> Aqeedah Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawaani

[Aayah]

^The same question was asked to Yasir Qadhi about praying after an Imam who is believing in a different Aqeedah. He said that its hard to enter a masjid ask people what is the Imam's Aqeedah. So he said that if a person entered a masjid and see an obvious act of believing in a different Aqeedah like praying in the way Shia do, then the person should leave the masjid.

That was in his lecture "Critical Analysis of Shirk"

[al-boriqee]

Originally Posted by Ibn Ilyas

Is it alright to say that the muslims can only unite by having a correct Aqeedah... and that is the only we can hold on to the rope of Allah.

Or do we simply just unite, no matter how ones Aqeedah is?

lets first disect the second part.

Unity comes through or is achieved through a basis or a foundation. In other words, in order for people to unite, in order for the realization of unity to occur, they have to be unified upon a common theme or goal. In the Islamic sense, the unity of Muslims is our belief in God and the rest of the aqeedah. When Muslims have come to view their Lord as their Lord has revealed about Himself, then the one who comes along and brings forth a "different" opinion about their Lord, anyone with a rational mind understand that this is not an act of unity, rather this is an act of "disunity". This is why when people adopt creeds other than the creed of the salaf, the Imaams of the Muslims use to point out that it is they who have separated from the jama'ah, and not as is commonly claimed that the people who wish to bring about unity through a single creed (i.e. the salafis) are the people of disunity. This is contrary to the practice of the true Muslims of the early Islamic nation who use to view that the one who adopted a different creed is he who has caused disunity.

In simple terms, if unity is found on the basis of a common goal or theme, and in the case of Muslims, aqeedah, then how can unity be achieved through a multiplicity of creeds.

This is why it is called Ahlu-sunnah wal-Jama'ah and not ahlu-sunnah wal-Jama'aat

When Imaam as-Safareenee was approached with this multplicity idea that the ahlu-sunnah are three in creed
1. ash'aris
2. maturidis
3. athari

he said in reply back
"this contradicts the statement of the messenger of Allah 'except for one"

I remember half way arguing with a sincerily dogmatic jewish lady who called herself converting to Islam and then going back to judaism who she had actually convinced her brain to actually believe in. She claimed that the hadeeth about the 73, since the 73 is symbolic then likewise the "one" is also symbolic. Her explanation makes no sense even from a linguistic point of view because linguistically, the hadeeth is bringing forth a contrast and in the rules of language, based on the hadeeth itself, the messenger of Allah is presenting on one side
a. multiplicity

while bringing the alternative
b. singularly

It does not makes sense to grammatically structure outside of the fact that "except for one" intrinsically is opposite of multiplicity.

If people add 2 or more to 1, then 1 is no longer 1. I I have a bucket (Islam) and i have an apple in it, and then throw another one or 2 more, then there is no longer a single apple, rather there are multiple apples.

[Ibn Ilyas]

Jazakallahu Khayran my dear brothers, this has been very benificial for me alhamdulillah, may Allah reward you abundantly and increase your knowledge so you can prosper in the field of dawah, and so the likes of me can benefit from the likes of you.

Ameen

The talk "islamic personalities" alhamdulillah was exactly what I needed to listen to. Something else I saw was the three part video about studying in Mauritania, subhanallah my heart is aching so much, I just wanna leave this country and move abroad to study, subhanallah. anyway jazakallahu khayran brothers, much appreciated.

[salman]

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