Prophet Adam (part-1)

Prophet Adam

Ibn Kathir

 

(Part-1)

Allah the Almighty revealed: Remember when your Lord said to the angels: 'Verily, I am going to place mankind generations after generations on earth.' They said: 'Will You place therein those who will make mischief therein and shed blood, while we glorify You with praises and thanks (exalted be You above all that they associate with You as partners) and sanctify You.' Allah said: 'I know that which you do not know.' Allah taught Adam all the names of everything, then He showed them to the angels and said: "Tell Me the names of these if you are truthful." They (angels) said: "Glory be to You, we have no knowledge except what You have taught us. Verily, it is You, the All-Knower, the All-Wise." He said: "O Adam! Inform them of their names," and when he had informed them of their names, He said: "Did I not tell you that I know the unseen in the heavens and the earth, and I know what you reveal and what you have been hiding?" Remember when We said to the angels: "Prostrate yourself before Adam" They prostrated except Iblis, he refused and was proud and was one of the disbelievers(disobedient to Allah)." We said: "O Adam! Dwell you and your wife in the Paradise and both of you freely with pleasure and delight of things therein as wherever you will but come not near this tree or you both will be of the Zalimeen (wrongdoers)." Then the Satan made them slip therefrom (the Paradise), and got them out from that in which they were. We said: "Get you down all with enmity between yourselves. On earth will be a dwelling place for you and an enjoyment for a time." Then Adam received from his Lord Words. His Lord pardoned him (accepted his repentance). Verily He is the One Who forgives (accepts repentance), the most Merciful. We said: "Get down all of you from this place (the Paradise), then whenever there comes to you Guidance from Me, and whoever follows My Guidance there shall be no fear on them, nor shall they grieve. But those who disbelieve and belie Our Ayah (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, and signs and revelations, etc) such are the dwellers of the Fire, they shall abide therein forever." (Chapter 2:30-39, Qur'an). Almighty Allah also revealed: And surely, We created you (your father Adam) and then gave you shape (the noble shape of a human being), then We told the angels, "Prostrate to Adam", and they prostrated, except Iblis, he refused to be those who prostrate. Allah said: "What prevented you (O Iblis) that you did not postrate when I commanded you?" Iblis said: "I am better than him (Adam), You created me from fire and him You created from clay." Allah said: "O Iblis get down from this (Paradise), it is not for you to be arrogant here. Get out for you are of those humiliated and disgraced." Iblis said: "Allow me respite till the Day they are raised up (Day of Resurrection)." Allah said: "You are of those allowed respite." Iblis said: "Because You have sent me astray, surely I will sit in wait against them (human beings) on Your Straight Path. Then I will come to them from before them and behind them, from their right and from their left and You will not find most of them as thankful ones (they will not be dutiful to You)." Allah said: "Get out from Paradise, disgraced and expelled. Whoever of them (mankind) will follow you, then surely I will fill Hell with you all." "And O Adam! Dwell you and your wife in Paradise, and eat thereof as you both wish, but approach not this tree otherwise you both will be of the Zalimeen (unjust and wrongdoers)." Then Satan whispered suggestions to them both in order to uncover that which was hidden from them of their private parts before, he said:" Your Lord did not forbid you this tree save you should become angels or become of the immortals." Satan swore by Allah to them both saying: "Verily I am one of the sincere well wishers for you both." So he misled them with deception. Then when they tasted of the tree, that which was hidden from them of their shame (private parts) became manifest to them and they began to stick together the leaves of Paradise over themselves (in order to cover their shame). Their Lord called out to them saying "Did I not forbid you that tree and tell you, Verily Satan is an open enemy unto you?" They said: "Our Lord! We have wronged ourselves. If You forgive us not, and bestow not upon us Your Mercy, we shall certainly be of the losers." Allah said: "Get down one of you an enemy to the other (i.e. Adam, Eve, and Satan etc). On earth will be a dwelling place for you and an enjoyment, for a time." He said: "therein you shall live, and therein you shall die, and from it you shall be brought out (resurrected)." (Chapter 7:11-25 Qur'an). We imagine when Allah the Almighty decided to create Adam: He addressed His angels and told them to prostrate before him. He did not mean to ask their opinion or take their advice, for He is above that. Allah the Exalted told them that He was going to create a vicegerent on the earth who would have children and grandchildren who would corrupt the earth and shed each other's blood. That is why the angels said to Allah the Almighty: "Will You place therein those who will make mischief therein and shed blood!" (Chapter 2:30 Quran). There are old traditions about the angels before the creation of Adam. According to Ibn Qatadah, it was said that the angels were informed about the creation of Adam and his progency by the jinn who lived before Adam. Abdullah Ibn Umar said that the jinn had existed for about 2000 years before Adam and then shed blood. Therefore Allah sent on them an army of angels that drove them out to the depths of the seas. Ibn Abi Hatim narrated from Ali jafar Al Baqer that the angels were informed that man would cause wickedness and shed blood on earth. It was also said that they knew that no one would be created on earth who would not be wicked and shed blood. Whether or not these traditions are correct, the angels did understand that Allah would create a vicegerent on earth. Allah the Almighty announced that HE was going to create a human being out of clay, that HE would mold him and blow His spirit into him and then the angels should prostrate before him. Abi Musa al Sha'arai narrated that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Allah created Adam from a handful of dust taken from different lands, so the children of Adam have been created according to the composition of the land. Therefore from mankind we have white, red, black and yellow ones; we have good and evil, ease and sorrow, and what comes in between them." (Sahih al Bukhari). Ibn Masud and other companions of the Prophet (PBUH) said that Allah the Almighty sent Gabriel onto the earth to said that Allah the Almighty sent Gabriel onto the earth to get Him clay therefrom. The earth said: "I seek refuge in Allah from your decreasing my quantity or disfiguring me." So Gabriel returned and did not take anything. He said: "My Lord, the land sought refuge in You and it granted." So Allah