04-29-2004, 03:19 PM
'Aqeedah
The clamour for Muslim unity worldwide is an issue that engages every Muslim. One cannot underestimate its urgency and the promise it holds, yet, any move in that direction is met with resistance from every quarter both within and without.
In any other scheme of things political, religious or economic, one can forge short lived bonds of unity to achieve a common goal. Not so with Islam, it would seem that an Unseen Hand prevents us from uniting unless we get it absolutely right from the very start. Hence the reason for a website dealing strictly with aqeedah, the matter of the mind which troubles us so deeply. No semblance of unity can we seek without first addressing the issue of our belief . That thing which motivates us, prioritizes our affairs, gives us the resolve on the battlefield,-fight or flight-, and determines the final outcome, heaven or hell.
Any effort in this regard, therefore bears its fruit in reforming the life and ambitions of the believer.
It will not profit the diseased heart, the one who plays the numbers game, running after those who enjoy popular support, is bribed easily by paper or the gift of speech or western accomplishments. To him the worship of Allah a thing to be prostituted before wealthy and influential while the true religion is pursuing every effort to co-exist with the unbeliever, sparing no effort to appease them and quell their anger and distaste.
The study of Aqeedah magnifies and exalts the book of Allah and the Sunnah in the mind of the muslim, no word becomes great than it, no one plays with its meaning and toys with its explanation to agree with popular opinion or some orientalist's idea or some techno-adjustment to suit the times.
Aqeedah studies connect you like no other way to that first generation of believers and those who followed them, giving you the dignity and honour and power they enjoyed. They truly, were the finest of companions anyone ever had, the leaders of Taqwaa.
As Ibn Masud said:
Allah looked at the hearts of his servants and found that the heart of Muhammad e to be the best of his servants' hearts and he chose it for himself and gave him prophethood. Then he looked at the hearts of the servants after Muhammad e and found the hearts of his companions to be the best of his servants and so made them those who would share in the task and burden of his prophet e , they would struggle and fight upon his religion to the extent that what they saw as good Allah accepted it and what they saw as bad Allah rejected it.