21 Jun 2026, 10:08 UTC120 views2 reactionsread 9 August 2026 Forwarded from @MusasWorkshop
# Ashʿarī Lexicons
al-salāmu ʿalaykum
Recently, I have been drafting a series of booklets that I wish I'd had as a student. The first booklet in the series was Sanūsiyyan Ontology and Reasoning. Today's share is an anthology of lexicons presenting the technical vocabulary of kalām – as well as many other sciences – as defined by major scholars of the tradition themselves:
- Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Fūrak (d. 406) – a…
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18 Jun 2026, 01:56 UTC213 views3 reactionsread 9 August 2026 The compound proposition (qaḍiyyah murakkabah) is that whose reality is composed of affirmation and negation, as our statement "Every human is laughing, but not perpetually," for its meaning is the affirmation of laughing for the human and its negation from him in actuality.
Know that the complete compound that admits of truth and falsity is called,
insofar as it comprises a judgement, a proposition (qaḍiyyah);
inso…
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16 Jun 2026, 11:03 UTC215 views9 reactionsread 9 August 2026 Two incompatible views of freedom; one Islamic, one not.
One sees freedom as freedom from any other in pursuit of Allah.
The other sees it as freedom from Allah in pursuit of any other.
Choose your freedom carefully.
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15 Jun 2026, 11:58 UTC284 views4 reactionsread 9 August 2026 Faith is of five kinds (al-īmān ʿalā khamsat awjuh):
- Innate (maṭbūʿ) – the faith of the angels
- Protected (maʿṣūm) – the faith of the prophets
- Accepted (maqbūl) – the faith of the believers
- Suspended (mawqūf) – the faith of the innovators
- Rejected (mardūd) – the faith of the hypocrites
—Al-Jurjānī, Kitāb al-Taʿrīfāt
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26 May 2026, 21:52 UTC362 views9 reactionsread 9 August 2026 Eid Mubarak, everyone.
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25 Apr 2026, 12:18 UTC670 views7 reactionsread 9 August 2026 Each voluntary act is a sign of what’s to come: we neither cause nor create it; the choice He creates in us at its occasion colours the act and acquires it for us, and, by His grace, our ākhirah – all in accordance with His knowledge, will, and capability.
Your choice determines whether the outward acts of prayer are the faithful obedience and worship of a sincere and grateful servant destined for Paradise, or a hol…
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7 Apr 2026, 23:11 UTC602 views8 reactionsread 9 August 2026 “To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.”
— George Santayana, Reason in Society (1905)
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2 Apr 2026, 11:20 UTC581 views3 reactionsread 9 August 2026 From ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Muḥammad ʿAlī Quds ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Khaṭīb’s commentary on his father’s _Kifāyat al-Mubtadī_, explaining (ّجلّ وعز):
نصَّ بعضُ العلماءِ على وجوبِ ذلكَ فقالَ: يجبُ على كلِّ مَن سمعَ لفظَ «اللّهِ» أنْ يذكرَ بعدَهُ ما يُفيدُالتعظيمَ، بأنْ يقولَ: «اللّهُ سبحانَهُ وتعالى» أو «اللّهُ تعالى» أو «اللّهُ سبحانَهُ» أو «اللّهُ تباركَ وتعالى» أو «اللّهُ تباركَ» أو «اللّهُ عزَّ وجلَّ» أو «عزَّ اسمُهُ» …
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2 Apr 2026, 08:16 UTC343 views7 reactionsread 9 August 2026 From ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Muḥammad ʿAlī Quds ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Khaṭīb’s commentary on his father’s _Kifāyat al-Mubtadī_, explaining the name "Muḥammad":
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هو أشرفُ أسمائهِ صلّى اللّهُعليهِ وسلَّمَ بالنسبةِ لأهلِ الأرضِ والسماءِ على الصحيحِ؛ لاقترانِهِ مع اسمِ اللّهِ في كلمةِ التوحيدِ، ولأنَّهُمكتوبٌ على أوراقِ أشجارِ الجنَّةِ وعلى دائرةِ العرشِ. ولمّا وَرَدَ أنَّ اللّهَ خلقَ النورَ المحمَّديَّ وسمّاهُمحمَّدًا. ويُ…
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31 Mar 2026, 00:11 UTC283 views7 reactionsread 9 August 2026 # A few Sunnahs related to admonishing and reminding
From al-Bukhārī’s Ṣaḥīḥ:
بَابُ مَا كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ يَتَخَوَّلُهُمْ بِالْمَوْعِظَةِ وَالْعِلْمِ كَيْ لَا يَنْفِرُوا
٦٨ - حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: «كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ يَتَخَوَّلُنَا بِالْمَوْعِظَةِ فِي الْأَيَّامِ؛ كَرَاهَةَ السَّآمَةِ عَلَيْنَا».
٦٩ - حَدَ…
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23 Mar 2026, 13:23 UTC272 views6 reactionsread 9 August 2026 Forwarded from @MusasWorkshop
Six new publications are now available through Amazon:
1. Al-Malaybārī’s Branches of Faith: Shuʿab al-īmān
2. Al-Fādānī’s Treatise on Logic: Risālah fī ʿIlm al-Manṭiq
3. Nawawī al-Jāwī’s Tījān al-Darārī
4. Al-Sanūsī’s Sharḥ al-Muqaddimāt: The Prolegomena to Islamic Theology
5. Ibn Juzayy’s Taqrīb Al-Wuṣūl ilā ʿIlm al-Uṣūl: Facilitating Access to the Science of Legal Theory
6. Al-Khayrābādī’s Ladder to Logic: Al-Mirq…
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20 Mar 2026, 12:17 UTC331 views18 reactionsread 9 August 2026 Eid Mubarak.
May Allah accept our fasts, prayers, supplications, recitations, charity, and all other good acts, and may He forgive us our lapses and shortcomings.
—musa
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