sent Michael for the same purpose, and the land sought refuge with Allah and it was granted. So he went back and said to Allah what Gabriel has said before him. Then Allah sent the Angel of Death, and the land sought refuge in Allah, the angel said: "I also seek refuge with Allah from returning without carrying out His command." So he took clay from the face of the earth and mixed it. He did not take from one particular place, but rather he took white, red, and black clay from different places. The Angel of Death ascended with it, Allah soaked the clay till it became sticky. Then Allah said to the angels: "Truly, I am going to create man from clay. So when I have fashioned him and breathed into him (his) soul created by Me, then you fall down prostrate to him." (Chapter 38:71-72 Quran). So Allah shaped Adam into a human being, but he remaineda figure of clay for 40 years. The angels went past him. They were seized with fear by what they saw, and Iblis felt fear most. He used to pass by the figure of Adam, buffeting it, which would make a sound like pottery. Allah told us: "He created man (Adam) from sounding clay like the clay of pottery." (Chapter 55:Quran). When the time drew near to breathe the spirit into Adam, as Allah decreed, He commanded the angels: "When I breathe My spirit into him prostrate before him." Allah breathed His spirit into Adam and when it reached his head Adam sneezed. The angels said: "Say all praise belongs to Allah." Adam repeated: "All praise belongs to Allah." Allah said to him: "Your Lord has granted you mercy." When the spirit reached his eyes, Adam looked at the fruits of Paradise. When it reached his abdomen Adam felt an appetite for food. He jumped hurriedly before the spirit could reach his legs, so that he could eat from the fruits of Paradise. Allah, therefore, said: "Man is created of haste." (Chapter 21:37 Quran). And then: The angels prostrated themselves all of them together. Except Iblis, he refused to be among the prostrators. (Ch 15:31-32 Quran). Abu Hurairah narrated that the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: "Allah created Adam from dust after He mixed the clay and left him for some time until it became sticky mud, after which Allah shaped him. After that Allah left him till it became like potter's clay. Iblis used to go past him saying 'You have been created for a great purpose.' After that Allah breathed His spirit into him. The first thing into which the spirit passed was his eye and then his nose. He sneezed. Allah said: "May your Lord have mercy upon you, O Adam! Go to those angels and see what they would say.' So Adam went and greeted them. they replied saying: "Peace be upon you and the mercy and blessings of Allah." Allah said: "O Adam! This is your greeting and that of your offspring." (Sahih al Bukhari). Allah the Almighty revealed: Remember when your Lord brought forth from the children of Adam, from their loins, their seed (or from Adam's loin his offspring) and made them testify as to themselves saying: "Am I not your Lord?" They said: "Yes! We testify." lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection. "Verily we have been unaware of this." Or lest you should say: "It was only our father aforetime who took others pas partners in worship along with Allah and we were merely their descendants after them; will you then destroy us because of the deeds of men who practiced al batil (polytheism) and committing crimes and sins, invoking and worshipping others besides Allah?" Thus do We explain the Ayah (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations etc) in detail so that they may turn unto the truth. (Ch 7:172-174 Quran). Adam's progeny declared: "Our Lord, we bear witness that You are our Lord; we have no other Lord but Allah. Allah raised their father Adam, and he looked at them and saw those of them who were rich and those who were poor, and those who had good forms and those who did not. Adam said: "O Allah! I wish You to make Your servants equal." Allah replied "I love being thanked." Adam saw among the prophets like lamps among his progeny. Almighty Allah declared: Remember when We took from the Prophets their covenant, and from you (o Muhammad), and from Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus son of Mary. We took from them a strong covenant. (Ch 33:7 Quran). In another verse Allah the Exalted commanded: "So set you (O Muhammad) your face towards the religion of pure Islamic Monotheism Hanifan (worship none but Allah Alone) Allah's Fitrah (Allah's Islamic Monotheism), with which He has created mankind. No change let there be in khalqillah (the Religion of Allah--Islamic Monotheism), that is the straight religion, but most men know not." (Ch 30:30 Quran). Another version of the story relates that Allah took a handful of the dust of the earth and mixed into it the colors, white, black, yellow and red. That is the reason why men are born different colors. When Allah mixed the dust with water, it turned into potter's clay that makes a sound. It was fermented and had a smell. Iblis passed by, wondering what was going to be made of that clay. From the clay Allah created Adam. he molded his form with His own hands and blew His spirit into him. Adam's body quivered as life was imbued into it. Verily His Command, when He intends a thing is only that He says to it, "BE!" and it is! (Ch 37:82 Quran). Allah the Almighty declared: Verily the likeness of Jesus, in Allah's Sight is the likeness of Adam, He created him from the dust then He said to him. "Be!" --and he was. (Ch 3:59 Quran). Adam opened his eyes and saw all the angels prostrating before him except one being who was standing at a distance Adam did not know what kind of creature it was that did not prostrate before him nor did he know its name. Iblis was standing with the angels so as to be included in the command given to them but he was not one of them. He was a jinn, and as such he was supposed to be inferior to the angels. What is clear is that this prostration was to show respect and did not mean that the angels were worshipping Adam. Prostrating in worship is done only for ALLAH. Almighty Allah recounted the story of Iblis's refusal to prostate before Adam: Remember when your Lord said to the angels, "I am going to create a man (Adam) from sounding clay of altered black smooth mud. So when I have fashioned him completely and breathed into him (Adam) the soul which I created for him then fall you down prostrating yourselves unto him." SO the angels prostrated themselves all of them together, except Iblis, he refused to be among the prostrators. Allah said: "O Iblis! What is your reason for not being among the prostrators?" Iblis said: "I am not the one to prostrate myself to a human being, whom You created from sounding clay of altered black smooth mud." Allah said: "Then get out from here for verily you are Rajim (an outcast or cursed one). Verily the curse shall be upon you till Day of Recompense (Day of Resurrection). (Ch 15:28-35 Quran). Continu... See Adam (part-2)

