THEN IS IT OTHER THAN ALLAH I SEEK AS JUDGE WHILE HE IS THE ONE WHO HAS REVEALED TO YOU THE BOOK EXPLAINED IN DETAIL? AND THOSE TO WHOM WE GAVE THEM THE BOOK, THEY KNOW THAT IT IS SENT DOWN FROM YOUR RABBIKA IN TRUTH, SO DO NOT BE AMONG THE ONES WHO DOUBT. 6:114.
*SUNNI SHIA IS NOT THE DEEN UL ISLAM THAT ALMIGHTY ALLAH PRESCRIBED.*
*Sunni islam, shia islam , khariji islam waa born in Basra Iraq.*
*Sunni islam was founded by Abu al- Hasan Al- ashari (873 - 935)*
*The major sunni madhabs are Hanafi Maliki, Shafi and Hanbali. They Emerged in the 9th and 10th centuries CE and by the twelfth century, alomost all jurists aligned themselves with a particular Madhhab.*
ALLAH AKBAR - LINGUISTICALLY
It is Shirk to say Allah al Akbar not because it is not in Quran. It can't be in the Quran (as an attribute of Allah) because Akbar is a superlative.
Have you ever heard -
Big Bigger Biggest Or Great Greater Greatest.
The word 'Great' has two applications-
A. quality
B. superlative.
Greater, Greatest are just superlatives*.
*Here is some more examples of Superlatives.
كبير (kabir) Big / Great
أكبر (akbar) Bigger / Greater
جميل (gamiil)- Pretty
أجمل (agmal) - Prettier
*When we say 'Prettier ' it means prettier than someone or something. It becomes a comparison. But when we say 'Pretty' it just means a Quality of someone or something.*
طيب (Tayyib) - Nice
أطيب (aTyab)- Nicer *From above examples, you should get a sense of how it works.
So, Allah Akbar means Allah is the Greatest of all the gods. Nouzubillah
Idol worshippers of Arabia use to say -
Al Hubal Akbar
Al Manat Akbar.
Should we follow them and say - no Allah Akbar and not Hubal?
There is only one God.* *So, when you say Greatest among gods - you are saying more than one god.
The case of attributes / names of Allah is different. He is the BEST Judge, Provider, Decider. You are also a Judge, Provider, Decider within the authority given by Allah You name yourself Rahman, Raheem as well. That is not a comparison with Allah. None of the Qualities / Attributes or Allah can be compared with anything or Anyone.
Summary -
1. Kabir is Quality. Akbar is Superlative. You won't understand if you don't know basics of language.
2. Best follows with the Quality. Best Provider. As explained earlier, you also provide for your family from His providence
3. Allah Akbar - Allah is greatest. None of these statements clarify greater - from / of / to / in - what.
Allah is a proper noun. It simply means God. Akbar is superlative. So, the phrase has a silent part.
Basically, you are saying -
الله أكبر بين الآلهة -
Allah Akbar (bayn alaliha) -
Allah is the greatest among the gods
An example may help you understand better. We all know Michael Phelps is the greatest Swimmer of all time. So, if you say - Phelps al Akbar- it has a silent part in that phrase - Phelps al Akbar (baeen / among Swimmers). It won't mean he is greatest father, husband...
So, if you need to utter as Tasbih, in salat, or proclaim - say - Allah l-kabir - Allah the Great as in verse 13.9.
Sunni Islam, Shia Islam, etc are innovative religions that were not authorized by Allah the Almighty.
The Qur'an was revealed by Allah to the final prophet, Muhammad, through the archangel Gabriel (Jibril), incrementally over a period of some 23 years, beginning on 22 December 609 CE, when Prophet Muhammad was 40, and concluding in 632, the year of his death.
Almighty Allah perfected the religion of Islam by the Qur'an (which confirms the previous scriptures) in the early 6th century through Prophet Muhammad.
