📘 ❞ Understanding the Evil of Innovation ❝ كتاب ــ ابو المنتصر بن محمد علي

عن كتاب Understanding the Evil of Innovation:
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" W h a t m a k e s y o u w e e p ? ”

This book is to be seen as a modest attempt, a small but significant and sincere contribution, to the input of materials pertaining to Islam which set to curb and eventually uproot evil and establish righteousness, so that people are helped in clinging to the only way that affords them safety from the Fire, and brings them closer to Allah with a submission to his will that is borne of easiness as a result based on correct knowledge and understanding.