WEBVTT 00:00:00.180 --> 00:00:08.539 A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah. 00:00:08.539 --> 00:00:11.570 Introduction. 00:00:11.570 --> 00:00:15.570 Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, who has guided us to Islam. 00:00:15.570 --> 00:00:18.570 And to following the Sunnah of the master of all creation. 00:00:18.570 --> 00:00:22.570 And we would not have been guided had Allah not guided us. 00:00:22.570 --> 00:00:27.570 May the peace, blessings, and benedictions of Allah be upon His servant and Messenger, Muhammad. 00:00:27.570 --> 00:00:30.570 The master of the first and the last. 00:00:30.570 --> 00:00:32.570 And upon his pure household. 00:00:32.570 --> 00:00:35.570 And his noble and blessed Companions. 00:00:35.570 --> 00:00:38.570 And may He include us with them through His grace and generosity. 00:00:38.570 --> 00:00:40.570 Indeed, He is All-Hearing, All-Responding. 00:00:40.570 --> 00:00:42.570 To proceed: 00:00:42.570 --> 00:00:45.700 How great a blessing is the guidance to faith. 00:00:45.700 --> 00:00:47.700 How bountiful a gift it is. 00:00:47.700 --> 00:00:53.700 And how blissful a pure and wholesome life it provides in this world and the Hereafter. 00:00:53.700 --> 00:00:58.759 Allah, the Almighty, said, in the context of His favor upon this Ummah. 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:02.759 By sending His Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:05.760 Allah has indeed conferred a great favor upon the believers. 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:09.760 “Allah verily hath shown grace to the believers by sending unto them a messenger of their own who reciteth unto them His revelations, and causeth them to grow, and teacheth them the Scripture and wisdom; although before (he came to them) they were in flagrant error.” (3:164) 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:12.760 He recites His verses to them and purifies them. 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:15.760 And He teaches them the Book and wisdom. 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:19.760 Even though they were, before that, in manifest error. 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:21.859 And He, the Exalted, favored us. 00:01:21.859 --> 00:01:23.859 By perfecting the religion for us. 00:01:23.859 --> 00:01:24.859 For He said: 00:01:24.859 --> 00:01:32.950 “Forbidden unto you (for food) are carrion and blood and swineflesh, and that which hath been dedicated unto any other than Allah, and the strangled, and the dead through beating, and the dead through falling from a height, and that which hath been killed by (the goring of) horns, and the devoured of wild beasts, saving that which ye make lawful (by the death-stroke), and that which hath been immolated unto idols. And (forbidden is it) that ye swear by the divining arrows. This is an abomination. This day are those who disbelieve in despair of (ever harming) your religion; so fear them not, fear Me! This day have I perfected your religion for you and completed My favour unto you, and have chosen for you as religion al-Islam. Whoso is forced by hunger, not by will, to sin: (for him) lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.” (5:3) 00:01:32.950 --> 00:01:37.950 He affirmed the excellence of this religion and its laws that guide to the straight path. 00:01:37.950 --> 00:01:41.950 Which are contained in His Noble Book, for He said: 00:01:41.950 --> 00:01:47.109 “Lo! this Qur'an guideth unto that which is straightest, and giveth tidings unto the believers who do good works that theirs will be a great reward.” (17:9) 00:01:47.109 --> 00:01:51.109 Allah has not bestowed upon a servant, after the blessing of Islam, 00:01:51.109 --> 00:01:56.109 Anything like the blessing of a correct and pure understanding of this religion. 00:01:56.109 --> 00:01:59.109 Its creed, its laws, and its ethics. 00:01:59.109 --> 00:02:04.140 Accompanied by a sincere intention, purely for the sake of Allah, the Almighty. 