📘 ❞ The general prescription of belief in the Quran and Sunnah ❝ كتاب ــ عبدالرحمن عبدالخالق

عن كتاب The general prescription of belief in the Quran and Sunnah:



All praise is due to Allah the Exalted, and may peace be on Muhammad,
the Seal of the Prophets, who delivered the message of his Lord in the best
manner.
t he Apostle of Allah was reported to have said: "lf you deal with eenah,'
and hold the cows' tails, and become content with employing yourselves

with agriculture, and abandon jihad' in the way of Allah, Allah would per-
mit your humiliation and would not relieve you of it until you return to

your religion."'
The preoccupations mentioned in the above hadeeth are not all that we
must be aware of. We must also beware of all that may be inferred from
them, taking them in a metaphorical sense. Eenah transactions and holding

cows' tails, and contentment with employing in agriculture represent in-
clination towards the affairs of this world. They all lead to abandoning jihad

in the way of Allah.
Indeed, the wordS of the Prophet (Peace be on Him) serye as a warning
to the Muslims of a future which has been realized. He was describing our
present time, and informing us of the significance of our present activities.
Relief cannot come through embracing false beliefs and deviant tenets.
The Prophet Muhammad, (Peace be on Him) on the other hand, foretold
the fact that his ummah would be divided into sevenw-three sects, all of
which would end up in the Fire except one only, and that is Ahlus-Sunnah
Wal-lama'ah. Many of those sects claim their adherence to the Book and
Sunnah. lf, for the sake of argument, their claim is held to be true, then
there has to be something else which distinguishes the safe sect from the
other sevenw-two.
lndeed, it is the way of understanding the Book and the Sunnah which
makes the difference. The tvvo great sources of lslam have to be
understood the way they were understood by the pious predecessors
amongst whom the Prophet lived.
Allah says: "Whoever opposes the Apostle after the right way has been
clearly shown to him, and follows other than the believers'wav. we shall
keep him in the path he has chosen, and burn him in Hell, and what an evil
destination." 4.115
'fenah is one of the prohibited form of buying and selling, as it involves usury
'Striving in the way of Allah.
tAbu Dawood.

The beirevers whom Allah cornmands us to follow held the right
a<7r'edah and gained prosperity. lt is unfortunate that most of the books in
English deal rvith lslamic issues which represent particular schools of
thought refleetrng the opinions of one particular imam or another. In marty
cases they are supported by weak ahaadeeth (traditions) or by none at all.
Thus we have taken upon ourselves in Al-Haq Publication Society the task
of making works of our pious predecessors, As-Sa/afus-Saalih, and of those
who follow their suit. available to our Muslim brothers who do not speak
Arabic, by translating those works into English, French and other languages.
We also have taken upon ourselves the duty of addressing the pressing
issues the N'luslims usually encounter in non-Muslim societies.
M.A.P. Society presents this book with a sense of fulfillment, as it indeed
contains the g,eneral articles of belief that are incumbent on all Muslims to
hold in order to safeguard themselves against every hideous tenet and
belief introduced to them under the false pretense of defending lslam.
The reader will find in this book the fundamentals of lslam and the
prescripts of faith, and other important issues supported by proofs from
the Qu/an and Sunnah and other reliable references.
I tried my best to convey the message of the basic text of this book, and
be faithful to the language of the original. Where necessary for the sake oi
making an idea clear, a strictly literal translation has been abandoned, and
besides the quotations from the Qur'an and Sunnah, I have introduced
footnotes and commetrtary where | {elt that a term or a concept requried
some elaboration. However, I would like to draw the kind attention of the
reader that although Qur'anic texts and Prophetic traditions in this book

are preceded with "Allah says" or "the Prophet said", yet only their mean-
ing is quoted in this book.

In conclusion, I am grateful to ,qllah that He gave me the chance to serve
His religion and my brothers-in-lslam.










Allah Almighty ordered all his servants to enter Islam and adhering to it and warned them of disobeying him. Also he sent His messenger to call to this. Allah told us that the one who follows him is the rightly guided and the one who turns away from his call goes astray. He warned us in many ayahs of apostasy, polytheism and disbelief.