Continued going through the main text, dealing in particular with the issue of talab (making a request) and the difference between it and khabr (imparting information).

Taqreeb at-Tadmuriyyah

Taqreeb at-Tadmuriyyah - Lesson 4

Some of the matters or points covered:

- Expanding on the principles regarding affirmation and negation of Allah’s attributes.
- What Allah affirms for Himself are all attributes of perfection with no deficiencies unlike the creation whose attributes contain deficiencies.
- All of the attributes which are negated for Allaah are attributes of deficiencies and imperfection. By negating, the perfect opposite is affirmed.
- In the Qur’an overwhelmingly affirmation is specific but negation is general. Some example ayaat provided. However, there can be exceptions to this (i.e. affirmation in a general sense and negation in a specific sense) when the need arises.

Taqreeb at-Tadmuriyyah - Lesson 6

Some of the matters or points covered:

1) Examples of tafseel (specific mention of names and attributes) to show that this is indeed what the Qur’an has come with and this is how we speak about Allaah (Subhaanahu wa Ta’aala).
2) Negation – when make negation from Allaah there’s no such thing as a pure negation in and of itself without it implying and indicating the opposite of it which is perfection.
3) Just because there’s similarity in the name/label, doesn’t mean that there is similarity in the reality i.e. just because two things have the same name, does not mean that the realities are the same. This is one of the most important principles to understand.

Taqreeb at-Tadmuriyyah - Lesson 7

Some of the matters or points covered:

- Those who deviated in the issue of Allāh’s names and attributes are of two types: 1) Mumathilah and 2) Mu’attilah
- How both groups exaggerated in one aspect and fell short in another aspect.
- The shubhah (doubt) of the Mumathilah and how this is false and rejected by way of: 1) revelation 2) reason and 3) observation.

Taqreeb at-Tadmuriyyah - Lesson 9

Some of the matters or points covered:

- A look at the basic argument of the Mumathilah and how to answer their misconception and deviation.
- Description of the Mu’attilah and their division into a further 4/5 groups.

Note: just after the 31 minute mark there’s a slip of the tongue regarding the ending of verse [42:11].

The handout mentioned in the lesson can be found here: https://islamtees.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Taqreeb-Tadmuriyyah-Deviation-in-Allahs-Names-and-Attributes.pdf

Taqreeb at-Tadmuriyyah - Lesson 10

Some of the matters or points covered:

- Negative theology.
- Aristotle’s “Ten Categories”.
- The deviation of the people of Kalām.

The handout mentioned in the lesson can be found here: https://islamtees.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/taqreeb-tadmuriyyah-kalam-theology.pdf

Taqreeb at-Tadmuriyyah - Lesson 11

Some of the matters or points covered:

- Basic principle regarding how we speak about Allah (subhānahu wa ta’āla).
- A look at four groups:

1) Philosophers
2) Jahmiyyah
3) Mu’tazilah
4) Ash’ariyyah/Māturidīyyah

their statements, arguments they use and positions they hold.

The handout mentioned in the lesson can be found here: https://islamtees.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/taqreeb-tadmuriyyah-four-factions.pdf

Taqreeb at-Tadmuriyyah - Lesson 12

Some of the matters or points covered:

- The statement of Yahyā bin ‘Ammār regarding the Mu’tazilites and Ash’arites.
- Quote from the book regarding the Mu’atillah, the people who denied what Allah named Himself with and described Himself with (attributes), doing so either fully (like Jahmiyyah) or partially (like Mu’tazilah, Ash’ariyyah and Māturīdiyyah).
- A more detailed look at the Ash’arīs and Māturīdis – the 7/8 attributes they affirm, upon what basis and how they affirm these attributes (the basic process, step-by-step sequence).
- The three stages in the life of Abul-Hasan Al-Ash’arī.
- Response to the Ash’arīs and Māturīdis regarding their position of returning back to the aql (intellect) and making it the foundation or criterion for affirming or negating the attributes of Allāh.

Taqreeb at-Tadmuriyyah - Lesson 13

Some of the matters or points covered:

- A more detailed look at the Jahmiyyah including their position regarding the names and attributes of Allāh, and the response to this (with five out of the seven points of refutation mentioned in this lesson).

Taqreeb at-Tadmurriyah

Taqreeb at-Tadmuriyyah - Lesson 16

Some of the matters or points covered:

- The remaining two points of refutation against the view and position of the Jahmiyyah.
- The extremists among the philosophers, Jahmiyyah, Qaramitah, Bātiniyyah, their position regarding the names and attributes of Allāh, and the response to this.

Taqreeb at-Tadmuriyyah - Lesson 17

Some of the matters or points covered:

- Principle/Rule 4) Those who claim that the meaning of the texts of the attributes is Tamtheel fall into four matters that have been cautioned against.

- The thought process of those who deny the Attributes of Allāh (سبحانه و تعالى), the nature of their mistake and the various sins/faults they fall into.

- Many of those who start presuming things about the attributes (majority or all them) which are clearly mentioned in the text, they wrongly believe that this attribute they find in the text resembles the attribute in the creatures.

- For example, when Qur’ān mentions Allāh’s mercy, face, hand, etc, they think of its reality in the creation i.e. the mercy, face, hand of a man.

- This is the starting point of their mistake. They find this repugnant and evil in their heart and will then take a number of steps; either distort the text or say the text has no meaning at all, no one knows it.

- The four cautioned against things:
1) The errant understanding of those who think the actual meaning of the text of the attributes means affirming attributes which resemble the attributes of the creation.
2) committing a crime against the actual text by distorting it, denying and rejecting what the text clearly and apparently indicates.
3) Doing negation of the text without ‘ilm (knowledge). ‘Ilm is what Allāh said, the Messenger said, the Salafus-Saalih said. Reason for doing this must therefore be based upon Jahl (ignorance) like philosophy e.g. from Greek or star-worshipping philosophers. Such people fall into another grave and heinous crime, speaking about Allāh without knowledge. [see 7:33 in the Qur’ān]
4) When denying and rejecting what text clearly indicates, you are basically affirming the opposite imperfection. If Allāh is not hearing then He must be deaf, If Allāh is not seeing then He must be blind, نعوذ بالله‎. This is attributing shortcoming and deficiency to Allāh and transgressing against the right of Allāh. By doing so, resembling Allāh to things which are deficient such as likening Allāh to those things which don’t hear or see like a table, wall, etc. So trying to flee from Tamtheel but likened Allāh to those things which are less imperfect than man.

- All of these things are making ilhād (deviation) in Allāh’s Names and Attributes.

- Why not just say: “This is an attribute of Allāh, not like the creation, we don’t know the kaifiyyah (reality) of it.”

- Finally, important clarifications regarding istiwā’ (as mentioned in the Qur’ān) and Fis-samā (as mentioned in the famous authentic hadeeth regarding the slave girl).

Taqreeb at-Tadmuriyyah - Lesson 25

Calling to the correct understanding of Islam, the Qur'an and Sunnah upon the understanding of the Salafus-Saalih (Pious Predecessors).

Taqreeb at-Tadmuriyyah - Lesson 10

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