do we know for sure
which path the Prophet salAllahu alayhi
wasallam and his companions radiyAllah anhum
is upon?
The Holy Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wasallam
said:
Adhere to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of
the rightly guided Khalifahs that come after
me. Bite upon it with your molar teeth
[nawaakhidh] and beware of newly
invented matters [in creed, and actions] for
certainly every newly invented matter is an
innovation and every innovation is a
misguidance
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Explanation of This Hadeeth
We can deduce that from this hadeeth, that those
who follow the Sunnah of the Prophet sal Allahu
alayhi wasallam and his rightfully guided
Khalifahs have long labelled themselves with the
term Ahl us-Sunnah, the people of the Sunnah, or
its abbreviated active participle Sunni. As stated
before hand, the word Sunnah encompasses a lot
of understandings to too their respective fields. In

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Musnad of Imaam Ahmad narrated by al-Irbaad Bin
Saariyah, hadeeth no. 17145, Sunan Abu Dawud, Kitaab
us-Sunnah, hadeeth no. 4607 Imaam Nawawis Forty
Hadeeth, hadeeth no. 28; and is classified as a Saheeh
hadeeth.
the field of Fiqh, Sunnah refers to the sayings,
actions and even silent approvals of the Prophet
sal Allahu alayhi wasallam, meaning that which
he spoke, ordered to do or not to do, or the things
that he did, or the things that he seen but did not
forbid, or comment upon, are the actions of the
Sunnah. However in the science of hadeeth, the
Sunnah is not only synonymous with the word
hadeeth [as we hear many say, I follow the
Quran and the Sunnah, meaning, the
Ahaadeeth], but also includes the Prophets
actions and physical appearance. Yet, the term
Sunnah, whenever used in the field of Aqeedah,
strictly refers to the creed of the Prophet sal
Allahu alayhi wasallam which he taught the
Sahaabah radiyAllahu anhum and that creed in
which they passed down this creed to the very
form we have it today. i.e. the Creed of the Ahl
us-Sunnah wal-Jamaaah.
The Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wasallam also
mentioned the Rightly guided Khulafaah in the
hadeeth we have just mentioned. They are Abu
Bakr as-Sideeq, Umar Ibn al-Khattab, Uthmaan
Ibn Affan and Ali ibn Abi Taalib radiyaAllah
anhum. We know their order of succession to be
true as the Sahaabah understood well the merits
of the people after the merit of the Messenger of
Allah. This is explicitly seen from the following
hadeeth which gives the order of the Rightly
guided Khulaafah: the Holy Prophet sal Allahu
alayhi wasallam said:
Abu Bakr is in the Paradise, Umar is in the
Paradise, Uthmaan is in the Paradise, Ali is
in the Paradise, Talhah is in the Paradise,
Zubair is in the Paradise, Saad is in the
Paradise, Saaid is in the Paradise, Abdur-
Rahmaan is in the Paradise, Abu Ubid bin
al-Jaraah is in the Paradise
After the death of the Prophet sal Allahu alayhi
wasallam, the Sahaabah knew who to select for
their Khalifah due to the understanding of this
hadeeth. The Prophet ordered us to follow his
sunnah and their sunnah. The Sunnah of Abu
Bakr, Umar Ibn al-Khattab, Uthamaan Ibn Affan
and Ali ibn Abi Taalib radiyAllahu anhum, and
anybody who follows the Sunnah of the Prophet
sal Allahu alayhi wasallam and the authority of
the rightly guided Khulufaah in their respective
order are known as the people of the Sunnah,
which is Ahl us-Sunnah in its original Arabic
wording. The singular active participle to denote
somebody from the Ahl us-Sunnah is Sunni and
this is where the word derives from. The Ahl us-
Sunnah is the path that the Prophet and his
companions are upon and the path we are
commanded to adhere too. Knowing these simple
facts prevent us from falling into the trap of the
Shia Muslims who are in habit of abusing the
companions.
