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The Islamic Doctrine [Aqeedah Ahl-ul-Sunnah wal Jamat]
Imam Tahawi's (Rahimaullah) Statement of Islamic Doctrine
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate, Praise be to Allah, Lord of all the Worlds
Belief consist of belief in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, the last day, and belief that the Decree both the good of it and the evil of it, the sweet of it and the bitter of it is from Allah. We say about Allah's unity, believing by Allah's help that: 1. Allah is One, without any partners. 2. There is nothing like Him. 3. There is nothing that can overwhelm Him. 4. There is no god other than Him. 5. He is the Eternal without a beginning and enduring without end. 6. He will never perish nor come to an end. 7. Nothing happens except what He wills. 8. No imagination can conceive of Him and no understanding can comprehend of Him 9. He is different from any created being. 10. He is living and never dies and is eternally active and never sleeps. 11. He creates without His being in need to do so and provides for His creation without any effort. 12. He causes death with no fear and restores to life without difficulty. 13. He has always existed together with His attributes since before creation. Bringing creation into existence did not add anything to His attributes that was not already there. As He was, together with His attributes, in pre-eternity, so He will remain throughout endless time. 14. It was not only after the act of creation that He could be described as "the Creator" nor was it only by the act of origination that He could be described as "the Originator". 15. He was always the Lord even when there was nothing to be Lord of, and always the Creator even when there was no creation. 16. In the same way that He is the "Bringer to life of the dead," after He has brought them to life a first time, and deserves this name before bringing them to life, so too He deserves the name of "Creator" before He has created them. 17. This is because He has power to do everything, everything is dependent on Him, everything is easy for Him, and He does not need anything. "There is nothing like Him and He is the Hearer, the Seer" (42:11). 18. He created creation with His knowledge. 19. He is Exalted beyond having opposites or equals. 20. Anyone who describes Allah as being in any way the same as a human being has become an unbeliever. All those who grasp this will take heed and refrain from saying things such as the disbelievers say, and they will know that He, in his attributes, is not like human beings. 21. The seeing of Allah by the People of the Garden is true, without their vision being all encompassing and without the manner of their vision being known. As the Book of our Lord has expressed it: "Faces on that Day radiant, looking at their Lord" (75:22-3). The explanation of this is as Allah knows and wills. Everything that has come down to us about this in authentic Traditions from the Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, in authentic traditions, is as he said and means what he intended. We do not delve into that, trying to interpret it according to our opinions or letting our imaginations have free rein. No one is safe in his religion unless he surrenders himself completely to Allah, the Exalted and Glorified, and to His Messenger (peace be upon him) and leaves the knowledge of ambiguous things to the One who knows them. Knowledge and correct belief, and that he turns between disbelief and belief, confirmation and denial and acceptance and rejection. He will he subject to whisperings and find himself confused and full of doubt, being neither an accepting believer nor denying rejecter. 22. Belief of a person in the seeing of Allah by the People of the Garden is not correct if he interprets or imagines what it is like according to his own understanding, since the interpretation of this seeing (or indeed, the meaning of any of the subtle phenomena which are in the realm of Lordship), is in avoiding its interpretation and strictly adhering to the submission. This is the religion of Muslims. Anyone who does not guard himself against negating the attributes of Allah, or likening Allah to something else, has gone astray and has failed to understand Allah's glory, because our Lord, the Glorified and the Exalted, can only be described in terms of oneness and absolute singularity and no creation is in any way like Him. 23. He is beyond having limits placed on Him, or being restricted, or having parts or limbs. Nor is He contained by the six directions as all created things are. 24. The Throne (al-arsh) and the Chair (al-kursi) are true. 25. He is independent of the Throne and that which is beneath the Throne. 26. He encompasses all things and that which is above it, and what He has created is incapable of encompassing Him. 27. We say with belief, acceptance, submission that Allah took Abraham as an intimate friend and that He spoke directly to Moses. 28. Allah responds to people's supplications and gives them what they ask for. 29. Allah has absolute control over everything and nothing has any control over Him. Nothing can be independent of Allah even for the blinking of an eye, and whoever considers himself independent of Allah for the blinking of an eye is guilty of unbelief and becomes one of the people of perdition. 30. Allah is angered and He is pleased but not in the same way as any creature. Angels Books Messenger Hereafter Destiny Faith Companions Pious People Miracles (karaamats) Deviant Sects
Belief consist of belief in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, the last day, and belief that the Decree both the good of it and the evil of it, the sweet of it and the bitter of it is from Allah.
