ALBANY CIRCLES

by Albany Buipe This piece is taken from a course material I am preparing for our website ( www.albanycircles.org ). Following a question asked in one of our circles I decided to extract this portion before the course itself starts. Exorcism called Ruqyah in Arabic is the processes in sacking a Jinn possessing a victim, living or non-living, away. Exorcism in the true sense of the art is an approach of da'wah, this time toward a member of another world. However, da'wah in general can be made to the Jinn although they may not be possessing anyone. Ibn Taymiyah proposed that just as humans are warned and threatened through Allah's injunctions the Jinn who attacks humans in whatever way should also be reminded of Allah's laws and that the act of harming others can never be justified. Sometimes prior to the assail the victim harms the Jinn in one of several ways, including splashing hot water on them; kicking them and even killing a confrère, without the intent of so

by Albany Buipe Recently I have lost access to even my virtual library hence would have to improvise for my PDFs and topics. In this post I want us to deliberate on a very important verse in connecion with the Aqidah of the Muslim and come out with a bird's eye view elaboration of the subject matter. The discussion is divided into the two branches following: 1. THE CORRECT POSITION ON SEEING ALLAH 2. THE PROOFS FOR THAT POSITION In 2 I will rather discuss one of the strongest evidences for those who reject the seeing, I find that relevant as Ibn Taymiyah observed that whoever tries to prove a false belief from the Qur'an shall have the same as evidence against him. And nearly a year ago when I went to visit some friends in Wenchi the style was more help in a debate that took place between me and another brother who opposed the mainstream opinion. THE SOUND POSITION ON SEEING ALLAH The position taken by mainstream orthodox Muslims is that seeing Allah can take pl