Friday, June 19, 2009

The "Salafi" belief that Allah has location

The jumhur of Ahlus Sunnah deny that Aļļaah is in a location because it means being confined in space. If something is in a location, then it is not in other locations, which means it is confined to a particular place in time. Moreover, being in a location implies being a body, because a body is something with size. Here the Imam of the Salafis Ibn Taymiyyah states:

فقد ثبت بموجب هاتين المقدمتين صحة قول القائلين بالجهة وقول القائلين بأنه جسم وكونه جسما يستلزم القول بالجهة
“…. It is established from what necessarily follows from these two premises, the correctness of the saying of those who say that Aļļaah is in a direction, and the saying of those who say that He is a body, and that Him being a body necessarily implies Him being in a direction (Bayaan Talbees Al-Jahmiyyah, 2 / 125).”

If this is what their Imam in Aqida adheres to, so who are they following when they deny this obvious necessity of direction and location? Who are these “salaf” they claim to follow? This is certainly an odd and deviant belief.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

"On Terrorism" discourse by Abdalqadir as-Sufi al-Murabit

"In every report out of Iraq, all the terrorist incidents are defined as coming from within “The Sunni Triangle”. Now there is no Sunni Triangle in Iraq, for the simple reason that there is no Sunni Islam, apart from some hundreds of heroic Muslims who have managed to lie low and hide their Deen. The regime in Iraq was authored by Michel Aflaq, a Lebanese christian socialist. His aim was a party that would situate the Middle Eastern states in a modern democratic and secular pattern. Up until the first Gulf War the Iraqi dictator received an annual telegram of congratulations from the Pope. The Catholic Church saw the Baath party as the means for the de-Islamicisation of Iraq and thus the Middle East. On taking power, his first action was the elimination of all the renowned and quite famous Sunni Muslim scholars. The dictator’s persecution of the Shi‘a did not begin until the Shi‘a Islamic revolution in Iran. Under the regime only two groups could gain promotion among the technocratic elite, christians and atheists... "

Abdullah ibn Adam comments on this:
"So now Abdalqadir as-Sufi has - despite his attempt at a "disclaimer" - basically made takfir on the Sunni Muslims of Iraq. I have a strong feeling that this may be partially due to the fact that it is primarily the Sunni Muslims of Iraq who are taking the lead in the jihad against the Americans and their allies. Just look at the way he describes the operations of the Iraqi mujahidun against the Americans as “terrorist incidents”; we might as well be reading an article from the CNN or the New York Times. See his other articles, and you will see the depth of his enmity and hatred towards the mujahidun in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan.You see, Abdalqadir in many of his articles seems to think that if the enemy invades and occupies your country in this day and age, the ideal immediate and effective solution is not to take up arms against them but rather to start trading with each other in dinars and dirhams, and start jumping up and down in sufi “hadrahs”.

One could add to this:
Why does this group "Murabitun" not equally condemn and criticise the kaafir regimes who imposed the wars on Irak and their wanton killing of innocent civilians. How many ulama were not also killed in the chaos and the invasion of Irak by the kaafir troops. It appears only Saddam an [arab] has to be blamed for killing [arabs]. Americans and Englishmen only came to execute divine justice of a sort which these pesky brown arabs probably deserve? Is this the Murabitun answer? If it is it is certainly odd and deviant.