Are the Ashariyyah and Maturidiyyah from Ahl al-Sunnah? | Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan

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📌 In this brief but important answer, Shaykh Salih al Fawzan responds to a question regarding whether groups in the present day still carry the aqeedah of the Jahmiyyah. ⚠️ The Shaykh responds that there are many. He specifically mentions the Jahmiyyah, the Mutazilah, and especially the Ashariyyah and the Maturidiyyah, explaining that they hold beliefs inherited from the classical Jahmiyyah, such as denying that the believers will see Allah in the Hereafter and claiming that the Quran is created. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ The Murji'ah falsely conflate the outward rulings pertaining to legislative names and labels with the inward rulings pertaining to legislative punishments. - The outward ruling is the worldly judgment based solely on a person’s outward statements and actions. It does not depend on what is in the heart. - The inward ruling concerns the hidden reality of the heart, which cannot be known. It is only considered in matters of punishment and the ruling of the Hereafter. Ignorance, coercion, mistake, and denial are considered here, not in the outward ruling. ✍ The Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Fatwas in Saudi Arabia. Fatwah no. 4400: 👉 (❗) "So clarifying the matter and establishing the proof (Iqāmat al-hujjah) is for the purpose of removing any excuse before carrying out the PUNISHMENT upon him, NOT in order for him to be called a kafir only after the clarification. 👉 (❗) Rather, he IS CALLED a kafir based on the outward act he committed. Such as prostrating to other than Allah, vowing as an act of worship to other than Him, or slaughtering an animal, like a sheep, for other than Allah.” 📚 Source: Kitāb Fatāwā al-Lajnah al-Dāʾimah – First Collection, vol. 1, p. 220 https://shamela.ws/book/8381/396#p1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ The methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamaah: The outward ruling is based exclusively on statements and actions. ✍️ Al-Hafidh Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (d. 852H) in Fath al-Bari (12/272), transmitting consensus: وكلهم أجمعوا على أن أحكام الدنيا على الظاهر، والله يتولى السرائر “THEY ALL UNANIMOUSLY AGREED that worldly rulings are based upon what is outwardly apparent, while Allah alone takes charge of what lies within.” End Quote ✍️ Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728H) said in As-Sarim al-Maslul (2/339): فمن قال أو فعل ما هو كفر, كفر بذلك، وإن لم يقصد أن يكون كافرًا، إذ لا بقصد الكفر أحدّ إلًّا ما شاء الله. “Whoever says or does that which is kufr, then he becomes a kafir by that itself, even if he did not intend to become a disbeliever, for no one intends kufr except whom Allah wills.” End Quote ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Authentic and True — From the Scholars to You ✦ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Islam #Quran #Sunnah #Hadith #Tawheed #Aqeedah #Salafi #Salafiyyah #AhlusSunnah #AhlusSunnahWalJamaah #ManhajSalaf #IslamicCreed #UsulAlDeen #KitabAlTawhid #Fiqh #Shariah #SeekingKnowledge #SeekKnowledge #Ilm #Dawah #SalafiDawah #IslamicAdvice #IslamicReminders #IslamicGuidance #IslamicEducation #IslamicLecture #IslamicClips #IslamicShorts #Reminder #Knowledge #Truth #Guidance #Muslim #MuslimYouth #ScholarsOfIslam #ScholarsOfSunnah #IbnBaz #IbnUthaymeen #ShaykhFawzan #LajnahDaimah #Bidah #Shirk #Kufr #Iman #Refutation #Sufi #Ashariyyah #Maturidiyyah #Jahmiyyah