00:02:04.140 --> 00:02:07.140 Imam Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy on him, says: 00:02:07.140 --> 00:02:10.139 Soundness of understanding and excellence of intention. 00:02:10.139 --> 00:02:14.139 Are among the greatest blessings Allah has bestowed upon His servant. 00:02:14.139 --> 00:02:20.139 In fact, no servant has been given a gift after Islam better or more magnificent than these two. 00:02:20.139 --> 00:02:24.139 Islam is established and stands upon them. 00:02:24.139 --> 00:02:28.139 Through them, the servant is secured from the path of those who have earned [Allah's] wrath, 00:02:28.139 --> 00:02:32.139 Whose intentions were corrupted, and the path of those who are astray, 00:02:32.139 --> 00:02:35.139 Whose understandings were corrupted. 00:02:35.139 --> 00:02:37.139 And he becomes one of those who have been favored, 00:02:37.139 --> 00:02:41.139 Whose understandings and intentions were sound. 00:02:41.139 --> 00:02:43.139 They are the people of the straight path. 00:02:43.139 --> 00:02:49.139 Whom we are commanded to ask Allah to guide us to their path in every prayer. 00:02:49.139 --> 00:02:53.139 Soundness of understanding is a light that Allah casts into the heart of the servant. 00:02:53.139 --> 00:02:56.139 By which he distinguishes between the correct and the corrupt. 00:02:56.139 --> 00:02:58.139 The truth and the falsehood. 00:02:58.139 --> 00:03:00.139 Guidance and misguidance. 00:03:00.139 --> 00:03:02.139 Error and rectitude. 00:03:02.139 --> 00:03:04.139 It is supported by excellence of intention. 00:03:04.139 --> 00:03:06.139 Seeking the truth. 00:03:06.139 --> 00:03:09.139 And fearing the Lord in private and in public. 00:03:09.139 --> 00:03:12.139 Its source is severed by following desires. 00:03:12.139 --> 00:03:14.139 Preferring this world. 00:03:14.139 --> 00:03:16.139 Seeking the praise of people. 00:03:16.139 --> 00:03:18.240 And abandoning piety. 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:24.240 When the believer sees what the disbelieving societies—deprived of this blessing—are experiencing, 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:29.240 And the confusion, contradiction, instability, and misery they are in, 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:32.240 His praise for Allah, the Exalted, increases. 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:35.240 As does his joy and gratitude for what He has blessed him with. 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:42.240 For despite the luxury and knowledge of the outward aspects of worldly life these societies have reached, 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:48.240 They descend and fall into the depths in their understandings and scales. 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:50.240 Their standards and their ethics. 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:54.240 This is because they are cut off from their connection with Allah, the Almighty. 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:57.240 The Creator of the heavens and the earth. 00:03:57.240 --> 00:03:59.240 Who knows His creation. 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:01.240 The Subtle, the All-Aware. 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:03.240 And cut off from His upright methodology. 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:05.240 And His guidance, the Exalted. 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:08.240 And His light, through which the darkness is illuminated. 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:11.240 And by which the affairs of this world and the Hereafter are set right. 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:13.270 Among the proverbs of the Arabs: 00:04:13.270 --> 00:04:16.269 "The opposite reveals the beauty of its opposite." 00:04:16.269 --> 00:04:19.269 "And by their opposites, things are distinguished." 00:04:19.269 --> 00:04:23.779 Indeed, the enemies of Islam, from ancient times, 00:04:23.779 --> 00:04:28.779 Saw the favor Allah bestowed upon the believers through the Messenger of Islam, the best of creation. 