takfiir

Charging fellow Muslims with unbelief (takfiir) is an enormity in the eyes of Allaah. It is that fitnah (strife) which destroyed previous nations, and whose marauding fire in classical Islamic times was put out with the crushing defeat of the Kharijites, only to be revived on a wholesale scale more than a thousand years later by the Wahhabi sect of Arabia in the eighteenth century, from whence it has spread like a cancer today to a great many, otherwise normative Ahl-us-Sunnah, Muslim communities, becoming the pre-eminent bid‘ah (corruptive innovation) of our times, and one of the most destructive forces in the Muslim world. 

talaaq - divorce

 

Marriage, being regarded as a civil contract and as such not indissoluble, Islamic Law naturally recognizes the right of both parties to dissolve the contract under certain given circumstances. Talaaq (divorce) then, is a natural corollary to the conception of marriage as a contract.   

 

 

taqwa (god consciousness)


Taqwa (God consciousness, piety) is not required just of a select group of 'religious' people. Rather, every believer has to become muttaqi, because success in the hereafter is only for the muttaqeen. Islamic society is a taqwa-conscious society, conferring its highest respects on those considered to be highest in taqwa. Without it the best achievements in other areas of life mean nothing. 

 

 

tasawwuf

 

A lot of people have misunderstandings about tasawwuf. Many think that it is something beyond Qur'an and Sunnah. Errant Sufis as well as the superficial "ulema", although on the opposite ends of the spectrum, are together in holding this mistaken notion.

 

  

tawakkul

 

Tawakkul is a liberating, empowering state of mind that a true believer attains because of his trust in and reliance on the promises, authority, help and support of Allah and because of the contentment he feels in serving Allah without being concerned about the results that Allah provides for his untiring efforts.