Misguided Beliefs and Groups in Islamic Theology

Misguided beliefs often arise from prioritizing intellect over Quranic teachings, leading to distorted understandings of faith.

### Understanding Misguided Beliefs in Islamic Sects
* 🕌 The text discusses various extreme sects within Islam, particularly highlighting the Shia group, which is accused of **actual worship of leaders** and is deemed by some to be **worse than Jews in terms of disbelief**.
* 📜 It is stated that there is a consensus among scholars about the **disbelieving nature of these groups**, with **no disagreement on this issue**.
* 🧠 The beliefs of these sects are examined, noting that they often introduce **new principles that deviate from traditional Islamic teachings** established in the first **300 years after the Prophet Muhammad**.
* 📚 Al-Azhar University in Egypt is mentioned as a significant institution where many students hold **correct beliefs**, despite the dominance of other creeds among officials.
* ⚖ The discussion includes the concept of **justice** in these beliefs, which is often **misinterpreted**, leading to a rejection of **Allah's names and attributes**.
* 🔍 The text emphasizes the importance of **adhering strictly to the Quran and Sunnah**, warning against relying on **personal intellect over established teachings**.
* 💡 The speaker urges individuals to **seek knowledge about the core beliefs of Islam** and to **avoid misguided paths** that deviate from the teachings of the **righteous predecessors**.
* 🙏 Finally, the speaker encourages attendees to **ask Allah for guidance** and to **remain steadfast in their faith** against the influences of **misguidance present in various sects**.

### Understanding Misguidance: The Impact of False Beliefs and Historical Contexts
* 📚 The text discusses the importance of reading scholarly works to understand the **criticisms directed at the companions of the Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wasallam)** and the **misconceptions surrounding them**.
* 💬 It highlights the problematic nature of calling upon the dead, emphasizing that such actions **associate partners with Allah**, as outlined in the Quran, which warns against **invoking those who cannot respond until the Day of Judgment**.
* ⚖ The discussion includes a critique of philosophical arguments that separate Allah's names and attributes, asserting that this leads to the **false conclusion of multiple gods**, and stresses the **significance of maintaining the integrity of Allah's attributes**.
* 🛡 The text warns against groups that manipulate religious teachings to misguide followers, noting that they often **beautify their misguidance with appealing names and principles** to attract the masses.
* 📖 It also touches upon the historical context of various sects, including the J and Shia, explaining how these groups often base their beliefs on **individuals rather than the Quran and Sunnah**.
* ⚔ The text concludes by reaffirming the value of the companions of the Prophet, stating that their contributions were **crucial for the spread of Islam**, and emphasizes the Quranic praise for them as a **counter to the criticisms they face**.
* 🔍 "Indeed, Allah is pleased with the **first forers of the faith** and those who follow them in **righteousness**," serves as a reminder of the companions' **esteemed status** in Islam.
* 📜 Lastly, it warns readers to remain vigilant when encountering **unfamiliar terms or groups that deviate from traditional teachings**, encouraging a return to the **foundational texts of Islam for guidance**.

[Music] uh as you all know, as we said the last time, there's not a sufficient time for us to go through the other articles of faith. Inshallah, I'm trusting you, you know, and you go back, you'll do some research, inshallah, huh, and you will realize, inshallah, you will learn, you'll get at least the fundamental principles and the understanding of the other articles of faith, right? Of course, believing in Allah is the most important, but every single one of them is needed, and if you're missing a single one, you cannot be a Muslim. If you don't believe in one of them, you're not a believer, right? You have to believe in all of them to be from the believers, so it's very important, inshallah, for you in your spare time to look into that. So right now, in all, just very briefly, you know, you say briefly, mean even more briefly, right, to go through some of the main misguided people, because you know, misguidance is many, many groups of

misguidance right, and each of them you will have a long time talking about them if you want to go into detail of what they did, what they didn't do, but we'll just give a brief overview. For the main reason we want to give the brief overview is that when you see that name, you hear that name, okay, you have red bells going on, right, and I will tell you an advice: anytime you hear a name other than Muslim, you should have red bells in general, right? Like, okay, what's going on here? Okay, tell us more about this. So, whenever you hear anything other than Muslim, mmin believer, you know we have other terms of the people of the truth, you hear the reason we have this term, it's the people of the Sunnah. Everyone believes in the Sunnah, right? People of the group are either the group of the Muslims, the people of Hadith are the people who believe in Hadith. All of these terms, no one is going to hear and be like, you know

something is going on here because we all have to believe in these things, right? People who follow theous predecessors, no one is going to be like, you know what, there's a problem with this. I minut you start hearing strange names, you know where's these names coming from, right? The minute you hear these names and someone calling himself something in relation to these names that you've not heard, you don't find the Quran and the Sunnah, you're like, okay, something is going on here. Always be aware. So, we're going to mention them, so at least have a general overview, just a very basic quick overview, inshallah. So, uh, we'll start with uh, some of the groups, the head of the groups, one of the earliest of the groups, if not the earliest of them all, with the J J. Where is this term, the name j, coming from? It's coming from someone who's called. We have obviously these uh, were people in the early Generations. However, uh, when Islam spread, when Islam spread, uh, Muslims.