00:04:28.779 --> 00:04:31.779 And the illuminating Book revealed to him. 00:04:31.779 --> 00:04:34.779 Which guides to the straight path. 00:04:34.779 --> 00:04:38.779 And they compared it to the instability and misery they are in. 00:04:39.779 --> 00:04:42.779 So, instead of entering the religion of Islam, 00:04:42.779 --> 00:04:46.779 To enjoy what the Muslims enjoy, 00:04:46.779 --> 00:04:48.779 They acted arrogantly toward the truth. 00:04:48.779 --> 00:04:53.779 And envied the Muslims for this magnificent blessing of which they were deprived. 00:04:53.779 --> 00:04:57.779 They exerted their efforts to divert them from the concepts of this religion. 00:04:57.779 --> 00:05:03.779 And launched their military, ideological, and immoral wars against it. 00:05:03.779 --> 00:05:06.779 In their greed to turn them away from their religion. 00:05:06.779 --> 00:05:08.779 The Exalted said: 00:05:08.779 --> 00:05:15.779 “Many of the people of the Scripture long to make you disbelievers after your belief, through envy on their own account, after the truth hath become manifest unto them. Forgive and be indulgent (toward them) until Allah give command. Lo! Allah is Able to do all things.” (2:109) 00:05:15.779 --> 00:05:21.779 “Many of the people of the Scripture long to make you disbelievers after your belief, through envy on their own account, after the truth hath become manifest unto them. Forgive and be indulgent (toward them) until Allah give command. Lo! Allah is Able to do all things.” (2:109) 00:05:21.779 --> 00:05:26.170 They inherited this hatred and approach, generation after generation, 00:05:26.170 --> 00:05:28.170 Until our current era. 00:05:28.170 --> 00:05:32.199 And when they despaired of taking the Muslims out of their religion, 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:38.199 They turned to raising doubts about the established and definitive matters of this religion. 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:44.199 They aimed to distort them by manipulating Islamic terminology and concepts. 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:47.199 And diverting them from their correct meanings. 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:49.199 And calling them by other than their names. 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:55.199 So they brought forth deviant Western concepts produced by their disbelieving creeds. 00:05:55.199 --> 00:06:02.199 Thus, they became distorted concepts, following their distorted, man-made, ignorant source. 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:10.259 A questioner might ask about the reasons for these great differences between the pure, lofty, and just concepts of Islam, 00:06:10.259 --> 00:06:15.259 And the concepts of disbelief and its people, characterized by injustice and degradation. 00:06:15.259 --> 00:06:19.259 And the pollution and instability in scales and judgments. 00:06:19.259 --> 00:06:24.300 We believe that one who contemplates the divine methodology, its characteristics, and its features, 00:06:24.300 --> 00:06:27.300 And the human, ignorant methodology and its qualities, 00:06:27.300 --> 00:06:32.300 Will find no difficulty in answering this question. 00:06:32.300 --> 00:06:37.300 Nevertheless, the answer can be summarized in the following points: 00:06:37.300 --> 00:06:44.329 First: The concepts of Islam are divine in origin and Qur'anic in their foundation. 00:06:44.329 --> 00:06:49.329 Therefore, they are inevitably just, complete, comprehensive, and balanced. 00:06:49.329 --> 00:06:53.329 Pure and free from all qualities of deficiency. 00:06:53.329 --> 00:06:57.329 Because they are from Allah, the Almighty, the All-Knowing, the All-Aware. 00:06:57.329 --> 00:07:01.329 “Should He not know what He created? And He is the Subtile, the Aware.” (67:14) 00:07:01.329 --> 00:07:03.329 Free from every deficiency. 00:07:03.329 --> 00:07:07.329 Safe from injustice, desire, and ignorance. 00:07:07.329 --> 00:07:11.329 He knows what is best for His servants in their worldly life and their return. 