One Day Aqeeda Intensive - Dr Akram Nadwi

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AN EVENT NOT TO BE MISSED!!!


MATTERS OF FAITH: A ONE DAY AQIDA INTENSIVE

by the prominent Faiqh and Muhaddith Dr Muhammad Akram Nadwi

26 April 2008

1st Floor Hall London Muslim Centre, Whitechapel Road, London

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for more information visit:

http://www.easy-talk.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3707&sid=f8f104386ca686244d31854fe1269294


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This course will enlighten the minds and hearts, as we take an extensive insight into:

1.The fundamental beliefs of Ahl lus Sunnah wal Jammah with reference to Aqeeda al-Tahawiyah.
2.You will learn and identify major sects in Islam and their current manifestations
3.You will explore the differences between Salafi Ashari and Maturidi schools.
4.You will also gain a deeper understanding of aqeeda: a living reality and not just theory!


Course Materials will be Provided

Limited seats. First come first serve basis.

Fees: £10.

brothers contact: 07939 059 819
sisters contact: 079230 072 698

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Dear brothers and Sisters..

the above one day intensive on AQIDA will only be able to facilitate for limited numbers of people so please confirm your seats ASAP.

wasalam

[Nazias]

Is it possible to provide more information about the speaker?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Akram_Nadwi

Mohammad Akram Nadwi is an Islamic scholar. He is from the Indian city of Jaunpur. Shaykh Mohammad Akram Nadwi studied and taught Shari'a at the prestigious Nadwatul 'Ulama (India).

He is a Muhaddith who has specialised in 'Ilm ul Rijal or the study of the narrators of Hadith. He has Ijaza (licenses) from numerous scholars including Shaykh Abul Hasan Ali Al-Nadwi, Shaykh Abdul-Fattah Abu Ghuddah and Shaykh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi. He has a doctorate in Arabic Language from Lucknow University, India, Mohammad Akram Nadwi studied Islamic sciences at the prestigious Nadwat al-Ulama in Lucknow, specializing in hadith and fiqh, subjects which he also taught at that madrasah. He did his doctorate at the University of Lucknow. He has written over 25 books, in Arabic, in the fields of hadith, fiqh, Islamic biography, and Arabic grammar and syntax. He has recently completed a 40-volume biographical dictionary of the muhaddithat, the women scholars of hadith. He has translated and adapted the muqaddimah of this work in English under the title al-Muhaddithat: the women scholars in Islam (2007). Also now available in English is Madrasah Life (2007) the translation (from Urdu) of his personal memoir of a student’s day at Nadwat al-Ulama.

His al-Fiqh al-Islami vol1 published by Angelwing Media / is an original compilation of the fiqh (the codified legal rulings) of Imam Abu Hanifah and his school. For the first time in the English language, the detailed rulings of this school are presented together with the evidence on which they are based; every argument is fully and carefully referenced. Also, the author has taken present day circumstances into consideration, making al-Fiqh al-Islami the first authentic, reliable and relevant account of Hanafi practice in the English language. As a leading scholar steeped in traditional Islamic learning and in modern academia, Shaykh Akram is currently a research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford.

[Nazias]

:jkk:

[MMS]

looks useful :D

[RashidD]

Wish i could be there...

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salam,

There are limited tickets so if you are interested please call the numbers and get your tickets!

wasalam

[MMS]

salam,

There are limited tickets so if you are interested please call the numbers and get your tickets!

wasalam

is this talk going to be recorded??

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Insha Allah it will be recorded, but there is a special blessing to sit at the feet (there will be table and chairs) of teh scholar..:)

[easy-talk.org]

Anyone from this forum attending?

[easy-talk.org]

im guessing we are all shy?:coolbro:

[easy-talk.org]

? lol:D

[MMS]

i want to go insha'Allah but its like a month to go yet, and i don't pre-plan stuff because it never works out :p
we have a lot of events in London but this seems to be one of the proper useful ones that you can actually go and learn something :o

[Chained_Water]

we have a lot of events in London but this seems to be one of the proper useful ones that you can actually go and learn something :o
It seems like many people are only interested in the uni scene and the handful of speakers that do the uni circuit.. they're the events that get the biggest buzz on the forum anyway.