We are also explicitly told within the advice of
this hadeeth
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to be aware of innovations and
watch out for anything new that was not
previously said before, such as the innovation of
the Mu'tazilah in saying the Qur'an is created, the
Qadiriyyah is saying Allah does not know what
is in the future until it has happened, the
Jabbariyyah in saying that man has no free will,
and the Wahhabiyyah in saying that Tawheed
consists of three elements that need to be
understood as a condition for salvation, and that
it is permissible to kill anybody who does not
agree with this understanding, and the Shia who
abuse the Sahaabah and reject the authority of
Abu Bakr radiyaAllah anhu and much more,
and the Ahmadiyyah who have slipped into the
depths of kufr by claiming that there is another
Prophet after the last and final Prophet
Muhammad sal Allahu alayhi wasallam etc.
The Jamaaah the main body of the Muslims
We have discussed that the right group is the Ahl
us-Sunnah. Normally you would hear the
addition wal-Jamaaah as in Ahl us-Sunnah wal-
Jamaaah. The word Jamaaah refers to the
consensus of the most classical scholars who are
in agreement regarding the Sunnah and other

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Beware of newly invented matters [in creed, and actions]
for certainly every newly invented matter is an innovation
and every innovation is a misguidance
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matters relating to the religion, such as creed and
also fiqh issues. The word Jamaaah can be seen
from the following Ahaadeeth in which
Muaawiyah Bin Abu Sufyaan radiy Allahu anhu
narrated that the Messenger of Allah sal Allahu
alayhi wasallam said:
Those people of the book who came
before you split into seventy-two sects, and
soon this religion [Islam] will split into
seventy-three sects. Seventy-two of them
will be in the fire and one will be in
Paradise, and that is the Jamaaah
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We see from the above hadeeth, that merely
claiming to be Muslim is not enough. You can be
Muslim and still have tragically fallen into one of
the cults. Therefore it is important to know the
right path from all of the wrong paths, by
knowing the differences of the creedal points of
the cults whilst biting onto the Sunnah and the
people of the Sunnah and the Jamaaah. We are
also implicitly told in the following two ahadeeth
that the consensus of the most classical scholars
is a sign of divine protection which cannot be
corrupted by misguidance as the Messenger of
Allah sal Allahu alayhi wasallam said:

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Sunan Abu Dawud, Kitaab us Sunnah hadeeth no. 4597
My ummah shall never agree upon
misguidance, for Allahs protection is with
the Jamaaah
It is an obligation to stick with the
Jamaaah for indeed Allah will not unite the
Ummah of Muhammad upon misguidance
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The verb la yajtimu [meaning He will not
unite] comes from the same root as the word
Jamaaah, thus the Jamaaah can only refer to the
collective who have agreed upon a matter. This is
echoed in another hadeeth which clearly
demonstrates that the Jamaaah will be the
largest gathering of scholars from amongst the
Muslims of the first three generations and
thereafter, throughout the history of Islam up
until Yawm ul-Qiyaamah, the Messenger of
Allah sal Allahu alayhi wasallam said:
My Ummah shall never agree upon
misguidance, so when you see differences,
then it is an obligation upon you to stick to
the as-Sawaad al-Azam
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Ibn Maajah, hadeeth no. 3950
8
Imaam Abu Bakr al-Aajuris Kitaab ash-Shariah, vol. 2,
p. 130
We also see from this hadeeth that the term as-
Sawaad al-Azam, i.e. the greatest gathering, is
synonymous with the term Jamaaah. Imaam
Tirmidhi rahimahullah informs us that:
According to the people of knowledge, the
Jamaaah refers to the people of
jurisprudence, learning and hadeeth
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As seen from the given evidences, the followers
of the correct methodology are the people who
adhere to the binding obligation to stick to the
Sunnah and the Jamaaah, and therefore are the
Ahl us-Sunnah wal-Jamaaah, in which the
singular active participle Sunni is derived, and
the Sunni path is the one true way for the rightly
guided Muslims. May Allah the absolute
Transcendent make us people of this path,
ameen.
