Faith & Reason, Emotion is not Enough

Peace,

Allah has guided the mankind thru His Kalam. The book of Allah is a guidance for one's way to salvation. It is true that He knows who may be rightly guided and who are not. At the same time there is enough knowledge in The Book to teach one the discreaton between the rightly guided path and the one which will not make the souls successful in the hereafter.

Therefore, those who follow The Book with sincerity, wisdom and consistency, are well in a position to decide what nation, what community or which methodology is in accordance with the guidance contained in The Book.

One cannot stick to what one is sure about and at the same time explore the places one does not wish to go to!

We are commanded to obey allah and the messenger - To wish what allah and His messenger has wished for us.

The recepients of guidance and in turn recepients of knowledge are those who preserved and transmitted islam thru their hearts. Instead of a debate over the term "guidance", our youth need true understanding of religion - which is made easy only in the companionship of the rightly guided, who we have among us to this day.

Nausheen

Bi ismillahir rahmanir raheem

Allahs relationship with his creation is real and active, he is always giving and guiding people, we have had 1400 years of Muslims being guided by Allah and him teaching them and through them they have preserved this religion with the knowldge he has given them. The fruit of Taqwa is knowledge and nearness to Allah and more knwoledge and more nearness to allah. As your knowledge of him and his deen Increases the closer you become to him and the closer you become to him the more knowledge you are given. this is a real relationship, one the prophets have had with Allah as well as his Awliyah.

Whoso obey Allah and the Messenger, they are with those unto whom Allas has shown favor, of the Prophets and the saints and the martyrs and the righteous. The best of company are they! (4:69)

"Those who strive hard in Us, We shall most surely guide them in our Ways" (29:69) and ittaqullah wa yu`allimukumullah ("Be aware of Allah, and Allah Himself will teach you" 2:282), and the hadith man `amila bi ma `alima warrathahullahu `ilma ma lam ya`lam ("Whoso acts upon what he knows, Allah will make him inherit a knowledge that he did not have").

The Shaykh al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi in the second chapter of his Adab al-muridin describes such striving as a kind of door which leads to nearness to Allah.

Imam Bukhari said: "The Knowers (al-`ulama') are the inheritors of the Prophets, that is: they have inherited (their) knowledge." The first part of his statement is actually an authentic hadith of the Prophet. Thus it is beyond anyone's reach to put limitations on the gifts Allah bestows on His Friends.

The inheritorship of the Prophet's knowledge by the great scholars is illustrated by al-Khatib's relation from al-hafiz Abu Nu`aym whereby Abu Nu`aym considered it incumbent upon all Muslims to invoke Allah for Abu Hanifa in their prayer due to his preservation of the Prophet's Sunan and fiqh for them. Another example is the following account about Imam Malik related by Ibn al-Jawzi in the chapter entitled "Layer 6 of the People of Madina" of his book Sifat al-Safwa:

Abu Mus`ab said: I went in to see Malik ibn Anas. He said to me: Look under my place of prayer or prayer-mat and see what is there. I looked and I found a certain writing. He said: Read it. (I saw that) it contained (the account of) a dream which one of his brothers had seen and which concerned him. He said (reciting what was written): "I saw the Prophet in my sleep. He was in his mosque and the people were gathered around him, and he said: I have hidden for you under my pulpit (minbar) something good -- or: knowledge --and I have ordered Malik to distribute it to the people." Then Malik wept, so I got up and left.

Observe the attitude of the awliya towards the meeting with the Prophet in dream and their strong belief both in the absolute credibility of such dreams and their particular contents. This one explicitly states that the Prophet has kept something good hidden for his Umma, and that he continues to give it through one of the greatly learned `ulama after his time.

Similarly Imam Ahmad cited in Kitab al-zuhd, also Ibn Abi al-Dunya, Abu Nu`aym, Bayhaqi, and Ibn `Asakir from Julays from Wahb ibn Munabbih who said: I saw the Prophet in my sleep, so I said: "Ya Rasulallah, where are the Substitutes (budala') of your Community?" So he gestured with his hand towards Syria. I said: "Ya Rasulallah, aren't there any in Iraq?" He said: "Yes, Muhammad ibn Wasi`, Hassan ibn Abi Sinan, and Malik ibn Dinar, who walks among the people similarly to Abu Dharr in his time."

The Prophet said: "There are some among Allah's servants who, when they swear by Allah, He vindicates them" (Bukhari and Muslim).

The above are a small number of Quotes relating to the matter. It would be wise if a person new the specifics of the methodology they are rejecting and the purpose it serves as well as its aplication.

rami wrote: Bi ismillahir rahmanir raheem Allah requires action from us for there to be guidance, this is the meaning behind Saydiah mariyams efforts during childbirth. Allah asked her to shake the trunk of the date palm tree so the dates could fall out, he asked her to act before he granted her the miracle of the dates falling from the barren. The trunk of these trees are not small and in no way could a women in middle of giving birth have the strength to shake it tothe extent that date fell out.

Yes He requires taqqwaa(fear, conciousness of Him). First taqwaa and the rest is to Allah,

33:70 Yaa(O), who have become secure(have faith) fear Allaha and speak a firm speech.

Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo ittaqoo Allaha waqooloo qawlan sadeedan

He will better your works and forgive you your debts(sins), and whoever obeys Allaha and His sent one*, then he has achieved a magnificent victory.

Yuslih lakum aAAmalakum wayaghfir lakum thunoobakum waman yutiAAi Allaha warasoolahu faqad faza fawzan AAatheeman

So first taqwaa and the rest is to Allah.

 

  *sent one: he who was sent with the truth.

Guidance should be sought with Allah, there is none that can guide after Him.