al-ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwiyyah – Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq

al-ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwiyyah, taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap of the events from the blowing of the trumpet to the crossing of the bridge

• aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī's text: "Paradise and the Fire are created, and they will never perish nor come to an end"; Allāh created them before the creation and created inhabitants for each

• Whoever He wills for Paradise is by His bounty, and whoever He wills for the Fire is by His justice; everyone acts according to what he was created for

• How aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī links Paradise and the Fire to al-Qadr, and why deviation over their eternity is tied to deviation in Qadr

• "Good and evil are decreed upon the servants": Allāh is the Creator of the servant's actions, while the servant is the doer and earner of them

• Introducing the two kinds of istiṭāʿah (ability): the tawfīq that accompanies the action, and the soundness and capacity that precede it

al-ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwiyyah, taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap: life in the barzakh is from the unseen, and the intellect itself accepts that it is limited

• aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī (raḥimahullāh): "And we believe in the resurrection, the recompense for deeds on the Day of Judgement, the presentation and the reckoning…"

• The Scales of justice: "We shall set up the Scales of justice for the Day of Resurrection…" (al-Anbiyāʾ 21:47)

• The order of events on the Day of Judgement

• The first to enter Paradise: the Prophet ﷺ, then the Muhājirūn, the Anṣār and the poor, with the rich delayed

al-ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwiyyah, taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Completing the four stages of the connection between the soul and the body, from the womb to the Hereafter

• Is the punishment of the grave general? The state of children and those not under taklīf, who follow their fathers

• Children of the Muslims are upon the fiṭrah: their good deeds are recorded and their evil deeds are not

• The narration in the Muwaṭṭaʾ of a supplication for a child to be saved from the punishment of the grave, and the scholars' two explanations

• The limits of reason: it can study the visible creation but has no capacity to deny the true unseen, such as the life of the grave

• The principle that sound reason never conflicts with revelation, and Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah's (raḥimahullāh) Darʾ Taʿāruḍ al-ʿAql wan-Naql

al-ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwiyyah, taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī's text: "We believe in the punishment of the grave for whoever deserves it, and in the questioning of Munkar and Nakīr about his Lord, his religion and his Prophet"

• "The grave is either a garden from the gardens of Paradise or a pit from the pits of the Fire"

• The punishment of the grave for the disbelievers stated in the Qurʾān, and for sinful Muslims in mutawātir aḥādīth

• Reason has no means of knowing how it takes place, so it is believed in as reported

• The four stages of the connection between the soul and the body: in the womb, in this life, in the Barzakh, and after resurrection

• How the fiṭrah grows with the soul after birth unless the parents turn the child away from it

al-ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwiyyah, taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī's text: "We believe in the Angel of Death, who is entrusted with taking the souls of all the worlds"

• Overview of the passage on the punishment of the grave, the questioning of Munkar and Nakīr, and the grave as a garden or a pit

• Commentary of Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh): belief in the Angel of Death is part of the creed of Ahl as-Sunnah wal-Jamāʿah

• Every living thing will perish by Allāh's decree (ar-Raḥmān 55:26–27), and the angels take the souls by His command (al-Anʿām 6:61)

• The meaning of al-ʿālamīn and its three usages in the Qurʾān, and the indication that other creatures besides mankind have souls

al-ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwiyyah, taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Completing aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī's statement: "We believe in the noble scribes, for Allāh has appointed them over us as guardians"

• Recap of the commentaries of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh) and Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), then the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Āl ash-Shaykh (hafidhahullāh)

• The honour Allāh has given these angels, and their recording of everything a person says and does

• Being zealous for the rights of Allāh and the Sunnah, not only for one's own worldly rights

• Next statement: belief in the Angel of Death, appointed to take the souls

al-ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwiyyah, taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Completing aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī's statement: "Ḥajj and jihād continue with those in authority among the Muslims, righteous or sinful, until the Hour is established; nothing nullifies them"

• Commentary of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Āl ash-Shaykh (hafidhahullāh): an issue in which Ahl as-Sunnah oppose the Khawārij and the Rāfiḍah

• Ḥajj, jihād, Jumuʿah, congregational and ʿĪd prayers are carried out with the rulers, whether they are upright or mix good with evil

• The example of Ḥajj: a vast act of worship that needs a leader to organise it, or chaos results

• The scrolls of deeds on the Day of Judgement: every soul finding what it did present (Āl ʿImrān 3:30), and the books given in the right hand, the left, or from behind the back

al-ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwiyyah, taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• A new section: aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī's statement "We hold wiping over the khuffs, when travelling and when resident, as has come in the narration"

• Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh): three days and nights for the traveller and a day and a night for the resident, if the socks were put on with wuḍūʾ; janābah still requires ghusl

• The Rāfiḍah reject wiping over the khuffs, which is why it is mentioned in the books of creed

• Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Āl ash-Shaykh (hafidhahullāh): the narrations are mutawātir, from around eighty Companions, and wiping over ordinary socks (al-jawrabayn) is also reported from the Companions

• "Ḥajj and jihād continue with those in authority": jihād is waged under a Muslim ruler with authority and an army, not by Khawārij groups such as al-Qāʿidah and ISIS

• When jihād becomes obligatory on every individual, such as when the ruler calls a person to it or he is present when the battle begins; otherwise it is a communal obligation with conditions of strength and clear leadership

• Ḥajj is performed behind the rulers whether righteous or sinful, as the Companions did behind al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf

al-ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwiyyah, taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap: loving the people of justice and trustworthiness and hating the people of tyranny and treachery, as part of loving and hating for Allāh

• aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī: "And we say 'Allāh knows best' about whatever knowledge is unclear to us"

• Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh): Ahl as-Sunnah speak about the rulings of the religion only with knowledge from the Qurʾān and Sunnah

• The Companions, including ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (raḍiyallāhu ʿanhu), asking about the meanings of verses and referring matters to one another

• Humility in knowledge, and the warning against speaking about Allāh's religion without knowledge

al-ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwiyyah, taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī: "We love the people of justice and trustworthiness, and we hate the people of tyranny and treachery", with the commentary of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh)

• Love as an action of the heart, and the natural love every person has for family, food and the like

• Religious love and its two types: love of Allāh Himself, and love for His sake

• Allāh's love and hatred for His servants according to their deeds, and the error of the Ashʿarīs and Kullābiyyah who say it is fixed from eternity