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A REFUTATION OF ALBANI FROM IMAM NAWAWI AND IMAM IBN AL-HUMAM AL-HANAFI A further proof that tawassul through the Prophet after his time is universally recognized and encouraged in the Shari`a is Imam Nawawi’s description of the etiquette of visiting the grave of the Prophet after

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DARUD TAJ : INVOCATION OF BLESSINGS UPON THE PROPHET KNOWN AS “INVOCATION OF THE CROWN”             The following is a transliteration and translation of a famous invocation of blessings on the Prophet entitled Darud taj or “Invocation of the Crown” which is especially well known in the Indian subcontinent: Transliteration         allahumma salli

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FATWA OF SHAYKH SUHAYL AL-ZABIBI The following fatwa on tawassul was given by Shaykh Abu Sulayman Suhayl al-Zabibi the Imam of the Mosque of Najjarin in Damascus. It is reproduced in full in the 1992 Waqf Ikhlas reprint of Sayyid Ahmad Zayni Dahlan’s section of his history

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INTERMEDIARIES TO ALLAH There is no contradiction in asking Allah both with or without an intermediary, although in reality there are always several kinds of intermediary present, beginning with one’s own state, obedience, belief, acts, sincerity, etc. Only those with deficient knowledge or imperfect belief imagine that the person

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SHAYKH AL-ISLAM AL-HAFIZ TAQI AL-DIN AL-SUBKI’S INVOCATION OF TAWASSUL This is Shaykh al-Islam al-hafiz Taqi al-Din al-Subki’s invocation of tawassul through the Prophet. It is taken from his Fatwas, Vol. 1 p. 274, at the beginning of the fatwa entitled

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ENDNOTES                          [1]Narrated by Muslim (Iman) from Abu Sa`id al-Khudri.                 [2]Muslim, Ahmad, and others.                 [3]Narrated by Tirmidhi (hasan sahih gharib).                 [4]Muhammad Saeed al-Qahtani, al-Wala’ wa al-bara’ according to the `Aqeedah of the Salaf (London: al-Firdous Ltd., 1993) p. 99.                 [5]Narrated

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SEEKING MEANS (TAWASSUL) THROUGH THE PROPHET The specific tawassul through the Prophet is a request in acknowledgement of his standing as the chief intercessor for the Community before Allah, and it is a request for Allah’s blessing as effected by Allah in the person of His Prophet and His

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In this post I will be quoting from Muslim author Mustafa Akyol’s The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims. Aykol’s book has been highly acclaimed by Muslims, including Shabir Ally who did a review of it on his show “Let

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