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THE CONCEPT OF UNITY AMONG MUSLIM

“The explanation of al-Jama’ah according to the people of knowledge: They are the people of fiqh, knowledge and Hadith.” (Sunan al-Tirmidhi, 4/2167; Ahmad Shakir ed’n) 

Imam Bukhari (Ra) stated in his Sahih (vol. 9, chapter. 10, English ed’n),  “The statement of the Prophet (saws): ‘A group of my followers will remain victorious in their struggle in the cause of the Truth.’ Those are the religious(ly) learned men (Ahl ul-Ilm).” 

Ghousal Azam, Hazrat Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani (ra) states: “There are 73 groups as foretold by Sayyiduna Rasoolallah (saws) and (bear in mind that), the Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat was the rightful group”. (Ghunyatut Taalibeen)

Imam Ghazzali (ra) writes: “The Ahle Sunnat Wal Jammat is the successful Firqah (group) and it is this Firqa which weighs or determines its thoughts and its according to the scales of the Holy Quran”. (Mujarribaate Imam Ghazal)

Ibn Taymiyya  described those who are the real Sunni’s in his Aqeedat-il-Wasitiyyah (pg. 154):  ” Their creed is the religion of Islam which was sent to the world by Allah through the Prophet (saws). But the Prophet (Peace be upon him) said, ‘My Ummah will get divided into 73 sects and each one will go to Hell save one and that one is the Jama’at.’ Also in one Hadith he said, ‘They are those people who will follow this path which I and my Sahaba follow today.’ Therefore they have caught hold of Islam unalloyed from every adulteration and these are the people of Ahl as-Sunnah Wa’l Jama’ah. This group includes the truthful, the martyrs and the virtuous; it includes the minarets of guidance, lamps in the darkness and owners of such superiorities and virtues who have been already mentioned. It includes the saints and also those Imams on whose guidance Muslims are unanimous.

Imam Sufyan Souri (ra) states: “By Sawad-e-Azam is meant those who are called the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat”. (Al Mizaanul Qubra)

Imam al-Bayhaqi: The Seventy-Seven Branches of Faith (pg. 42-3), under the fiftieth branch of faith (50 – Holding firmly to the position of the majority): “God Most High has said: Hold fast, all together, to the rope of God, and do not bedisunited. [3:103].

Imam Rabbani, Mujaddid Alif Thaani (ra) states in the second chapter, page 67 of his “Maktubaat Shareef” that: “The way of salvation is followance of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat. May Almighty Allah Ta’ala bestow blessings upon the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat, in their speech, in their actions, laws, for this is the successful group. Besides this, all other groups have become victims of deception. Today, nobody realises how much these misled groups will be punished, however, on the Day of Qiyamah this secret will become apparent. Even though at that time this knowledge will be of no benefit to the misled.”

 

Hafiz Ibn Hajar al-Haytami : “Man of bid’ah means one whose beliefs are different from the Ahl as-Sunnah faith. The Ahl as-Sunnah faith, is the faith of Abu’l Hasan al-Ashari, Abu Mansur al-Maturidi and those who followed them. One who brings forth something which is not approved by Islam becomes a man of bid’ah.” (al-Fatawa al-Hadithiyya (pg. 205)

Shaykh Abd’al Haq (Ra) writes in his famous book Ash’at-al-Lam’at’ “The group of Muslims on the correct path, who will enter Paradise, are the Ahl as-Sunnah-Wal-Jama’ah.”None of the Sahaba, the Salaf-e-Saliheen or the pious scholars of Islam followed the new ideas or beliefs. They strictly abstained from the groups who followed these deviated ideas and beliefs. Their beliefs and actions opposed these new ideas and beliefs. All the great scholars of Hadith and the great scholars of Fiqh of the four Sunni Schools of thought and their followers, all held the belief of the Ahl as-Sunnah Jama’ah. In addition, all the great pious Muslims and the Sufi Saints of the past and present, followed the way of the Ahl as-Sunnat Wal Jama’ah.

Shah Abdul Aziz Muhaddith Dehlawi (ra) states in his book “Fatawa Azeezi” (Vol. 2, pg. 4) that: “The various parts of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat in Aqaa’id such as the Ash’ariya, the Maaturadi, in Fiqh such as the Hanifa, the Shafi’i, the Hambali, in Tassawwaf such as the Qaaderi, the Chisti, Naqshabandi, the Suhurwardi, this servant considers all of them to be the truth”.

“As Rasoolallah (saws) has stated, follow this ‘Sawad-e-Azam’, and when the four Madhabs are within the Sawad-e-Azam then the following of any one of them, is followance of the Sawad-e-Azam. Therefore, refuting any one of them is refuting the Sawad-e-Azam”. (Aqdul Jayyad by shah waliullah)

When I want to talk to allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)

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