01-08-2007, 03:09 AM
Assalamualaikum Brothers and Sisters,
All praises are for ALLAH and peace and blessings on our beloved prophet (sws). Whoever ALLAH guides none can misguide and whoever ALLAH lets to go astray none can guide. The worst thing in religion is innovation and every innovation is going astray and whatever that goes astray is in hell. I bear witness that there is no diety worthy of worship except ALLAH and i bear witness that Muhammad (sws) is HIS slave and messenger.
The only thing i want to point out to our brothers and sisters with my very limited knowledge is the statement in the story " He (God) can live anywhere in the universe, but He chose your heart." , is the concept of pantheism, introduced by mushriks. According to this concept god is omnipresent, but i am afraid this is not the aqeedah of the salaf and ahle-sunnah-waljama'ah. This is the same concept which gave rise to wahdat-ul-wujood, proposed by likes of Ibn-arabi etc. I don't want to criticize anyone, but my point is part of the ayaah of the Quran which says "......... He is with you wheresoever you may be.................." (57:4), refers that Allah is with us through his knowledge, and to be on the safe side we should just say that we don't know how HE is with us, we just have to believe in the Quran that HE is with us and that's it. May ALLAH guide us to follow the Quran and the Sunnah and make us inhabitants of jannat-ul-firdaws.
Your brother in imaan
imran
Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuhu