during travel and nontravel as was narrated in Hadith. We hold that Hajj and Jihad are continuous obligations with the Muslim rulers, whether they are pious or sinful, and nothing abolishes or invalidates these two obligations.
believe in the Noble Scribes and that Allah has made them to watch over us. We believe in the Angel of Death appointed to take the souls of mankind and jinn. We also believe in the torture in grave (i.e. during the period between death and the Resurrection) for whomsoever deserves it, and in the questioning of Munkar and Nakir (two angels who question people in grave after death) to the dead about their Lord, religion and prophet, as narrated in Hadiths of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and his Sahabah (Companions of the Prophet) may Allah be pleased with them.
The grave is a garden of the gardens of Paradise, or a pit of the pits of Hell. We believe in Resurrection, recompense for one's deeds on the Day of Resurrection, presentation of one's deeds, Reckoning, reading the persons records, punishment and reward, Sirat (the bridge over the Fire), and Mizan (the Scales for weighing deeds). Paradise and Hellfire are both creations and they do not end or perish. Allah had created Paradise and Hellfire before He created the creation and that he created people for them; then whomsoever He wills Paradise for will be admitted there as a Grace from Him, and whomsoever He wills Hellfire for will be put there as Justice from Him. Everybody do what they have been created for and toward what they would proceed.
Good and evil are predestined for the slaves. Ability, with which deeds are done, depends on success that is impermissible to describe the creation with, as it is simultaneous with the action. Ability is the one depending on Allah's creation of the ability to do good, which is forbidden to ascribe to creation. In terms of soundness, capability, mastery and defectfree organs, Ability ocurrs before action, and to which the following Ayah refers:
Allâh burdens not a person beyond his scope.
People's actions are created by Allah and acquired by the slaves. Allah does not make the creations accountable for other than what they are capable of and they are not obligated to do other than what He has made them accountable for.
This is the explanation of the expression: 'There is neither might nor power except with Allah!'. We say that no one has a trick, or a movement, or a shift away from disobeying Allah unless He helps. And there is no ability for any creation to perform acts of obedience to Allah and keep steadfast on them without success from Allah.
Everything proceeds according to Allah's Will, Knowledge, Action, and Predestination. His Will controls the will of everything else. His Action overrules all tricks. He does what He wills and is never unjust. He Himself is absolutely clear of any kind of defect or ruin and is free of any flaw or blemish. He cannot be questioned as to what He does, while they will be questioned.
The dead benefit from the supplications and charities made by the living persons. Allah (Exalted be He) answers supplications, fulfills needs, owns everything and nothing owns Him. No one and nothing is without need for Him for even the blink of an eye. Whoever thinks himself without need from Allah for the blink of an eye is rendered a disbeliever and becomes one of the people doomed for ruin. Allah has wrath and pleasure not like any of his creation. We love Sahabah of the Prophet (peace be upon him). We do not go to extremes in the love of any of them, and we do not disavow any of them. We hate whoever hates them or mentions them with anything bad. We only mention them with good. Loving them is religion, belief and pure obedience. Hating them is disbelief, hypocrisy and injustice.
It is confirmed that the Caliphate after the Prophet (peace be upon him) first went to Abu Bakr AlSiddiq (may Allah be pleased with him) in preference and to give him precedence over the entire nation. Then it went to `Umar ibn AlKhattab (may Allah be pleased with him) then to `Uthman ibn `Affan (may Allah be pleased with him) then to `Aly ibn Abu Talib (may Allah be pleased with him). They are the RightlyGuided Caliphs and Imams.
We testify that the ten people whom the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) gave them glad tidings to be among the dwellers of Paradise will be admitted to Paradise, just as the Messenger testified. His saying is the truth. They are Abu Bakr, `Umar, `Uthman, `Aly, Talhah, AlZubayr, Sa`d (ibn Abu Waqqas), Sa`id (ibn Zayd), Abdul Rahman ibn `Awf, and Abu 'Ubaida ibn alJarrah, the latter is The Trustworthy of the Nation (may Allah be pleased with them).
Whoever speaks well of the Sahabah and the Prophet's (peace be upon him) wives, freeing them of any filthiness and his purified offspring of any disgrace, is free of hypocrisy.
Salaf (righteous predecessors) and Tabi`un (Followers, the generation after the Companions of the Prophet) are among the people of good deeds and Hadith narration; jurisprudence and insight; they are mentioned with good and whoever speaks ill of them is not on the path (of truth).
We do not prefer any Waliy to any prophet (peace be upon them) and say that one prophet is better than all Awliya' together.
We believe in their Karamah (an extraordinary event performed by a pious person) and in what the trustworthy narrators reported about them. We also believe in the signs of the Day of Judgment, including the appearance of Al-Masih-ul-Dajjal (the Antichrist) and the descent of 'Isa (Jesus), son of Maryam (peace be upon him), and the rising of the sun from the west and coming of the creature of the earth. We do not believe any fortuneteller, soothsayer, or the one
who claims anything going against the Book of Allah, Sunnah and Ijma` (consensus of scholars). We see Ijma` as true and right and division as deviation and torture. Allah's religion on earth and in heavens is one and the same; it is Islam. Allah (Exalted be He) says, Truly, the religion with Allâh is Islâm. and, and have chosen for you Islâm as your religion. Islam is between excessiveness and negligence, between likening Allah's Attributes to those of His creation and rejecting them; between fatalism and Divine Decree; and between feeling safe from Allah's punishment and despair of His forgiveness. This is our religion and belief both outward and inward and we declare to Allah that we disavow whomsoever disagrees with what we have mentioned and explained.
We ask Allah (Exalted be He) to make us firm in faith and to end our lives while we are in that state and to protect us from the various kinds of deviant inclinations and divisive opinions and lowly schools, such as that of Mushabbihah (those who compare Allah's Attributes to those of His creation), Mu`tazilah (a deviant Islamic sect claiming that those who commit major sins are in a state between belief and disbelief), Jahmiyyah (a deviant Islamic sect denying some Attributes of Allah, claiming they are ascribed to people and cannot be ascribed to Allah), Jabriyyah (those who claim that mankind have no choice and are obliged), and Qadariyyah (a deviant sect that claims Allah has no power over His Creation and humans are independent of Him) and the other sects that disagreed with the Sunnah and the Muslim main body, and pledged allegiance to deviation. We are clear of them and they are deviants and lowly in our view. May Allah grant us protection and success!
End quote of Al-`Aqidah Al-Tahawiyyah, may Allah forgive its author and help His slaves benefit from it!