The status of religious knowledge

عن معاويةَ، قال: قال رسول الله ﷺ: «مَن يُرِدِ اللهُ به خيرًا يُفَقِّهْهُ في الدِّينِ، وإنَّما أنا قاسمٌ، واللهُ يُعطِي، ولن تزالَ هذه الأُمَّة قائمةً على أمر الله، لا يَضرُّهم مَن خالَفَهم، حتى يأتيَ أمرُ الله».

تحميل الملف الصوتي

Mu‘āwiyah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said:

1. When God wishes to grant goodness to a person He gives him an insight into the religion.

2. I am only a distributor, but God is the Giver.

3. This community shall continue to adhere to the divine faith, unperturbed by those who oppose them until God’s will is done.

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People of earlier revelations! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say about God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was no more than a messenger from God and His word which He gave to Mary and a soul from Him. So believe in God and His messengers and do not say, ‘[God is] a trinity!’ Desist, for that will be better for you. God is only One God. Infinite He is in His Glory! [To imagine] that He may have a son! To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth. Sufficient is God for a guardian.

(4: 171)

It is We Ourselves who have bestowed this reminder from on high, and it is We who shall preserve it intact.

(15: 9)

God will certainly defend those who believe. For certain, God does not love anyone who betrays his trust and is bereft of gratitude.

(22: 38)

How about one who devoutly worships God during the hours of the night prostrating himself or standing in prayer, ever mindful of the life to come, and hoping for his Lord’s mercy? Say: ‘Can those who know and those who do not know be deemed equal?’ Only those who are endowed with insight will take heed’.

(39: 9)

(39: 22-23)

How about one whose heart God has opened to Islam, and thus receives light from his Lord? Woe, then, betide those whose hearts harden at the mention of God. These are most obviously in error. (22) God has bestowed from on high the best of all teachings: a Book that is consistent within itself, repeating its statements [of the truth] in manifold forms. It causes the skins of those who stand in awe of their Lord to shiver, but then their skins and hearts soften at the mention of God. Such is God’s guidance: He guides with it him that wills, whereas the one whom God lets go astray can never find any guide.