start started dealing with non-Muslims in the beginning. It was just the Arabian Peninsula, right? Arabs dealing with Arabs. Then Islam spread, and then they started dealing with the Greeks and translating the books of the philosophers and encountering, you know, Aristotle's writings and Socrates and all of these people. And what ended up happening is some of the Muslims, they were debating some of these people of philosophy, right? And when they debate these people of philosophy, sometimes, you know what? They don't want to say, We believe in it because it's in the Quran. They want to use the intellect and put the intellect over the text. Now, if there is any disease in what we're about to talk about, it comes back to this issue. Any issues, any disease comes back to this issue, is that you do know what? You do not want to stick to the Quran and the Sunnah, and you want to use something else, which will always be based on your desires and the

intellect always. So, if we think about all of the groups that we're going to talk about, it will be the same thing. They don't want to stick to the Quran and Hadith and whatever evidences is applied. So, J are a group of people. Now, when they started reading the books of the philosophers, they started adopting their principles because they want to win the debate. You know, you see people today debating a lot, right? And what happens in debate sometimes? The debate, winning the debate is more important than the truth. So, because they want to win the debate, they will compromise the principles of Islam. Now, they wanted to prove something basic. It's called It's an Evidence, you know, to show that, you know what, we want to prove that this world has a beginning. So, what they ended up doing, because the Allah has names and attributes, and the philosophers told them, If there's names and attributes, you have a problem. Have more Gods, many gods. So, they ended up denying all Allah's names and attributes. They denied Allah's names and

attributes no names, no attributes. You see Allah. Allah did not speak to M. It's in response to the verse. Allah says in the verse. Allah spoke to you. Know this is emphasis. Allah is putting emphasis that Allah spoke to M. We Believe Allah speaks. And when we say someone speaks, it means with sounds on letters. Yeah, if we all know this is how people speak, right? This is what speaks is. When we say speaks, this is what speech is. Now, in relation to Allah, we said we have something in similar, the meaning, but the Hess for Allah is different than ours. So, Allah's sound is not like our sound. And in the Hadith, there's an example for that where Allah speaks. The person who's far away hears him the same way the person who's close by hears him. Is my sound like this? Is any human being's? Is any creation's sound like this? No, but the sound of Allah, speech of Allah is not like ours. But Allah speaks with sounds and letters. These people now, they said the sounds, letters, beginning, end.

philosophers were going to deny all of this, and Allah took IIM as no, no, no, this is, you know, that doesn't make any sense to my mind, so we need to deny all of this. So, what they ended up doing is that they denied Allah's names and attributes completely, completely. And that's why they were excommunicated by all of the righteous predecessors, even the misguided groups today. They would be upset if you called them J, you know, say J, be like, Come on, like, yeah. Because we have clear statements from saying that they're disbelievers, from Shaf, from other of the righteous predecessors, saying that they are disbelievers, yeah. So, because they said they are disbelievers clearly, because obviously they denied Allah's names and attributes. No one is trying to say I'm that. No one calls himself that name in this day and age. You know, you might find one crazy person, one lunatic or something, but generally, the majority of the people are not going to call themselves this name. But there's a reason I'm

mentioning it because you know just like we as human beings have children and grandchildren and progeny. The J have also children if we're going to talk about them right now and grandchildren who took from their principles but they disagreed with them just like your son does not follow everything you tell him right. He takes many things from you but then he deviates a little bit and then his son takes from him and then he deviates a little bit but they're all in this case problematic because the father here is the source of all misguidance. So we're going to look at the progeny of the as well one by one. That's why we start by mentioning them even though people agree that they're misguided but they will have preny. So the next Children of the J came. They are the we have the J and then we have the the are the children of the J. You know what the did you know they said you know what look these are very bad man. They deny Allah's attributes. We're not going

to do that, we affirm that Allah has names but no attributes. Sorry, say that again. Allah is but he has no. Allah is the most powerful but he has no power, the most wise but he has no wisdom. Was like, do you understand language? Do you speak? Are you okay? He would say to you, yes. The reason we do that is because when we debated with the philosophers, same same issue. They told us that more than one attribute means more than one God. Say what? Sorry, say yes because each of these attributes is eternal and therefore you have more than one Eternal and therefore you have more than one God. We say but are you separating the attributes from the individual? If I say speak to any of you sitting down here and I say your speech is another person and you're hearing is another person and if you're old he's old and if he's young where is this intellect? Where you bringing this intellect from? But believe it or not that was their principles. That's why just because of this stupid argument they've ended up denying

