Category: Theology

The ‘Dhikr’ is Protected

Executive Summary   How do we know that the revelation that has reached us has been protected?  Does that protection only extend to the Qur’ānic text?  If it does, then what of the Prophetic Sunnah?  Is...

Shahāda (2): Muḥammad is the Messenger of Allah

Executive Summary    Part 2 of 2, is the translation of chapter 7 from Part 1 (The Foundations of Deen and its Fundamental Maxims) of Kitāb at-Tawḥeed: A’sās al-Islām wa Ḥaqeeqat-at-Tawḥeed, by Professor Muḥammad bin Abdallah al-Mas’ari.  The latter...

One side of the Holy Kaba with black cloth and gold banners

Shahada (1): there is no god or deity except Allah

Executive Summary   This is a translation of chapter 6 from Part 1 (The Foundations of Deen and its Fundamental Maxims) of Kitāb at-Tawḥeed: A’sās al-Islām wa Ḥaqeeqat-at-Tawḥeed, by Professor Muḥammad bin Abdallah al-Mas’ari. It...

statue of an angel inside a forest

Angels

Believing in the angels is one of the central tenets of the Islamic faith, al-‘Imān.  Regardless of sect or school of thought, there isn’t any disagreement upon this point.  Copious textual evidence establishes this tenet...