| Indeed Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah, may Allah's mercy be upon all of them, are upon the doctrine that Allah Himself rose over His throne and is high above all His creation. No one differs with such except one whose sight has been blinded from amongst the Jahmiyyah, Mu'tazilah, and others from the deviant sects who have abandoned the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Prophet, and ruled by their desires and the opinions of their teachers. |
| This small treatise is amongst the many works of the renowned Hanbali jurist, Muwaffaq al-Din Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi (d. 620/1223), in defence of the traditional Islamic doctrines, and censure of speculative theology known as ‘ilm al-kalam, and its partisans, namely the Mu'tazilis and the Ash'aris. This particular treatise comes as a violent attack on one of the prominent members of his own school, Abu al-Wafa ‘Ali b. ‘Aqil al-Hanbali (d. 513/1119), who was heavily influenced by the rationalist movement in his formulative years. |
| A correction of misunderstandings found in non-Arabic sources about the movement of Sheikh Muhammad Bin Abdul Wahhab, a scholarly reply to those who have sought to portray this great reviver and Scholar of Islam in a false light. |
| Did Shaykh Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhaab rebel against the Ottoman Caliphate and what was the reason for its fall?
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| This essay is in response to some widely-broadcast transcripts of interviews with Hamza Yusuf, plus three articles:
1. A Time for Introspection by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, first published in Q-News.
2. Making the World Safe for (sic) Terrorism by Nuh Ha Mim Keller
3. Recapturing Islam from the Terrorists by Abdal-Hakim Murad |
