Innovation البدعة | Faith in Allah الإيمان بالله

Seeking blessings from relics of the righteous?

“People do not contrive an innovation in religion but that it removes a Sunnah like it.”

Follow the great majority of Muslims today?

“The united community is only the one that conforms to the obedience of Allah,”

Asking the deceased for supplications or intercession?

“If you ask, ask from Allah. If you seek help, seek help from Allah.”

Necessity of worshiping Allah alone

If you asked them, ‘Who created the heavens and the earth?’ They will surely say, ‘Allah.’

Tawassul: Seeking help from prophets and saints?

“O you who have faith, fear Allah and seek means to approach Him.”

Forty Hadith on Knowledge

“Seeking knowledge is an obligation on every Muslim.”

Al-Mundhiri on heretical innovations, lowly desires

“Every innovation is misguidance, and every misguidance is in the Hellfire.”

No theology of rape in Islam

“Scholars agree that the rapist must be given legal punishment,”

Definition of faith in Islam

“Faith is to believe in Allah, His angels, His books…”

Worship in the middle night of Sha’ban

“There is a proof for it, so it cannot be rejected.”

Blessed are the strangers in Islam

“Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a traveler along a path.”

Transcendency of Allah in Islam

“The Most Merciful is established upon the Throne.”

Dangers of takfir, declaring Muslims to be apostates

“I will not declare anyone from this nation to be an unbeliever.”

Jihad is the sixth pillar of Islam?

“Islam is built upon five pillars…”

How many raka’at of taraweeh prayer in Ramadan?

“The majority of scholars maintain that night prayer in Ramadan consists of twenty bowings and others said that is consists of eleven, thirteen, or thirty six bowings.”

Dangers of the Khawarij ideology of violence

“They will pass through the religion as an arrow pierces its target…”

Al-Nawawi on practicing the Sunnah

“He does not speak from his desires. It is not but a revelation revealed.”

Al-Nawawi on innovation in religion

“Whoever innovates something into this affair of ours which does not belong to it will have it rejected.”

Customs and acts of worship in Islamic Law

“With regard to customs, if there is no text to prove that a custom is forbidden, how can it be deemed to be forbidden?”

Parallel Sayings in the Bible and Islam

“We believe in Allah and what has been revealed to us…”