Aqidah -The Islamic Belief by Imam Abu Ja'far Tahawi

 Aqidah of Imam Tahawi

Aqidah -The Islamic Belief

Imam Abu Ja'far Tahawi

In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate

Praise be to Allah, Lord of all the Worlds.

The great scholar Hujjat al-lslam Abu J'afar al-Warraq al-Tahawi al-Misri, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

"This is a presentation of the beliefs of ahlu's-Sunnah wa'l-jamaa'ah, according to the school of the jurists of this religion, Abu Hanifah an-Nu'man ibn Thabit al-Kufi (ra), Abu Yusuf Ya'qub ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari (ra) and Abu Abd-Allah Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani (ra) and what they believe regarding the fundamentals of the religion and their faith in the Lord of all the Worlds.

Allah (awj)

1- We say about Allah's unity believing by Allah's help that Allah is One, without any partners. 

2- There is nothing like Him.

3- There is nothing that can overwhelm Him.

4- There is no god other than Him.

5- He is the Eternal without a beginning and enduring without end.

6- He will never perish or come to an end.

7- Nothing happens except what He wills.

8- No imagination can conceive of Him and no understanding can comprehend Him.

9- He is different from any created being.

10- He is living and never dies and is eternally active and never sleeps.

11- He creates without His being in need to do so and provides for His creation without any effort.

12- He causes death with no fear and restores to life without difficulty.

13- He has always existed together with His attributes since before creation. Bringing creation into existence did not add anything to His attributes that was not already there. As He was, together with His attributes, in pre-eternity, so He will remain throughout endless time.

14- It was not only after the act of creation that He could be described as 'the Creator' nor was it only by the act of origination that He could he described as 'the Originator'.

15- He was always the Lord even when there was nothing to be Lord of, and always the Creator even when there was no creation.