Allah's attributes affirming his name and denying his attributes. Then they ended up also bringing principles of misguidance. But I'll tell you something very important. The people of falsehood always do this. They name Misguidance with beautiful names. What do they do? They name Misguidance with beautiful names because if they tell you a bad name, no one is going to be interested. So they tell you, We have five main principles. Five main principles. The first one is what? Listen to this beautiful name. The first name of the first principle is and. What do you mean by is? What we said to deny Allah's attributes because they say many attributes means many gods, so we'll make it one now. Take all of the attributes. We say just one Allah. So it's, you see, we're doing so. They call it, so they beautify it with a beautiful name to misguide the people. And trust me, this is a principle you'll always see the people using. You see people of misguidance, many of which

who we're about to talk about. They will use the name they will tell you we are because they cannot tell you something else that you might not like to hear. You know, if you tell them a name you've never heard before, they'd be like, No. They will tell you, Or we follow the righteous pred. They will tell you these things, but when you start listening to them, do they quote the Sunnah? No. Do they quote the companions? Did they quote the Quran? No, no, no. He'll tell you, My intellect, our teacher, or this person said this, that person said. They're not going to tell you the Quran and the Sunnah, so be careful of that. So the hadith said five principles, right? The first was what they call the second principle. The hadith was called Justice, mashallah. What do they mean by Justice? Ah, what do they mean by Justice? Who can tell us what they mean by Justice? Who knows? Does anyone know? Yes, they, uh, they Den not that Allah is the creator of the action of the slave.

they not yes so they deny they deny the because they say it's not just if Allah knows or Allah wills and we're punished. We Believe Allah wills and also have a will but they say no no no no it's not just it's not just right so we have Justice and then they have another principle third principle that principle they will call a one state between two states and what they mean by that is a person who commits a major sin person who commits a major sin is neither a Believer nor a disbeliever say sorry so it's either you're a Believer or a disbeliever why you bringing another thing into the picture they would say to you there's something in between and this is coming from which are the heads of they were sitting down in the cting of alassan albas who was from the righteous predecessors and then they said to alassan albas what do you say about the person who commits a major sin what do you say

about he said is not a disbeliever. He said to him, I see he's not a Believer, he's not a disbeliever, he's in a state between. And then he left the Maj, the sitting of alassan alas. Then he left us, and that's why the term comes from, right? The name comes from this idea, right? And then, uh, they had these principles, these five principles, uh, they said, What do they mean by like applying the punishment that Allah said he's going to apply? And what do they mean by that is, huh, who knows? Does anyone know what in means applying the punishment of Allah? Is that the people who commit, uh, sins, they're going to be in the fire forever. Believers, you're going to be in the fire forever. That's what they mean by applying Allah's punishment, you know? So if you're a Believer, you're not going to, as a Muslim, you're not going to leave the fire. You're going to remain in the fire for good. And they will say that

is applying Allah's punishment. Allah said this punishment, and we're applying his punishment. So, they use these names, and they try to change and manipulate and play games in order for them to deceive and confuse the masses and confuse the people. It's very important to know this. They have these fundamental principles that they use to misguide the masses, to misguide the people. Now, this is, as we said, are the children of what? H who? What is the first name that we said? Let's see if someone remembers. So, they are the children of the J, and many of the... If you're familiar with the... We're going to talk to them about them briefly as well. Many of the... were in their Creed, in their beliefs. They were also in their beliefs, right? So, we have now the children of the J. Now, we have the grandchildren. Ah, let's see if someone knows who are the grandchildren of... I'm not going to tell you. You probably know, huh? Let's see some people. I know will

know, yeah, okay, what, and the today are the biggest group now left because obviously now we have the CH, the grandchildren. He's the one who survives, isn't it? Not going to have the grandfather surviving and the father surviving. Come a time and they will die, and then they will remain the grandchild. So the grandchild that is left is thehar. Now if you say that to the say to you, you what you talking about, we are the people who refute, you know, and that is actually true. They did refute the but by denying Allah's attributes as well. Same thing. So while you had the J refuting the philosophers and you had the refuting the J and taking some and leaving some, you had the doing the same thing. So we're going to refute these guys, but we're going to also bring our own int ual principles, not Quran andah. We want to use our own intellect, and based on it, we're going to affirm and deny. So what the ended up doing is affirming only seven names and

attributes of Allah. Now, if you ask the do you affirm only seven names and attributes of Allah, he would say to you, No, you're a liar. Affirm many more attributes, but his attributes is Allah is okay, brother. What is this? What is these terms? Have you ever heard this in? Have you heard these things? No, but these are the attributes they affirm. So, for us, we don't consider these actually attributes. That's why we say they only affirm seven, because whatever these other attributes they affirm, they're not in the Quran and Sunnah. They just made them up using intellectual principles, right? Using their own intellect, intellectual principles. They have these 20 so attributes that they're just like made up, right? Seven of them are attributes we affirm right now, as it is said for him, is Life, Speech, Sight, Hearing, Well, Knowledge, Ability. So, they affirm this, but actually, if you look in reality in their books, they don't really affirm them, but we're not going to go into deep detail. That's why, right? So, for example

