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The Qur’an is categorical when it says: He who seeks a religion other than Islam, it will not be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he shall be among the losers. Elsewhere it states: The religion in Allah’s sight is Islam. Our discussion concerning the above delicate and, in our current time, controversial questions are addressed through the following points:ġ. A poignant read for us this Ramadan.Is Islam (the religion and way of life the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ came with) the only path to God? Does the Qur’an extend the validity of religions beyond Islam to any who believe in God and act rightly? Or does the Qur’an insist that Islam is the exclusive and only path to God? And what of the idea that some have culled from their personal reading of the Qur’an that at the heart of the world’s major religions and faiths, there is an essential unity of truth? This, Islam and the idea of salvic exclusivity, is our topic for discussion. I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who wishes learn about Tazkiyya/Ihsan/Tassawuf/Sufism. Add to that Brother Muhtar’s style of classic eloquent English, and it truly brings out the inner depth and level of al-Ghazali’s work to a western audience. Read anything of Imam al-Ghazali’s and you will quickly see why they call him ‘The Proof of Islam’. I only read the introduction and the first few pages and it instantly blew me away.
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Minhaj al-‘Abadin or to give it its English title ‘The Path of the Worshipful Servants’ is seen by many as a quick guide to al-Ghazali’s work, a relatively short book that could be seen as the ‘Ihya condensed. Recently released by the same publishers Amal Press, comes a new translation of Imam al-Ghazali’s Minhaj al-‘Abadin by the erudite scholar of our time Muhtar Holland, who wrote the widely published and read ‘Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship’, a collection of excerpts from the beginning of Imam al-Ghazali’s ‘Ihya ‘Ulum ad-Deen. A must read for anyone who is interested in intermediate Aqeedah, as this is not a book that should be approached by those who have not yet ironed out the basics in their Islamic creed.Īnd so after finishing the book I moved onto my next one. On reading this book, it is clear for all to see what are the true beliefs of the Salaf and Ahl Sunnah in general with regards to God. These same ideas and beliefs are what are being churned out of the oil funded printing presses of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. Ibn al-Jawzi in his book explains the meanings behind certain Hadiths and Qur’anic verses that were misconstrued by his contemporaries to support their heretical claims. ‘Ustadh Abdullah has translated and published this work into the English language as a response to the teachings perpetuated by extremists who subscribe to the Salafi/Wahhabi school, and he has done an excellent job at it. Ibn al-Jawzi wrote the book as a response to the misguided Hanbalis of his time who purported anthropomorphistic beliefs with regards to the attributes and nature of God (Believing that He is confined to a space, He has literal hand and face, that He is a body sitting on a chair that moves in a direction etc.) An issue that has plagued the Hanbali school for centuries and still continues to do so till this day. The English translation by Abdullah bin Hamid Ali is entitled ‘The Attributes of God’. This morning I finished reading a book by the 12th Century Hanbali scholar of Baghdad ibn al-Jawzi entitled: Daf’ Shubah al-Tashbh.