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		<title>ASFA Endorses CIP Statement on Destruction of Shrines</title>
		<link>http://sunnah.org/wordpress/2013/05/15/7129/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 18:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[desecration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[destruction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holy places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incitement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[instigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maqam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mausoleum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[qabr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quboor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sanctuary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sectarian violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shrine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tekke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vandalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zawiya]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[...there should be no place for attacks on the people visiting, praying in and honouring shrines, sanctuaries, and cemeteries, or vandalism of them.]]></description>
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		<title>Salat According to Hanafi Fiqh</title>
		<link>http://sunnah.org/wordpress/2013/03/25/salat-according-to-hanafi-fiqh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Salat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book of Salat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daily prayers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[five obligatory prayers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ruku`]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sajda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salawat Ibrahimiyyah]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Messenger of Allah (s) said: “There are five prayers that Allah obligated the slaves to perform. Whoever performs them properly without belittling their obligation, Allah promised to admit him into Paradise. Whoever leaves them out does not have a promise from Allah to enter Paradise without being punished first. If He willed, He tortures him, and if He willed, He forgives him” - Narrated by Ahmad in his Musnad. As such, it is obligatory to perform each of these five prayers in its due time. It is better to perform each prayer early in its time.]]></description>
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		<title>Salat According to Shafii Fiqh</title>
		<link>http://sunnah.org/wordpress/2013/03/25/salat-according-to-shafii-fiqh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Salat]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Salawat Ibrahimiyyah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[salutations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The Messenger of Allah (s) said: “There are five prayers that Allah obligated the slaves to perform. Whoever performs them properly without belittling their obligation, Allah promised to admit him into Paradise. Whoever leaves them out does not have a promise from Allah to enter Paradise without being punished first. If He willed, He tortures him, and if He willed, He forgives him” - Narrated by Ahmad in his Musnad. As such, it is obligatory to perform each of these five prayers in its due time. It is better to perform each prayer early in its time.]]></description>
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		<title>Wudu According to Hanafi Fiqh</title>
		<link>http://sunnah.org/wordpress/2013/03/25/wudu-according-to-hanafi-fiqh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ibadaat (Worship)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ablution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book of Wudu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cleanliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ghusl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[najas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[niyyah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ritual washing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taharah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wudu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cleanliness of the body, clothing, and the places where the prayer is performed is called taharah. The Muslim must have the proper taharah before performing the prayers. This comprises the removal of najas (filthy) substances and performing wudu' (ablution) or ghusl (full shower)....]]></description>
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		<title>The Prayer of Benefits</title>
		<link>http://sunnah.org/wordpress/2013/03/25/the-prayer-of-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ibadaat (Worship)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shaban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salat al-Khair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sha`ban]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As for the ritual prayer traditional for the night of mid-Sha`ban, it consists of one hundred cycles, including one thousand repetitions of "Qul Huwa'llahu Ahad [Say: 'He is Allah, One!']" (that is to say, ten recitations in each cycle [rak`a] ). This prayer is called Salat al-Khair [the Prayer of Benefits], and its blessings are many and varied...]]></description>
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		<title>Literalism and the Attributes of Allah</title>
		<link>http://sunnah.org/wordpress/2013/03/18/literalism-and-the-attributes-of-allah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aqidah (Doctrine)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anthropomorphism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[figurative interpretation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literalisim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mutashabihat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salafi doctrine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tafwid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Usul al-din]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I received a letter in Jordan not too long ago from a British Muslim, asking me questions about modern calls to replace traditional Islam with an ostensible "return to the way of the Salaf, or ‘early Muslims.’" When I answered one of these questions, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Titles of Scholars in Islam</title>
		<link>http://sunnah.org/wordpress/2013/03/18/titles-of-scholars-in-islam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Usul al Fiqh (Principles of Jurisprudence)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hanbali School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shafi`i School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shaikh al-Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Resplendant Groves]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sunnah.org/wordpress/?p=1097</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["Shaikh al-Islam," as inferred from its use as a term among the authorities, is a title attributed to the follower of the Book of God and the example of His Messenger, peace be upon him, who possesses the knowledge of the principles of the Science (of Religion), has plunged deep into the different views of the scholars, has become able to extract the legal evidences from the texts, and has understood the rational and the transmitted proofs at a satisfactory level...]]></description>
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		<title>Ibn Taymiyya On Use of Lesser Grades of Hadith For Encouraging Good Virtues</title>
		<link>http://sunnah.org/wordpress/2013/03/18/ibn-taymiyya-on-use-of-lesser-grades-of-hadith-for-encouraging-good-virtues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Usul al Fiqh (Principles of Jurisprudence)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hadith authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ibn Taymiyya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rejection of hadith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[virtues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weak hadiths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ibn Taymiyya goes into a full chapter of discussion of this subject from here, Chapter 8 of "al-qaida al-jaleela fit-tawwasuli wal-waseela", where he presents the views of the majority of the 'ulama of Islam and he presents his own views of the subject. And here we will examine this in detail...]]></description>
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		<title>Sincerity</title>
		<link>http://sunnah.org/wordpress/2013/03/18/sincerity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tasawwuf (Purification of the Self)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[devotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[purifying the heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sincerity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sunnah.org/wordpress/?p=3616</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sincerity is the freeing of one's intentions from all impurities in order to come nearer to Allah. It is to ensure that the intention obedience to Allah are exclusively for His pleasure. It is the perpetual contemplation of the Creator, to the extent that one forgets the creation...]]></description>
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		<title>Sayyidina `Uthman’s Preservation of Qur’an</title>
		<link>http://sunnah.org/wordpress/2013/03/11/sayyidina-uthmans-preservation-quran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islamic History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Holy Quran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compilation of Quran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hifzh al-Quran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ibn Hajar al-Haythami]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infallible nature of Quran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preservation of Quran]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[...divergences in Qur'anic reading had alarmed Hudhayfa, so he said to `Uthman: "O Commander of the Believers! Rescue (adrik) this Umma before they differ over the Book the way the Jews and Christians differed." ]]></description>
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