Surah al-‘Alaq (The Clinging Clot)

The shaykh—may Allah have mercy on him—said:

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The first revelation sent down to the Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, explained the foundations of religion: the rational proofs establishing the existence and oneness of the Creator, the truthfulness of His Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and the Resurrection—both its possibility and its occurrence.

We have discussed this principle several times previously, explaining that the Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, set out the rational and revealed proofs through which people are guided to their religion and to what brings them salvation and happiness in this world and the Hereafter. We have also explained that those who have devised foundations contrary to some of what he brought have laid the foundations of their own religion, not his. These foundations are invalid according to both reason and revelation, as has been explained at length elsewhere.

He also explained that many who associate themselves with religious knowledge and devotion are either deficient or negligent in their knowledge of what he brought in the way of