Islamic Belief in Allah

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Session Seven

• Islamic Belief in Allah
• In the Light of the Quran and the Sunnah

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Review of important principles

• What applies to any applies to all
• Speaking about Allahs attributes is like
  speaking about His essence
• Same names not equal to same reality
• Allah cannot be described by negation alone
• Whose words are known to be true?
• Most denial originates from tashbeeh
• Verses about attributes are not ambiguous
  (mutashaabih)
• Taking the apparent meaning does not equal
  tashbeeh
• Meaning of taweel

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Ahlus-sunnah allahs attributes

• Followed the nine previous principles
• Say about Allah what He said about Himself both
  affirmation and negation
• Understood Allah unlike anything we know
• Allah ordered us to reject those who turn away or
  deviate with regard to His Names
• Allah condemned anything attributed to Him
  outside of the speech of the messengers

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Whos position is this?

• The Companions and those who followed them
• The four imams of the madhahib
• Abul-Hassan Al-Ashari
• Adhered completely to the above
• He stood up to the fitnah of the Mutazilah and
  the destruction which philosophy had wrought
• But he utilized kalaam to refute those deviations
• Those after him strayed from the correct position

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Tauhid oneness/uniqueness of allah

• One and unique in His essence (dhaat)
• One and unique in all of His attributes of
  perfection
• Theory must be reflected in action
• The irrationality of acknowledging the Lord
  (Rabb) but failing to take Him as Deity (Ilaah)

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Declaration and its requirements

• A statement or declaration of action, not just a
  statement of fact
• Know its meaning
• Be certain in declaring it
• Accept it verbally and in the heart
• Submit to what it implies (Islam)
• Sincerity
• Purity and freedom from shirk
• Allegiance

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Worship (Ibaada)

• All acts dedicated to and pleasing to Allah
• Essentials fear, hope and love dangers of
  imbalance in any of those
• Pillars of worship
• Purity of intention to Allah
• Sincere resolve to obey allah
• Correctness and freedom from innovation
• No worship can be accepted w/o all of these

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Opposite of tauhid shirk

• Giving or attributing to other than Allah what is
  exclusively for Allah
• Shirk Akbar (Major)
• Removes one from Islam
• Lord OR Deity instead of OR along with
• Not necessarily regarded as equal
• Most serious of sins
• Nullifies all other acts
• Shirk Asghar (Minor)
• Mixed intention
• Mistakes

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History of aqeedah

• This is an extremely important issue
• Devolution, not evolution
• Incorrect understanding based on stubborn atheism
  and weak historical record
• Quran only source of this knowledge
• Allahs promise to Adam
• Messengers to every nation

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Since adam deviation over time

• First community had tauhid, complete
  understanding of Allah
• Deviation followed after many generations
• Deviation begins from excess in veneration of the
  righteous
• Nooh was the first messenger sent to call people
  BACK to tauhid
• The weak followed him, the leaders were arrogant
• Great patience in dawah
• Every time of need, Allah send messengers
• The prophets are one brotherhood
• The prophets will disown those who devolved their
  message