[MMS]

It seems like many people are only interested in the uni scene and the handful of speakers that do the uni circuit.. they're the events that get the biggest buzz on the forum anyway.

aherm yeah lol i wonder why :outta:
naa lol some of them do serve as emaan boosters or good reminders but they different from these type of events where you can gain some proper knowledge insha'Allah

plus the speaker studied under Shaykh Hassan Ali Nadwi RH :inlove: bound to be summin good about him iA :p

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aherm yeah lol i wonder why :outta:
naa lol some of them do serve as emaan boosters or good reminders but they different from these type of events where you can gain some proper knowledge insha'Allah

plus the speaker studied under Shaykh Hassan Ali Nadwi RH :inlove: bound to be summin good about him iA :p

Alhamdulilah all events have benefit, masha Allah.

Dr Akram is a truly amazing scholar and i think it will benefot anyone of us to sit near him and listen to his words, insha Allah....MMS just buy the tickets that way another reason for you to defo attend..

We have sold all tickets! alhamdulillah so good to see so many people eager to learn and aquire islamic knowledge from scholars of the highest calibre! Due to overwhealming demand/interest we have increased our ticket allocations... but not by a huge number (as we want to cerate a condusove ambience for learning) so if your interested and still have not got hold of your tickets yet... hurry hurry hurry!!

The Rasool (saw) said, in a hadih in Sahih Muslim:

"Whoever sets out in search of knowledge, Allah will make easy for him the Way to Jannah."

May Allah give us all tawfiq!

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Salam all just 2 reminders:

1. Please get your tickets, only a few remaining!!!

2. Try and log onto www.mcrlive.net at 10pm tonight, to listen into easytalk, an online radio show!

www.easy-talk.org

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Masha Allah, our shaykh Dr Akram Nadwi the facilitator for the upcoming course on Aqida (26 April 08) at the London Muslim Centre recently recieved The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2008, The Allama Iqbal Award...


http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/index/press.php?pr=255

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Salam, all.

Alhamdulliah Thus event took place and was by the grace of Allah a huge success. We had over 75 brothers and 85 sisters in attendance (yep we squeezed extra people in..) and Shaykh Akram did not disappoint.

I wanted to know if anyone from here attended? what did you make of it? Post your feedback on here and if possible on the Easytalk Forum as well?

http://www.easy-talk.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3707&start=210

[Abu Zayd]

We had the Aqeeda course today (26.04.08), which was Alhamdulillah very beneficial. It wasn’t as in-dept as I hoped it would be. This was because of the lack of time. I think it needed at least a whole weekend. However the Sheikh did manage to put across vital information, which, judging from some of the audience there, did not expect from him.

During the build-up to this event there were many discussions, on-line and off-line, regarding the “Sheikh’s Aqeedah”. I have therefore written below the notes I made during the class which Insha’Allah will help put at rest some of the concerned minds. These notes were obviously for me, so I only wrote down those points that I thought were important to note down. They are those written below. Some of them are the Sheikh’s quotes.

The organisers will Insha’Allah be putting the talk on CD/DVD.

There were three main parts to this one day course:

1. The fundamental beliefs of Ahlal Sunnah Wal Jama’ah, with reference to Aqeedah Tahawiya (We went through the whole text with brief explanation)
2. Defining Ahlal Sunnah wal Jama’ah
3. Major sects in Islam
4. Q&A

Finally I would just like to say that if I have made any mistakes in taking down these notes, or if I have misunderstood or misrepresented the Sheikh, I ask Allah for His forgiveness. Insha’Allah the CDs/DVDs should soon be out so people can hear/see the talk themselves.
(Shiplu Miah)



The Notes:




On Asma Wa Sifaat:


- The Asharis and the Mu’tazillas went into two different extremes.

- “Whenever the Asharis and Matrudis differed from the Salaf, they could not give any satisfactory answers” (Akram Nadwi)

- The Quran is not just the “meaning” from Allah, It is the “meaning and the wording”.

