What you must believe about your Creator - Kalamullah.Com

Deviation from the correct Aqeedah has many causes, from the mostimportant of them are:1. Ignorance of the correct Aqeedahdueto turning away from learning and teaching it or lack of concern for it- until there arises a generation who is ignorant of the correctAqeedah and that which contradicts it. The truth is then deemed to befalsehood and falsehood to be the truth - as Umar Ibn Khattab said,"Verily, the bonds of Islam will be destroyed one by one, when therearise in Islam people who do not know or recognize Jahiliyah(ignorance).”2. Bigotry (ta'assub)towards the beliefs ofthe ancestors - adhering to them even if they are false and forsakingeverything that opposes them even if it is the truth.Allah says, "When it is said to them, 'Follow what Allah has sentdown.' They say, 'Nay! We shall follow what we found our fathersfollowing.' (Would they do that!) Even though their fathers did notunderstand anything nor were they guided?' [Soorah al-Baqarah (2):170]3. Blind-Following (Taqleed)by acceptingpeople's statements concerning Aqeedah without knowing the proofor level of authenticity - as is the case of the Jahmiyyah, Mu'tazilah,Ash'aris, Soofis and others whereby they (blindly) followed theirdeviant scholars who preceded them and thus, they were misguidedand went astray from the correct beliefs.- 08 -