speech. C. You'll ask them, Do you believe the Quran is from Allah? They will say to you, Yes, we believe the Quran is from Allah. We affirm speech for Allah. Does Allah speak with sound, the letters? No, there's AI in no, no, no, no. You don't understand theith. Come to me, I'll explain the Hadith to you. Speaks there does not mean speech sound. There does not mean sound like language. Doesn't mean language. This is how it is with them. So, they would, in this case, not really affirm the speech because they're not saying that Allah speaks. What do they mean? They mean there's the Quran that we read. This ask, Did Allah say Al? They say to you, No, what do you mean say Al? There's something called the internal speech. Allah said it internally. Now, right now, I've told you all something. Did you hear it? According to the I did tell you something. You know, that's the internal speech. Does anyone rational with his mind call this speech? Is this cam? Do we call this

speech the telecommunication alien telecommunication. I'm doing with you right now. It's not speech, is it? And the Arabs, none of them call this cam. None of them call this speech. Doesn't exist. But they use a verse of the Quran. They say Allah says about the. So they liken Allah with the. And they say within themselves, If only Allah would punish us with what we say. So they say like this, like this, like this. You see, same, same way. Allah, he's got internal speech. We say to them, Allah said. They say in themselves, He didn't say. They say unstopped. He said, They say in themselves. To clarify clearly that this is a special thing here, that they're not outward speaking. So this verse is evidence against you because there's no need to say in themselves. If speech include both of them, then why did Allah say in themselves? He just said He and They say, right or wrong. He would just say And they say. But we know that speech is not like that. And we say, Allah says only He.

speaks. Allah calls upon. Can you call upon in your telecommunication. Says about and we called him. So is to call someone with a high voice. That cannot happen in any language in telecommunication. In Alien telecommunication right. So they don't only affirm the speech of Allah but they will pretend they do right. As well as pretending that they affirm the other attributes but when you think about it they don't really affirm them. So why. Because they have the same problem as their predecessors. Is that they put the intellect above the text. And then they put fundamental principles and use these fundamental principles in order for them to deny everything in the Shar. Deny everything. Everything important obviously. Everything is. Does goes against their own principles. Their brothers you see. Because the grandson is not alone in this case. He's got a brother. One twin brother. That twin brother is called the mat M. Okay. This these are the twin brothers of the. And then mat. The twin brother of the. They believe in very similar things just like twins. You know. There's very

few disagreements when you have with the twins, like very small disagreements, but they're very close, same thing. They're almost identical twins. They're not identical twins, but very close. So they increase one more attribute, they call it the queen, okay brother, the Quran. Allah say he's, he, where you bringing this from? Same thing as the bring extra attributes from their pocket right now. Where, who is the head and the founder? We sit for the, we have, we sit for the, for these people now. Who is for the, is someone who's called, and I want you to understand one thing very important here. You see all of these names, they're always STC back to what? To an individual. What did they tell you about the names of the people of the truth, people of the Sunnah? Is that a person? Is that a person, people of Hadith? Is that a person, people who follow the righteous predecessors? Is that one person? But you go to the people of falsehood, they're always like this. They had someone who innovated for them beliefs, and then they followed his

principle, and they're called after him. In this case, there's a person who was called Abass Aban Aban, and he was born in 260 AH, and he died in 324. For the first 40 years of his life, he was like his father, you know, father-son, we said, right? So, he was a, or sorry, the, in this case, yeah, the father, yeah, was the grandson. He was a, he followed his father-in-law. So, I'm not just even making this up. It was actually his father-in-law, right? His father-in-law was called, and he was a, he was one of the, so he took his same beliefs from his father for 40 years. Then, he started like, you know what, it's time for puberty, you know, we're not going to continue to follow whatever we hear, we're going to disagree. So, he started debating against his father-in-law, and then he went to another person called Kab, who's also misguided in his own way, right? And then he ended up towards the end of his life.

setting his own creed now abari uh unlike uh the other people. There's a happy ending for the story. He repented towards the end of his life. He repented. Many of the righteous predecessors did not accept his repentance because it's not up to them to accept, not it's up to Allah. But meaning apparently they didn't bring him in the inner circles because they were wary of him, right? You lived all of your life and you move from one place to another place. You cannot just bring someone, you know, we don't know what you're going to do next, so you give it some time, right? So wrote three books actually that show this is not our opinion that he repented. He wrote three books actually that show that three books are there that shows that he changed, changed and repented. And he says I'm the same belief as IM Ahmed now. I'm repenting and you have his students quoting these books which means that they affirmed that he wrote these books. They're authentically attributed to him.

but the of today they don't follow him after he repented yeah so now we go back before the happy ending of the story they follow him in that time in which there he set his own maab and you see he set this maab and they will tell you we follow up ask him he'll say do say to them but this person said this m three over 300 years after the prophet so the sleeping for the past 300 years what was going on they'll say to no no no no the companions believe this he just H explained it he start looking at his teachings has nothing to do he doesn't quote the companions nothing to do with what the companions were teaching nothing to do with the Quran nothing to do with the Hadith we say to them okay you're claiming but when we look at what you believe it has nothing to do with what you're claiming so that has principles many principles they've got many uh which they would call Scholars right they're called the people of

