Category: Response to Sufis

A Critical Examination of the Nusayriyyah (Alawites of Syria and Lebanon), Bektashiyyah (Balkans), Iraqi Imamiyyah (Twelver Shia), and Turkish (Alevi) Sects: A Sunni Islamic Perspective

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐€ ๐‚๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐„๐ฑ๐š๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐š๐ฒ๐ซ๐ข๐ฒ๐ฒ๐š๐ก (๐€๐ฅ๐š๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐’๐ฒ๐ซ๐ข๐š ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‹๐ž๐›๐š๐ง๐จ๐ง), ๐๐ž๐ค๐ญ๐š๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฒ๐ฒ๐š๐ก (๐๐š๐ฅ๐ค๐š๐ง๐ฌ), ๐ˆ๐ซ๐š๐ช๐ข ๐ˆ๐ฆ๐š๐ฆ๐ข๐ฒ๐ฒ๐š๐ก (๐“๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐’๐ก๐ข๐š), ๐š๐ง๐ ๐“๐ฎ๐ซ๐ค๐ข๐ฌ๐ก (๐€๐ฅ๐ž๐ฏ๐ข) ๐’๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ฌ: ๐€ ๐’๐ฎ๐ง๐ง๐ข ๐ˆ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐š๐ฆ๐ข๐œ ๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR ๐€๐›๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ: ๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐š๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง ๐ข๐ง-๐๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ก ๐š๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ Read More …

Is the grave of the Prophet Muhammad โ€” peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah be upon him โ€” superior to the Sacred Kaสฟbah and to the Mighty Throne of Allah Almighty?

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๐ˆ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ž๐ญ ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ก๐š๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐ โ€” ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ž, ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐œ๐ฒ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐›๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐€๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐ก ๐›๐ž ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง ๐ก๐ข๐ฆ โ€” ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐’๐š๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐Š๐šสฟ๐›๐š๐ก ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Œ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฒ ๐“๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐€๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐ก ๐€๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฒ? Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR ๐Œ๐š๐ง๐ฒ Read More …

A Valuable Post | On the Sufi Orders โ€“ During the French Colonial Era โ€“And their opposition to reform and to the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulama.

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐€ ๐•๐š๐ฅ๐ฎ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ | ๐Ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ฎ๐Ÿ๐ข ๐Ž๐ซ๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ โ€“ ๐ƒ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐…๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ก ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐„๐ซ๐š โ€“๐€๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐ž๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐€๐ฌ๐ฌ๐จ๐œ๐ข๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐€๐ฅ๐ ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ ๐”๐ฅ๐š๐ฆ๐š. Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR ๐Ÿ–‹๏ธ ๐–๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ Read More …

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi: His Acts of Treachery and His Role in the Catastrophe of Baghdad

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๐๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐ซ ๐š๐ฅ-๐ƒ๐ข๐ง ๐š๐ฅ-๐“๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข: ๐‡๐ข๐ฌ ๐€๐œ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐“๐ซ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‡๐ข๐ฌ ๐‘๐จ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐š๐ญ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐๐š๐ ๐ก๐๐š๐ Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR ๐Ÿ. ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐Ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ž๐ฐ ๐…๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ง๐š๐ฆ๐ž: ๐Œ๐ฎ๐กฬฃ๐š๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ข๐›๐ง ๐Œ๐ฎ๐กฬฃ๐š๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ข๐›๐ง ๐š๐ฅ-๐‡ฬฃ๐š๐ฌ๐š๐ง ๐š๐ฅ-๐“ฬฃ๐ฎฬ„๐ฌ๐ขฬ„, ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐š๐ฌ ๐๐š๐ฌฬฃ๐ขฬ„๐ซ ๐š๐ฅ-๐ƒ๐ขฬ„๐ง ๐š๐ฅ-๐“ฬฃ๐ฎฬ„๐ฌ๐ขฬ„, ๐š Read More …

Refuting the โ€˜Unity of Beingโ€™ (Wahdat al-Wujลซd): A Clear Sunni Islamic Response to the Doctrine of Fixed Pre-Eternal Essences (al-Aสฟyฤn al-Thฤbitah) and the Myth of Mirroring Divine Names