00:07:11.329 --> 00:07:14.329 He knows what has been and what will be. 00:07:14.329 --> 00:07:18.329 And what has not been, if it were to be, how it would be. 00:07:19.329 --> 00:07:21.420 Conversely, 00:07:21.420 --> 00:07:28.420 The concepts of ignorance originate from this weak human, limited in time and place. 00:07:28.420 --> 00:07:32.420 Possessed of desire, ignorance, injustice, and transgression. 00:07:32.420 --> 00:07:35.420 Cut off from his Lord and His worship. 00:07:35.420 --> 00:07:40.420 So it is inevitable that his concepts and perceptions are characterized by his own traits. 00:07:40.420 --> 00:07:43.420 Where there is ignorance, deficiency, and injustice. 00:07:43.420 --> 00:07:47.420 And contradiction, instability, and lack of balance. 00:07:47.420 --> 00:07:48.649 Second: 00:07:48.649 --> 00:07:51.649 Any concept presented to people 00:07:51.649 --> 00:07:55.649 Is governed by the creed of the one who presents it regarding the God of the universe. 00:07:55.649 --> 00:07:57.649 And regarding the universe itself. 00:07:57.649 --> 00:08:00.649 And regarding life, man, and the purpose of his creation. 00:08:00.649 --> 00:08:02.649 And his fate after death. 00:08:02.649 --> 00:08:07.649 Every concept is the requirement of this creed or perception. 00:08:07.649 --> 00:08:10.649 And a reflection of it, whether good or evil. 00:08:10.649 --> 00:08:12.649 Equally so. 00:08:12.649 --> 00:08:18.740 And because the word of Allah, to which falsehood cannot come from before it or behind it, 00:08:18.740 --> 00:08:21.740 Is what provides us, the Muslims, 00:08:21.740 --> 00:08:25.740 With understanding and perception regarding our God, the Lord of this universe and its Creator. 00:08:25.740 --> 00:08:30.740 And regarding the universe, man, the purpose of his creation, and his fate. 00:08:30.740 --> 00:08:32.740 It is the true understanding. 00:08:32.740 --> 00:08:36.740 Which gives certain answers to all of the above. 00:08:36.740 --> 00:08:41.740 Unlike the disbelievers who were not blessed with the creed of Islam. 00:08:41.740 --> 00:08:49.740 Their perceptions and concepts result only from the refuse of their minds and the scraps of their thoughts. 00:08:49.740 --> 00:08:53.740 They wander in a sea of darkness and ignorance. 00:08:53.740 --> 00:08:57.740 So they went astray, became miserable, led others astray, and caused them misery. 00:08:57.740 --> 00:08:59.000 Third: 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:01.000 Based on the above, 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:08.000 The third and important difference between divine concepts and human, ignorant concepts 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:11.000 Is the difference between monotheism (Tawhid) and polytheism (Shirk). 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:14.000 The concepts of one who worships Allah alone are not equal to 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:17.000 One who disavows polytheism and its people. 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:22.000 And the concepts of the disbeliever who is cut off from his Lord, the Almighty, and His law. 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:24.029 The Exalted said: 00:09:24.029 --> 00:09:26.029 "Are the blind and the seeing equal?" 00:09:26.029 --> 00:09:29.029 “Nor is darkness (tantamount to) light;” (35:20) 00:09:29.029 --> 00:09:32.029 And every vessel leaks what is in it. 00:09:32.029 --> 00:09:33.129 Fourth: 00:09:33.129 --> 00:09:39.129 Likewise, a person who believes in the Hereafter and prepares for it does not meet 00:09:39.129 --> 00:09:42.129 With another who lives for this world alone. 00:09:42.129 --> 00:09:45.129 And does not look at what is beyond it. 00:09:45.129 --> 00:09:51.129 This one and that one do not meet in the estimation of a single matter of this life. 00:09:51.129 --> 00:09:55.129 Nor a single value of its many values. 00:09:55.129 --> 00:10:01.129 Nor do they agree on a single judgment regarding an event, a situation, or an affair. 00:10:01.129 --> 00:10:04.129 For each of them has a scale. 00:10:04.129 --> 00:10:07.129 And each of them has a perspective. 00:10:07.129 --> 00:10:14.129 And each of them has a light by which he views things, events, values, and conditions. 