لا يصلح هذه الأمة إلا ما أصلح أولها
‘Nothing will rectify the last generations of this Ummah except that which rectified the first generations.'
Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd Al-Malik al Karjī al-Shafiʿī (رحمه الله) (d.532) mentioned in his book, Al-Fuṣūl fī al-Uṣūl ʿan al-Aʾimmah al-Fuḥūl, Ilzāman li Dhawī al-Bidʿah wa al-Fuḍūl, that there were Mālikī scholars who were negatively affected by their adoption of the Ashʿarī belief, and that this was no doubt something…
It is quite unfortunate that today you find universities in certain countries, whose inhabitants claim to adhere to one of the four madhhabs, refer to academic departments that teach issues of ʿAqīdah as departments of Rhetorical Argumentation (al-Kalām) or departments of Philosophy. This bitter fact illustrates how far many Muslims…