Summary of Sunni concepts | Concept (618) | A form of mistrust of God

0:00 A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.

0:08 Examples of harboring ill thoughts about Allah.

0:12 Every thought that does not befit Allah, His wisdom, His mercy, His knowledge, His justice, and His truthful promise—which He never breaks—

0:21 is an ill thought about Allah and a disparagement of His Most Beautiful Names and Exalted Attributes.

0:27 There are several forms of this.

0:29 Among them:

0:31 First:

0:32 Despairing of the mercy of Allah and losing hope in His relief

0:36 is an ill thought about Allah the Almighty.

0:40 Second:

0:41 Pessimism is an ill thought about Allah,

0:44 just as optimism is a good thought about Allah the Almighty.

0:48 Third:

0:50 Thinking that Allah has left His creation aimless, exempt from commands and prohibitions,

0:55 having sent them no messengers,

0:57 and revealed to them no scriptures,

0:59 but rather left them neglected like cattle,

1:02 and that it is merely life followed by death, with no resurrection or reckoning.

1:07 All of this is an ill thought about Allah the Almighty.

1:11 This is the claim of the Dahriyyah (materialists) who say:

1:14 “And they say: There is naught but our life of the world; we die and we live, and naught destroyeth us save time; when they have no knowledge whatsoever of (all) that; they do but guess.” (45:24)

1:21 They have no knowledge of that; they only conjecture.

1:26 Fourth:

1:28 Thinking that Allah will not grant victory to His religion, His Book, and His believing servants,

1:33 nor support His party,

1:35 and will not elevate them over their enemy.

1:38 All of this is an ill thought about Allah the Almighty.

1:42 For Allah the Almighty has said:

1:44 “And verily Our word went forth of old unto Our bondmen sent (to warn)” (37:171)

1:49 Indeed, it is they who will be the victors.

1:52 “And that Our host, they verily would be the victors.” (37:173)

1:57 And there are many other verses to this effect.

2:02 Denying or being ignorant of the fact that whatever Allah decrees for His allies in terms of trials or tribulations

2:08 is only for a profound wisdom,

2:11 a praiseworthy goal, and a favorable outcome.

2:14 Claiming that their affliction is a will devoid of wisdom

2:19 and an inevitable decree that cannot change

2:22 is an ill thought about Allah.

2:26 Thinking that it is permissible for Allah to punish His allies despite their righteousness and sincerity,

2:32 and that He treats them the same as He treats His enemies.

2:38 Seventh: Thinking that Allah loves disbelief, immorality, and disobedience and is pleased with them,

2:44 just as He loves faith, righteousness, and obedience.

2:47 This is based on the claim that since Allah is the Creator of all these things,

2:51 He must also desire them.

2:53 Yet Allah, glory be to Him, says:

2:55 “If ye are thankless, yet Allah is Independent of you, though He is not pleased with thanklessness for His bondmen; and if ye are thankful He is pleased therewith for you. No laden soul will bear another's load. Then unto your Lord is your return; and He will tell you what ye used to do. Lo! He knoweth what is in the breasts (of men).” (39:7)

3:02 “If ye are thankless, yet Allah is Independent of you, though He is not pleased with thanklessness for His bondmen; and if ye are thankful He is pleased therewith for you. No laden soul will bear another's load. Then unto your Lord is your return; and He will tell you what ye used to do. Lo! He knoweth what is in the breasts (of men).” (39:7)

3:05 Eighth: Thinking that what is with Allah can be attained through disobedience and opposition to Him,

3:12 just as it is attained through obedience and drawing near to Him.

3:16 Ninth: Thinking that Allah punishes a person for something they had no hand in,

3:22 nor any choice, nor any will for it to occur.

3:26 Tenth: Thinking that Allah might waste the righteous deed of a person

3:31 who sincerely directed their face toward Him, glory be to Him,

3:34 and that He might invalidate it without any cause from the servant.

3:38 Yet Allah, glory be to Him, says:

3:41 “Thus We have appointed you a middle nation, that ye may be witnesses against mankind, and that the messenger may be a witness against you. And We appointed the qiblah which ye formerly observed only that We might know him who followeth the messenger, from him who turneth on his heels. In truth it was a hard (test) save for those whom Allah guided. But it was not Allah's purpose that your faith should be in vain, for Allah is Full of Pity, Merciful toward mankind.” (2:143)

3:44 Indeed, Allah is, to the people, Kind and Merciful.

3:50 Thinking that if a person leaves something for the sake of Allah, Allah will not compensate them with something better.

3:59 Whoever thinks that there can exist in the dominion of Allah that which He does not will or cannot bring into being

4:05 has harbored an ill thought about Allah.

4:10 Whoever thinks that Allah has a consort, a child, or a partner,

4:15 or that anyone can intercede with Him without His permission,

4:19 or that there are intermediaries between Allah and His creation who raise needs to Him,

4:24 and that they are His allies to the exclusion of other people,

4:27 and that people draw near and seek means through them to Him, glory be to Him,

4:32 all of this is an ill thought about Allah, glory be to Him.

