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The Sharing Group Discussion on Ahadits Interpretation by Laymen

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بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Brother James Harris posted the following quote on The Sharing Group on the 5 th March, 2015: “Ustadz Sa’id Ukur Nursi (r.a.) wrote, in his 28 th Letter, on the dangers of ahadits interpretation attempts by the layman., ;It is not permissible to discuss ambiguous ahadits among the ordinary people, and to show off and justify oneself like a lawyer, and to rely on egotism to support ones arguments rather than on truth and right.   The question being broached and argued about is having an adverse effect on the minds of the poor ordinary people.   They cannot comprehend obscure allegorical ahadits like these, and if they deny them, it opens the terrifying door to their also denying definite, unambiguous ahadits that they cannot understand with their limited intelligences.   If they take the hadits on face value and accept the literal meaning and they spread it around, it paves the way for the people of misguidance to object to it and call it s

Hizb al-Wiqayah

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بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ   The follow is the Hizb al-Wiqayah , “Litany of Protection”, by the philosopher’s stone, greatest teacher and magnanimous guide, Shaykh Muhyi ad-Din Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn ‘Ali ibn ‘Arabi ( q.a. ).   In the Name of Allah, the Universally Merciful, the Singularly Compassionate  . O Allah, O Ever-Living, O Self-Subsisting; with You I have taken Refuge, so Protect me with the protection of the safekeeping of the fulfillment of the reality of the proof of the preservation of the security of: “In the Name of Allah.”   Admit me, O First, O Last, to the hidden secret of the mystery of the sphere of the treasure of: “Whatever Allah Wills!   There is no strength but with Allah! (18:39)”   Drape over me, O All-Forbearing, O All-Shielding, the wing of the screen of the veil of the preservation of the salvation of: “And hold fast, all of you together, to the Lifeline of Allah.   (3:103)”   Construct, O All-Embracing, O All-Powerful, for my defen