CONTINUATION FROM PART 1 PART 2 DAWAT-US-SALAFIYYAH (Call of those who preceded us) According to Quran and Sunnah NAMES - you can name yourself, your masjid, your computer files, your associations, etc. - anything halal. For instance if a baby is named Yasmin meaning jasmine, the mother who chose the name is not stating that she IS a jasmine stone or even that she has the attributes of a jasmine; such a name is a permissible name because the item itself, the jasmine, is not haram. So if a name includes the word salaf anywhere in it, this is halal. However for a person of today to identify oneself AS a salaf is incorrect. One can refer to himself as muttaqi (male) or muttaqiyyah (female) meaning of the muttaqun, but should not make a sunnah of calling himself a muslim muttaqi. A person alive today can be muttaqi but cannot be salafi because s/he is not of the past. Those who adhere to the sunnah of the Prophet, saaws, are sadly known as strange, odd, etc., to those who have abandoned such adherence. They (muslims on a misguided path) even get to the point that they find it ODD that someone would JUST call themselves a MUSLIM and attach no special group name to the word muslim. Surely the people who deviate are the people who must find a new label for their group. The label muslim is the purest word and all we need, inshaAllah, i.e. it is the only identifying label that we should have as a tradition or sunnah for calling ourselves when refering to our faith. • The Prophet, saaws, has mentioned in his saying: Islam began as a stranger and shall return as a stranger as it began. So give glad tidings to the strangers. [Reported by Muslim - Sahih]. . And who is better in speech than he who [says: My Lord is Allâh (believes in His Oneness), and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites (men) to Allâhs (Islâmic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: I am one of the Muslims. [The Noble Quran 41:33] MADHDHAB SALAFI- means the way (madhdhab) of the salaf (first three generations of pious muslims after the revelation of the Quran). • Ibn Taymiyyah (d.728H rahimahullaah) says: There is no blame on the one who manifests/proclaims the way (madhdhab) of the Salaf, who attaches himself to it and refers to it. Rather, it is obligatory to accept that from him by unanimous agreement (Ittifaaq), because the way (madhdhab) of the Salaf is nothing but the Truth (Haqq). [From Majmoo al-Fataawaa, 4:149.] • Abu Haneefah (d. 150H rahimahullaah) said: Adhere to the athar (narration) and the tareeqah (way/following) of the Salaf (Pious Predecessors) and beware of newly invented matters for all of it is innovation [Reported by As-Suyootee in Sawn al Mantaq wal-Kalaam p.32] • Imaam adh-Dhahabee (d.748H rahimahullaah) - said: It is authentically related from ad-Daaraqutnee that he said: There is nothing more despised by me than irnul-kalaam (innovated speech and rhetorics). I say: No person should ever enter into ilmul-kalaam, nor argumentation. Rather, he should be a follower of the Salaf. [Siyar 16/457] Following the madhdhab of the salaf is unlike following one of the madhdhabs (schools of thought) of today. Today when a person says they follow a madhdhab, they mean they follow one of the four Imams (Maliki, Hanafi, etc..), often to the point that even if the Imams chosen position on any topic is clearly in error, they will follow it anyway, just for the sake of consistency in following the same Imam. In the TRUE use of the word madhdhab, the way of the salaf is a madhdhab. In the MODERN sense of the word madhdhab, the way of the salaf is not a madhdhab, meaning it does not require or encourage BLIND adherence to a single leader like the practice of muslims who follow any one of the four major madhdhabs of today. MINHAJ QURAN WA SUNNAH- means methodology of Quran and Sunnah. • Shaikh Saalih al-Fawzaan said, The reasons for disunity are many. From amongst the main causes are: Firstly, opposing the minhaj (methodology) of the Salaf, the Companions of Allaahs Messenger and those who follow them. So the Salaf had a minhaj that they adhered to; a manhaj in aqeedah (creed), a manhaj in dawah (calling to Allaah), a minhaj in enjoining good and forbidding evil, a manhaj in how to judge between people. This minhaj, in all situations, was based upon the Book of Allaah and the Sunnah of our Messenger. [Wujoob ut-Tathabbut fil-Akhbaaar p.18] BIDA- Innovation in ibaddah [worship], to be avoided! • The Prophet, saaws, has said: If anyone introduces into this affair of ours (i.e. the religion of Islam) anything which does not belong to it, he will have it rejected. [Reported by Muslim - Sahih]. • The Prophet, saaws, said: