According to sufi logic, even moon, stones and land can hear and we can ask help from them as the Prophet peace be upon him did khitab with them. a) The Prophet Peace be upon him would see a crescent moon, he would say: اللهم…
Repentance of al Razi from Ilm al Kalam and other heresies like Sihr etc. a) ad-Dhahabi said: وقد بدت منه في تواليفه بلايا وعظائم وسحر وانحرافات عن السنة ، والله يعفو عنه ، فإنه توفي على طريقة حميدة ، والله يتولى السرائر … وقد اعترف…
Ibn Abbas on calling upon Anbiya and Saaliheen. Allah says: Allah says in Surah Isra verse 56-57 (56. Say: “Call upon those – besides Him whom you pretend. They have neither the power to remove the adversity from you nor even to shift (it from…
Jalal ad din as-Suyuti was a sufi, The Ashari, but still he spoke against the ignorant who ask help from the dead. Ahmad Yaar Khan mentioned the following from as-Suyuti in his book “Ja al Haq”. Allama Jalaaluddin Suyuti رضی اللہ تعالٰی عنہ writes, Rasoolullah…
Taqi ad Din Ahmad bin Ali al-Maqrizi al-Misree al-Shafi’i (d. 845H) on Istigatha. He said: ” والناس فى هذا الباب- أعنى زيارة القبور- على ثلاثة أقسام: – قوم يزورون الموتى فيدعون لهم. وهذه هى الزيارة الشرعية. – وقوم يزورونهم يدعون بهم, وهؤلاء هم المشركون وجهلة…
Allama Iqbal on Ibn Taymiyah, Shah Wali ullah and Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab. 1. Iqbal on Ibn Taymiyyah. a) He wrote, It was Ishraqâ and Ibn Taimâyyah who undertook a systematic refutation of Greek Logic. Abë Bakr Razâ was perhaps the first to criticize Aristotle’s…
Four beautiful responses to the extremists in the form of poetry. When Shaykh Imran ibn Ali ibn Rizwan ash-Shafiee (d 1280 h) (who was a Shi’i but Allaah guided him to the Sunnah.) came to know about the accusations of people against Muhammad ibn Abdul…
The discussion between Moroccan scholar and Ibn Saud on Aqaid. Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri al-Salawi (1835-1897) who was one of the best Moroccan historian said: حدثنا جماعة وافرة من حج المولى إبراهيم في تلك السنة أنهم ما رأوا من ذلك السلطان – يعني…
They have not left Shah Wali Ullah dehalwi and Muhammad bin Ismaeel as-San’ani (1099 H – 1182 H) Muhammad Umar Icharwi Sufi said, Shah Wali ullah became a Wahabi when he went to Hajj and named himself a Muhammadi, and that Muhammad bin Ismaeel accepted…
Who was Abul Hasanaat Abdul Hayy Lucknawi Hanafi according to sufis. It is mentioned in a Brailwi book, Tadhkirah Ullema Ahlus sunnah page 144, by Mahmud Ahmad Qadri. “Hadrat Maulana Abdul Hayy Farangi Mahali May Allah have mercy on him. His Kuniyah is Abul Hasanat, born in…