Cam 'cause they talk much, and this is the truth: they do talk too much, but I'm not making this up. Here, they called the people of Cam because they use the intellect too much. Yeah, until and then all of the buildings fall, and then they talk, talk, talk, talk, but they don't reach a conclusion. So, they call them the people of Cam, people of speech, because they talk, and they talk, and they talk, but they never give you an answer. So, the people of Cam, they set principles. Some of these principles in which we were explaining the beliefs of Ah is that accept the reports, right? Any report from the prophet authentically attributed, we accept it. These people, on the other hand, you will see them telling you, No, no, no, no, no, no. If the report is not mut, is not mass transmitted, as we explained on mut in the previous talk, if it's not mut, then, uh, you know what? We can reject it. They will say this: reject it. I'm not like, We're not making this up about them. If

you're welcome to go, and I would hope you wouldn't read because it's not a good book for you to read. But if you're welcome to read the writings of RI, for example, RI has a book in which he calls, I believe in chapter either 31 or 32, he calls it the chapter of the news of that is not M. And then he explains his principles. If any of these generations or any of the text opposes our intellect, he says intellect, but he means his intellect, then we can either change his meaning, do change the apparent meaning, or reject it. It was a way to do something with it, you know. So they tell you that explicitly clear, right? So they put these fundamental principles. The fundamental principle is the intellect pred the text, and based on the intellect, we can reject reports if they're not mass transmitted, and we only accept them in creed if they're mass transmitted. We say we accept everything the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said. So they go into

misguidance not just in the names and attributes of Allah but also in the reports, but also in so, in every almost angle, or most of the angles, they will have a disagreement. But they are today, if you remember, of the names, there today are the uh, the biggest leftover group, you can say, right, as we said, the grandson that is left, okay. So, this is the family of the J, other than the family of, I don't want to go this extensive detail when it comes to the, I'll tell you that much, but just giving you brief introductions, right. Another group uh, is uh, Shia H, everyone is laughing, mashallah, okay. So, the, and, and they are, as you say, they need no introduction, yeah. So, the Shia, most of us know about the Shia, alhamdulillah, we know the problems that they have, but the Shia, they have different groups. Some of the groups of the Shia are the Z, for example, the Z, you had the sh from them, etc. You have, they were closer toah, they were closest among.

the Shia to then you have the majority of them who are the we use many names for them but they are the majority. There are the twers, the ones that believe in 12 imams. He's the overwhelming majority today, right? Those 12 ver. What is our issue with them? First, they call themselves sh. What does mean, huh? Yeah, it means group. But if you add a name, then the party of or the group of, uh, group of who? Ali SOI, the cousin of the Prophet Sall Alam, may Allah be pleased with him. We love him and we revere him. But do you see the same thing I told you before? These groups go back always to one individual. In this case, he's free from them, but they always attribute themselves to an individual. You see this always happening. Sometimes it will be very rare in which they want, but there will be a reason why they W, and we'll talk about that. But in most cases, you see that they're always attributing themselves, bringing the beliefs from

somewhere and these beliefs have to come from an individual because they're not sourced in the Quran and Sunnah. If they were sourced in the Quran and Sunnah, they wouldn't need to call themselves after the name of someone. So, what do they do? They have, of course, they exaggerate in, we said, we praise him, we love him, but what they, they go to the extent of some of them, they call upon him for help in need whenever they're in a problem. Instead of calling upon Allah, call upon him for need, right? Some of them say he was born in the Kaaba. Many of them say he was born inside the Kaaba. You know, it's news for every, but he was born inside the, some of them say he was coming, but he made a mistake, U-turn. Instead of going to the prophet, he went to, not, this is not, none of this is made up. This is literally in their books. They will tell you this. So, we're not saying all of them believe this because you come across, tell you, I don't believe.

this say okay yes but open your books and read them. See what your teachers or your Scholars, they said. This is what they say, and uh, they curse the companions, they curse the companions and the wives of the Prophet sallallahu alai wasallam due to the issue that happened between or you say the F that happened between, right? So they do on the companions wholesale. Now we respond to them first by saying like you call upon someone who is dead. There are other groups that do this. Why is the problem with calling upon someone who's dead? It's associating with Allah, and we explained before why it's associating with Allah, and we gave verses of the Quran. Allah says, And who is more misguided, the one who calls upon someone who's not going to respond to him until the day of judgment? He's unaware of your Dua, and when the resurrection and Gathering happens, they will be your enemy, and they will deny your worship. So calling upon someone who's dead, who cannot hear you and help you, is what?

worship with the testimony of the Quran. Allah says, Call upon me and I will answer you. Those who refrain from My Worship. So, he said, Call upon me, and he called it worship. The Prophet said, To make Dua is worship. So, they call upon people who cannot hear them, who cannot benefit them, who cannot help them in need. We say to them, This is problematic. We the Quran before the Hadith because you might have issues with some, you don't like companions, but the Quran is there refuting you. The companions of the Prophet, Allah praised them, and He promised them Jannah in the Quran clearly. Allah says, Indeed, Allah is pleased with the first forers of the faith and those who follow them in righteousness. Allah is pleased with them, and they are pleased with Him, and He prepared for them Gardens beneath which rivers flow. Allah says also in, and we believe we mentioned the verse before when we talked about the companions briefly. Allah says, Those Who migrated before the and after. Allah promised them.