16- In the same way that He is the 'Bringer to life of the dead', after He has brought them lo life a first time, and deserves this name before bringing them to life, so too He deserves the name of 'Creator' before He has created them.

17- This is because He has the power to do everything, everything is dependent on Him, everything is easy for Him, and He does not need anything. "There is nothing like Him and He is the Hearer, the Seer." (ash-Shura 42/11)

18- He created creation with His knowledge.

19- He appointed destinies for those He created.

20- He allotted to them fixed life spans.

21- Nothing about them was hidden from Him before He created them, and He knew everything that they would do before He created them.

22- He ordered them to obey Him and forbade them to disobey Him.

23- Everything happens according to His degree and will, and His will is accomplished. The only will that people have is what He wills for them. What He wills for them occurs and what He does not will, does not occur.

24- He gives guidance to whoever He wills, and protects them, and keeps them safe from harm, out of His generosity; and He leads astray whoever He wills, and abases them, and afflicts them, out of His justice.

25- All of them are subject to His will between either His generosity or His justice.

26- He is exalted beyond having opposites or equals.

27- No one can ward off His decree or put back His command or overpower His affairs.

28- We believe in all of this and are certain that everything comes from Him.

Muhammad (saw)

29- And we are certain that Muhammad (saw) is His chosen servant and selected Prophet and His Messenger with whom He is well pleased.

30- And that he (saw) is the seal of the prophets and the Imam of the god-fearing and the most honored of all the messengers and the beloved of the Lord of all the Worlds.

31- Every claim to prophet-hood after Him is falsehood and deceit.

32- He is the one who has been sent to all the jinn and all mankind with truth and guidance and with light and illumination.

The Qur'an

33- The Qur'an is the word of Allah. It came from Him as speech without it being possible to say how. He sent it down on His Messenger as revelation. The believers accept it, as absolute truth. They are certain that it is, in truth, the word of Allah. It is not created, as is the speech of human beings, and anyone who hears it and claims that it is human speech has become an unbeliever. Allah warns him and censures him and threatens him with Fire when He says Exalted is He: "I will burn him in the Fire." (al-Muddaththir 74/26) When Allah threatens with the Fire those who say: "This is just human speech!" (al-Muddaththir 74/25) we know for certain that it is the speech of the Creator of mankind and that it is totally unlike the speech of mankind.

Attributes

34- Anyone who describes Allah as being in any way the same as a human being has become an unbeliever. All those who grasp this will take heed and refrain from saying things such as the unbelievers say, and they will know that He, in His attributes, is not like human beings.

Ru'yah

35- The Seeing of Allah by the People of the Garden is true, without their vision being all-encompassing and without the manner of their vision being known. As the Book of our Lord has expressed it: "Faces on that Day radiant, looking at their Lord." (al-Qiyamah 75/22-23) The explanation of this is as Allah knows and wills. Everything that has come down to us about this from the Messenger (saw) in authentic traditions, is as he said and means what he intended. We do not delve into that, trying to interpret it according to our own opinions or letting our imaginations have free rein. No one is safe in his religion unless he surrenders himself completely to Allah (awj) and to His Messenger (saw) and leaves the knowledge of things that are ambiguous to the one who knows them.

Iman

36- A man's Islam is not secure unless it is based on submission and surrender. Anyone who desires to know things which it is beyond his capacity to know, and whose intellect is not content with surrender, will find that his desire veils him from a pure understanding of Allah's true unity, clear knowledge and correct belief. And that he veers between disbelief and belief, confirmation and denial and acceptance and rejection. He will he subject to whisperings and find himself confused and full of doubt, being neither an accepting believer nor a denying kafir.

37- Belief of a man in the "seeing of Allah by the people of the Garden is not correct if he imagines what it is like, or interprets it according to his own understanding since the interpretation of this seeing" or indeed, the meaning of any of the subtle phenomena which are in the realm of Lordship, is by avoiding its interpretation and strictly adhering to the submission. "This is the din of Muslims." Anyone who does not guard himself against negating the attributes of Allah, or likening Allah to something else, has gone astray and has failed lo understand Allah's Glory, because our Lord (swt) can only possibly be described in terms of Oneness and Absolute Singularity and no creation is in any way like Him.

38- He is beyond having limits placed on Him, or being restricted, or having parts or limbs. Nor is He contained by the six directions as all created things are.

al-Mi'raj

39- The Ascent through the heavens is true. RasulAllah (saw) was taken by night and ascended in his bodily form, while awake, through the heavens, to whatever heights Allah willed for him. Allah ennobled him in the way that He ennobled him and revealed to him what He revealed to him: "and his heart was not mistaken about what it saw." (al-Najm 53/11) Allah blessed him and granted him peace in this world and the next.

al-Hawd

40- The Pool which Allah will grant the Prophet as an honor to quench the thirst of his Ummah on the Day Of Judgement, is true.

