☪️Islamic Creed ('Aqidah)

The chapter on the discourse explaining the issues of pre-Islamic times, which

فصل الخطاب في شرح مسائل الجاهلية، التي

Author: أبو المعالي محمود شكري بن عبد الله بن محمد بن أبي الثناء الألوسي (المتوفى: 1342هـ) (d. 1342)

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هذا كتاب في العقيدة الإسلامية، يشرح مسائل الجاهلية التي خالف فيها النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أهل الجاهلية، ويبين انحرافاتهم في التوحيد والعبادة والاتباع. يعرض المؤلف جملة من المسائل كالتعبد بإشراك الصالحين، والتقليد، والغلو، وتحريف الكتب، والإلحاد في الأسماء والصفات، شارحًا إياها على ضوء الكتاب والسنة.

Translation

This is a book on the Islamic faith, explaining the issues of pre-Islamic times in which the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, disagreed with the people of pre-Islamic times, and shows their deviations in monotheism, worship, and following. The author presents a number of issues, such as worship by involving righteous people, imitation, fanaticism, distortion of books, and atheism in names and attributes, explaining them in the light of the Qur’an and Sunnah.

Topics covered

Chapter on the discourse explaining the issues of pre-Islamic times, by Ali Makhlouf
Introduction to the first edition
Some of the translation of the scholar Sheikh Mahmoud Shukri Al-Alusi, may God have mercy on him
Introduction by Al-Alusi
The first is worship by involving the righteous in the worship of God Almighty
The second is that they are divided and view listening and obedience as an insult and a vice
Fourth, their religion is built on principles, the greatest of which is tradition
Fifth: Imitating the immoral people of knowledge, their ignorance, and their servants
The sixth is to invoke what the people of previous centuries were upon
Seventh: Relying on abundance and relying on the greatest mass
Eighth: Inferring the invalidity of something by its being strange
Tenth: Using the gift of this world as evidence of love for God Almighty
Eleventh: Inferring the invalidity of something by taking it from the weak
Twelfth: Blaming those who follow the truth with disloyalty and seeking this world
Sixteenth: Exaggeration regarding righteous scholars and saints
Seventeen: Their apology for following the revelation without understanding
Nineteen: Replacing the Book of God Almighty with books of magic
Twenty contradictions in affiliation
Twenty-second: Scholars’ distortion of religious books
Twenty-fifth: Each group claims that it is the survivor
Twenty-sixth: They denied what they acknowledged was part of their religion
Twenty-seventh: Worship by revealing private parts
Twenty-eighth: Worship by prohibiting what is permissible
Twenty-nine: Atheism in its names and attributes
Thirty: Attributing shortcomings to Him, Glory be to Him, such as child and need

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