After the completion of the final testament, the Holy Qur'an, Allah said:
"... This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon you and have approved for you Islam as religion..."-(Qur'an 5:3)
The Religion before Allah Is Islam (submission to His Will):
Almighty Allah stated in the Qur’an:
Deen with Allah is Islam. Those to whom the Scripture was given differed only after knowledge came to them, out of envy among themselves. Whoever rejects the verses of Allah—Allah is quick to take account.-(Qur'an 3:19)
Sunni Islam was founded by Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari (873–935). The ancient schools of fiqh or sharia in Islam are known as "madhhabs." In the beginning, Islam was classically divided into three major sects. These political divisions are well known as Sunni Islam, Shia Islam, and Khariji Islam. Al-Ash'ari was born in Basra, Iraq.
Al-Ashʿari's school eventually won wide acceptance within some sects of Sunni Islam.
Madhab was established through man-made Hadith around the 9th century:
The major Sunni madhhabs are Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanbali. They emerged in the ninth and tenth centuries CE and by the twelfth century, almost all jurists aligned themselves with a particular madhhab.
These four schools recognize each other's validity and they have interacted in a legal debate over the centuries. Rulings of these schools are followed across the Muslim world without exclusive regional restrictions, but they each came to dominate in different parts of the world.
For example, the Maliki school is predominant in North and West Africa; the Hanafi school in South and Central Asia; the Shafi'i school in East Africa and Southeast Asia; and the Hanbali school in North and Central Arabia.
Sunni view of Hadith:
Kutub al-Sittah-Kutub al-Sittah are six books containing collections of hadiths.* *Sunni Muslims accept the hadith collections of Bukhari and Muslim as the most authentic (sahih), and while accepting all hadiths verified as authentic, grant a slightly lesser status to the collections of other recorders. There are, however, four other collections of hadith that are also held in particular reverence by Sunni Muslims, making a total of six:
Sahih al-Bukhari of Muhammad al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim of Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, Sunan al-Sughra of Al-Nasa'i, Sunan Abu Dawud of Abu Dawood, Jami' at-Tirmidhi of Al-Tirmidhi, Sunan Ibn Majah of Ibn Majah,
There are also other collections of hadith:
Musannaf of Abd al-Razzaq of 'Abd ar-Razzaq as-San'ani, Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Mustadrak of Al Haakim, Muwatta of Imam Malik, Sahih Ibn Hibbaan, Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah of Ibn Khuzaymah, Sunan al-Darimi of Al-Darimi.
In fact, there was not a single hadith of Prophet Muhammad besides Allah's Qur'an, not even written by his companions. When these Hadiths were written there was not a single companion of Prophet Muhammad who was alive to verify them as authentic.
This is how Islam has been divided into sects by the Scholars with their Hadith around three hundred years after the demise of Prophet Muhammad.
*These innovative unauthorized religions differ from Allah's deen Islam by disobedience.
In the Deen of Islam, the concept of Madhab was not authorized by Almighty Allah. The division of Muslims into multiple sects goes against the very fundamental tenet of Islam which was non-existent during the time of the Prophet Muhammad because it was not permitted by Almighty Allah.
That is why Almighty Allah commanded Prophet Muhammad not to follow such an aspect.
Almighty Allah stated in the Qur'an:
He decreed for you the same deen decreed for Noah, and what we inspired to you, and what we decreed for Abraham, Moses, and Jesus: "You shall uphold this one deen, and do not divide it." The idol worshipers will greatly resent what you invite them to do. Allah redeems to Himself whomever He wills; He guides to Himself only those who totally submit.-(Qur'an 42:13)
As for those who divided their religion and became sects—you have nothing to do with them. Their case rests with Allah; then He will inform them of what they used to do.-(Qur'an 6:159)
The Religion before Allah Is Islam which has been derived from the divine Book of Allah the Holy Qur'an (which confirms the previous scriptures), obviously not Sunni Islam, Shia Islam, etc which are derived from the man-made Hadith.
Almighty Allah stated in the Qur’an:
*Deen with Allah is Islam. Those to whom the Scripture was given differed only after knowledge came to them, out of envy among themselves. Whoever rejects the verses of Allah—Allah is quick to take account.-(Qur'an 3:19)*
