After I settled in Tetouan, I started a monthly magazine called Lisān al-Dīn (the Voice of the Religion) through which I published numerous articles. In these articles, I explained the inaccuracies of the Ashʿarī ʿAqīdah, which the people of al-Maghrib have espoused since the time of Muḥammad Ibn Tūmart and…

The eminent scholar, Mubārak Ibn Muḥammad al-Mīlī al-Jazāʾirī mentions in his Tārīkh al-Jazāʾir fī al-Qadīm wa Ḥadīth, (v.2, pg.338), “The people of al-Maghrib were Salafīs until Ibn Tūmart traveled to the east and sought to incite a political, intellectual and religious rebellion in al-Maghrib. He thus adopted the Ashʿarī methodology,…

The Ashʿarī ʿAqīdah did not take root in al-Maghrib until the 6th century Hijrī. This was primarily because of the arrival of al-Mahdī Ibn Tūmart in the year 524 H. Ibn Tūmart ridiculed the people of al-Maghrib due to their non-adulteration of the (so-called) unclear texts and understanding them in…

Ibn Khaldūn (رحمه الله) stated, “And he enjoyed leadership status and a solid foothold in his traversal of the Ashʿarī path as he was the one who introduced it to the people of al-Maghrib as we previously mentioned.” Shihāb al-Dīn al-Salāwī al-Mālikī affirms the statements of Ibn Khaldūn in his…

The most evident characteristic that distinguished the rule of the Murābiṭūn (ruled 448H-541H) was its adherence to the methodology of the Salaf. This adherence was based on conforming to the religious texts of the Qurʾān and the Sunnah. In addition, it comprised affirming what is in the Noble Qurʾān and…

Ibn Khaldūn mentioned, “The people of al-Maghrib were far off from following the Ashʿarīs in their distortion of the texts (tawīl[1]) and adopting their opinion concerning this. This was due to their adherence to following the Salaf (the first three generations of Muslims). In the latter’s rejection of al-Taʾwīl and…

Historically, in the general context, the lands of al-Maghrib after the introduction of Islām, were in agreement with the methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamāʿah, with the exception of the Khawārij insurrection in the second century Hijrī. The Mʾutazilah movement soon followed this and then the proselytizing of the Shīʿah, which…

This methodology (i.e. that of the Salaf) was what the people of al-Maghrib adhered to with regards to ʿAqīdah (creed/belief) and the scholars held an unyielding position concerning the people of al-Kalām (rhetorical and analogous argumentation) and ideologies. The Hāfiẓ Ibn ʿAbdil-Barr (رحمه الله) mentioned this by stating, “There is…

The Islamic al-Maghrib was upon the madhhab (way) of the Salaf (first three generations of Muslims) with regards to their belief in the apparent meaning of the texts as well as (their understanding of) Allāh’s Attributes, which are in those texts without any distortion of them (making taʾwīl[2]) or changing…