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

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

• Recap: the covenant (al-mīthāq) when Allāh brought forth the souls from the back of Ādam and apportioned some to Paradise and some to the Fire

• The ḥadīth of the mīthāq is distinct from the verse in Sūrat al-Aʿrāf, "Am I not your Lord?"

• Continuing aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī's passage on al-qaḍāʾ wal-qadar

• Many more of his statements on the decree are to follow

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

• A new topic in aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī: "The covenant which Allāh took from Ādam and his offspring is true"

• The brief explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh): the covenant to worship Allāh alone without partners

• The ḥadīth of Ibn ʿAbbās: Allāh brought out Ādam's offspring from his back and made them testify to His oneness

• Believing in it as a matter of the unseen, then the more detailed discussion of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Āl ash-Shaykh (hafidhahullāh)

• The fiṭrah cuts off any excuse on the Day of Judgement, and the proof of the messengers is built upon the proof of the fiṭrah

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

• Continuing "The intercession which he has stored up for them is true, as reported in the narrations", completing Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Āl ash-Shaykh (hafidhahullāh)'s ten points

• Sixth point: intercession is not accepted unconditionally, "the intercession of the intercessors will not benefit them"

• The Qurʾān mentions an intercession that is affirmed and one that is negated, so even that of the angels and prophets requires its conditions

• The conditions: Allāh's permission for the intercessor and His pleasure with the one interceded for

• Asking Allāh "by the right of so-and-so" or "by the right of Your Prophet" is an innovated tawassul with no proof, as discussed by Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn Abī al-ʿIzz (raḥimahumallāh)

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

• Expanding on aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī's statement on the intercession from the commentary of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Āl ash-Shaykh (hafidhahullāh)

• Why intercession appears in the books of ʿaqīdah: it belongs to belief in the Last Day, alongside the Ḥawḍ, the Mīzān and the Ṣirāṭ

• It also refutes the Khawārij and Muʿtazilah, who hold that Allāh's threat must be carried out on the major sinner

• Intercession for major sinners to be brought out of the Fire, and its connection to the topic of īmān

• From Ibn Taymiyyah's (raḥimahullāh) explanation of Sūrat al-Kāfirūn: one who denies Allāh's attributes is not worshipping the same deity, even though the Creator is the same

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

• Aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī's statement: "The intercession which he has stored up for them is true, as reported in the narrations"

• The brief commentary of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh): two groups went astray in this topic, with Ahl as-Sunnah in the middle

• Those who exaggerated, seeking intercession from the dead, graves, idols, trees and stones, "these are our intercessors with Allāh"

• Those who denied intercession for major sinners, such as the Khawārij and Muʿtazilah, holding that Allāh must carry out His threat

• The ḥadīth qudsī of Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī: the angels, prophets and believers intercede, then the Most Merciful of those who show mercy

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

• Continuing the topic of the Ḥawḍ, the Pool of the Messenger ﷺ in the Hereafter

• Recap of the essential points from the previous lesson

• How the scholars explain the ease of the reckoning, the scrolls and the weighing of deeds for some people

• Next: intercession (ash-shafāʿah)

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

• Aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī's statement: "The Ḥawḍ with which Allāh honoured him, as relief for his Ummah, is true"

• Another matter of the unseen, mentioned alongside the Miʿrāj and the intercession

• The principle: whatever is authentically narrated about the unseen and the Day of Judgement, we believe in

• Whoever drinks a single sip from the Ḥawḍ will never thirst again, on a day of severe heat and thirst

• Those repelled from the Ḥawḍ: a few who apostatised after the Prophet ﷺ, the hypocrites, and the people of innovation, not the Companions as the Rāfiḍah claim

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

• Revising the Miʿrāj, which aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī (raḥimahullāh) summarised in a few short sentences: "The Miʿrāj is true…"

• The Prophet ﷺ was taken on the Night Journey and ascended in his person, while awake

• Completing the remaining points from the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Āl ash-Shaykh (hafidhahullāh), including the prayers reduced from fifty to five

• Questions and answers

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

• A new section: "The Miʿrāj is true", and the Prophet ﷺ was taken by night in his person, while awake, to the heavens and wherever Allāh willed

• The brief commentary of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh): the meaning of al-Isrāʾ, the night journey from al-Masjid al-Ḥarām to Bayt al-Maqdis in a single night

• Established in the first verse of Sūrat al-Isrāʾ, and in Sūrat an-Najm: "The heart did not lie about what he saw"

• Wisdoms in the journey passing through Jerusalem: signs proving his truthfulness, and linking the two sanctified places and qiblahs

• His superiority over the prophets, whom he led in prayer in Bayt al-Maqdis

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

• Recap: ambiguous terms used by aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī (raḥimahullāh), such as limits (al-ḥudūd), which need clarification

• aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī: "The six directions do not contain Him, unlike all created things"

• Why such terms carry both a true and a false meaning, and how Ahl as-Sunnah neither affirm nor deny them outright without detail

• Next: al-Isrāʾ wal-Miʿrāj, another proof of Allāh being above His creation