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and perfect, and they are a group that has<br />
definitely succeeded in achieving what<br />
Faith is meant to achieve, i.e. Allah's<br />
Pleasure. “And the first to embrace Islam of<br />
the Muhajirun (those who migrated from<br />
Makkah to al-Medina) and the Ansar (the<br />
people of al-Medina who helped the Muhajirun) and<br />
also those who followed them exactly (in Faith). Allah is<br />
well-pleased with them as they are well-pleased with Him. He has<br />
prepared for them Gardens under which rivers flow (Paradise), to<br />
dwell therein forever. That is the supreme success.”<br />
(9):100]<br />
Apathy towards the understanding of the Sahabah as well as<br />
free interpretation of Islamic texts are the primary causes of<br />
misconceptions and confusion; and consequently straying from the<br />
path of the 'the rightly guided'. The Messenger of Allah said, "This<br />
Ummah (nation) will split into seventy-three sects, all of them in the<br />
Fire except one." They asked, "What is that sect?” He said, "That<br />
which I and my Companions are upon today."<br />
Ilmul-Kalaam (argumentation based on Greek philosophy) is<br />
among such innovations in the religion that created intellectual<br />
schisms in the Muslim nation and initiated deviant trends. One of the<br />
sects that indulged in Ilmul-Kalaam were the Mu'tazilah. They gave<br />
precedence to intellect over the revealed texts of the Qur'aan and the<br />
Sunnah - when they perceived the two conflicted. This attitude set an<br />
evil precedent for all later groups who sought to make intellect and<br />
desire decisive over the Qur'aan and the Sunnah. In this book, we<br />
shall critique such modernist groups that attempt to impose novel<br />
interpretations upon Islamic teachings.<br />
- 02 -<br />
[at-Tabaraanee]<br />
[Soorah at-Tawbah