Now we know who they are by definition, the
question that now faces us how do we know who
are the Ahl us-Sunnah wal-Jamaaah by reality?
How do we actually know with full certainty that
we are of them? The following golden advice
will indeed equip a believer with the right
criterion to judge between the real gold and false
gold, and walk the true Sunni path with certainty,
knowing what they believe and why they believe.

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Tirmidhi, hadeeth no. 2256
In this day of age there is much confusion
amongst the Muslim community in terms of
creed, groups and various practices. Both new
and born Muslims have noticed a lot of various
differences, and many sectarian fights in which
this group labels that group as misguided
deviants and that group labels this group as being
misguided deviants. Yet the most confusing thing
of all about this is that most of them all lay
claim to be from the Ahl us-Sunnah wal-
Jamaaah. How is one to know how we can find
the path of truth amongst so much confusion?
Again, for such guidance we have to refer back
to the advice of the Prophet sal Allahu alayhi
wasallam and its correct understanding.
It has been pointed out clearly in the Ahaadeeth
that the best of people to follow in the matters of
the deen are the first three generations, i.e. the
Salaf. We know this from the hadeeth of
RasulAllah sal Allahu alayhi wasallam in which
he said:
The best of generations is my generation,
then the one after that, then the one after
that. After them will appear untrustworthy
people
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10
Saheeh al-Bukhaari, The book of the Merits of the
companions of the Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wasallam,
Volume 5, hadeeth no. 2 and 3, also of similar import in
Saheeh al-Bukhari, The Book of Witnesses, Volume 3,
This hadeeth demonstrates that the Salaf, i.e. the
first three generations, are the bedrock and the
authority in which our understanding is derived.
Our understanding of the Quran and the Sunnah
should be based upon their very understanding.
We should follow tawheed and believe in Allah
as they believed and follow not an invented
understanding or any new teachings that have no
foundation in the Salaf. We should practice the
Quran and the Sunnah as the Salaf understood
the Quran and the Sunnah and shun any modern-
day interpretations that contradict the very
understanding of the first three generations. They
are the bedrock of understanding and only key to
understanding the revelations as they should be
understood.
The fisrt three generations are, all of the
Sahabah, wives of the Prophet sal Allahu alayhi
wasallam, the Students of the Sahaabah, Imaam
Abu Hamifah, Imaam Maliki Imaam ash-Shaafi
and the most knowledgeable of all Imaams,
Imaam Ahmad Bin Hanbal. After them, we are
told that untrustworthy people would appear,
however, Allah has indeed promised to preserve
this deen by sending a reviver of the religion at
the head of each century. We know this from the
following Ahaadeeth in which the Messenger of
Allah said:

Number 820; Volume 8, The Book of ar-Riqaaq, Number
437 and more.
This knowledge will be carried by the
trustworthy ones of every generation they
will expel from it the alterations made by
those going beyond bounds, the false claims
of the liars, and the false interpretations of
the ignorant
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The Holy Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wasallam
also said:
At the head of every one hundred years,
Allah will send to this nation one who will
revive for it its Religion.
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There are two things that should be understood
from this hadeeth.
a. How to know the revivers, the people of
truth
b. The importance of Isnaad and the
preservation of knowledge

11
Mishkaat ul-Masaabeeh, hadeeth no. 248 and classified
as authentic
12
Sunan Abu Dawuud, Kitaab ul-Malaaham, hadeeth no.
4291 and even the Wahhabi scholar Albaani has classified
this hadeeth as Saheeh in his Silsilah as-Saheehah 2/148,
hadeeth no. 599. These two Ahaadeeth and the following
Ahaadeeth about the reviver that Allah will send every
century and the right group that will always be in every
century fly in the face of Muhammad Ibn Abdul
Wahhabs claim that Islam was lost for 600 years before
him and a further 400 years before Ibn Taymiyyah.
