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Mohammad Abu AbdurRahman
@Mohammad_Fikri_
Translator of Ibn Taymiyya's theological works. Very hopeful that the knowledge of God will one day cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
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Oct 9 • 21 tweets • 3 min read
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I wish to make the following clarification about this thread in order to avoid a potential misunderstanding. (1/20) I completely reject the Kalami view which says that the act of descending (nuzul) is a created act originated by Allah within the heavens. (2/20)
Oct 7 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Assalamu alaikum.
The fiṭrah of the ʿawām accepts that Allah’s descent to the first heaven literally involves His drawing closer in a real spatial sense—the distance between Allah and the first heaven truly decreases in the plain meaning understood by children. (1/10) At the same time, the fiṭrah also recognizes that Allah never leaves His place above creation or moves out of His position on the Throne. Allah is greater than the heavens by His essence and cannot be contained or surrounded by them. (2/10)
Sep 29 • 34 tweets • 6 min read
How Physics Supports Monotheism (Tawhid) and Undermines Polytheism (Shirk) - (Continued)

- Part 2 of the Thread

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Image Once again, the physicalist view allows us to articulate the fact of Tawhid al-Rububiyyah, i.e. God’s Oneness in His Lordship and Creative agency, with exceptional philosophical clarity and precision. This is achieved by the following two Qur'anic arguments: (1/30)
Sep 28 • 103 tweets • 16 min read
How Physics Supports Monotheism (Tawhid) and Undermines Polytheism (Shirk) - Thread 🧵

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful - ﷽ Image Most physicalists and materialists don’t realize it, but they already hold the key to appreciating Islamic Tawhid (Monotheism) with exceptional philosophical clarity, and intellectually safeguarding themselves against all manner of shirk (polytheism). (1/130)
Aug 26 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
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Assalamu alaikum ( @eqnaa3 ).
The argument from substantial origination (burhān al-ḥudūth) is sound, but you did not understand it and distorted it in your article. (The article is linked below, with the English translation posted in the image).

(1/15) eqnaa3.com/#/view-article…Image Knowledge of the minor premise—that "the world is originated"—rests on knowledge that every part of it is originated. If knowing that every part of a human being is originated from matter can be used as proof that the human being as a whole is originated from matter, …
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Aug 26 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
السلام عليكم ( @eqnaa3 ).
برهان الحدوث صحيح، لكنك لم تفهمه فزيّفته في مقالك.
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eqnaa3.com/#/view-article… العلم بالمقدمة الصغرى - حدوث العالم - يرجع إلى العلم بحدوث كل جزء من أجزائه. إذا كان العلم بحدوث كل جزء من أجزاء الإنسان من المادة يصح أن يستعمل دليلا على حدوث الإنسان بمجموعه من المادة، فكذلك العالم: حدوث كل جزء من أجزائه من المادة يصح أن يستعمل دليلا على حدوثه من المادة.
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Aug 12 • 77 tweets • 12 min read
Is the Arabic Wording of the Qur'an Contingent or Necessary? – Thread 🧵

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful - ﷽

In this thread, I will respond to the following post insha'Allah: There exist two different types of possibility according to Ibn Taymiyyah. The first is (i) the possibility of substantial origination, and the second is (ii) the possibility to act. (1/75)
Jul 25 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
@IjazTheTrini Assalamu alaikum.
Allah possesses an eternal, perfect knoweldge of Himself and all of His creations from the infinite past to the infinite future. This eternal knowledge is changeless and subsists within Himself as an immutable attribute. (1/5) @IjazTheTrini That said, as new events occur in the world by Allah's creative will, they are accompanied by new divine conceptions that arise voluntarily within His essence. These conceptions carry the information that these events are happening at the exact, current moment. (2/5)
May 11 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
I prompted Chat GPT to write the following poem, edited it, and then made it into a song without musical instruments. The song is a hopeful re-reading of the conventional Antichrist narrative, in which even the most fallen can be forgiven by Allah.
Subhana Allah. I am currently reading "Messiah ben Joseph" by David C. Mitchell. This is how the first chapter starts: Image
Apr 11 • 35 tweets • 9 min read
What to expect if the Mahdi rises to power after the Hajj of Year 1446 H (2025 C.E.) - Thread 🧵