Shafa'ah

41- The intercession, which is stored up for Muslims, is true, as related in the (consistent and confirmed) ahadith.

The covenant

42- The covenant 'which Allah made with Adam (as) and his offspring' is true.

Paradise and the Hell

43- Allah knew, before the existence of time, the exact number of those who would enter the Garden and the exact number of those who would enter the Fire. This number will neither be increased nor decreased.

al-Qadha and al-Qadar

44- The same applies to all actions done by people, which are done exactly as Allah knew they would be done. Everyone is cased to what He was created for and it is the action with which a man's life is sealed which dictates his fate. Those who are fortunate are fortunate by the decree of Allah, and those who are wretched are wretched by the decree of Allah.

45- The exact nature of the decree is Allah's secret in His creation, and no angel near the Throne, nor Prophet sent with a message, has been given knowledge of it. Delving into it and reflecting too much about it only leads to destruction and loss, and results in rebelliousness. So be extremely careful about thinking and reflecting on this matter or letting doubts about it assail you, because Allah has kept knowledge of the decree away from human beings, and forbidden them to enquire about it, saying in His Book: "He is not asked about what He does but they are asked." (al-Anbiya 21/23) So anyone who asks: "Why did Allah do that?" has gone against a judgment of the Book, and anyone who goes against a judgment of the Book is an unbeliever.

Types of Knowledge

46- This in sum is what those of Allah's friends with enlightened hearts need to know and constitutes the degree of those firmly endowed with knowledge. For there are two kinds of knowledge: knowledge which is accessible to created beings, and knowledge which is not accessible to created beings. Denying the knowledge which is accessible is disbelief, and claiming the knowledge which is inaccessible is disbelief. Belief can only be firm when accessible knowledge is accepted and inaccessible knowledge is not sought after.

al-Lawh (the Tablet) and al-Qalam (the Pen)

47- We believe in al-Lawh (the Tablet) and al-Qalam (the Pen) and in everything written on it. Even if all created beings were to gather together to make something fail to exist, whose existence Allah had written on the Tablet, they would not be able to do so. And if all created beings were to gather together to make something exist which Allah had not written on it, they would not be able to do so. The Pen has dried having written down all that will be in existence until the Day of Judgment. Whatever a person has missed he would have never got it, and whatever one gets, he would have never missed it.

48- It is necessary for the servant to know that Allah already knows everything that is going to happen in His creation and hits decreed it in a detailed and decisive way. There is nothing that He has created in either the heavens or the earth that can contradict it, or add to it, or erase it, or change it, or decrease it, or increase it in any way. This is a fundamental aspect of belief and a necessary element of all knowledge and recognition of Allah's oneness and Lordship. As Allah says in His Book: "He created everything and decreed it He a detailed way." (al-Furqan 25/2) And He also says: "Allah's command is always a decided decree." (al-Ahzab 33/38) So woe to anyone who argues with Allah concerning the decree and who, with a sick heart, starts delving into this matter. In his delusory attempt to investigate the Unseen, he is seeking a secret that can never be uncovered, and he ends up an evil-doer, telling nothing but lies.

al-Arsh (the Throne) and al-Kursi (the Chair)

49- al-Arsh (the Throne) and al-Kursi (the Chair) are true.

50- He is independent of the Throne and what is beneath it.

51- He encompasses everything and is above it, and what He has created is incapable of encompassing Him.

52- We say with belief, acceptance and submission that Allah took Ibrahim (as) as khalil (an intimate friend) and that He (awj) spoke directly to Musa (as).

53- We believe in the angels, and the Prophets, and the books which were revealed to the messengers, and we bear witness that they were all following the manifest Truth.

Ahl Qiblah

54- We call the people of our qiblah Muslims and believers as long as they acknowledge what the Prophet (saw) brought, and accept as true everything that he said and told us about.

vain talk

55- We do not enter into vain talk about Allah nor do we allow any dispute about the religion Of Allah.

The Speech of Allah

56- We do not argue about the Qur'an and we bear witness that it is the speech of the Lord of all the Worlds which the Trustworthy Spirit (i.e., Jibril) came down with and taught the most honored Of all the Messengers, Muhammad (saw). It is the speech of Allah and no speech of any created being is comparable to it. We do not say that it was created and we do not go against the jamaa'ah of the Muslims regarding it.

