It is one of the great ironies of our age and the past two hundred years, that the Wahhābiyya who do nothing but stridently bluster about bidʿa, commit and have committed more bidʿa than any other group in the history of Islam (1)
One of the main ways they have done this, is by limiting the believer's legitimate free expression of their dīn. Look at the questions asked of their so-called muftis; things like "is it bidʿa to say "jumuʿa mubāraka"; "is it bidʿa to kiss the Qur'an"? (2)
"We know of no evidence for these practices," they say. "Thus they are bidʿa." These very statements are the ultimate bidʿa. They are opposing the Muʾmin's iḥsān in acting upon ذَٰلِكَ وَمَن يُعَظِّمْ شَعَائِرَ اللَّهِ فَإِنَّهَا مِن تَقْوَى الْقُلُوبِ
(22:32). (3)
There is a sickness in their hearts. May Allah heal this illness that has afflicted so many of us. (4)
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People ask how to bring up Muslim children in this age and especially in the West, and they want lists of rules. That is a catastrophe just waiting to happen. I've seen it again and again. The only thing that works is to instill experiential īmān in their hearts by (1)
taking them to visit the ṣaliḥīn, maqāms, the Holy Places, and gatherings of dhikr, and in all that, give them a sense of caring community of real, uplifting īmān. Even if they go astray for a while, (2)
they will eventually come back, because they know there is something real and beautiful that can nurture their soul; but if Islam was a list of pious box-ticking and anxiety about rules, at eighteen they will pack up and never return from the coherent worldview that hedonistic(3
Evolution is false.
The putative "empirical evidence" for it only yields the ultimate non sequitur.
Intelligibility cannot arise from unintelligibility.
Darwin was a great fossil and butterfly collector.
He also had a truly sub-philosophical mind. (1)
There used to be scientific consensus on the ether, phlogiston, and the steady-state theory. Evolution is much more dogged, however, because there is so much at stake ideologically. (2)
There will always be pressure on Muslims to acquiesce in the latest sacred modernist creed, whether it is transgenderism, feminism, or evolutionism, or any number of other items. It is natural to want to fit in. Don't fall for it. Resist the pressure. (3)
A'IMMA OF OUR TIME
(Let's not talk about tajdid until we have people of this caliber, inwardly and outwardly, walking in our midst again) (image from our website sunniorthodoxy, currently in development)
From right to left Shaykh al-Islam Mustafa Sabri, Shaykh Badruddin al-Hasani, al-Sayyid Qusayy Abu al-Si'd (my own murshid), Pir Mehr Ali Shah, Emir Abdalqadir al-Jaza'iri, Shaykh Yusuf al-Nabahani,
al-Sayyid Hasan Abu al-Si'd, al-Shaykh Abd al-Karim al-Mudarris, Shaykh Said Nursi, Shaykh Zahid al-Kawthari.
One of the great ironies of appearance and reality is that it is the West and Westerners who are in chains and unfree, and the Muslim world and Muslims who are unbound and free ! It's all because of the distinction between Divine and manmade laws. (1)
Muslims recognise that manmade laws are conventional, and that there is leeway, scope, and latitude there, as well as a great deal of mercy. It is the Divine laws which are unnegotiable. But in the West, manmade conventions, in lieu of recognition of the Divine,become absolute(2)
In fact, under conditions of rationalization, "the system" virtually becomes reality itself; failure to conform becomes synonymous with immorality. But this is oppression and ẓulm. Many or most of such laws have no basis in reality. (3)