Part of Concepts of Ahl as-Sunnah (series completed)
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Summary of Sunni concepts | Concept (1026) | The reason why most of the people of falsehood are the nobles and the nobles
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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.
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The reason why the majority of those who follow falsehood are among the elite and the powerful.
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It has been the established pattern that the proponents of falsehood are those who hold worldly status and power.
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As Allah the Exalted says:
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“And thus have We made in every city great ones of its wicked ones, that they should plot therein. They do but plot against themselves, though they perceive not.” (6:123)
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Thus, they show hostility toward the religion, and the religion shows hostility toward them.
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This is only because the religion begins by stripping these elites of the authority they use to dominate the people.
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And by stripping them of their claims to lordship, through which they compel people to worship them.
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And by stripping them of their practice of exercising sovereignty apart from Allah.
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Through which they subjugate the necks of the people.
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The religion strips all of this from them in order to return it to Allah alone.
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The Lord of the people, the King of the people, the God of the people.
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A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.