Takfir concerning sin

57- We do not consider any of the people of our qiblah to be unbelievers because of any wrong action they have done, as long as they do not consider that action to have been lawful.

58- Nor do we say that the wrong action of a man who has belief does not have a harmful effect on him.

59- We hope that Allah will pardon the people of right action among the believers and grant them entrance into the Garden through His mercy, but we cannot be certain of this, and we cannot bear witness that it will definitely happen and that they will be in the Garden. We ask forgiveness for the people of wrong action among the believers and, although we are afraid for them, we are not in despair about them.

between hope and mercy

60- Certainty and despair both remove one from the religion, but the path of truth for the people of the qiblah lies between the two (e.g., a person must fear and be conscious of Allah's reckoning as well as be hopeful of Allah's mercy).

61- A person does not step out or belief except by disavowing what brought him into it.

Iman

62- Belief consists of affirmation lay the tongue and acceptance by the heart.

Sunnah

63- And the whole of what is proven from RasulAllah (saw) regarding the Shari'ah and the explanation (of the Qur'an and of Islam) is true.

64- Belief is, at base, the same for everyone, but the superiority of some over others in it is due to their fear and awareness of Allah, their opposition to their desires, and their choosing what is more pleasing to Allah.

Awliya of Allah

65- All the believers are 'friends' of Allah and the noblest of them in the sight of Allah are those who are the most obedient and who most closely follow the Qur'an.

Articles of Iman

66- Belief consists of belief in Allah. His angels, His books, His messengers, the Last Day, and belief that the Decree -both the good of it and the evil of it, the sweet of it and the bitter or it- is all from Allah.

Messengers

67- We believe in all these things. We do not make any distinction between any of the messengers, we accept as true what all of them brought.

68- Those of the Ummah of Muhammad (saw) who have committed grave sins will be in the Fire, but not forever, provided they die and meet Allah as believers affirming His unity even if they have not repented. They are subject to His will and judgment. If He wants, He will forgive them and pardon them out of His generosity, as is mentioned in the Qur'an when He says: "And He forgives anything less than that (shirk) to whoever He wills." (an-Nisa 4/116); and if He wants, He will punish them in the Fire out of His justice and then bring them out of the Fire through His mercy, and for the intercession of those who were obedient to Him, and send them to the Garden. This is because Allah is the Protector of those who recognize Him and will not treat them in the Next World in the same way as He treats those who deny Him and who are bereft of His guidance and have failed to obtain His protection. O Allah, You are the Protector of Islam and its people; make us firm in Islam until the day we meet You.

Prayer behind Ahl Qiblah

69- We agree with doing the prayer behind any of the people of the qiblah whether right-acting or wrong-acting, and doing the funeral prayer over any of them when they die.

70- We do not say that any of them will categorically go to either the Garden or the Fire, and we do not accuse any of them of kufr (disbelief), shirk (associating partners with Allah), or nifaq (hypocrisy), as long as they have not openly demonstrated any of those things. We leave their secrets to Allah.

71- We do not agree with killing any of the Ummah of Muhammad (saw) unless it is obligatory by Shari'ah to do so.

Rebelling against the Muslim Ruler

72- We do not recognize rebellion against our Imam or those in charge of our affairs even if they are unjust, nor do we wish evil on them, nor do we withdraw from following them. We hold that obedience to them is part of obedience to Allah (jj) and therefore obligatory as long as they do not order to commit sins. We pray for them right guidance and pardon from their wrongs.

Ahlu's-sunnah wa'l-Jamaa'ah

73- We follow the Sunnah of the Prophet and the jamaa'ah of the Muslims, and avoid deviation, differences and divisions.

74- We love the people of justice and trustworthiness, and hate the people of injustice and treachery.

75- When our knowledge about something is unclear, we say: "Allah knows best."

Wiping over the khuffs

76- We agree with wiping over leather socks (in wudu) whether on a journey or otherwise, just as has come in the (consistent and confirmed) ahadith.

77- Hajj and Jihaad under the leadership of those in charge of the Muslims, whether they are right or wrong-acting, are continuing obligations until the Last Hour comes. Nothing can annul or controvert them.

Kiraman Katibin

78- We believe in Kiraman Katibin (the noble angels) who write down our actions for Allah has appointed them over us as two guardians.

Malak al-Mawt

79- We believe in the Angel of Death who is charged with taking the spirits of all the worlds.

the punishment in the grave

80- We believe in the punishment in the grave for those who deserve it, and in the questioning in the grave by Munkar and Nakir about one's Lord, one's religion and one's prophet, as has come down in ahadith from RasulAllah (saw) and in reports from the Companions (ra).

