Allah is (the Creator “al-Khaliq”), i.e., the One Who brought all the creations from inexistence into existence. He is (the Sustainer “ar-Raziq”), i.e., the One Who provides the sustenance to His slaves. He is (Knowledgeable…
Allah is (without a beginning “al-‘Awwal”), i.e., the One Who does not have a beginning to His Existence. His existence was not preceded by inexistence. The (Eternal “al-Qadim”) has the same meaning when referring to…
Allah is the One (Who is One “al-Wahid”), i.e., the One who does not have a partner with Him in Godhood. He is (Indivisible “al-‘Ahad”), i.e., the One Who does not accept division and partitioning…
In the prayer, the Muslim must say the Testification of Faith in Arabic by saying: <<Ash-hadu alla ilaha illallah, wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadar-Rasulullah.>>) Since the Testification of Faith (the two shahadahs) is the foundational root…
The Tawhid of Allah in the Doings[1] It was narrated from Imam Al-Junayd, the Imam of the true Sufiyys, that when he was asked about Tawhid he said, “Certainty.” Then he was asked for clarification,…
It came in the Sahih Hadith narrated by Imam Ahmad in his Musnad and Abu Dawud in his Sunan and Ibn Hibban from the route of Ibn Ad-Daylamiyy that he said, “I came to Ubayy…
Whoever attributes to Allah the creation of good, and not the creation of evil, has attributed inability to Allah; had it been like that, this world would have two managers, a manager of good and…
A faction that is attributed to Amin Shaykhu, those whom their leader today is ^Abdul-Hadi Al-Baniyy, the one who is in Damascus claimed that the Will of Allah follows the will of the slave. So…
The pronoun in the Saying of Allah: ﴿يُضِلُّ مَنْ يَشَآءُ وَيَهْدِى مَنْ يَشَآءُ﴾ [which means] “He misguides whomever He Willed and He guides whomever He Willed,” goes back to Allah; it does not go back…
Hafidh Abu Nu^aym narrated from the nephew of Az-Zuhriyy, who narrated from his uncle, that ^Umar Ibnul-Khattab used to love the poem of Labid Ibn Rabi^ah which has these verses: إِنَّ تَقْوى ربّنَا خَيرُ نَفَلْ…