Belief in Allah by Dr. ’Umar Sulaiman al-Ashqar is Volume 1 of the Islamic Creed Series, and it opens the series where Aqeedah itself begins: with Tawheed, and with the distorted ideas about Allah that have crept into Muslim thinking over the centuries.
What the Book Covers
Al-Ashqar identifies the misunderstandings that have accumulated around Allah’s names and attributes, and argues that the only sound way to read the Qur’anic verses and hadiths that describe Allah is the way the first generations of this Ummah, the Salaf, understood them — without distorting the meaning and without giving it a shape no text supports. He also takes on modern challenges to belief directly, examining the theory of evolution and arguing it does not hold up against the evidence, before turning to the natural world itself: the signs in creation that the Qur’an repeatedly calls the reader to reflect on as proof of Allah’s existence and Oneness.
Who This Book Is For
Anyone who wants the case for Tawheed made from first principles — textual, rational and observational together — rather than assumed. A natural companion to Kitab At-Tauhid for readers who want the philosophical objections addressed as well as the fiqh of shirk.
The Islamic Creed Series
This is Volume 1 of the eight-volume Islamic Creed Series by Dr. ’Umar Sulaiman al-Ashqar, each volume a self-contained study of one part of Islamic belief, drawn from the Qur’an and Sunnah:
All eight volumes are also sold together in the Islamic Creed Series 8-Book Set.
About the Author
Dr. ’Umar Sulaiman al-Ashqar (1940–2012) was born in Palestine and later studied at the Islamic University of Madinah before completing his master’s and doctorate at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, under scholars including Shaykh Ibn Bāz and Shaykh Al-Albānī. He served as a professor and Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Law at Al-Zarqa’ University, and later taught at the University of Jordan. The Islamic Creed Series is his best-known work in English.
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