- “You cannot say that “Qul hu Wallahu Ahad” is the meaning from Allah but not His words” (A.Nadwi)

- Jibraeel (AS) brought the message with BOTH, wording and meaning.

- “The Asharis have a similar problem like the Muttazilis in relation to Asma wa Sifaat... They say Allah has only eight eternal attributes. Who told you this??! Is it from the Quran or Sunnah??!” (A. Nadwi)

- When the Asharis make all these attributes into one or seven, they are limiting Allah.

- “Every Attribute is different from the other and has a different meaning”. They are not the same.

- “We are not like those Asharis who limit the Atributes of Allah to seven/eight” (A. Nadwi)

- “We believe Allah’s Attributes are unlimited” (A. Nadwi)

- “We believe in Allah’s Attributes as Allah has described Himself” (A.Nadwi)

- In relation to the Asharis, the Sheikh said- “don’t make the Attributes the same as each other. If you do not know, then ask the Scholars!” (A.Nadwi)

- The Sheikh criticised the Asharis for affirming some of Allah’s Attributes and not others, like Love of Allah, Hand of Allah. In relation to this the Sheikh said “They run away from one problem to a bigger problem”.

- “If you can believe in Allah’s knowledge and say it is not like the creation, then why do you have a problem with Allah’s Hand, Love etc.” (A. Nadwi on Asharis)

- The sheikh criticised the philosophers, saying that philosophy can always be refuted; therefore their belief will never be firm.


On Defining Ahlal Sunnah Wal Jama’ah:


- There are 3 groups that fall within the A.S.W.Jamah: Salaf/Athari , Ashari and Matrudi.

- “The Aqeedah of the salaf’s is the safest and this is what I follow” (A. Nadwi)

- The Aqeedah of the salaf is that of the early generations which include: “Imam Abu Hanifa, Malik, Shafi, Ahmed Ibn Hanbal, Laith Ibn Saad, Awzaa’ee, Shaybaani, Sufiyan At’Tawri, Tahawi, Abu Yusuf ect.” And “this is what I prefer and follow” (A. Nadwi). They all believed like each other.

- Whilst the Ashariya and Matrudiya are from their respective founders and students.

- The Ashari and Matrudi schools spread due to the increasing interest of Philosophy in the Ummah. This is why it gained acceptance. The people were asking questions that were never asked before. Therefore Ashari/Matrudi used the philosophy to take people away form Mutazzili beliefs.

- The Ashari and Matrudi school was a “response” to the Mutazzili problem.

- “If we don’t have the problem (anymore) then we don’t need this (i.e Ashari/Matrudi schools)”. (A.Nadwi)

- People are not being affected by philosophy like before, so no need to resort to the Ashari/Matrudi ways. “We have to go back to the Salaf” (A.Nadwi)

- “Ashari ya and Matrudiya are of the past”. (A. Nadwi)

- “Most people do not even know what Ashariya/Matrudiya are about yet still try to somehow propagate them” (A.Nadwi)

- “We don’t need Ashari and Mutrudi anymore”(A.Nadwi)

- Ashari and Matrudi are part of A.S.W.Jamah. They defended Islam from the onslaught of the deviants. It was a response for their time, so we no longer need that (Ashari/Matrudi Schools) anymore.



Miscellaneous Notes:

- One good thing about the Khawarij was that they didn’t lie, as they considered major sins taking one out of Islam. Therefore they were actually good narrators of Hadith. (Sheikh was laughing when saying this)

- Istiwaa: We believe in it, and do not ask how. The sheikh then quoted Imam Malik’s famous saying regarding Istiwaa.

- When asked during the Q&A to elaborate on his saying of “Allah’s Attributes being unlimited”- he quoted Ibn Taymiya and then said this is what the salafs believed.

- When asked during Q&A regarding point no.38 of Tahawiya (Allah not having any parts and Limbs) - The Sheikh explained this point as “Allah not having any parts that are similar to us (creation). His Hands are not like our hands”

- “I don’t agree with them (Ashari/Matrudi) but they are still part of A.S.W.Jama’ah” (A.Nadwi)

- “Read Ibn Taymiyas books. Very good” (A.Nadwi)

- “I prefer to follow the way of the Salaf and the Muhadditheen (as opposed to Ashari/Matrudi) , because you only go to the metaphorical meanings if there was a need to, but there is no need to give metaphorical meaning to Yad (referring to Allah’s Hand).