00:10:14.129 --> 00:10:17.129 This one sees only the outward aspect of worldly life. 00:10:17.129 --> 00:10:21.129 And that one perceives what is beyond the outward, of connections and laws. 00:10:21.129 --> 00:10:25.129 And comprehensive principles for the outward and the inward. 00:10:25.129 --> 00:10:27.129 The unseen and the witnessed. 00:10:27.129 --> 00:10:29.129 The world and the Hereafter. 00:10:29.129 --> 00:10:31.129 Death and life. 00:10:31.129 --> 00:10:34.129 This is the distant, wide, and comprehensive horizon. 00:10:34.129 --> 00:10:37.129 To which Islam moves humanity. 00:10:37.129 --> 00:10:43.129 And raises it to the place befitting man, the vicegerent on earth. 00:10:43.129 --> 00:10:44.769 Fifth: 00:10:44.769 --> 00:10:51.769 While the concepts of Muslims differ and diverge from the concepts of the disbelievers, as previously mentioned, 00:10:51.769 --> 00:10:56.769 Based on each group's understanding of the reality of Lordship and Divinity. 00:10:56.769 --> 00:10:59.769 And the universe, life, and man. 00:11:00.769 --> 00:11:06.769 There also exists a difference in the concepts of the people of the saved sect among the Muslims 00:11:06.769 --> 00:11:09.769 From the concepts of the deviant sects. 00:11:09.769 --> 00:11:13.769 Such as the Khawarij, the Rawafid, the Jahmiyyah, and the Mu'tazilah. 00:11:13.769 --> 00:11:18.769 This is due to the difference in the sources of evidence for the saved sect, 00:11:18.769 --> 00:11:20.769 Who are the Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah, 00:11:20.769 --> 00:11:24.769 From those held by these deviant sects. 00:11:24.769 --> 00:11:28.769 Along with the differences in concepts that exist between them as well. 00:11:28.769 --> 00:11:33.769 Likewise, differences occurred in their concepts due to the differences in their creeds. 00:11:33.769 --> 00:11:39.830 Differences may also occur in some concepts between those within the circle of Ahl al-Sunnah, 00:11:39.830 --> 00:11:44.830 Due to the difference in understanding the reality and the conditions they live in. 00:11:44.830 --> 00:11:49.830 This causes a difference in applying rulings to situations. 00:11:49.830 --> 00:11:53.830 While agreeing on the fundamental concepts among everyone. 00:11:53.830 --> 00:11:56.830 Imam Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy on him, says, 00:11:56.830 --> 00:11:59.830 While explaining the two pillars of correct understanding: 00:11:59.830 --> 00:12:04.830 "Neither the mufti nor the judge can issue a fatwa or judge with the truth 00:12:04.830 --> 00:12:06.830 Except with two types of understanding: 00:12:06.830 --> 00:12:10.830 One of them is understanding the reality and having fiqh regarding it. 00:12:10.830 --> 00:12:13.830 And deducing the knowledge of the truth of what has occurred. 00:12:13.830 --> 00:12:16.830 Through indications, signs, and markers. 00:12:16.830 --> 00:12:18.830 Until he encompasses it with knowledge. 00:12:18.830 --> 00:12:22.830 And the second type is understanding the obligation in that reality. 00:12:22.830 --> 00:12:26.830 Which is understanding the ruling of Allah that He has judged in His Book, 00:12:26.830 --> 00:12:31.830 Or upon the tongue of His Messenger, peace be upon him, regarding this reality. 00:12:31.830 --> 00:12:34.830 Then he applies one to the other." 00:12:34.830 --> 00:12:38.860 Therefore, for correct understanding to be complete, it is necessary 00:12:38.860 --> 00:12:40.860 To understand the contemporary reality. 00:12:40.860 --> 00:12:43.860 And to make clear the path of the criminals. 00:12:43.860 --> 00:12:46.860 Otherwise, a flaw in understanding will occur. 00:12:46.860 --> 00:12:49.860 Due to not realizing the context and knowing the conditions. 00:12:50.860 --> 00:12:53.860 Another dangerous obstacle remains, 00:12:53.860 --> 00:12:56.860 which stands between the servant and the application of correct understanding: 00:12:56.860 --> 00:13:01.860 namely, base desires and prioritizing the worldly life over the Hereafter. 