You must understand that Allah has no left any
generation since the time of our beloved Prophet
sal Allahu alayhi wasallam without guidance. In
fact, as the hadeeth demonstrates, after the time
of the Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wasallam, the
Sahaabah and the rest of the Salaf, Allah has sent
a reviver for each generation by which Allah re-
establishes the sunnah and makes the bidah
know to the people so that they may avoid it.
This reviver will no doubt be upon the truth and
fight for the truth as the Messenger of Allah sal
Allahu alayhi wasallam said:
There will always be a group from my
ummah fighting for the truth until the hour
is established
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Commenting upon this hadeeth, Ibn Taymiyyah said: It
is this Ummah just as the prophet Saw has informed that he
said, thee will always be in it a group that is aided,
manifest with knowledge and the sword. And he will not
test it by what those before it from the Children of Israel
were tested with those and others besides them when they
were triumphed over by the enemies. And if there is one
group that is defeated in a far away land, there is another
land a group that is manifest and aided. And they will
never be ruled over by an enemy who will take all of them
from outside their ranks, but there will be some
disagreement among them and some tribulations. Muslim
Orthodoxy is the way that is manifest and clear and its
people are so until the Day of Resurrection. They are those
whom the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon
him, said of the, there will always be a group from my
Ummah. End of statement. Ibn Taymiyyah said in his al-
Aqeedah ul-Wastiyyah
It is also related from `Imran ibn Hussain from
the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be
upon him, who said:
There will always be a group from my
Ummah, fighting for the truth until the last
of them fights the False Messiah. It has
also been related from Jabir ibn Samura
from the Prophet, peace and blessings of
Allah be upon him, There will never cease
to be a group of Muslims fighting for the
establishment of this religion until the
coming of the Hour. Muslim has related
from `Uqbah ibn `Aamir who said that he
heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and
blessings of Allah be upon him, saying,
There will always be a group from my
Ummah fighting for the truth, victorious
over their enemies. They will not be harmed
by those who oppose them until the Hour is
established and they are upon that way.
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These Ahadeeth again refute the claim of Muhammad
Ibn Abdul Wahhab that Islam has been lost for 600 years
before him and a further 400 years before Ibn Taymiyyah.
His own brother Shaykh ul-Islam, Sulaymaan Ibn Abdul
Wahhab wasted not time in refuting this false notion
saying: Out of the 73 sects is one guided sect and they are
the Saved Sect. This represents Muslim Orthodoxy from
the Companions of the Messenger of Allah, peace and
blessings of Allah be upon him, to the end of time and it is
that Sect which will always be established on the truth,
Allah suffice us to be their followers by His Strength and
Power. See as-Sawaaiq al-Ilahiyyah, the Divine Lightning
divine lightening p. 148
Also the reviver will revive the Sunnah, call
people back to the sunnah and remind them of
what they have forgotten and warn them of the
evil innovations.
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This is the key to knowing
the truth between the matters that the people
debate about today. If something is debated, all
we have to do is examine what the scholars
enjoined and forbade throughout each generation,
for there will be a continuity of the righteous
message that has been passed down plus a
continuity of warning from certain innovations.