81- The grave is either one of the meadows of the Garden or one of the pits of the Fire.

Resurrection

82- We believe in being brought back to life after death and in being recompensed for our actions on the Day of Judgment, and al-Ard, having been shown them and al-Hisab, brought to account for them. And Qira'at al-Kitaab, reading the book, and the reward or punishments and in al-Sirat (the Bridge) and al-Mizan (the Balance).

83- The Garden and the Fire are created things that never come to an end and we believe that Allah created them before the rest of creation and then created people to inhabit each of them. Whoever He wills goes to the Garden out of His Bounty and whoever He wills goes to the Fire through His justice. Everybody acts in accordance with what is destined for him and goes towards what he has been created for.

84- Good and evil have both been decreed for people.

Tawfiq

85- The capability in terms of Tawfiq (Divine Grace and Favour) which makes an action certain to occur cannot be ascribed to a created being. This capability is integral with action, whereas the capability of an action in terms of having the necessary health, and ability, being in a position to act and having the necessary means, exists in a person before the action. It is this type of capability which is the object of the dictates of Shari'ah. Allah (jj) says: "Allah does not charge a person except according to his ability." (al-Baqarah 2/286)

Responsibility

86- People's actions are created by Allah but earned by people.

La hawla wala quwwata illa billah

87- Allah (jj) has only charged people with what they are able to do and people are only capable to do what Allah has favored them. This is the explanation of the phrase: "There is no power and no strength except by Allah." We add to this that there is no stratagem or way by which anyone can avoid or escape disobedience to Allah except with Allah's help; nor does anyone have the strength to put obedience to Allah into practice and remain firm in it, except if Allah makes it possible for them to do so.

The will of Allah (swt)

88- Everything happens according to Allah's will, knowledge, predestination and decree. His will overpowers all other wills and His decree overpowers all stratagems. He does whatever He wills and He is never unjust. He is exalted in His purity above any evil or perdition and He is perfect far beyond any fault or flaw. "He will not be asked about what He does but they will he asked." (al-Anbiya 21/23)

Ahl Qubur

89- There is benefit for dead people in the supplication and alms-giving of the living.

90- Allah responds to people's supplications and gives them what they ask for.

91- Allah has absolute control over everything and nothing has any control over Him. Nothing can be independent of Allah even for the blinking of an eye, and whoever considers himself independent of Allah for the blinking of an eye is guilty of unbelief and becomes one of the people of perdition.

Anger and Pleasure of Allah (awj)

92- Allah is angered and can be pleased but not in the same way as any creature.

Sahabah (ra)

93- We love the Companions of RasulAllah (saw) but we do not go to excess in our love for any one individual among them nor do we disown any one of them. We hate anyone who hates them or does not speak well of them and we only speak well of them. Love of them is a part of Islam, part of belief and part of excellent behavior, while hatred of them is unbelief, hypocrisy and rebelliousness.

Khulafa ar-Rashidin

94- We confirm that, after the death of RasulAllah (saw) the caliphate went first to Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (ra) thus proving his excellence and superiority over the rest of the Muslims; then to Umar ibn al Khattab (ra); then to Uthman (ra); and then to Ali ibn Abi Talib (ra). These are the Rightly-Guided Caliphs and upright leaders.

Ashara-i Mubashhara

95- We bear witness that the ten who were named by RasulAllah (saw) and who were promised the Garden by him, will be in the Garden, as RasulAllah (saw) whose word is truth, bore witness that they would he. The ten are: Abu Bakr (ra), Umar (ra), Uthman (ra), Ali (ra), Talhah (ra), Zubayr (ra), Sa'd (ra), Sa'ed (ra), Abdu'r-Rahman ibn Awf (ra) and Abu Ubaydah ibn al-Jarrah (ra) whose title was the trustee of this Ummah.

96- Anyone who speaks well of the Companions of RasulAllah (saw) and his wives and offspring, who are all pure and untainted by any impurity, is free from the accusation of hypocrisy.

Salafu's-Saalih

97- The learned men of the first community and those who followed in their footsteps -the people of virtue, the narrators of the Ahadith, the jurists and analysts- they must only be spoken about in the best way and anyone who says anything bad about them is not on the right path.

Messengers and the Awliya of Allah

98- We do not prefer any of the saintly men among the Ummah over any of the Prophets but rather we say that any one of the Prophets is better than all the awliya put together.

Karamat

99- We believe in what we know of Karamat, the marvels of the awliya and in authentic stories about them from trustworthy sources.

