Various Scholars
Sins and Failure
Sufi formulas and bid'ah
Q: In your 'Innovations' sections, you say it's bidah to recite, say a 100 times or something, suras hoping for reward. After reading a Sufi book by Hakim Moinuddin Chishti called 'Sufi Healing", I saw that it justified using such formulas by saying that the formulas and other things had ...
Continue ReadingThe Braylwiyyah sect
Q: What is the
Braylwiyyah sect and what is their belief?
A:
Praise be to Allaah.
The Braylwiyyah are a Soofee sect which was born in India at the
time of the British rule there.
It's followers concern themselves in exceeding in their love and
honour for the Prophets and the "saints" in ...
With three hundred and sixty joints!
Creationism, Evolution, Intelligent Design or Islam?
Creationism, natural selection, intelligent design, the theory of evolution. Thinking about the creation of the world, the universe, and humankind can be confusing. There are theories, opinions, and beliefs. The creation of the universe was a random act, humankind evolved from apes, living ...
Continue ReadingApril Fool
Praise be to Allaah, we praise Him and seek His help and forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allaah from the evil of our own selves and from our evil deeds. Whomsoever Allaah guides, none can lead astray, and whomsoever He sends astray, none can guide.
Lying is an evil characteristic, which all ...
Haitham Al-Haddad
The Islamic Mortgage
The Islamic Mortgage: Paradigm Shift or Trojan Horse?
Haitham Al-Haddad
All praise is due to Allah and may His peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family and all his Companions.
During recent years there has been an unprecedented ...
Are you ready and prepared to do the funeral pray when I die
{In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful}
My dear son:
Are you ready and prepared to do the funeral pray when I die?
It's enough to know that our beloved prophet (PBUH) has said: «if a man dies: all of his ...
The status of the imams of the Ithna 'Ashari Shi'ah
Q: What is the
position on the 12 Imams of the Shia, especiallt the later
ones?
A: Praise be to
Allaah.
Firstly:
The Raafidis, Imamis or Ithna 'Asharis ("Twelvers") are one of the
branches of Shi'ism. They are called Raafidis because they rejected
(rafada) most of the Sahaabah and they ...
A party in Paradise, A party in Hellfire
Lecture By Shaykh Nabeel Al-Awdhi
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
The Companions of our Prophet Muhammed (SAW) used to gather to remember death so that they would benefit their souls by increasing in fear of Allah and strive to gain His pleasure. If this was ...
Names of Hell
Q: I am looking for the different name
of the Hell-fire. I have found these: Blazing Fire (35:6), Flaming
Fire (33:64), Crushing Fire (104:4,5), and Burning Flame (83:16)
Are these correct and could you give me a few more?
A: Praise be to Allaah.
"The Fire of Hell has many names, which ...
Feeling fed up of life
Q: I am a young man who has become fed
up of living in this transient world. I have started to feel bored
and tired of it. Is there anyone who can help? There is none who
can help except Allaah!.
A: Praise be to Allaah.
There are many reasons for hating this world. There are some people
who ...
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