Praise be to Allah, we seek His help and His guidance and we
ask His forgiveness and repent before Him. We seek refuge in
Allah from the evil of our own souls and from the evil of our
deeds. Whom Allah guides shall not go astray, and whom He
permits to stray shall not find guidance.
I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, alone. He has no
partners, and I bear witness that Muhammad ε is His Servant and
Messenger. He conveyed the Message and brought security and
advised his nation, and he struggled truly in the path of Allah as all
should struggle until the time that Allah brought him what must
surely come to us all. May the peace and blessings of Allah be
upon him and upon his family and his companions and upon all
that follow his guidance and his Sunnah (way or methodology) and
walk in his footsteps until the Day of Judgement.
Oh Allah, be pleased with them, and with us together with
them, by Your mercy. You are the Supremely Merciful.
May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon our Prophet,
Muhammad, and upon his family and companions and whoever
follows their guidance until the Day of Resurrection.
When the revelation was received by the first Muslims it came
to them in a pure and unblemished form, and by the doctrines and
beliefs which they received, they were raised up among men in
honor and respect.
But later, with the passing of the years, new ideas and new
practices began to attach themselves to the pure faith of the
Revelation, undermining the understanding and the beliefs of the
Muslims, until they began to go to extremes in religion.
Novel and strange ideas and additions in religion came to take
the place of the doctrines and the methodologies of Islam until
they caused a major retreat in the Muslim’s ideologies and beliefs,
and played a major role in their ignorance and backwardness.
This nation will not awaken from its backsliding, and will not
emerge from insignificance, until it returns to the first sources, and
receives its faith through the light of the Qur’an, and the (correct
reports of) the Sunnah (way) of the Prophet ε . There is no need of
the empty words of philosophers and their defiant philosophy
which led people astray and had the worst impact in destroying
religion and distorting the teachings of the messengers.
When the Muslims turned to the ancient philosophical
traditions of Greek polytheism they exposed themselves to one of
the most powerful of all poisons of the heart.
Ibn Khaldoun mentioned that the Muslims discovered many
philosophic religious books that were found when they conquered
Persia. Sa’ad b. Abi Waqqas wrote to Omar b. al-Khattab to ask
his permission to bring some of these books back with him. Omar
wrote to him telling him to throw them into the sea. “If these
books contain guidance, then Allah has already sufficed us, but if
they contain error then Allah has delivered us from it. Throw them
into the sea—or burn them.” Then they threw them into the water,
and by that, the science of Persia was prevented from reaching the
hands of the Muslims.”
This is how protective they were of the religion of Allah, and
this is how every Muslim should act to protect it from the
encroachment of the ideas of those who hope to cause trouble and
confusion, and from the perversions of those who would destroy
the faith of others if they could. There is no compromise in
Allah’s religion.
This nation must totally purify its monotheist beliefs from the
distortion and the accretions of medieval philosophy which has
been mixed with Islam.
Imam Malik rightly pointed out that “Nothing reforms the last
of this nation except what has reformed the first of them.”
True Belief a precondition for Salvation all
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