Category Faith

Correct meaning of the tradition If we only confine ourselves to this tradition and its decontextualised meaning, then we will have to discard a large number of other verses and traditions in which both Allāh and the Prophet have stressed…

Figurative relation between belief and disbelief To hold the holy Prophet and the saint s and pious people of Allāh in reverence and to beseech t hem for help is quit e compatible with he basic principles of Islamic faith.…

Line of Demarcation between  Belief and Disbelief:  Purging disbelief in Muhammad’s followers Allāh has conferred infinit e blessings on the followers of the Holy Prophet . One of these blessings is t heir impossibility to ret urn to disbelief aft…

Love of the friends of Allāh is an integral part of faith We seek help from the prophets, the righteous and the saints and offer them as a means of access to Allāh on account of our limit less love…

Correct meaning of the tradition If we only confine ourselves to this tradition and its decontextualised meaning, then we will have to discard a large number of other verses and traditions in which both Allāh and the Prophet have stressed…

Allegation of disbelief against ‘Īsā ? When ‘Īsā articulated the divine truth publicly and tried to invite the members of his community to divine unity and dissuade them from committing disbelief, he showed a number of miracles to them. His…

Love of the friends of Allāh is an integral part of faith We seek help from the prophets, the righteous and the saints and offer them as a means of access to Allāh on account of our limit less love…

 Love for Allāh’s lovers is the cause of divine love The servant, following the divine commands, performs all kinds of worship: he offers prayer, keeps fast, performs hajj and pays zakāt. In short, he fulfils all his obligations. These act…

 Reciprocal nearness of lover and beloved on the Day of Judgement True love is that virt uous act which draws the lover increasingly closer to the beloved. It is narrated by Anas bin Mālik:  A person called on the Prophet …

Reality of the purgatorial life of human soul: After a logical and categorical proof of the reality of the purgatorial life of human soul, it is sheer irrational st ubbornness to deny the reality of seeking help from others after…

Imām Rāzī writes:  “When acquisition of knowledge as the meaning of hukman has been established, it is equally established at the same time that he (the Prophet Ibrāhīm) prayed to Allāh for the kind of knowledge that guaranteed his total…

The dead as a source of benefit for the living. The final shot fired by these deniers of seeking help from the saints and the pious is that the dead cannot benefit the living because they lack the power even…

Preliminaries Allāh, to whom all honour belongs, is the Creator of the universe. He has unlimited power and His sovereignty extends over everything, living and non-living, earthly and ethereal. He is the only true Helper. While all other aids are…