Anything new in the ummah that the Muslims
deemed beneficial, we will find that the revivers
never forbade. Such as the linguistic innovations
that already rooted in the Shariah, and also
having their proofs from the Quran, the Sunnah
and the most classical understanding. One

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Even the Wahhabi scholar Yasir Qadhi admits to this
view when he wrote: A Mujaaddid is one who guides the
people back to Islam after they have deviated from it. So
he calls them to return to the beliefs of the Prophet sal
Allahu alayhi wasallam and Companions radiy Allahu
anhum, and warns them against innovation. See footnote
3 of his translation of Muhammad Ibn abd ul-Wahhabs
work al-Qawaaid al-Arbah An explanation of the Four
Principles of Shirk, p. 10 Yasir Qadhi further butters his
False Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abd ul-Wahhab with the
title of being a Mujaaddid when he discusses the alleged
rampant shirk in Arabia boldly claiming Such was the
situation in which Allah sent a reviver, a mujaaddid, who
called the people back once again to the pristine Islam and
the pure monotheism that the Prophet sal Allahu alayhi
wasallam came with this man was Muhammad Ibn
Abdul Wahhab p. 10
example is Milaad un-Nabi. No scholar, reviver
ever forbade it in the history of Islam. It was only
a known innovator in the 11th century that
deemed it haraam and called the people to his
self-proclaimed ijtihaad. The scholars of his time
deemed him a false prophet due to the fact he did
not have the blessing of isnaad, and yet he was
calling to a religion upon the understanding of
other than the Quran, Sunnah and the most
classical understanding of the first three
generations. He also claimed that he was the one
that was chosen to obliterate shirk from the two
holy cities when we know that Shaytaan has lost
all hope of calling to taghut in these sacred
precincts. Such people are automatically
dismissed as not being part of the chain of
revivers from the Ahl us-Sunnah wal-Jamaaah.
To summarize, the Ahl us-Sunnah wal-Jamaaah
are the people who declare the absolute
transcendence of Allah, Uniqueness and
Oneness, in that He is above being described by
any knowledge that the limited human mind can
fathom, Allah is free from His creation and its
imperfections. They accept all of His Names and
Attributes, consigning complete and absolute
knowledge of the Mutashaabihah Attributes to
Allah as only Allah know their true
interpretation.They believe that the Quran is the
uncreated speech of Allah, and believe in the
Qadr, the Divine Decree, the seeing of Allah on
Yawm ul-Qiyaamah, Imaan as being a testimony
of heart, affirmation of the tongue, and the action
of the limbs, they believe in the excellence of the
Sahaabah radiy Allahu anhum in their respective
order, they do not call any of the Sahabah sinners
or treansgressors, they do not takfeer curse or
speak ill of them, we believe in the innocence
and the purity of the mothers of the believers
radiy Allahu anhunna, the obedience to Muslim
authority, and so forth. They do not deny one
particle from the Sunnah, therefore they are from
the Ahl us-Sunnah, i.e. the people of the Sunnah.
It is the people that break away from the
Prophetic sunnah and the people of the Sunnah
that have divided their religion and innovated a
sectarian dispute. Allah tells us to have nothing
to do with them, i.e. not to unite with them and
support them in any way for their affair is going
back to Allah:
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As for those who divide their Religion and break up
into sects, Thou hast no part In them In the least: their
affair is with Allah. He will In the end Tell them the
truth of all that They did. Surah al-anaam [6], ayah
159
Just as the truth was made clear to me regarding
Aqeedah and the difference between the groups,
the truth has been made apparent to the readers.
Hopefully we have equipped the reader with the
strongest prophetic advice in finding the right
path, and if there has been any shortcoming in
preaching this message, it is solely my
shortcoming.
I remember converting to Islam thinking that the
Muslims are one big united brotherhood, only to
find them arguing against each other. I remember
crying and being upset at the situation. We must
keep in mind that no new Muslim or sincere
Muslim for that matter intends to fall into a false
cult, and we have to remember it is our duty to
inform them and help them if they have slipped
into a cult. I wrote this above advice on a
brothers request, to help him amongst the
confusion. And I pray that when guidance comes
to us all, that we accept it without taking any
position of partisan pride. We have what we need
without any partisan pride or figures of high
dispute dictating our affairs. Allah has made the
guidance as clear as daylight for us all, and with
this said, I finish this naseehah with the ayah of
Allah
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If anyone contends with the Messenger Even after
guidance has been plainly conveyed to him, and follows
a path other than that becoming to men of Faith, we
shall leave Him In the path He has chosen, and land
Him In Hell,- what an evil refuge! Surah an-Nisaa [4]
ayah 115