Originally Posted by al-Izaaree

No, what purifies the heart is Ihsan. it is just that ihsaan is part of islam. Islam itself does not purify anything. had it been so, there would not have been no such thing as munafiqeen. Yet there were disbeleivers in the guise of islam, thus they are munafiqeen. Islam is the Law required for the beleiver. When i ask you to blend me 20 dollars, islam does not dictate to you that you give it to me, and emaan would make your heart contemplate and only ihsaan would dictate that for you, because on the mere level of islam, then you have the islamic right to say no. And no one could say "your not acting islam' by saying no because you have made no offense against islam. As for thelevel of emaan, then you can have faith by saying no and still have your faith in tact, because saying no, while it is helping your brother, would not remove your emaan, but if you have ihsaan, and then said now, thelevel of your ihsaan is what decreases.

I said all of that for what to show that
1. fiqh is what is used for the sciences of the shar'iah
2. aqeedah is used in the sciences of emaan and
3. the tazkiyyatu-nafs is what is used for the sciences of ihsaan. This tazkiyaatu-nafs, is (with the same meaning as Ibn taymiyyah, Ibn Abdul-wahhab and others) tassawuf, i.e. sufism. It is not that sufism is one thing and islam is another. if that is thecase then why do we not call fiqh and shariah islam. why call it fiqh, why call it aqeedah.

Now im in no way defending tassawuf in absolute terms, im just relaying that one must understand from which avenue someone is coming from when they use the word tassawuf or sufism. That is because i come acorss to many who read at one breathe the statement of shaf'i'ee about tassawuf, and then read a monster like Jilaanee or Ibn taymiyyah saying how "tassawuf' is good.


Ibn Abdul-Haakem said



You know, now that i think about it, the discussuion deviatd form the topic.

No, brother, you don't have to worry, shafa'aa is an article of faith, and whoever denies it becomes a heretic just as whoever denies the hawd, the nuzool of isa, the coming of mahdi, the ruyah of he beleivers on allah, etc etc etc.

Now i didnt think you were talking about that. hoever i do know that the main ingrediant for the issue of tawasssul to the dead is for their desire of shafa'a, so it is very well connected.



yes, by Allah's permission

asalamu alaikum