{"id":13738,"date":"2020-03-09T15:54:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T15:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/?p=13738"},"modified":"2020-03-09T22:48:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T22:48:34","slug":"beliefs-regarding-imaam-mahdi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/beliefs-regarding-imaam-mahdi\/","title":{"rendered":"Beliefs Regarding Imaam Mahdi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 03392<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Answered by: Maulana Imran Mughal<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong><u>Question<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">I recently got into a disagreement over Imam Mahdi&#39;s place in aqidah with someone and would like to make sure my knowledge is correct. As far as I am aware:<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">1)Imam Mahdi will be a leader of the Muslims who will bring peace and prosperity for several years. He will not be Isa A.S, but a separate person who is from the descendants of the Prophet (Peace and blessings be upon him). This is the correct belief regarding him as followed by Ahlus Sunnah Wal-Jamaat.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">2) Reports concerning his coming have been transmitted to the level of tawatur as confirmed by major hadith scholars.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">3) Imam Mahdi&#39;s coming is part of aqidah according to all of Ahlus Sunnah Wal-Jamaat. That is, it is an obligatory belief in aqidah according to both the Ashari and Maturidi positions found across the Hanafi, Shafii, Maliki and Hanbali schools.<\/span><br \/>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Please correct me if anything I&#39;ve said is less than the truth. May Allah forgive us for our mistakes and our shortcomings and guide us all onto the right path.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" dir=\"RTL\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" dir=\"RTL\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">\u0628\u0650\u0633\u0652\u0645\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u062d\u0652\u0645\u0646\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u062d\u0650\u064a\u0652\u0645<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong><u>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/u><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong><u>Answer<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Imam Mahdi will indeed be a leader of the Muslims who will be the Imam for 7 years.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\" title=\"\">[1]<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">He will be from the descendants of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and his name will be that of the Prophet: Muhammad bin Abdullah.<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\" title=\"\">[2]<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">The reports of him coming have reached the status of tawaturas indicated by many Ulama of the past and present.<a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\" title=\"\">[3]<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Only Allah knows best.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Written by Maulana Imran Mughal<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Checked and approved Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&nbsp;\n\t<\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/>\n<div id=\"ftn1\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\" title=\"\">[1]<\/a> Maulana Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri, <em>BathlulMajhood<\/em>, DKI, Hadith 4286.<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"ftn2\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\" title=\"\">[2]<\/a> Ibid., Hadith 4282.<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"ftn3\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\" title=\"\">[3]<\/a> Ahmad Al-Ghumari, <em>IbrazulWahm, <\/em>Matba&rsquo;ah At-Taraqqi,433-444.<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 03392 Answered by: Maulana Imran Mughal Question &nbsp; I recently got into a disagreement over Imam Mahdi&#39;s place in aqidah with someone and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13789,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738\/revisions\/13789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}