The Signs of the Hour

100- We believe in the signs of the Hour such as the appearance of the Dajjal and the descent of Isa ibn Maryam (as) from heaven and we believe in the rising of the sun from where it sets and in the emergence of the Beast from the earth.

Magicians

101- We do not accept as true what soothsayers and fortune-tellers say, nor do we accept the claims of those who affirm anything which goes against the Book, the Sunnah and the consensus of the Muslim Ummah.

the Reward and the Punishment

102- We agree that holding together is the true and right path and that separation is deviation and torment.

Islam

103- There is only one religion of Allah in the heavens and the earth and that is the religion of Islam. Allah says: "Surely religion in the sight of Allah is Islam." (Al-i Imran 3/19) And He also says: "I am pleased with Islam as a religion for you." (al-Maidah 5/3)

104- Islam lies between going to excess and falling short, between Tashbih (likening of Allah's attributes to anything else), and Ta'til (denying Allah's attributes), between fatalism and refusing decree as proceeding from Allah and between certainty (without being conscious of Allah's reckoning) and despair (of

Allah's mercy).

105- This is our religion and it is what we believe in, both inwardly and outwardly, and we renounce any connection, before Allah, with anyone who goes against what we have said and made clear.

We ask Allah to make us firm in our belief and seal our lives with it and to protect us from variant ideas, scattering opinions and evil schools of view such as those of the Mushabbihah, the Mu'tazilah, the Jahmiyyah the Jabriyah, the Qadariyah and others like them who go against the Sunnah and Jamaa'ah and have allied themselves with error. We renounce any connection with them and in our opinion they are in error and on the path of destruction.

We ask Allah to protect us from all falsehood and we ask His Grace and Favour to do all good."

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Al-Furqan Foundation

70 Major sins in islam

01. Associating anything with Allah

02. Murder

03. Practising magic

04. Not Praying

05. Not paying Zakat

06. Not fasting on a Day of

Ramadan without excuse

07. Not performing Hajj, while

being able to do so

08. Disrespect to parents

09. Abandoning relatives

10. Fornication and Adultery

11. Homosexuality(sodomy)

12. Interest(Riba)

13. Wrongfully consuming the

property of an orphan

14. Lying about Allah and His

Messenger

15. Running away from the

battlefield

16. A leader's deceiving his people

and being unjust to them

17. Pride and arrogance

18. Bearing false witness

19. Drinking Khamr (wine)

20. Gambling

21. Slandering chaste women

22. Stealing from the spoils of

war

23. Stealing

24. Highway Robbery

25. Taking false oath

26. Oppression

27. Illegal gain

28. Consuming wealth acquired

unlawfully

29. Committing suicide

30. Frequent lying

31. Judging unjustly

32. Giving and Accepting bribes

33. Woman's imitating man and

man's imitating woman

34. Being cuckold

35. Marrying a divorced woman in

order to make her lawful for the

husband

36. Not protecting oneself from

urine

37. Showing-off

38. Learning knowledge of the

religion for the sake of this world

and concealing that knowledge

39. Bertrayal of trust

40. Recounting favours

41. Denying Allah's Decree

42. Listening (to) people's private

conversations

43. Carrying tales

44. Cursing

45. Breaking contracts

46. Believing in fortune-tellers

and astrologers

47. A woman's bad conduct

towards her husband

48. Making statues and pictures

49. Lamenting, wailing, tearing

the clothing, and doing other

things of this sort when an

affliction befalls

50. Treating others unjustly

51. Overbearing conduct toward

the wife, the servant, the weak,

and animals

52. Offending one's neighbour

53. Offending and abusing Muslims

54. Offending people and having

an arrogant attitude toward

them

55. Trailing one's garment in pride

56. Men's wearing silk and gold

57. A slave's running away from

his master

58. Slaughtering an animal which

has been dedicated to anyone

other than Allah

59. To knowingly ascribe one's

paternity to a father other than

one's own

60. Arguing and disputing violently

61. Witholding excess water

62. Giving short weight or

measure

63. Feeling secure from Allah's

Plan

64. Offending Allah's righteous

friends

65. Not praying in congregation

but praying alone without an

excuse

66. Persistently missing Friday

Prayers without any excuse

67. Unsurping the rights of the

heir through bequests

68. Deceiving and plotting evil

69. Spying for the enemy of the

Muslims

70. Cursing or insulting any of the

Companiions of Allah's Messenger.

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Are you Involve in any of the above it! If,Repent Now !!!  Allah is The Most-Gracious The Most-Merciful.