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๐‘๐ž๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž โ€˜๐”๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐๐ž๐ข๐ง๐ โ€™ (๐–๐š๐ก๐๐š๐ญ ๐š๐ฅ-๐–๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฎฬ„๐): ๐€ ๐‚๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐’๐ฎ๐ง๐ง๐ข ๐ˆ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐š๐ฆ๐ข๐œ ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐จ๐œ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐…๐ข๐ฑ๐ž๐ ๐๐ซ๐ž-๐„๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐„๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ฌ (๐š๐ฅ-๐€สฟ๐ฒ๐šฬ„๐ง ๐š๐ฅ-๐“๐ก๐šฬ„๐›๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ก) ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Œ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Œ๐ข๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐€๐ง๐ญ๐ข-๐ˆ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐š๐ฆ๐ข๐œ ๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐ข๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐š๐๐ž Read More …

Clarifying the Distinction Between the Four Sunni Islamic Legal Schools of Thought (“Madhhabs”) and Deviant Sects: A Necessary Theological Delineation in an Age of Confusion

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๐‚๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐…๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐’๐ฎ๐ง๐ง๐ข ๐ˆ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐š๐ฆ๐ข๐œ ๐‹๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฅ ๐’๐œ๐ก๐จ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐“๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ญ (“๐Œ๐š๐๐ก๐ก๐š๐›๐ฌ”) ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐ข๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐’๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ฌ: ๐€ ๐๐ž๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐“๐ก๐ž๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐š๐ง ๐€๐ ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: ๐ˆ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ž๐ซ๐š, ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐š๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ Read More …

It is forbidden in Islam to wish Rest in Peace for dead disbelievers or attend their funerals

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๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐›๐ข๐๐๐ž๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐ˆ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐š๐ฆ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ž๐š๐œ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ž๐š๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ซ ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR โŒ ๐‚๐ฅ๐š๐ข๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐Œ๐š๐๐ž ๐›๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ˆ๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐–๐ก๐จ ๐–๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐ƒ๐ž๐š๐ ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฌ๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ “๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ž๐š๐œ๐ž” (๐‘๐ˆ๐): ๐Ÿ. Read More …

The Evidence for the Prohibition of Asking for Mercy upon a Non-Muslim After Their Death, Along with Refutations of the Doubts Raised by Those Who Permit It

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๐“๐ก๐ž ๐„๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ก๐ข๐›๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐€๐ฌ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐Œ๐ž๐ซ๐œ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง ๐š ๐๐จ๐ง-๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ ๐€๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐ƒ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ก, ๐€๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐‘๐ž๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐จ๐ฎ๐›๐ญ๐ฌ ๐‘๐š๐ข๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐›๐ฒ ๐“๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐–๐ก๐จ ๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ ๐ˆ๐ญ Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR ๐ƒ๐ซ. ๐€๐ง๐š๐ฌ ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ก๐š๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐€๐ฅ-๐†๐ก๐š๐ง๐ง๐š๐ฆ ๐„๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž Read More …

From Alphonse Mingana To Christoph Luxenberg: Arabic Script & The Alleged Syriac Origins Of The Qur’an

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๐…๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐€๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ก๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ž ๐Œ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐š๐ง๐š ๐“๐จ ๐‚๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก ๐‹๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ž๐ง๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ : ๐€๐ซ๐š๐›๐ข๐œ ๐’๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ๐ญ & ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐€๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐ž๐ ๐’๐ฒ๐ซ๐ข๐š๐œ ๐Ž๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ ๐Ž๐Ÿ ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ซ’๐š๐ง Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR ๐€๐ฌ๐ฌ๐š๐ฅ๐š๐ฆ๐ฎ สฟ๐š๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐ค๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐š ๐ซ๐š๐ก๐š๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐ก๐ข ๐ฐ๐š ๐›๐š๐ซ๐š๐ค๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ก๐ฎ: ๐Ÿ. ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐ซ. ๐€๐œ๐œ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง๐  Read More …

Is the hadith “The Black Stone is the right hand of Allah on Earth” authentic, and what is its meaning?

Posted onAuthorMohamad Mostafa Nassar

๐ˆ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ก๐š๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก “๐“๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ค ๐’๐ญ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐€๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐ก ๐จ๐ง ๐„๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ก” ๐š๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐œ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ? Mohamad Mostafa NassarTwitter:@NassarMohamadMR ๐๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ˆ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ ๐š๐ง ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ฅ๐ž ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ค ๐’๐ญ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ˆ ๐ฐ๐š๐ง๐ญ Read More …