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful - ﷽ Image Our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ informed us that a man from his offspring will rise to power before the End times. His name will resemble his name (i.e. Muhammad), and his father’s name will resemble his father’s name (i.e. Abdullah). (1/30)
Mar 28 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
@theIslampill @AMajeedHD @abdul_now @ShamsTameez Assalamu alaikum brother.
According to Ibn Taymiyyah, the defintion of "miracle" الخارق للعادة is a "sign that is unique to a specific group of people". For example, a Prophetic miracle معجزة is an event that breaks the norm of those... (1/9) @theIslampill @AMajeedHD @abdul_now @ShamsTameez who are not Prophets (i.e. all the men and jinn to whom the Prophets were sent). The miracles of Prophets therefore serve as sign and evidences for their prophethood. (2/9)
Mar 13 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
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There are many empirical, scientific, and rational arguments that demonstrate that matter originates out of matter (or energy) and is not merely subject to rearrangement. My favorite is an argument by Ibn Taymiyyah from the impossibility of infinite actual division. (1/10) When a piece of material is sufficiently divided, it eventually becomes very small and changes substantially into something else upon further division. This argument is fully explained in "Ibn Taymiyyah on Creation ex Materia". (2/10)

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Feb 24 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
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Ten years ago, I approached a prominent Salafi shaykh (whose name I do not wish to mention) for clarification in regards to the blanket takfir of Muslims who ignorantly fall into what I conceived at the time to be a shirki practice. (1/10) I explained to him that some of my relatives were not free from this error, but nevertheless had good works, e.g. they had love for the religion and consistently read the Qur'an. I expressed my desire to consider my relatives as believers. (2/10)
Jan 8 • 80 tweets • 14 min read
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In this video, Abdul Rahman suggests that Ibn Taymiyyah believed that God must have always been creating from eternity (as is evidenced by His necessary wisdom), but did not believe that God creates strictly by way of material causes. I believe Abdul Rahman is mistaken. (1/80) I hold that Ibn Taymiyyah maintained a more rational view, which states that creating something without a prior material cause is impossible absolutely. This is evidenced by a unique section which Ibn Taymiyyah wrote in his late work Kitab al-Nubuwwat. (2/80)
Jun 6, 2024 • 30 tweets • 4 min read
Assalamu alaikum.
You say: "Yes there are metaphysical laws which are necessary... But by definition, the metaphysical is different to the physical, such as the laws of natural sciences." (1/27)
I say: You are correct in that Ibn Taymiyyah has differentiated between axiomatic universal premises, ones which cannot be contradicted, and others which he calls natural (i.e. "scientific") premises, none of which he affirms are truly universal. (2/27)
Jun 6, 2024 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Assalamu alaikum shaykh.
I appreciate your advice, and I ask Allah to reward you for your good intention. I disagree with your statement wholeheartedly. (1/14)

Ultimately, there must be a set of universal laws of metaphysics that demarcate what is possible from what is impossible concerning the evolution of the universe, laws which cannot be contradicted and must be compatible with Allah's creative agency. (2/14)
May 15, 2024 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Hello @stephenlaw60 Consciousness is an attribute just like power, motion and size, and it is therefore not self-subsisting. Instead, it must subsist in a clearly defined physical object in order for it to exist. (1/6) According to Islamic Scripture, this physical "object" is composed of two components: (i) a material body which we can sense, and (ii) a spatiotemporal soul which we do not have the means to sense but which can be observed in principle. (2/6)
May 6, 2024 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
The Many Theological Advantages of Ibn Taymiyyah’s View of Perpetual Creation – Part 1

– A thread 🧵 Image {In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful} - {﷽} (1/24)
Apr 28, 2024 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
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Allah has created Adam in His image in the plain sense that is accessible to children, but His attributes are maximally perfect and are unequalled by the attributes of created beings. Allah has two blessed hands, five fingers in *each* hand, *two* shins, and two feet. (1/17) The narration which mentions Allah leaning on a rock is an Israelite narration, and we ought not accept it or believe in it. (2/17)
Feb 26, 2024 • 30 tweets • 4 min read
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful ﷽
I recently replied to a post by Haroun Kanj in which he accused the Atharis of believing that God has two feet and only one shin. (1/26) Such accusations have been circulating on the internet for some time now, thanks to the work of anti-Muslim apologists. They would present caricatures of hideous entities that have multiple hands on one side or only one shin, claiming that this is the God of Islam. (2/26)
Jan 20, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Assalamu alaikum shaykh.
If by "time" we are referring to the temporal relationship between two events, then it is not ontological but rather a purely relational attribute. It is meaningless to say that such a meaning of time is created or uncreated, because it doesn't exist. 1/6 However, if by time we are referring to the measure of motion, then this is an extra-mental attribute that must subsist in a moving substrate. Because it exists extra-mentally, this meaning of time must either be (i) created, or (ii) existing without being created. 2/6