- When the sheikh was asked to recommend any Sharh (explanation) of Tahawiya, the Sheikh recommended Ibn Abil-'Izz al-Hanafi's explanation. Also recommended Sheikh Al Albani’s Muqadimah.

- When Asked about Ibn Taymiya—the Sheikh said that Ibn Taymiya was from the Aqeeda of the Salaf.

- “Ibn Taymiya was one of the great defenders of the Aqeedah of the Salaf” (A. Nadwi)

- “We praise and love Ibn Taymiya like we do with Abu Hanifa”…”He was a defender of Islam”. (A.Nadwi)

- "If you want to disagree with Ibn Taymiya, that’s fine, but at least read his books first" (A. Nadwi)

- I asked in the Q&A session if Fiqh Al Akbar was correctly attributed to Imam Abu Hanifa. The sheikh said he is currently researching into the writings of Imam Abu Hanifa and will insha’Allah soon be publishing a book on it. He said that Fiqh al Akbar is not Abu Hanifa’s as Imam Abu Hanifa didn’t used to write any books. Also he said that the language and some of the topics within the book shows that it cannot be from the lifetime of Imam Abu Hanifa, as those topics and the manner of explaining them came about long after the Imam. He said it is most probably from his Students’ student or later Hanafi students. These students may have gathered the information form the fatawa and sayings of Imam Abu Hanifa, and therefore the attribution of the book is justified, but the book itself, in terms of wording etc, is not that of Abu Hanifa’s.

- I then asked- despite the controversy surrounding the attribution of the book, is the contents of the book good? He said yes it was a good book.

- Qadiyanis are Kuffars. They are not even a “sect” of Islam.

- During Q&A when he was asked about the differences between Brelwis and Deobandis, he said there were some similarities as well as differences. The similarity being that they both are Hanafis as well as following same Sufi Orders. He said the Brelwis believe that the Prophet is alive because Allah says that the martyrs are alive, so therefore the Prophet, who is better then the martyrs must be alive. This is their logic. However the sheikh then criticised them for this. He mentioned the verses of the Quran that talks about the prophet’s (saw) death, as well as Abu Bakr (RA)’s statement after the death- “Those who used to worship Muhammed, let him know that he is dead…”

- The sheikh said that the best of the awliya are not better than the lowest ranked Companion of the Prophet (SAW).

- The sheikh criticised the sufis that do not question their Sheikhs at all. He then gave an example of a Ahlal Hadith student who had a Hanafi Sufi teacher. When the teacher told him that he had “ilhaan” (inspiration)that the best and most correct Medhab was Abu Hanifa’s, and that it will remain as such till the day of judgement, so he told him that he must follow it. The student, who was the first to ever question the Sheikh, told him I do not follow your “ilhan”, rather show it to me from the Quran and Sunnah where it says that the Hanafi Medhab is the best and that I must follow it. The Sheikh, who was a pious man, realised his mistake and told the student that he was correct. The moral of the story being- Not to give unreserved obedience to a teacher for they are humans, prone to error.

- He criticised all those groups who label themselves and are constantly fighting each other due to their ignorance and blind hatred. He gave an example through a true story from India. There was a Sikh store where the muslims would by their goods. But news was spread that this Sikh has become a “Wahhabi”. So those scholars that were against “wahhabism” told all the muslims in the area not to by from the “Wahhabi Sikh’s store”. The Sikh after some time found out about this and so went to the mosque and told the imam, please tell them I am not a wahhabi. The Scholars then announced that “the sikh is no longer a wahhabi, so you can buy from his store”! (The sheikh was laughing when narrating this, highlighting the ignorance and misunderstanding that exists between groups). Furthermore he went on to say how if a so called “wahhabi” would enter their mosque, they would insist on the mosque being cleaned, whilst others would demand the mosque being rebuilt!!

[MMS]

thanx for posting notes :up: