Selected Points from the Correct ʿAqīdah – Ustādh Abu Ismaeel Saalik

Selected Points from the Correct ʿAqīdah, from the book of Imām Ḥarb ibn Ismāʿīl al-Kirmānī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abu Ismaeel Saalik (hafidhahullāh)

• Correct ʿaqīdah is a foundation of the religion: the Prophets focused on rectifying the ʿaqīdah of their people, and if the religion is incorrect all actions are of no benefit

• Allāh has preserved this religion, and corrupt beliefs began to enter in the time of the Tābiʿīn, who fought against them

• The one who opposes this methodology or belittles its people is an innovator outside the Jamāʿah

• Īmān is statement, action, intention and clinging to the Sunnah, and it increases and decreases; it includes belief in Allāh's existence, Rubūbiyyah, Ulūhiyyah and Names and Attributes

• The deviant views on Īmān: the Jahmiyyah, Karrāmiyyah, Ashāʿirah and Murjiʾat al-Fuqahāʾ

• The proof for the increase and decrease of Īmān

• Saying "I am a believer, if Allāh wills"

Recorded in Manchester

Selected Points from the Correct ʿAqīdah, from the book of Imām Ḥarb ibn Ismāʿīl al-Kirmānī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abu Ismaeel Saalik (hafidhahullāh)

• Qadr is one of the six fundamentals of Īmān, and we believe in its good and evil

• Allāh commanded the pen to write everything that is to occur 50,000 years before the creation, and everything is written in al-Lawḥ al-Maḥfūẓ

• The Qadariyyah, who say a person creates his own actions, and the Jabariyyah, who say mankind is forced; the refutation (2:286)

• The texts supporting Ahl as-Sunnah (54:4 and 81:29): Allāh knew everything, and mankind has free will within what Allāh has decreed

• Sins are all from Allāh's decree, yet none can use this as a proof against Allāh (21:23)

• Allāh sent Messengers and Books so that mankind would have no plea (4:165 and 35:24)

• "If everything is written, why do deeds?": the Prophet replied that deeds are made easy for what a person was created for

Recorded in Manchester