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

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

• The second half of aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī's statement: "…and we avoid deviation, differing and division"

• Unity upon tawḥīd and the Sunnah as one of the greatest principles of the religion

• Avoiding everything that opposes the Jamāʿah, as stressed in the books of the scholars of the Sunnah past and present

• The trust (amānah) borne by man, and the three categories of people it produces (al-Aḥzāb 33:72–73)

• Fulfilling the rights of Allāh and of His servants, from the explanation of Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh)

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

• aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī: "We follow the Sunnah and the Jamāʿah, and we avoid deviation, differing and division"

• Recap: Ahl as-Sunnah have never differed in the foundations of belief

• The meaning of ittibāʿ (following): following tracks, and following the evidence

• The two senses of Jamāʿah: unity in the religion and unity of bodies

• How opposing the fundamentals means separating from the Jamāʿah

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

• Starting a new statement of aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī: "We follow the Sunnah and the Jamāʿah, and we avoid deviation, differing and division"

• Commentary of Shaykh Zayd ibn Muḥammad ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh): following the Sunnah is obligatory upon every Muslim in every place

• The ḥadīth: "Upon you is my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided caliphs after me; bite onto it with your molars, and beware of newly invented matters"

• The same Messenger ﷺ who foretold the splitting, trials and humiliation of the ummah gave this as the way out

• Verses on unity: "Establish the religion and do not be divided therein" (ash-Shūrā 42:13), and the warning against following other than the way of the believers (an-Nisāʾ 4:115)

• The Messenger ﷺ conveyed what he was charged with; our duty is to follow (an-Nūr 24:54)

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

• Continuing aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī: "Nor do we hold it permissible to revolt against our leaders and rulers, even if they are oppressive"

• This is a point of belief agreed upon by the imāms of the Salaf, and whoever opposes it leaves the Sunnah and the Jamāʿah

• The titles imām and walī al-amr as they come in the Qurʾān and Sunnah

• The principle "unless you see clear, open disbelief", and the example of Imām Aḥmad (raḥimahullāh) under rulers who imposed falsehood

• Concluding the section on rulers; next, holding to the Sunnah and the Jamāʿah

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

• Recap: "We do not hold that the sword may be raised against anyone of the ummah of Muḥammad ﷺ except one upon whom it becomes obligatory," and the sanctity of a Muslim's blood

• aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī's text: "We do not hold rebellion against our leaders and those in authority, even if they are oppressive, nor do we supplicate against them or withdraw from obeying them"

• Obedience to them is part of obedience to Allāh and obligatory unless they command sin, and we supplicate for their rectification and well-being

• Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh): supplicating against the rulers is a form of rebellion in meaning

• How reviling the rulers and blaming them for every wrong leads to wide corruption, and the extremist fatwās permitting the killing of the families of policemen

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

• aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī: "We do not hold it permissible to use the sword against anyone of the Ummah of Muḥammad ﷺ, except one upon whom it is obligatory"

• "Nor do we revolt against our leaders and rulers even if they oppress, nor supplicate against them, nor withdraw from obeying them…"

• Obedience to them as obedience to Allāh so long as they do not command disobedience, and supplicating for their rectification

• The comments of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh) and Shaykh al-Albānī (raḥimahullāh)

• Correcting ourselves from within first: "correct the foundation to correct the building"

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

• Completing aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī (raḥimahullāh): "We do not declare any of them to be in Paradise or the Fire, nor do we testify against them with kufr, shirk or nifāq, so long as none of that appears from them"

• Imām al-Bukhārī's chapter heading: "Is it to be said that so-and-so is a shahīd?"

• Testifying for Paradise only for those whom the texts name, while hoping for the doers of good and fearing for the sinners

• The difference between the signs of hypocrisy or minor shirk in an action and judging the person himself

• Leaving people's inner secrets to Allāh

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

• aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī (raḥimahullāh): "We hold that prayer is to be performed behind every righteous and wicked person from the people of the Qiblah, and over whoever dies from among them"

• Praying behind a sinful imām and the funeral prayer over sinful Muslims

• The ḥadīth of the man from the Anṣār foretold to be from the people of Paradise

• Covering the faults of a Muslim, seeking forgiveness for him and leaving secrets to Allāh

• Introducing the next point: not declaring anyone to be in Paradise or the Fire

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

• Recap: no distinction between the messengers; there is one religion, Islām, while the legislations of the prophets differ

• Why the phrase "the heavenly religions" in the plural is incorrect

• aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī's text: "The people of major sins from the ummah of Muḥammad ﷺ will not remain in the Fire forever if they die as believers in tawḥīd, even if they did not repent"

• Who the people of major sins are, and Allāh's mercy in limiting their punishment and removing them by His mercy and through intercession

• aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī's concluding words: Allāh has befriended the people who know Him, and has not made them in either abode like the people who deny Him

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

• Recap: aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī's definition of īmān through the six pillars, and what each requires in action

• aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī (raḥimahullāh): "We believe in all of that; we make no distinction between any of His messengers, and we affirm all of them in what they brought"

• The ḥadīth negating īmān, "He does not believe whose neighbour is not safe from his harm", and its connection to the major sins

• The meaning of "He is not from us" in the texts