u/Away-Space1880

Assalamualakum,

What is the difference between the Akbhari position, and the Usuli position.

I have heard these terms being used, but I am not sure entirely what they are, or what their differences are.

Also, how do we research into which is right?

Thanks.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SOUb-Mj\_2ug&ra=m

This is a random dua twassul recitation. Does anyone know the reciter. There is no information on it.

Thanks

Assalamualakum,

Learning this argument is very useful, especially if you live in the west, where there are going to be atheists around you, questioning you.

When we look at the world, or anything, it must have a creator. Once you understand that, god is easy to believe in.

This is because, it is impossible to have an infinite regress of creators. What I mean by this is that, we understand that everything is created, we are created by our parents, they are from their parents, and this keeps going back to the first cell, then the first atom, it is impossible for it to go back endlessly meaning, this “chain of creations (e.g. keep asking what created the one before), cannot be infinite.

As a result, because the creation chain cannot be infinite, there has to be a start that was infinite, and was not created.

I’ll give you an example, let’s say you went to a judge with a signed paper, and you asked, “who signed this piece of paper”. The judge tells you, “it was the judge before me”.
So you go to the judge before, and that judge again says “it was the judge before me”. So you go to the one before and the judges before keep saying the same thing.

If we say, the judge will infinitely keeps saying “the one before me” (just like a chain of creations would be infinite), then there is no first judge. And as a result, no judge will say they signed the paper.

But we know that the judge signed the paper because we have it infront of us, (just like we have the world infront of us), meaning there had to be a first judge which signed the paper, just like there had to be a first creator who created everything.

As a result, we can say, it is impossible to have an infinite regress of creators, meaning there has to be a first.

Now that first, has to be eternal (it was not created and will not be destroyed), this is because it cant be created if it was the first, and it cant just come from nothing. (You can’t get a number larger than 0, no matter how many times you multiply, add it, or do anything to it).

It has to have power, lots of power, to create something as big as the universe, because everything needs power to be built, for example when making Lego, you need some sort of power to pick the Lego up.

It needs knowledge and intelligence, as the universe contains information, and information, by definition, requires intelligence.

It needs to create with a purpose, because everything by definition is created with a purpose. (To test us).

And because of the large amount of these attributes this “first” requires, it is so much, as the universe is so great, therefore we can say it is “all powerful, all knowing, all intelligent”, and this is because a large value, becomes a constant. And obviously eternal.

It has to be beyond space and time, as you cant be in your creation before you create it, nor can you be in it while it is being created.

It has to be all wise, because wisdom is required to make something so great, little things like, it doesn’t hurt when we eat, therefore there has to be wisdom behind everything god did.

This first is very clearly god, as these attributes are god.

This was from a lecture I watched from Seyad Baqir Quazwini. I’m no where near clever enough to have thought of this lol.

If you have any questions regarding anything, or you don’t understand the reasoning behind something, maybe I didn’t explain it well, then feel free to reply.

Enjoy, and may Allah grant all of you many rewards for reading this essay and a half

Assalamualakum,

Recently, the salafi side of the internet as been heavily criticizing Iran and the shia, with their involvement in Syria and the civil war during bashar. They say "Iran funded the killing of over half a million sunnis in Syria", and while I understand that it may be a way just to attack the shia, I don't know the details of this situation.

I have made a post like this before, and have looked up other posts, but it seems that no one is providing sources etc. for their arguments.

If a sunni makes this claim in front of me, I wouldn't know how to respond and defend us shia.

So my request is, that if anyone can provide details and sources of our perspective of this situation, something I can learn from, then that would be very much appreciated.

I want to research this situation and be able to bring up sources to refute any of these claims, and the only way I am able to do this is by increasing my knowledge of the situation from trustworthy, good faith sources, in which I am unaware of where to find them.

May Allah reward those who help me greatly.