Author: Salafi Knowledge

الْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ الْعَلِيِّ الْأَرْفَقِ وَجَامِعِ الْأَشْيَاءِ وَالْمُفَرِّقِ

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Shaykh al-Saʿdī states in his poem on legal maxims entitled Manẓūmat al-Qawāʿid al-Fiqhiyyah:

al-Ḥamd: we praise Allāh because of the His perfect attributes, the blessings with which He has showered us, the vastness of His generosity and uniqueness of His wisdom. We praise Allāh because He is perfect in His Names, Attributes and Actions. All of His Names are absolutely beautiful and contain no blameworthy connotations. All of His Attributes are perfect from every angle and contain no defects or flaws. All of His Actions are beautiful because the revolve around justice and perfect kind treatment. This is why He is deserving of all praise.

Allāh: the One Who is deified (treated as a deity) and is worshipped, is deserving of being worshipped with all kinds of worship, and nothing is to be associated with Him due to the perfection of His praise.

al-ʿAlī: the One Who has absolutely perfect Highness from every aspect: Highness in Essence, power/estimation and subjugation.

al-Arfaq: He is the gentlest in His actions, and His actions involve the utmost degree of gentleness when it comes to our interests and His wisdom.

((The One Who gathers matters together, and separates others)): Allāh has brought together and gathered things which are similar in one thing and He has also separated things which are different in another. As humans, we share, along with everything else in the universe, of being created by Allāh. So, we share in being created. However, Allāh separated and made a distinction between us in our shapes, sizes, being tall, short, black, white, handsome, ugly etc.

Everything that Allāh does emanates from the perfection of His ability and wisdom, and in placing things in their appropriate places. And Allāh knows best.   

Manẓūmat al-Qawāʿid al-Fiqhiyyah by al-Saʿdī

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The Author

The Poem – click on a line to see explanation (still being updated as of Dhul-Hijjah 1443):

01 Praise of Allāh

02 Possessor of Blessings and Wisdoms

03 Praise and Protection on the Messenger

04 And His Followers

05 Greatest Blessing: Beneficial Knowledge

06 Benefits of Beneficial Knowledge

07 Understand these Maxims

08 Following the Successful Ones

09 Source of Poem

10 Supplication for Predecessors

11 The Intention (al-Niyyah)

12 Public Interests

13 When Public Interests Coincide

14 When Corrupting Matters Coincide

15 The Sharīʿah is Ease

16 No Obligation Without Ability

17 Dire Necessity Makes the Prohibited Permissible

18 Certainty is Not Removed by Doubt

19 Water, Earth, Clothing and Stones are Pure

20 Matters Prohibited by Default

21 Unless Evidence of Permissibility Exists

The Three Matters: Secondly…

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The connection between the “The First Matter” and this “Second Matter” is: Allāh brought you into existence and blessed you with everything to guarantee you success at a material level and a spiritual level, in this life and the next, and He told you about the noble purpose of your creation – to worship Him alone, and on top of that, He sent you guidance through a Messenger and a Book so that you would know how to worship Him, AND He promised you eternal happiness and enjoyment if you abide by His guidance. With that being the case, Allāh is not pleased with any partners being associated with Him when He ALONE did ALL of this for YOU. And this is what the “Second Matter” emphasises.

This is why He deserves to be worshipped alone. Sh. Ibn Bāz mentions that worship is the sole and exclusive right of Allāh. He quotes the following āyāt in this regard:

The first āyah quoted by the Shaykh tells us that Allāh has obligated us to worship Him alone. The second āyah tells us that we only have One True Deity (Ilāh) and the third āyah commands us not to associate anyone or anything with Allāh in our supplications, and as we know, supplication/invocation is worship and so the āyah means: do not worship anyone or anything along with Allāh.