Originally posted by AbuNajm
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It's obvious to me that you have read a lot - especially due to your work as a translator -, but it seems to me that when it comes to 'Aqida you have first and foremost read only what "Salafis" recommended you to read or what they have commented on from the classical works without getting much outside of that.
You should however have also studied Ash'ari works regarding creed - especially considering that most of the best works of the different Islamic sciences are written by them - in order to understand them correctly and not accuse them of being "Jahmis", while they're clearly not. I mean if they were indeed Jahmis - who by they way were heretics and not even Muslims! - then why do you read their books regarding the sciences of Hadith or Tafsir for example?
You should have also studied more works that Hanabila would teach themselves in the past to their own students and then you would have seen that I've definitely a point when I say that the traditional Hanbali creed is different from the modern "Salafi" one on more than just one level. I will get to the Hanbali works that I'm intending here later on.
There is another thing and that is an advice: Maybe I understood you wrong, but from your facebook account it seems that you have some sort of sympathy for SJ groups. Let me tell you that from far away it's easy to get fooled by their propaganda, but when you live in Muslim societies where these groups committed quite huge crimes (including killing Sunni Mashayikh and blowing up Masajid!), then your view of them will change very much. I'm telling you this as someone who does not regard any of today's governments in our countries to be legitimate from a Shar'i point of view, so imagine!
Once upon a time I used to live in the West and I was myself SJ inclined for a period of time (even though I always respected the 4 Madhahib) and showed sympathy towards them, so I'm telling you this from my own experience.
The best thing in our time is not to support any of the modern groups, but rather to be a simple normal Sunni Muslim who adheres to classical Islam and that includes the 4 Madhahib in Fiqh and the Ash'aris, Maturidis and Hanabila in creed. Remember that these were the people who transmitted this religion to us and that those people in our time, who want us to hate the Asha'ira or the Hanabila, are not even worth the shoes of these leading scholars, may Allah ta'ala have mercy upon them.
These very people who want us to hate the leading scholars of Islam before us and want us to regard their way as "deviant" have not even done 1 % of what they have done for this religion nor do they reach their level of knowledge and understanding in any way or form. Why is it that Allah ta'ala has given this Umma the greatest of victories at the hand of people who were known Ash'aris or Maturidis? Can anyone claim for himself that his group is more deserving of being from the victorious group which fights for the truth more than let's say the group of Sultan Salah al-Din [al-Ash'ari] (d. 589 AH)?
Anyways, let's get back to issue at hand.
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