All right, so this is how Allah speaks about the Companions and tells us to follow them. And you curse them, Prophet. He said, Do not curse my companions. With the one who has the soul of Prophet Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, in his hand. I, he Allah, by Allah, if one of you spends like the mountain of gold, it will not be equal to the mud which is like the handful or half of it. If they were to give it, you will give a mountain of gold. If they were to give a handful or half of it, it will not be equal to it because of their virtue. They are the ones who made us, they are one of the reasons why, with the will of Allah, that all of us are Muslims here today. If they didn't do their da, no one here would be Muslims. No countries will have accepted Islam. They carried the torch of Islam, and they are the ones who delivered the message and the wies of the Prophet. Alat, if I curse any of your wife sitting.

down here is this cursing you or just your wife. That's why you see if you say someone had this belief in the worst creation of friends and his wives were all this believing evil women and he's going to end up being the saint, for example, or what you are cursing him because you're saying his companions who he took as his company are the worst of the creation. Not only that, you're saying Allah chose for him the worst of women and the worst of companions. Does that make any sense? Allah will choose for the prophet Muhammad, the best of B Adam, the best of the humans. He will choose for him a group of evil disbelieving companions and evil wives according to them. That makes sense in their mind. For us, we say if you attack someone's company and you attack their family, then you're attacking them. And this is the indirect truth of the claims of these people. And then you have the and Z, which are groups.

are extreme. They do actual worship of Ali. They worship their leaders, actual worship, prostration, and worship. These are the said they're worse than the Jews, you know, so they are more disbelievers than the Jews, he said. So these are even, you know, there no doubt about them. Like you have them in Syria, and you have some, you have Isia in India and other parts of the world as well, right? So, uh, and they are complete, uh, disbelievers with the agreement of the scholars. There's no like disagreement on this issue, right? So these are the main beliefs, by the way, as I said, they're just main beliefs of the groups, right? Main beliefs of the Shia, Shia believe other things, right, of course, and they have other problems, and they're in their creed. They are in their creed, yeah, because we talk about the, they believe the same things as the, when it comes to the attributes of Allah, most of them, majority of them. Now we have

the H you heard the name before K are those who to do is to exit something right is to exit something where does this name come from it comes from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam right where the Prophet sallallahu alai wasallam there was a person called and that individual called he said to the prophet be just for you're not just the prophet sallu alaihi wasallam is telling him you're not being just and then the prophet he said they will come from the progeny of this a group of people that they will kill the Muslims and they will leave the non-muslims the ISIS group is one is an example look at their catch most of whom they kill is Muslims you leave them are Muslims do you see them doing operations in Israel do you see them there last time I checked they're doing in Sai Yemen that's what they're doing here they will kill the people of Islam and they will leave the people of Idols leave the disbelievers.

and then the prophet said they will exit the religion like the arrow exits the bow. This is where the idea of the term comes from. They said the person who commits a major sin is a disbeliever, and they said that we need to rule with what Allah has revealed. And what they mean by rule what Allah has revealed is that we say everyone is a disbeliever, you know, essentially what that's what they mean. If you do anything wrong, you do a major sin, you're a disbeliever, and they killed. So these are groups, and you know, we don't have much time left, but I'll try in 2 minutes actually, you know, maybe or three, just give a brief. So we give you five minutes for Q&A, maybe a brief kind of thing before that about the Sufis. So first, we said to you, these groups always come back to a name of a person, but when it comes to the Sufis, there is a person who wrote a book called and his

book uh he called the sahafi because that term sui coming from W or SF meant that a person is not in need of this worldly life. He's just focusing on the afterlife. That's early what it meant but later on the scholars criticize him because how can you call the companions this term when now it's being misused. Now what they mean by is to exaggerate in the praise of individuals the righteous people. Now they uh if someone is a good person they say he's a w of Allah. This person you kiss his hand you know bow his feet you know drink his pet all all of the stuff trust me you'll go to that extent and they have all of what they call and the other issue they have is the idea of innovating in the de of Allah innovating new things in the religion that the prophet told us whoever bring anything in this religion that is not from it is rejected and Allah told us this religion is perfect in the Quran. Perfect means 100%. If you add it

will be 10 than one. There's no 100 one. If you subtract, it's 99, 98. It's no longer perfect. And the prophet said, There's nothing that would bring you closer to Allah except that I told you, and nothing that will take you, that will make you further away from Allah except that I forbade you from. So, there is nothing that is missing from this de of Allah. And this is just a brief, as I said, and I'm sure we missed other few groups here and there maybe, but these are main groups. Let's just say perhaps, and just briefly, the problematic beliefs and why they're problematic beliefs that they hold. And we ask Allah to keep us all upon the correct beliefs, the beliefs that please him most, upon the beliefs of his companions, may Allah be pleased upon all of them, and upon the behavior of his companions, may Allah be pleased upon all of them. And let's take quickly a few questions before we end, inshallah. Uh, okay. Uh, yes. Huh? No one question.

