Nooniyyah of Ibn al-Qayyim Refuting the Murji’ah

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📌 In this excerpt from the Nooniyyah of Imam Ibn al-Qayyim (d. 751 AH), he exposes the dangerous belief of extreme Irja. ⚠️ They claim that as long as a person affirms in his heart the One who is worshipped, his iman is complete — even if he falls into the worst acts of shirk, insults the messengers, or worships idols. ❌ According to them, the one who does these actions is only a sinful Muslim, unless he intends kufr in his heart. ⚠️ Likewise, there is a group of extremist Murji’ah who go even further. They claim that if a person only utters the shahadatayn, then even if he falls into acts of shirk and kufr — such as insulting the messengers or worshipping idols out of ignorance of tawhid or the prohibition of shirk. ❌ According to them, he is still considered a Muslim, merely an innovator, unless he rejects the ruling after it has been clarified to him. This second group is worse because they both affirms his Islam: 1️⃣. Without belief in his heart, due to ignorance of Allah 2️⃣. Without the necessary implications of tawhid, such as worshipping Allah alone 🚨 The first group are the extremist Murji’ah from the Jahmiyyah: • They remove actions and statements from iman and restrict it to belief alone 🚨 The second group are the extremist Murji’ah from the Karramiyyah: • They remove actions and belief from iman and restrict it to mere statements 🤲 We ask Allah for safety and security. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ The Murjiah confuse the outward ruling with the inward ruling. - 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#p1harmony ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ The methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamaah: The outward ruling is based exclusively on statements and actions. Matters of the heart are only considered in punishment and the final judgment, in this world by the judge and in the Hereafter by Allah. ✍️ 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 #Aqeedah #Salafi #salafiyyah #Bidah #IslamicAdvice #IslamicReminders #SeekingKnowledge #Tawheed #Muslim #Fiqh #scholarsofsunnah #AhlusSunnah #IslamicClips #IslamicShorts #Creed #IslamicEducation #IslamicLecture #MuslimYouth #Knowledge #IslamicGuidance #Shariah #Reminder #ShirkAkbar #ExcuseOfIgnorance #T