17/07/2022
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*ERRORS IN THE CREED*
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*EPISODE 1️⃣ - Introduction*
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The major requirement for a Muslim that really wants to worship Allaah (ﷻ) the right way is to understand and accept the teachings of the Prophet (ﷺ) or the elements of knowledge that must be known only from revelation, this is were Aqidah (creed) comes in. The correct creed has been revealed by Al-Anbiyya (the Prophets), but most precisely in the Qur'aan and Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ).
It was reported by 'Umar (رضي الله عنه):
*_“We were sitting with the Prophet (ﷺ) when a man came to him whose clothes were intensely white and whose hair was intensely black; no signs of travel could be seen upon him, and none of us recognized him. He sat down facing the Prophet (ﷺ), with his knees touching his, and he put his hands on his thighs, and said: 'O Muhammad, what is Islaam?'_*
He (Prophet) said: *_'To testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allaah, and that I am the Messenger of Allaah, to establish regular prayer, to pay Zakat, to fast in Ramadaan, and to perform Hajj to the House (the Ka'bah).'_*
He said: *_'You have spoken the truth.'_*
We were amazed by him: He asked a question, then told him that he had spoken the truth.
Then he said: *_'O Muhammad, what is Imaan (faith)?_*
He said: *_'To believe in Allaah, His angels, His Messengers, His books, the Last day, and the Divine Decree (Qadar), both the good of it and the bad of it.'_*
He said: *_'You have spoken the truth.'_*
We were amazed by him: He asked a question, then told him that he had spoken the truth.
Then he said: *_'O Muhammad, what is Ihsan (right action, goodness, sincerity)?_*
He said: *_'To worship Allaah as if you see Him, for even though you do not see Him, He sees you.'_*
He asked: *_"When will the Hour be?'_*
He said: *_'The one who is being asked about it does not know more than the one who is asking.'_*
He asked: *_'Then what are its signs?'_*
He said: *_'When the slave woman gives birth to her mistress' (Waki' said: This means when non-Arabs will give birth to Arabs") 'and when you see barefoot, naked, destitute shepherds competing in constructing tall buildings.'_*
The Prophet (ﷺ) met me three days later and asked me: *_'Do you know who that man was?_*
I said: *_'Allaah and his Messenger know best.'_*
He said: *_'That was Jibril, who came to you to teach you your religion.'"_*
[Sunan Ibn Majah, 63. It was also narrated by Abu Hurairah (رضي الله عنه) in Sahih Muslim, 8 and 10]
Also, it was narrated from 'Abdur-Rahman bin 'Amr As-Sulami that: He heard Al-'Irbad bin Sariyah say: *_"The Messenger of Allaah (ﷺ) delivered a moving speech to us which made our eyes flow with tears and made our hearts melt. We said: 'O Messenger of Allaah. This is a speech of farewell. What did you enjoin upon us?' He said: 'I am leaving you upon a (path of) brightness whose night is like its day. No one will deviate from it after I am gone but one who is doomed. Whoever among you lives will see great conflict. I urge you to adhere to what you know of my Sunnah and the path of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs, and cling stubbornly to it. And you must obey, even if (your leader is) an Abyssinian leader. For the true believer is like a camel with a ring in its nose; wherever it is driven, it complies.”_*
[Sunan Ibn Majah, 43]
These two ahadeeth clarifies what the basis of the creed of Ahlus-Sunnah wal Jamaa’ah is, what it's all about, what was part of it and what was not part of it, to the extent the Prophet (ﷺ) warned us from deviating from it.
So in this short series, we shall be treating *ERRORS IN THE CREED* by *Shaykh ʿAbdul-ʿAzīz bn Bāz*, translated by *Abū ʿAffān ʿAbdulQādir Al-Kowsī* (may Allaah bless them both).
_To be continued... إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللّٰهُ_
