Sheik Al-Islam ibn Taymia "MINHAJ ASSUNA" Series
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Minhaj Assuna – Part One
Sheik Al-Islam may Allah have mercy on him says:
Alhamdulillah to the one that sent the Prophets and Messengers who give glad
tidings and warnings, and sent with them the book in truth to judge between
what the people differed about, and the only ones who differed in regards to
the book are those that were given to them after the evidences were wide spread
between them. Allah guides those people that differed about the truth with
his permission and Allah guides whom He wills to the straight path!
And I bear witness that there is no deity worth of worship except Allah alone
with no associates with Him, the same way Allah the glorified and All Mighty
witnessed when he said:
“(18. There is no god but He: That is the witness of Allah, His angels, and
those endued with knowledge, standing firm on justice. There is no god but He,
the Exalted in Power, the Wise. )” Al-Imran 18
And I bear witness that Mohammad is the slave and messenger of Allah عليه
الصلاة و السلام In which Allah said in the Quran:
“(128. Now hath come unto you an Messenger from amongst yourselves: it grieves
him that ye should perish: ardently anxious is he over you: to the Believers is
he most kind and merciful. 129. But if they turn away, Say: "(Allah) sufficeth
me: there is no god but He: On Him is my trust,- He the Lord of the Throne (of
Glory) Supreme!")” At-tawba 28-29
Soon after, some of the people of Ahl Assuna WA’ljama3a brought to my attention
a book that was written by some of the scholars of the Rafida calling to his
sect of the Imamia Arrafida, calling with it who ever he can call from the
rulers and others of the people of ignorance and who have little understanding
in knowledge and religion; those who don’t know the core of the religion of the
Muslims.
The people that helped him are the ones that it was their habit of helping
people like him; like those who show outwardly that they are Muslims (while
they are not) from the Rafida and like the Batinia and Atheists who are
originally from the core of the Sabia’a philosophers outside the fold of truth
of Islam (i.e. following the messengers and the ones that do not consider
following them an obligation) and who do not forbid the following of those
other than the messengers or religions. What they actually do is the make
these other religions in the category of sects and political parties which
according to them there is no harm in following them; and they made prophet
hood in the place of just politics that was put for the benefit of the regular
people in this world.
These type of people multiply and show them selves more and more as ignorance
and the people of ignorance become abundant, while at the same time less people
of knowledge in prophet hood and proper following of them are around who show
the light that makes the darkness disappear along with Shirk and deceit.
Those people do not totally deny Prophet hood; they actually believe in some
parts of it and disbelieve in others (depending on what sect it is) and that is
why their story gets so distorted (amongst some of the people) because of how
they glorify some of the Prophet hood especially the ignorant and the Rafida
and the Jahmiya who are the door to those atheist; from this enters the rest of
the groups the deny the names of Allah and His clear book just like the heads
of the Atheist alqaramita, albatinia and others of the hypocrites.
The person who brought this book to me mentioned that this is one of the
greatest reasons in proving their sect and why many people lean to it from
kings and others. This book was writing for a king that was known by name as
"خدابنده" “khdaabndo” and they asked me to show what is in this book of
misguidance and false speech. Doing so of which would be a victory for the
slaves of Allah the believers and showing the falsehood in the speech and
sayings of the Atheists who overstep their boundaries "مفترين".
So, I brought to their attention that this book, be as it may the strongest of
what the say in regards to their arguments and evidences; that these people are
the most misguided of people from the truth, and the evidences are either
reported or thought up (نقلية ام عقلية), and these people are the most
misguided in both what is reported or conjured up by their brains in the sects
and in proof and they are closest to the people that Allah said about them:
“(10. They will further say: "Had we but listened or used our intelligence, we
should not (now) be among the Companions of the Blazing Fire!")” Al-mulk 10
These people are from the biggest liars in what is reported and the most
ignorant in what is logical. They believe that what the scholars know from
necessity is falsehood and they also believe that some of these things that the
scholars know from necessity which is mutawatir from one century to the next of
the highest level is also falsehood; they can’t tell the difference between the
ones that deliver knowledge and those that narrate Ahadeeth and events; they
can’t tell the difference between who is known as a liar or who made a mistake
or who is ignorant in what they reported and they can’t tell the difference
between who is trustworthy or a memorizer who doesn’t make mistakes who is
known for his knowledge and history.
It is of no surprise that their “Leaders” in these things are more or less
followers or imitators of others and even if they thought that they were
providing the different evidences; for they sometime follow the Mu’tazila and
the Qadaria and sometimes they follow the Mujasima and the Jabaria, and they
“Rawafid” are the most ignorant of all these sects in theorizing, and for this
reason they were known as the most ignorant sect who are amongst the Muslims by
the people of knowledge and religion!
>From them who entered corruption into the religion of what cannot be counted
>except by the Lord of all the slaves. From their door entered the atheism of
>the Ismailia and the Nusria and others from the Batinia hypocrites; also the
>enemies of the Muslims from the idolaters and people of the book arrived and
>they conquered the Muslim lands using them; while at the same time cursing the
>women and taking their money (i.e. disbelievers against the Muslims) and shed
>their blood in falsehood; and many other things ran it’s course against the
>Umma with their help and their corruption in religion and in worldly matters,
>all of which only the Lord of the worlds knows to which extent.
The core of this sect is from the events of the heretics and hypocrites the
leader of the believers Ali ibn Abi Talilb رضي الله عنه punished during his
time; He burned a group of them using fire; he also ordered the death of others
who fled from his sword severing forearm (سيفه البتًّار) and he promised a
whipping to another group for over stepping their boundaries from what he knew
from the news of them. For it has been narrated in great frequency from many
different ways that he used to say on the pulpit in Kufa and many have heard
him say: The best of this Umma after its Prophet is Abu Bakr and then Umar; and
with this answered his son Mohammad ibn Haneefa in what Bukhari has narrated in
his authentic work and others from the scholars of the Haneefa denomination.
For the reasons mentioned above the early Shia who were friends with Ali or
were from that time never had any arguments or conflicts as to the preference
of Abu Bakr and Umar, but in fact their arguments and conflicts were in regards
to who is better between Ali and Uthman! This is all from what the big
scholars of the Shia confess to from the early and late scholars. One of the
scholars that mentioned this is Abu Qasim Al Bakhly who said: “a questioner
asked the partner of ibn abd Allah ibn abi nimr”: He said to him: “who is
better Abu Bakr or Ali?” so he said to him: “Abu Bakr” so the questioner said
to him: “Do you say this and you are one of the shia?” So he said: “Yes, and
who ever is shia says this, and by Allah he has raised the level of Ali; this
is what he used to say: “The best of this nation after its Prophet is Abu Bakr
and then Umar” So would you have us return what he has said? Would you like us
to make him out as
a liar? By Allah that is not the case, he was not a liar!! Abu Qasim Al Bakhly
mentioned this in his criticism of ibn Alrawndi in his objection to Al Jahith,
Alqadi Abd AlJabar Almahdani reported this of him in his book “cementing
prophet hood” "تثبيت النبوة" .
