Tag Archives: `ilm al-ghayb

Locating Graves of Awliya

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Ustadh Mahmoud Shelton

Please can you advise me on how or what to do in order to locate a grave of a Wali that is buried in Port Elizabeth, South Africa… Continue reading →

Posted in History, Sufism (Tasawwuf) | Tagged `ilm al-ghayb, books of Mawlana Shaykh Nazim, burial site, ghayb, Grandshaykh `Abdullah al-Fa'iz ad-Daghestani (q), hidden saints, holy graves, Karamat, knowledge of unseen, Shaykh al-Akbar, spiritual guidance | Comments Off

Karamat (Miracle) vs Magic

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad

I was discussing with a Malaysian brother on the issue of karamat and black magic. He was saying that its hard to distinguish the two… Continue reading →

Posted in Belief & Doctrine, Sufism (Tasawwuf) | Tagged `ayn, `ilm al-ghayb, `ulama, abracadabra, angelic support, awliyuallah, bamboozling, bandish, charlatans, clairvoyance, con, con artist, conjurer, Dajjal, diabolist, dishonorable acts, divination, diviner, evil eye, fake, fradulent act, fraud, Friends of Allah, ghayb, hidden idolatry, hocus-pocus, holy person, idolalter, imposter, intuition, invisible, jinx, kafir jinn, Karamat, kashf, keen perception, knowers, knowledge of the unseen, marvel, miracles, miraculous powers, necromancy, obi, omen, phony, practicing magic, seer, Sham, shaman, shamanist, shenanigans, soothsayer, sorcery, tales, tickery, treacherous, trickster, unseen realm, voodoo, wali, witch doctor, wizard, wizardry, wonder | Comments Off

History of Saints in the Philippines

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Ustadh Mahmoud Shelton

I am from sibutu island in the Philippines. Islam was brought to the Philippines by a Sheikh named Karim-ul Makhdum. He was an arab… Continue reading →

Posted in History, Sufism (Tasawwuf) | Tagged `ilm al-ghayb, Arabia, Asian, awliyaullah, chain of saints, family history, ghayb, hidden saints, Indonesian, Karamat, kashf, knowledge of unseen, Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani, Sufi orders, sufi saints, Time of Mahdi (as) | Comments Off

Imam tells future events

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad

Is it right in Islam for any Imam to say he knows the events of the future? Is there anyone but Allah who knows the person we will be married to or end up with or the type of life we will lead? Continue reading →

Posted in Belief & Doctrine, Halal & Haram | Tagged `ilm al-ghayb, al-munajjim, astrologer, commentary, conjecture, fortune teller, geomancers, hadith, Ibn `Abd al-Barr, imam, Imam al-Qurtubi, knowledge of unseen, predictions, Sharh Sahih Muslim | Comments Off

Statement of Ali al-Qari on ilm al-ghayb?

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad

Is this statement really from Shaykh Ali al-Qari?… Continue reading →

Posted in Belief & Doctrine | Tagged `ilm al-ghayb, knowledge of the unseen, Shaykh Ali al-Qari | Comments Off

Planting on graves

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad

The custom of placing flowers is a Bid’at (innovation) and is not established from the Shari’ah. Continue reading →

Posted in Halal & Haram | Tagged `ilm al-ghayb, bida`, grave, green, innovation, khasais an-Nabi (s), misbehavior, plants, specialties of the Prophet (s), vegetation | Comments Off