By Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani Translated by Zameelur Rahman Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn al-Sabbah and ‘Ali ibn Hujr al-Sa’di narrated to me: both from Sharik. Ibn Hujr said: Sharik informed us: from ‘Abd al-Malik ibn ‘Umayr: from Abu Salamah: from Abu Hurayrah: from the Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace): he said: “The truest word spoken by a [pre-Islamic] Arab in poetry is this verse of Labid: Behold! Apart from Allah everything is vain.” (Sahih Muslim) Some people adduce the poem of Labid (Allah be pleased with him) as proof that the doctrine of the Oneness of Being…
Wahdat al-Wujūd, Wahdat al-Shuhūd, and the Safest Position
By Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani Translated by Zameelur Rahman Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn al-Sabbah and ‘Ali ibn Hujr al-Sa’di narrated to me: both from Sharik. Ibn Hujr said: Sharik informed us: from ‘Abd al-Malik ibn ‘Umayr: from Abu Salamah: from Abu Hurayrah: from the Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace): he said: “The truest word spoken by a [pre-Islamic] Arab in poetry is this verse of Labid: Behold! Apart from Allah everything is vain.” (Sahih Muslim) Some people adduce the poem of Labid (Allah be pleased with him) as proof that the doctrine of the Oneness of Being…