Ahlu-Sunnah Al Islam

Fiṭrah ≠ fully-formed Islamic creed. Fiṭrah = an innate disposition toward tawḥīd, recognition of a Creator, and basic moral truths. The Holy Prophet ﷺ said: “Every child is born upon the fiṭrah, but it is his parents who make him a Jew, Christian, or Magian.” (Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim) Imam Ghazali (rh) said: “Fitrah inclines toward affirmation, but without proof it may also incline toward falsehood. Thus proofs are necessary to separate truth from falsehood.” The fiṭrah gives them the innate pull toward tawḥīd. The revelation tells them how to worship properly, who Allah truly is, and what false beliefs to reject. Without revelation, fiṭrah could lead someone to vague deism, sun worship, or pantheism. That’s why the Qur’an criticizes the mushrikīn for their wrong acts man, And regarding this fitrah argument this comes in my mind: If Muslims are only upon fiṭrah, then what’s the need for Qur’an, Sunnah, and Prophets? Are Hindus and Christians also valid if they claim their fiṭrah led them to the...

Imam Shafi (rh) would go to the grave of Imam Abu Hanifa and would seek barakh from it and would supplicate there if he ever had a need and it would be fulfilled (Manaqib Imam Al Adham Abu Hanfia) A man would go to the grave of The Prophet (SAW) and would ask him to teach if he ever sawy something wrong being done (Shub Al Iman by Bayhaqi 495,3). And Imam Bayhaqi (rh) did not raise any objection to this rather shared even more narrations like this in his book and was showing this as something good. Ibn Taymiyyah (rh) about Istighatha in His book against Al Bakri. Sahih Hadith that the Prophet (SAW) prays for his Ummah. Reference Imam Bazzar, Musnad Bazzar (Maktabatul Ulum Wal Hikam: Madinah, 2009), 5:308. Al-Haythamī said in Al-Majma’[9/24]: it was narrated by Al-Bazzār and his narrators are authentic. Al- Suyūṭī also authenticated it in al-Khaṣā’iṣ[2/281].  This is authentic aswell and if they can say ...

Abu Shama al-Maqdisi, the teacher of al-Imam an-Nawawi, said that the Mawlid is the greatest of what was innovated!

Ibn Abidin (rh) says one should kiss the thumbs and place them on his eyes after saying ﷺ. After hearing his name in Adhan.

Fatima was the youngest of the daughters of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. She was born before the mission of the Prophet ﷺ when Quraysh were rebuilding the Kabbah, and some people differed about when she was born. Most of them agreed it was before the mission. She was named Fatima because Allah inspired His Messenger to name her that, and also the name of the woman who raised the Prophet ﷺ was also Fatimah. She was the most beloved to the Prophet ﷺ. The Prophet ﷺ said: She is a part of me; what distresses her distresses me, and what harms her harms me.   She had three titles: Zahra, Batul (because God set her apart from other women in beauty, virtue, and honor, or due to her devotion to God), and Umm Abiha (because of her love for her father and the way she looked after him).  Scholars such as Al Subki, Ibn Hajar, and others said she was called Al Zahra because she never menstruated. She was a pure, immaculate human houri, who never menstruated nor bled during childbirth. If ...

Shaykh Al Islam Ibn Qayyim (RA) said: "A large heart can contain great knowledge just as a large valley can hold a large amount of water; and a small heart can contain knowledge only in proportion to its capacity, just as a small valley holds a small amount of water. The valleys flow according to their size, and hearts receive guidance and knowledge according to their capacity. Just as when the floodwater mixes with the earth and passes over it, it carries with it chaff and foam, so too does guidance and knowledge, when mixed with the hearts, stir up the desires and doubts therein to uproot and remove them. This is like medicine which, when drunk, stirs up the humors (akhlaṭ) of the body, causing the drinker to feel discomfort for a while."

Al-Ṣarṣarī (RA) said also: “Seek reunion with the beloved if he turns away — perhaps, by your noble kindness, he may return. Remain loyal to love in one’s absence,* for the noble is the one who guards secrets when unseen. Do not joke excessively, and be a man of dignity —* much in silence, god-fearing, and refined. Do not envy, nor bear hatred, and purify —* your tongue from slander and backbiting. For if you rise to act upon this advice —* you will have settled in a lush meadow of piety.”