HERETICAL BELIEFS (BID’ATS)
- Shocking Convictions (BID'ATS) 6th of the diseases of the heart is to hold a bid'at, which means to hold a sinful, off-base or deviant conviction. Most Muslims experience the ill effects of this deplorable disease. The explanation which leads one into this ailment is one's endeavor to excuse or reason in the issues which can't be detected through sense organs and which can't be reached or appreciated through estimations and trusting in issues wherein reason blunders and commits errors. Each Muslim ought to follow the lessons of both of the two Madhhabs concerning confidence, i.e., "Mâturîdî" or "Ash'arî". Following the lessons of any of them will shield or save an individual from the disease of blasphemies. For, in issues past the compass of psyche, the researchers of (the average and hence the main right way called) Ahl as-sunnat followed just the Qur'ân al-kerîm and hadîth-I-sherîfs, accordingly using their intellectual abilities ...