The Difference Between Faith, Creed, Islam, and the Method of Seeking Knowledge
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The questioner:
We move on to another questioner who asks, may Allah bless you. Mustafa Ahmad from Riyadh says: I reside in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and praise be to Allah, I listen to many lectures and many religious and scholarly lessons in the mosques. He says: What is the difference between faith, creed, and Islam? These are the matters that I sometimes cannot distinguish between?
The Shaykh:
My brother, seek knowledge. Look for one of the shaykhs and seek knowledge from him. Memorize a concise text on creed and have him explain it to you. Attending lessons and lectures is a good thing, but this is not seeking knowledge. This is not sufficient. You must seek knowledge from a teacher, reading to him from the concise books of the scholars of knowledge, and he explains them to you and clarifies them. And if something of what you have heard or read is unclear to you, you ask the scholars of knowledge to clarify it for you. Yes.
The questioner:
May Allah reward you. If faith is the creed, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
Faith and tawhid (the oneness of Allah) mean the same thing. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
We move on to another questioner who asks, may Allah bless you. Mustafa Ahmad from Riyadh says: I reside in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and praise be to Allah, I listen to many lectures and many religious and scholarly lessons in the mosques. He says: What is the difference between faith, creed, and Islam? These are the matters that I sometimes cannot distinguish between?
The Shaykh:
My brother, seek knowledge. Look for one of the shaykhs and seek knowledge from him. Memorize a concise text on creed and have him explain it to you. Attending lessons and lectures is a good thing, but this is not seeking knowledge. This is not sufficient. You must seek knowledge from a teacher, reading to him from the concise books of the scholars of knowledge, and he explains them to you and clarifies them. And if something of what you have heard or read is unclear to you, you ask the scholars of knowledge to clarify it for you. Yes.
The questioner:
May Allah reward you. If faith is the creed, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
Faith and tawhid (the oneness of Allah) mean the same thing. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/241 — archive.org (4:10)
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