☪️Islamic Creed ('Aqidah)

Increase and decrease in faith and the rule of exception in it

زيادة الإيمان ونقصانه وحكم الاستثناء فيه

Author: عبد الرزاق بن عبد المحسن البدر

About this work

هذا الكتاب يتناول موضوع الإيمان وزيادته ونقصانه، معتمداً على أدلة الكتاب والسنة وأقوال السلف. يدرس أيضاً مسألة الاستثناء في الإيمان، ويعرض آراء الفقهاء المختلفة حولها مع الرد على المخالفين. الكتاب من تصنيف العقيدة ويهدف إلى توضيح مفهوم الإيمان وأهميته في حياة المسلم، مع التركيز على كيفية زيادة الإيمان وحفظه من النقصان.

Translation

This book deals with the topic of faith and its increase and decrease, relying on the evidence of the Qur’an, Sunnah, and the sayings of the predecessors. It also studies the issue of exception in faith, and presents the opinions of different jurists on it, along with responding to those who disagree. The book is a classification of faith and aims to clarify the concept of faith and its importance in the life of a Muslim, with a focus on how to increase faith and protect it from decrease.

Topics covered

introduction
Introduction
The first section: Evidence of the increase and decrease of faith from the book
The second topic: Evidence of increasing and decreasing faith from the Sunnah
The third topic: The sayings of the predecessors regarding the increase and decrease of faith
Chapter Two: Ways of increasing and decreasing faith
Chapter Three: Reasons for the increase and decrease of faith
The first topic: Reasons for increasing faith
The second section: causes of lack of faith
Chapter Four: In Islam, does it increase or decrease?
Chapter One: The saying of those who said faith increases but stops decreasing
Chapter Three: The saying of those who said faith does not increase or decrease
The first topic: mentioning those who said this statement
The second topic: In mentioning their evidence and suspicions and explaining their invalidity
The first topic: to mention the reason for the emergence of the dispute in this issue
Chapter Three: The rule of exception in faith
The third topic: What was reported about them inventing the question by saying, “You are a believer.”
Section Four: The rule of exception in Islam
Chapter Two: Who said there should be an exception?
Chapter Three: Who said that the exception is not permissible?
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