Author
Dr. Seyyed Abdolghader Husseini
Abstract
Recourse is one of the issues which has cast disagreement amongst Muslims. The source of recourse is religious belief, thus; regarding Islam extension and different schools and sects (madhabs), this term has been enjoying diverse manifestations. There are many hadiths pointing to the process of recourse to verses. Doing without many hadiths and sayings on theoretical concepts of recourse, there are many other ones practicing practical recourse amongst the Muslim of early centuries. Having pondered upon Islamic resources, this study came to this conclusion that recourse is of different kinds. Some kinds of recourse reckoned to be authorized by Islamic scholars, however; some are forbidden and the others are being discussed over. The latest ones such as recourse to the Nubuwwah, to the last prophet works and prays and to hereafter divine Imams are disputable kind of recourse.
In eighth century, Ibn Taymiyyah announced some kinds of recourse as faulty bringing a great gap between Muslims. Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab also exasperated this state of Muslims in twelfth century leading to conflict between Muslims so that today in Islamic world it appears in the form of Takfiri and negation something that has done irrecoverable damages on Islamic world. This study examines the concept of recourse from viewpoint of Qur'an, hadiths and Islamic sources and then clarifies any doubts cast over this issue.
Keywords: Recourse, Qur'anic verses, Hadith, Sunni, Ahl-Ul-Bayt, Ibn Taymiyyah
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