4:38 Whoever thinks that Allah informed us about Himself,

4:41 or that His Messenger (peace be upon him) informed us about Him, in a way that is outwardly false, anthropomorphic, or representational,

4:47 and that He left the truth regarding His attributes unstated and did not explain it clearly,

4:52 but rather pointed to it with obscure symbols

4:55 that only the philosophers and theologians—by their own claim—can understand;

5:00 whoever harbors that thought and thus strips Allah’s Most Beautiful Names and Exalted Attributes of their reality and intended meaning

5:09 has harbored an ill thought about Allah the Almighty.

5:12 It has appeared among the innovators that some claim Allah does not love, nor is He pleased,

5:18 nor does He become angry or displeased,

5:21 nor does He befriend or show enmity, and so on.

5:25 Exalted is Allah above what those who harbor ill thoughts about their Lord say.

5:30 Everyone who thinks of Allah in a way contrary to how He described Himself,

5:34 or how His Messenger (peace be upon him) described Him,

5:38 or who denies the realities of what He described Himself with and what His Messenger (peace be upon him) described Him with,

5:45 has harbored an ill thought about his Lord.

5:48 Fifteenth:

5:50 Among the innovators who harbor ill thoughts about their Lord

5:54 are the Shi'a Rafidah.

5:56 All of their beliefs are an ill thought about Allah the Almighty.

6:01 Such as their claim that most of the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them)

6:06 oppressed the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) during his lifetime,

6:11 and usurped authority after his death, bypassing his successor, Ali Ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him),

6:18 as they claim,

6:19 and that they wronged the family of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him)

6:24 and stripped them of their rights.

6:26 All of this is a fabrication against Allah, His Messenger, and His noble Companions,

6:31 about whom Allah said:

6:34 Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah...

6:37 “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves. Thou (O Muhammad) seest them bowing and falling prostrate (in worship), seeking bounty from Allah and (His) acceptance. The mark of them is on their foreheads from the traces of prostration. Such is their likeness in the Torah and their likeness in the Gospel - like as sown corn that sendeth forth its shoot and strengtheneth it and riseth firm upon its stalk, delighting the sowers - that He may enrage the disbelievers with (the sight of) them. Allah hath promised, unto such of them as believe and do good works, forgiveness and immense reward.” (48:29)

6:42 “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves. Thou (O Muhammad) seest them bowing and falling prostrate (in worship), seeking bounty from Allah and (His) acceptance. The mark of them is on their foreheads from the traces of prostration. Such is their likeness in the Torah and their likeness in the Gospel - like as sown corn that sendeth forth its shoot and strengtheneth it and riseth firm upon its stalk, delighting the sowers - that He may enrage the disbelievers with (the sight of) them. Allah hath promised, unto such of them as believe and do good works, forgiveness and immense reward.” (48:29)

6:49 And He said at the end of the verse:

6:51 “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves. Thou (O Muhammad) seest them bowing and falling prostrate (in worship), seeking bounty from Allah and (His) acceptance. The mark of them is on their foreheads from the traces of prostration. Such is their likeness in the Torah and their likeness in the Gospel - like as sown corn that sendeth forth its shoot and strengtheneth it and riseth firm upon its stalk, delighting the sowers - that He may enrage the disbelievers with (the sight of) them. Allah hath promised, unto such of them as believe and do good works, forgiveness and immense reward.” (48:29)

6:59 The "min" (from) in the verse

7:01 is for clarification, not for partition, as the innovators claim.

7:07 The intent is to clarify that this forgiveness and that great reward

7:12 are for the Companions to the exclusion of other believers.

7:16 Their reward is not like the reward of others,

7:19 and Allah’s forgiveness for them surpasses His forgiveness for anyone else.

7:24 Among their ill thoughts about their Lord

7:28 is their fabrication of the slander against the Mother of the Believers, Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her),

7:33 thereby belying Allah’s exoneration of her,

7:37 for He called those who slandered her "a band of liars."

7:41 He said:

7:42 “Lo! they who spread the slander are a gang among you. Deem it not a bad thing for you; nay, it is good for you. Unto every man of them (will be paid) that which he hath earned of the sin; and as for him among them who had the greater share therein, his will be an awful doom.” (24:11)

7:48 And He, glory be to Him, exonerated her by saying:

7:51 “Vile women are for vile men, and vile men for vile women. Good women are for good men, and good men for good women; such are innocent of that which people say: For them is pardon and a bountiful provision.” (24:26)

7:56 They are innocent of what they say;

8:00 for them is forgiveness and a noble provision.

8:04 Despite this, the Rafidah persist in their slander,

8:08 thereby disparaging the status of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him)

8:13 and harboring ill thoughts about Allah,

8:15 by claiming that He did not honor His Prophet with virtuous wives,

8:21 and by permitting the burial of the "Jibt" and "Taghut" beside him (peace be upon him),

8:27 as they claim that Abu Bakr al-Siddiq and Umar Ibn al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with them)—

8:33 who are the best of the Companions of the Messenger (peace be upon him)—

8:38 are the Jibt and the Taghut.

8:40 We seek refuge in Allah from the misguidance of the people of innovation,

8:43 and we disavow ourselves to Him, glory be to Him, from their ill thoughts about Him.

8:49 A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.

Summary of Sunni concepts | Concept (618) | A form of mistrust of God

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