yeah, to my question, is you explain like the connection between the and yeah, okay, so so when it comes to Al-Azhar in Egypt. Al-Azhar is a university, is an institute for those who do not know in Egypt, and it's one of the most world-renowned institutes, like with Medina, when it comes to when people look at Islamic universities in general. But in Al-Azhar right now, it is dominated by an theed, it's do by the creed. Mean when we say dominated, we mean the officials, but in reality, there are many, many, many people in it that are not upon that creed. There's many people within the university that are upon the same beliefs as the righteous companions. They believe the same things. So it's not, we cannot say that all of the institute is problematic, right? There are many people who are upon the correct beliefs there. And still, I would tell you that this institute is better than the general public school, for example, in that in the country Egypt, because this university is in Egypt, is better than

the public school still because they still teach, but what you need is to clarify the problems that are in some of the books. If you want to put your children there, you have to know the correct beliefs and clarify for them, This is incorrect, this is incorrect in whatever they've been taught, right? So, it is a mixture of both. It's dominated by, but there are many good people in it. I can say that much, okay? Huh, yes. [Music] What is the origin of... We said in the beginning very briefly means the people of... That's it. You are the people of the Sunnah, meaning that you accept the Sunnah, you believe in the Sunnah, you implement the Sunnah. J means the group of the Muslims. Now, there are a that you can use like the prophet said upon my... and in some narration be upon the... So, some scholars, they said they taken from this, but generally we said the no... no one will tell you you will have to call.

yourself like this. This is the important thing, right? No one will say you have to call yourself my name is your name is Muslim, but do you believe in the Sunnah? Are you a part of the JAMA of the Muslims that believe the correct beliefs or not is what matters. Okay, H yes um you give a quick summary on how someone who's not as educated as you are um should know about like to avoid going down path of. Okay, so I would say first and foremost you ask Allah for guidance. Prophet Muhammad who's the best among us all. Allah says in the Quran if we did not give you firmness you would have inclined to the towards the disbelievers a little bit. Allah is saying about the who prophet of Allah sallallahu alaihi. That's why the prophet one of the the DU he used to say the most. Oh Turner of Hearts keep my heart firm on your religion right because the most important thing to know is that the

the firm establishment is from Allah. Now secondly, you look at the people, as we said, who say we are upon the same beliefs. They're proud to say this. We are upon the same beliefs as the righteous predecessors. They will say to you this, right? We're upon this, but they also be upon in implementation. They're not going to be like where this group, you know what, these people are bad, don't go sit down, this only our mjid, you can pray, and then be like there's a warning here. We're not talking about these ones, yeah, talking about the ones who are actually be upon in behavior and in belief. They're not like believ in they a sect. They don't believe they're a sect from what sense? From the sense is that they excommunicate everyone else, right? And they is just us, we're the only ones who are winning, right? So you look for these people who are proud to call themselves this, okay? And they are not controversial. See the scholars, they're praising them, they're okay with

them you don't see them engaging with back and forth with each other. Yeah, the that agreed upon like like you know these these right and there's many of today many in other parts of the lands as well right and all over the world okay and they're not only in one region. Yeah, let's be very very clear. Yeah, okay. Yes, huh. So that was wrong for denying when he was his last days. Huh. So what would you say about that. Well, the answer is simple. Scor has explained this mult multiple different times. Prophet Alam was a state of sickness so he was not fully aware of his surroundings cuz he was in a state of sickness. So did not want to to give him the pen and he's not aware he might but what of what he's writing. You understand cuz he's not in a state of uh full realization. But we' say to them okay what about when the prophet he said to him right the prophet said to him remove in the and he didn't. He said I'm not going to remove it. What about this huh. Yeah so

We say to them, Okay, let's use your same principle. We explain to you why we didn't do this. You explain to us now why you did not want to do this. And we know the reason we give an explanation because we love. We say the Prophet out of the love of the Prophet. He believes he's the messenger of Allah and he doesn't want to fall under what the disbeliever wanted because we said we don't believe you're the messenger of Allah. Why are you writing the messenger of Allah? Remove it. And the Prophet said, Okay, remove it. He didn't remove it. He didn't. He said, No, he's not want to remove. He doesn't want to remove it. He said, No, basically, essentially like said, No, yeah, but this is a different situation, different thing. We'll take the last question, inshallah. Yes, go ahead. Um, you want to see the video before and very he made a claim that many Ash claim today, the majority of own themselves, um, many ases, uh, claim this, uh, and the build of past Empires AR.

