Tag: Basic Tenets of Faith

Question Is it permissible to attribute thought to Allah, such as saying “Be as Allah thinks you are, or as Allah thinks well of you”? Answer Praise be to Allah. I put this question to our shaykh, ‘Abd ar-Rahmaan al-Barraak Read more…

Question There are people who think that it is permissible to seek blessing from the scholars and righteous people, and their relics, based on the reports of the Sahaabah (may Allaah be pleased with them) seeking blessing from the Prophet Read more…

Question I heard a famous shaykh say that Allah created the divine attribute of granting provision. Is this correct or not? Answer Praise be to Allah. Firstly: The attributes of Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, are not created, Read more…

  Question 1.     What is the ruling on someone saying, “Were it not for my hard work, I would not have succeeded in the exam”? 2.     The second question has to do with means and measures (asbaab, sing. sabab). If the Read more…

Question I was trying to find some evidence for the following characteristics of the people of Paradise: the height of the believer will be like that of the height of Sayyiduna Adam (peace be upon him), sixty cubits or ninety Read more…

Question What is the Islamic view of humanity? Does it encourage us to love and respect others as human beings, regardless of their religion or race? Answer Praise be to Allah. The Islamic view of humanity is filled with mercy Read more…

Question I know there are certain types of speech which we must refrain from, like the speech the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stayed away from; please could you expound on that for me? Answer Praise be to Read more…

Question There is a hadith that speaks about the conquest of India and says that whoever participates in this conquest will enter Paradise. I would like to know how sound this hadith is, and the reference, the chain of narrators Read more…

Question Can a muslim celebrate a non muslim holiday like Thanksgiving? Answer Praise be to Allaah. Greeting the kuffaar on Christmas and other religious holidays of theirs is haraam, by consensus, as Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allaah have mercy on him, Read more…

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