Whoever does an action which we (Allah and His Messenger) have not commanded it will be rejected. [Reported by Muslim - Sahih] SHIRK- To associate a partner with Allah swt. The greatest sin. TAWHEED- The Oneness of Allah, swt. • Tawheed-ar-Ruboobiyya (Oneness of the Lordship of Allah). * To believe that there is only one Lord for all the universe, its Creator, Organizer, Planner, Sustainer, Maintainer, etc., and that is Allah swt. • Tawheed-al-Uloohiyya (Oneness of the worship of Allah). * To believe that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah. Worship comes in the form of praying, invoking, asking for help from the unseen or anything believed to be a deity (i.e. idols), swearing, slaughtering sacrifices, etc. ¤ And the mosques are for Allâh (Alone), so invoke not anyone along with Allâh. [Surah Al-Jinn 72:18]. ¤ Say (O Muhammad SAW): I am only a man like you. It has been inspired to me that your Ilâh (God) is One Ilâh (God i.e. Allâh). So whoever hopes for the Meeting with his Lord, let him work righteousness and associate none as a partner in the worship of his Lord. [Surah Al-Kahf 18:110] • Tawheed-al-Asma was-Sifat (Oneness of the Names/Attributes of Allah) * To believe that all the best of names/attributes (i.e. The Most Merciful, etc.) belong to Allah as described in the Quran and by Prophet Muhammad saaws, and must not be twisted or expanded upon nor given similtude to human characteristics. ¤ Say (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)): He is Allâh, (the) One. Allâh-us-Samad (The Self-Sufficient Master, Whom all creatures need, He neither eats nor drinks). He begets not, nor was He begotten; And there is none co-equal or comparable unto Him. [Surah Al-Ikhlas 112]. ¤ ...There is nothing like unto. Him, and He is the All-Hearer, the All-Seer. [Surah Ash-Shura 42:11] Dawat-us-Salafiyyah maintains that these three principles of Tawheed are inseparable from one another because they are the pillars of the meaning of the testimony: Laa ilaaha il Allah (There is nothing which has the right to be worshipped except Allah). Dawat-us-salafiyyah encourages the Muslim to apply Tawheed to his or her daily way of thinking and acting. Dawat-us-Salafiyyah (also Dawah Salafi, or salafi dawah although this is an english transposition of the two words- [say DOW-uh(t) uh sal-uh-FEE-uh]) Literally means call of the past, those who preceded us. This is the spreading of Islam in accordance with Quran and Sunnah, recognizing the understanding of the pious Salaf in this matter as being superior (more accurate) than modern ideas and inventions, with an intention to avoid innovation in ibaddah (an all encompassing word for worship, i.e. halal [permissible] acts of submission to Allah swt). • Dawat-us-Salafiyyah teaches that the Quran is the indisputable Truth of Allah, s.w.t. ¤ Verily We: It is We Who have sent down the Dhikr (i.e. the Quran) and surely, We will guard it (from corruption). [The Noble Quran Al-Hijr 15:9] • Dawat-us-Salafiyyah encourages the muslim to run from Bida, actively try to remove shirk, think and act on Tawheed, and compare none to Allah, swt. * You [true believers in Islâmic Monotheism, and real followers of Prophet Muhammad SAW and his Sunnah (legal ways, etc.)] are the best of peoples ever raised up for mankind; you enjoin Al-Marûf (i.e. Islâmic Monotheism and all that Islâm has ordained) and forbid Al-Munkar (polytheism, disbelief and all that Islâm has forbidden), and you believe in Allâh. ...[The Noble Quran Al-Imran 3:110] • Dawat-us-Salafiyyah teaches the Muslim to worship Allah tala out of a combination of fear and hope. * And do not do mischief on the earth, after it has been set in order, and invoke Him with fear and hope; Surely, Allâhs Mercy is (ever) near unto the gooddoers. [Surah Arâf 7:56] * Their sides forsake their beds, to invoke their Lord in fear and hope, and they spend (charity in Allâhs Cause) out of what We have bestowed on them. [Surah as-Sajdah 32:16] • Dawat-us-Salafiyyah does not neglect the Sunnah of the Prophet, saaws. The muslim who clings to and engages in acts according to the Sunnah, sadly, becomes a stranger to those who have gone astray. * The Prophet, saaws, has mentioned in his saying: Islam began as a stranger and shall return as a stranger as it began. So give glad tidings to the strangers. [Reported by Muslim - Sahih]. * And in another narration: So give glad tidings to the few, those who purify, correct what the people have corrupted of my Sunnah. [Al-Silsilah of Shaikh al-Albaani - Sahih]. STILL CONTINUE...
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 21:44:44 +0000
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