We say about Allah's unity, believing by Allah's help that: 1. Allah is One, without any partners.
2. There is nothing like Him.
3. There is nothing that can overwhelm Him.
4. There is no god other than Him.
5. He is the Eternal without a beginning and enduring without end.
6. He will never perish nor come to an end.
7. Nothing happens except what He wills.
8. No imagination can conceive of Him and no understanding can comprehend of Him
9. He is different from any created being.
10. He is living and never dies and is eternally active and never sleeps.
11. He creates without His being in need to do so and provides for His creation without any effort.
12. He causes death with no fear and restores to life without difficulty.
13. He has always existed together with His attributes since before creation. Bringing creation into existence did not add anything to His attributes that was not already there. As He was, together with His attributes, in pre-eternity, so He will remain throughout endless time.
14. It was not only after the act of creation that He could be described as "the Creator" nor was it only by the act of origination that He could be described as "the Originator".
15. He was always the Lord even when there was nothing to be Lord of, and always the Creator even when there was no creation.
16. In the same way that He is the "Bringer to life of the dead," after He has brought them to life a first time, and deserves this name before bringing them to life, so too He deserves the name of "Creator" before He has created them.
17. This is because He has power to do everything, everything is dependent on Him, everything is easy for Him, and He does not need anything. "There is nothing like Him and He is the Hearer, the Seer" (42:11).
18. He created creation with His knowledge.
19. He is Exalted beyond having opposites or equals.
20. Anyone who describes Allah as being in any way the same as a human being has become an unbeliever. All those who grasp this will take heed and refrain from saying things such as the disbelievers say, and they will know that He, in his attributes, is not like human beings.
21. The seeing of Allah by the People of the Garden is true, without their vision being all encompassing and without the manner of their vision being known. As the Book of our Lord has expressed it: "Faces on that Day radiant, looking at their Lord" (75:22-3). The explanation of this is as Allah knows and wills. Everything that has come down to us about this in authentic Traditions from the Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, in authentic traditions, is as he said and means what he intended. We do not delve into that, trying to interpret it according to our opinions or letting our imaginations have free rein. No one is safe in his religion unless he surrenders himself completely to Allah, the Exalted and Glorified, and to His Messenger (peace be upon him) and leaves the knowledge of ambiguous things to the One who knows them. Knowledge and correct belief, and that he turns between disbelief and belief, confirmation and denial and acceptance and rejection. He will he subject to whisperings and find himself confused and full of doubt, being neither an accepting believer nor denying rejecter.
22. Belief of a person in the seeing of Allah by the People of the Garden is not correct if he interprets or imagines what it is like according to his own understanding, since the interpretation of this seeing (or indeed, the meaning of any of the subtle phenomena which are in the realm of Lordship), is in avoiding its interpretation and strictly adhering to the submission. This is the religion of Muslims. Anyone who does not guard himself against negating the attributes of Allah, or likening Allah to something else, has gone astray and has failed to understand Allah's glory, because our Lord, the Glorified and the Exalted, can only be described in terms of oneness and absolute singularity and no creation is in any way like Him.
23. He is beyond having limits placed on Him, or being restricted, or having parts or limbs. Nor is He contained by the six directions as all created things are.
24. The Throne (al-arsh) and the Chair (al-kursi) are true.
25. He is independent of the Throne and that which is beneath the Throne.
26. He encompasses all things and that which is above it, and what He has created is incapable of encompassing Him.
27. We say with belief, acceptance, submission that Allah took Abraham as an intimate friend and that He spoke directly to Moses.
28. Allah responds to people's supplications and gives them what they ask for.
29. Allah has absolute control over everything and nothing has any control over Him. Nothing can be independent of Allah even for the blinking of an eye, and whoever considers himself independent of Allah for the blinking of an eye is guilty of unbelief and becomes one of the people of perdition.
30. Allah is angered and He is pleased but not in the same way as any creature.
Angels
Books
Messenger
Hereafter
Destiny
Faith
Companions
Pious People
Miracles (karaamats)
Deviant Sects
