A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The Wahhabi sect claims Allah ( s.w.t. ) has a Shadow.   ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn ‘Abdullah ibn Baz said, “In the hadits of the seven who will be shaded by Allah ( s.w.t. ) in His shadow on the day there is no shadow save His Shadow, is this attributing Allah ( s.w.t. ) with a shadow?   Yes, as is reported in the hadits and in some transmissions, ‘in the shadow of His Throne’.   But, in the Swahihayn , it is, ‘in His Shadow’ for He has a shadow that is befitting to Him, and we do not know its modality just like the rest of His attributes …”   Dr. Jibril Fu’ad Haddad commented that even in the compilations usually adduced by the anthropomorphists, let alone the commentaries of the Ahl as-Sunnah , the ahadits mentioning the words, “in His Shade”, such as found in Swahih al-Bukhari , Swahih Muslim , and al-Muwaththa’ , are understood in the context of the ahadits mentioning, “in the shade of His Throne”, such as found in Jami’ at-T...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following is taken from The Place of Taswawwuf in Traditional Sciences by Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller.   Perhaps the biggest challenge in learning Islam correctly today is the scarcity of traditional ‘ulama .   In this meaning, Imam Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Isma’il al-Bukhari ( r.a. ) related the swahih , rigorously authenticated hadits that the Prophet ( s.a.w. ) said, “Truly, Allah does not Remove Sacred Knowledge by taking it out of servants, but rather by taking back the souls of scholars, until, when He has not left a single scholar, the people take the ignorant as leaders, who are asked for and who give legal opinion without knowledge, misguided and misguiding.”   This is found in Fath al-Bari .   The process described by the hadits is not yet completed, but has certainly begun, and in our times, the lack of traditional scholars, whether in law, in hadits , in tafsir , has given rise to an understanding of the ...