By Shaykh Abdullah bin Hamid Ali A comparative study of ethics reveals the marked difficulty one has in identifying objectively universal standards for good and evil.  While that may be so, few would object to the declaration that natural disasters, like earthquakes that produce tsunamis, are sinister,...

Although Muslims believe that Islam is historically the last religion to be revealed by God to his creation, Muslims also believe that the fundamental message of all Divine dispensations has been asserting and submitting to One God: the infinite, the immutable, the All-Good; all this is articulated in...

Question: Is someone who has an idea that is kufr or “unbelief” thereby an “unbeliever”? Response: The short answer, somewhat surprisingly, is “not necessarily.” In some cases such a person is, and in some not. Many people today read an expression labelled in books of Islamic law as kufr,...

Abu Hanifa says in Al-Fiqh Al-Akbar about the qualities of God: “He has a hand, a face, and a self. So what He, High is He, mentions in the Qur’an of the mention of the face, hand, and self, they are all attributes of His with no modality (or description). It is not said that His hand is His power...

The words ‘Kalām’ and ‘Qur’ān’ are very closely related terms. In their original legal applications they are distinct in meaning. But in another way they are synonymous. In other words, the word ‘Kalām’ is usually applied to the beginningless attribute of Allah present with His being...

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I received a letter in Jordan not too long ago from a British Muslim, asking me questions about modern calls to replace traditional Islam with an ostensible “return to the way of the Salaf, or ‘early Muslims.’” When I answered one of these questions, ...