00:13:01.860 --> 00:13:04.860 For one’s understanding may be religiously sound and correct, 00:13:04.860 --> 00:13:07.860 and in accordance with the concepts of the Sunnah, 00:13:07.860 --> 00:13:09.860 along with an understanding of current realities, 00:13:09.860 --> 00:13:12.860 yet due to desire or fear, 00:13:12.860 --> 00:13:16.860 the servant intentionally abandons this correct understanding, 00:13:16.860 --> 00:13:19.860 and prefers over it erroneous concepts, 00:13:19.860 --> 00:13:21.860 or deviant applications. 00:13:21.860 --> 00:13:25.990 We ask Allah for safety and steadfastness upon the truth. 00:13:25.990 --> 00:13:28.990 From the foregoing, the causes of 00:13:28.990 --> 00:13:33.019 the distortion and divergence of concepts can be summarized as follows: 00:13:33.019 --> 00:13:37.019 First: Disbelief or associating partners with Allah, the Almighty and Majestic. 00:13:37.019 --> 00:13:40.019 This causes total distortions 00:13:40.019 --> 00:13:44.019 in concepts, standards, rulings, and stances, 00:13:44.019 --> 00:13:47.019 because the one who holds them is severed from Allah, the Almighty and Majestic, 00:13:47.019 --> 00:13:50.019 and from His Lordship, His divinity, 00:13:50.019 --> 00:13:52.019 and His names and attributes, 00:13:52.019 --> 00:13:56.019 and is severed from the Last Day and true faith in it. 00:13:56.019 --> 00:13:58.019 Included with these 00:13:58.019 --> 00:14:02.019 are the people of heretical innovations that constitute disbelief and expel one from the fold of Islam. 00:14:02.019 --> 00:14:06.250 Second: Heretical innovation that does not constitute disbelief. 00:14:06.250 --> 00:14:09.250 This causes partial distortions 00:14:09.250 --> 00:14:12.250 that are reflected in some concepts regarding belief, 00:14:12.250 --> 00:14:15.250 or worship, or conduct, 00:14:15.250 --> 00:14:18.250 even if their proponents are among the people of the Qibla, 00:14:18.250 --> 00:14:20.409 and possess both truth and falsehood. 00:14:20.409 --> 00:14:25.409 Third: Ignorance of reality and the path of the criminals. 00:14:25.409 --> 00:14:29.409 Even if those characterized by this are among the people of the Sunnah, 00:14:29.409 --> 00:14:33.409 this ignorance of theirs is reflected in some errors 00:14:33.409 --> 00:14:36.409 and distortions in certain concepts, 00:14:36.409 --> 00:14:39.500 due to a flaw in the application of rulings. 00:14:40.500 --> 00:14:42.500 Fourth: The love of the world. 00:14:42.500 --> 00:14:45.500 This causes the abandonment of correct understanding, 00:14:45.500 --> 00:14:49.500 or its intentional and willful distortion in application, 00:14:49.500 --> 00:14:52.730 after having known and established it. 00:14:52.730 --> 00:14:54.730 Because of all the above, 00:14:54.730 --> 00:14:58.730 the utmost importance of correcting concepts becomes clear to us, 00:14:58.730 --> 00:15:01.730 as does the warning against the danger of tampering with them, 00:15:01.730 --> 00:15:05.730 and of turning away from the divine sources of correct understanding 00:15:05.730 --> 00:15:09.730 toward the concepts of the people of disbelief, hypocrisy, innovation, and base desires, 00:15:09.730 --> 00:15:11.730 instead of that, 00:15:11.730 --> 00:15:14.730 and receiving them with ignorance or caprice. 00:15:14.730 --> 00:15:18.759 Therefore, it is among the most obligatory duties of the scholars and callers, 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:21.759 who have realized this danger, 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:24.759 to hasten to save the Ummah, by the permission of Allah the Exalted, 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:27.759 from the darkness of deviant concepts 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:31.759 to the light of the divine, Qur'anic concepts, 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:35.759 to establish these pure concepts for the people, 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:39.759 to expose the shame and deviation of ignorant concepts, 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:43.759 and to refute the doubts used by the misguided 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:46.820 to confuse the people. 