like they were heavily dominated politically by. Okay, so okay, excellent question. We end with this in first. I want to say this right, and hopefully we can put also the camera on the people if you, uh, yeah, his question, just to repeat the question if someone didn't hear it. He said a lot of the say that thear are majority of the um, a lot of the previous civiliz civilizations you want to say or rulers in Islamic history, etc. And how do we, what is the response to this? I'll say from the people sitting down here. Let's do a demonst and demonstrate this fact. How many people sitting down here knew what is really KN them, know their beliefs, and can tell me about their books? How many people actually know about, like, actually know what they believe? Raise your hand. Huh, one, two, three, huh, majority of the um Mah. So if you go to that random person in the street and you ask him, What is he's going to say to you? Is that a food? Is a dish? I'm going to eat it on dinner.

or what majority of the majority of the um does not know their hand from their leg. You tell me know this is a false claim in every measurement. If you don't apply, you go down. You're going to ask the people, you'll see. But generally, uh, we said founded his beliefs after the 300s because the first 40 years he was upon even with their agreement. Now we say the first 300 years of Islam had the best of generations with the testimony of the Prophet. But there was noism. None of them could have been an ashar because the found the principles of abass that he said in his books was not said before. And for you to claim that they believe them, you have no proof for that. You cannot bring the US proof for that. So these fun, we say we believe the same thing, the same statements. We bring the statements and we say we believe it. You introduce new principles and you're claiming that they believed it. You cannot prove that. We'll tell you go ahead. How is the majority of

the um, where is the majority of the um, without the's predecessors, there no um, without where is the um, without d's predecessors, right. This is what we basically respond to them, but this very quick response. We don't want to go into much detail, and uh, sorry for like what, two minutes more, three minutes more. Okay, anyways, like no, no, we have to finish this, like we're already 3 minutes more. So, for being eager and sitting down, we see M. I've seen say, I've seen the same faces three times for the three lectures. So, may Allah bless the people who attended all of the lectures and give us all acceptance, inshallah. Anything I said correct is from Allah. Anything I said wrong is from me. And the time now for our she. I just clocked him over there. He's coming right in time, yeah. So, we'll clear the MJ for him in. Go ahead. [Music]

Brief Overview of Misguided Groups | The Muslim Lantern

Beacon of Enlightenment

The Historical Interaction of Muslims and Non-Muslims

Islam initially spread from the Arabian Peninsula, leading Muslims to engage with Greek philosophers and debate their writings.

This intellectual exchange caused some Muslims to prioritize reason over religious texts, leading to misguided beliefs.

The discussion highlights the importance of adhering to the Quran and Sunnah, and the need to believe in all articles of faith to be considered a true believer in Islam.

The Concept of Allah's Names and Attributes

Allah has names but no attributes, leading to a philosophical debate about the nature of God.

The denial of Allah's attributes is used as a principle to misguide people and manipulate their beliefs.

The speaker emphasizes the importance of recognizing and clarifying false teachings, warning against groups that claim to have the same beliefs but may misguide others.

The Evolution of Islamic Groups and Their Beliefs

The current dominant group in Islam consists of the grandchildren, as the previous generations are dying out.

These groups have historically refuted each other while also introducing their own intellectual principles.

The Shia, particularly the Twelvers who believe in 12 imams, are the majority today and have a strong association with the cousin of the Prophet.

Understanding the Speech of Allah and Islamic Beliefs

The discussion revolves around the interpretation of Allah's speech, with some arguing it is internal rather than verbal.

Different principles are established regarding the acceptance of prophetic reports and the classification of individuals who commit major sins.

The importance of seeking guidance from Allah and following the correct beliefs within the Muslim community is emphasized.

Disagreements Among Groups and Their Impact on Islam

Small disagreements exist among groups with similar beliefs, such as the twins mentioned.

The founder of these groups often has a significant influence, leading to a divergence in beliefs.

The companions of the Prophet Muhammad are emphasized as crucial in spreading Islam, and their virtue is highlighted as unmatched.

Some individuals exaggerate their devotion to certain figures, calling upon them for help instead of Allah.

These beliefs, not sourced from the Quran and Sunnah, include claims of miraculous births and divine interventions.

The affirmation of Allah's attributes and names is often based on intellectual principles, leading to a divergence from traditional teachings.

The Misguided Beliefs and Principles of Certain Groups

Some individuals believe that the Prophet Muhammad was chosen with the worst companions and wives, which contradicts the idea of Allah selecting the best for him.

These groups often misinterpret and reject religious texts based on their own intellect, leading to misguided principles and actions.

The Sufis, in particular, have been criticized for cursing the companions and wives of the Prophet, and their practice of calling upon the dead is seen as associating with Allah, which is considered misguided.

The Controversial Beliefs of Certain Groups

Some groups are accused of extreme worship of leaders and figures, leading to their classification as disbelievers.

The Shia community, in particular, is highlighted for its unique beliefs and practices, with a consensus among scholars on their deviation from mainstream Islam.

Al-Azhar University in Egypt, while dominated by a specific creed, also has many individuals who adhere to the beliefs of the righteous companions.