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Analysis of the Sunnah, traditional Islamic practices, and their theological significance.
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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 the fulfillment
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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 of Islam
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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 “The Descent of Tranquility and Peace on the
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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 in Bukhari. [6]al-Ghazali, Ihya
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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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Muslim tradition teaches that Muhammad starting working for a very wealthy merchant woman named Khadija bint Khuwaylid who was fifteen years his senior. Muhammad eventually married her at the age of twenty-five when she was forty years old. The Islamic sources unashamedly admit that Khadija financed Muhammad until she died,