I wrote this in response to someone’s Facebook wall post that said: “‘I’m NOT a Shi’ite, I’m NOT a Sufi, I’m NOT a Ahmedi, I’m NOT a Shafi-ee, I’m NOT a Hanbali, I’m NOT a Hanafi or I’m NOT a Maliki. I AM WHAT THE QUR’AN ASKED ME TO BE!.”‘ My response turned out longer than expected, and probably even longer if I spent more time writing it….
Ustadh Abdullah bin Hamid Ali has translated il-Jam al-awwami an ilm al-kalam of Imam al-Ghazali as “A Return to Puriy in Creed”, this is the first ever translation of Imam al-Ghazali’s final work. The book is published by the good people at LampPost Productions. I have two exclusive excerpts from this book on masud.co.uk – PDF Excerpt from Chapter 1: The Creed Of The Salaf Regarding Allegorical Reports PDF Excerpt from The Fifth Protocol: Abstaining From Meddling with the Stated…
Imam Zaid Shakir answers the questions of a “Salafi” brother who was hounding him recently to “qualify his position”. The questions are: Q: What do you say about Ibn Taymiyya? Q: What does Tariqa mean? Q: What is your position of the Hadith of the Seventy-three sects? Q: What do you say about the Ash?aris? Imam Zaid writes: “Recently, while attending a gathering of Muslims that was otherwise characterized by brotherly love and goodwill, I was hounded by a ?Salafi?…