Archive for March, 2007
Trouble with Sect Names eh?
Well you know how it is, you open up those old ‘Aqeedah books and you read all these terms.. Mu’tazilah, Qadariyyah, Khawaarij, Murji’ah, Jabariyyah, Raafidhah, Jahmiyyah… It seems like a whole lot of jibberish, but in trying to understand this I found a trick: many of them actually have some type of reason why they [...]
Why do we have Set Principles and Methodologies?
What would a science be without principles?
You fill up your arithmetics quiz, answering each question as fast as you can: 4+4=8…4-4=0…4 x 4= 16…. 4÷4=1
Wiping a drop of sweat off of your forehead, you hand in the paper to your teacher, who immediately grades it: you get a big fat zero! How can it be? The teacher answers: [...]An Introduction to the Principles of Argumentation in ‘Aqeedah
Picture yourself in this situation.
You’re giving a Halaqa to a group of new french-speaking converts. Most of them are new in the religion, and they’re all very interested in learning what are the basic obligations of Islam. Its a very diverse group, even though its geared for converts: there’s some old men, young teenagers, [...]