00:15:46.820 --> 00:15:50.820 For this reason, some of your brothers among the students of knowledge, 00:15:50.820 --> 00:15:53.820 who are concerned by this matter and troubled by it, have arisen, 00:15:53.820 --> 00:15:56.820 and they have exerted their efforts in producing a summary 00:15:56.820 --> 00:15:59.820 of pure Islamic concepts, 00:15:59.820 --> 00:16:02.820 according to the methodology of the Sunnah, 00:16:02.820 --> 00:16:05.820 and as indicated by the texts of the Book and the Sunnah, 00:16:05.820 --> 00:16:10.820 while addressing the opposing, deviant, and erroneous concepts, 00:16:10.820 --> 00:16:14.820 refuting them, and responding to them to demonstrate their corruption. 00:16:14.820 --> 00:16:17.820 Among the references for this were 00:16:17.820 --> 00:16:20.820 the books concerned with correcting concepts, 00:16:20.820 --> 00:16:23.820 and clarifying the legal principles that govern them, 00:16:23.820 --> 00:16:26.820 such as the books of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, 00:16:26.820 --> 00:16:28.820 and his student Ibn al-Qayyim, 00:16:28.820 --> 00:16:32.820 and the Tafsir of al-Sa'di, may Allah have mercy on them all. 00:16:32.820 --> 00:16:36.820 And some contemporary books that are concerned with this matter, 00:16:36.820 --> 00:16:41.860 whose methodology and the soundness of their authors' creed are trusted. 00:16:41.860 --> 00:16:45.860 However, since brevity and paraphrasing 00:16:45.860 --> 00:16:47.860 were the prevailing approach in this work, 00:16:47.860 --> 00:16:50.860 we did not cite these references 00:16:50.860 --> 00:16:52.860 except in a few places, 00:16:52.860 --> 00:16:55.860 as we attempted to summarize each concept 00:16:55.860 --> 00:16:58.860 so that it would be in three or four lines, 00:16:58.860 --> 00:17:02.860 or not exceeding half a page in most cases, 00:17:02.860 --> 00:17:05.859 except for a few concepts 00:17:05.859 --> 00:17:08.859 whose clarification might force us into detail, 00:17:08.859 --> 00:17:13.859 which might bring the concept to a full page or more. 00:17:13.859 --> 00:17:18.140 The number of concepts in this summary has reached 00:17:18.140 --> 00:17:21.140 one thousand two hundred and fifty concepts, 00:17:21.140 --> 00:17:24.140 distributed over thirteen chapters. 00:17:25.140 --> 00:17:28.140 We have assigned a general, sequential number to the concepts 00:17:28.140 --> 00:17:31.140 from the first to the last, 00:17:31.140 --> 00:17:36.140 and another number specific to each chapter or comprehensive heading. 00:17:36.140 --> 00:17:40.140 The chapters of this summary are as follows: 00:17:40.140 --> 00:17:42.140 Concepts in Creed 00:17:42.140 --> 00:17:44.140 Concepts in Worship 00:17:44.140 --> 00:17:47.140 Concepts in Knowledge and Fiqh 00:17:47.140 --> 00:17:50.140 Concepts in the Actions of the Heart and its Diseases 00:17:50.140 --> 00:17:54.140 Concepts in Asceticism, Piety, and the Path to Allah 00:17:54.140 --> 00:17:57.140 Concepts in Ethics and Etiquette 00:17:57.140 --> 00:18:00.140 Concepts in Upbringing and the Family 00:18:00.140 --> 00:18:02.140 Concepts in Da'wah 00:18:02.140 --> 00:18:04.140 Concepts in Jihad 00:18:04.140 --> 00:18:07.140 Concepts in Divine Laws 00:18:07.140 --> 00:18:09.140 Concepts in Tribulations 00:18:09.140 --> 00:18:11.140 Concepts in Politics 00:18:11.140 --> 00:18:15.140 Concepts in Islamic Culture 00:18:15.140 --> 00:18:21.430 Finally, we do not claim that we have encompassed all concepts, 00:18:21.430 --> 00:18:24.430 but we have exerted what was in our power, 00:18:24.430 --> 00:18:28.430 and we focused on what we see as necessary concepts, 00:18:28.430 --> 00:18:31.430 or those that are absent or misunderstood. 00:18:31.430 --> 00:18:36.430 Perhaps Allah will bring someone to complete the deficiency and bridge the gap. 00:18:36.430 --> 00:18:41.430 We ask Him, the Almighty and Majestic, for sincerity in speech and action. 00:18:41.430 --> 00:18:44.430 And praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. 00:18:46.170 --> 00:18:49.170 A Summary of the Concepts of the People of the Sunnah