If you were to ask an average Muslim that has the smallest amount of knowledge regarding the Muslim sect they attribute themselves to, there is a very high chance that they will claim to be part of the “saved sect – الفرقة الناجية”, or at the very least on the “true way” of being in…
Disclaimer: This post is quite long as it deals with an extensive subject. While writing my last post Ash’ari – What’s in a name?, I was getting a rush of many things I wanted to state, but in the interest of keeping it short I opted to not mention much of what I would’ve liked…
One of the terms that are thrown around by some Muslims that like to label other Muslims is “Ash’ari”. Whenever I hear this term, or any term for that matter, being used to label any Muslim, my first reaction is revulsion, followed by the question: what do you mean by “Ash’ari”? I ask this question…
I can hypothetically bet, and win this bet, that just about every single Muslim that is reading these words would have at least heard, if not directly been warned, that such and such scholar is a deviant, or a Sufi, or an Ash’ari, or a Matouridi, or a Wahhabi, or a Salafi, or a this…
Truth must be told, that we as Muslims tend to at times act in ways that blatantly contradict the teachings of Islam as put forth in the Quran and Sunnah. If you go through YouTube or message boards across the Internet, you will not have a hard time finding Muslims attacking each other over their…
One of the most puzzling things to be taken note of in the Muslim community is this issue regarding matth’habs, which can be loosely translated to mean in English a “school of jurisprudence”. If one turns the clock about 150 years back, this was a non-issue. But now, with the mass ignorance that has swept…
I have a question that I still can’t find the answer to. Since when did 1400 years of traditional Islamic scholarship, with a countless number of traditional Muslim scholars coming from as far east as China, and going as far west as Andalusia, have been reduced to 7 individuals? I’m speaking from a personal experience…
