Author Archives: Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad

About Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad

About Shaykh Gibril Haddad

Is the Prophet (s) the Best of Creation?

Q: Is there ijma` (scholarly consensus) that the Prophet (sallallahu `alayhi wasallam) is the “best of creation”?
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4 spiritual enemies

Q: I would like to ask you to please explain the difference between Shaytan, Nafs, Hubb ud Dunya (Love for this world) and Hawa (Desire). I thought that Shaytan is the one who makes people to have bad nafs, hubb ud dunya and hawa or are they each seperate? Continue reading

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Tahir ul Qadri

Q: There is a person in pakistan, named as Tahir ul Qadri. People call him as Sheikh ul Islam. but he has been very controversial in the past. He has very strong knowledge of Quran, Hadith and other texts but he’s been chiefly controversial due to his dreams in which he claimed to have the vision of Prophet peace be upon Him and he said some things attributed to Prophet and his dream which a practising Muslim rejects at once.Do you have any info that what type of person he is? Continue reading

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Following only one school of fiqh

Question: If one follows a school of fiqh does he have to follow it in every matter;  if he does not, is he a person of bidah? Answer: No to both questions. For example, Shafi`is in Hajj routinely follow the … Continue reading

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Do some `Aqidah matters make one fasiq?

Q: Are there matters in Aqeedah that does not make one kafir but Fasiq? Continue reading

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Is wiping over khuffs a tenet of faith?

Question: What is the ruling on a person that does not believe in wiping over the leather socks as a practice of the Prophet (s) and is it part of `Aqeedah – tenets of Faith? Answer: He is a person … Continue reading

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Calling a Muslim ‘kafir’

Question: What is the ruling on a Muslim that calls another Muslim kafir and publishes it? Answer: Ibn `Abidin in his Rasa’il (2:291 Sall al-Husam al-Hindi) said that a Muslim who unjustly calls another Muslim kafir commits kufr if he … Continue reading

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Can an ahad hadith be used for `aqida?

Q: Does any scholar ever say that we can not take into aqeedah an ahad hadith? Continue reading

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Does `aqidah change over time?

Question: Does OUR Aqeedah change from generation to generations because we have ahad hadith and mutawatir. Answer: No. Al-Hamdulillah, our `aqidah is that of the Prophet (s) and the Congregation of the Companions without change, preserved until the end of … Continue reading

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Protection of the Sunnah

Q: Allah SWT says in the Quran to the nearest meaning that he has protected the Quran. Does that mean also the Hadith/Sunnah? Continue reading

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