Dignity in the books of faith

Abstract

The issue of dignity is one of the topics that do not pass as long as the earths and the heavens remain; Because the earth is not devoid of the righteous, the believers, the saints, and the pious, and these do not cease from them aid, dignity, insight, or good vision, and from here the authorship in this section was continuous; Because the people’s need for it is confirmed as time progresses, and in that, Ibn Taymiyyah says in the sum of his fatwas, “And from what it should be known is that dignities may be according to the man’s need, so if the weak needs them Faith or the needy, he is given from it what strengthens his faith and fulfills his needs, and he who is more complete is the guardianship of God than him. He is independent of that, and the like of that does not come to him because of his high rank and his indispensability of it, not because of the lack of his mandate; and for this reason it was These matters are more among the Taabi’een than they are among the Companions, in contrast to the one who performs the supernatural at his hands due to the guidance of creation and their need. These are the greatest in degree.”
The need for it and its frequent incidence led to a large number of authors in it, so Muhammad bin Ziyad, known as Ibn Al-Arabi (d. 231 AH) wrote “Karamat Al-Awliyaa”, and Ibn Abi Al-Dunya (d. 281 AH) wrote his book: “The Guardians”, and Al-Hafiz Abu Ahmad Al-Ghassal Qadi Isbahan (d. 349 AH) wrote a book called: “Karamat al-Awliya’” and Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani (386 AH) who called it “Ithbat Karamat al-Awliya’” and Ibn Futais (d. Al-Khalal al-Baghdadi (d. 439 AH) called it: “Karamat al-Awliya’” while al-Saqli al-Maliki (d. 380 AH) called it: “Karamat of the saints and obedient companions and followers.” Ibn Shaq al-Layl (d. 445 AH) called his book: “The Nobles and Proofs of the Righteous And Abu al-Ma’ali al-Baghdadi called his work: “Karamat al-Awliya’.” Ibn Sayyid al-Nas (d. 734 AH) wrote a book called: “The Sublime Maqamat fi al-Karamat al-Jaliya.” And Muhammad bin Ahmad al-Barulsi al-Ansari (d. after 1096 AH) wrote a work on that with the title: “ The clear verses confirm the dignity of the saints in life and after death.” Al-Shehab Ahmed bin Al-Hassan Al-Karimi Al-Gawhari Al-Shafi’i Al-Azhari (d. D. 1305 AH) A Treatise on the Honorable Mentions of the Saints, and Sheikh Yusuf Al-Nabhani (d. 1350 AH) authored “Al-Jami’ L’honoring Honorable Mentions.”
The large number of writings on these miracles and the uninterrupted nature of miracles was the great motive for researching them, and finding out the doctrines of scholars regarding them.
In this research, I dealt with the study of dignity and its provisions in the Islamic faith, and it included three topics. The first topic dealt with its definition and conditions. Its occurrence and the ruling of its denial, and there were two demands - also - the first was in the difference of schools in its occurrence, and the evidence of each team and the most correct of them, while the second came in the ruling of those who denied it. and deepened the research in it, and explored its depths; Because it is one of the issues that appear in most of the works with brief references, and I showed the most correct of the scholars’ sayings about it, then I added all of that with a conclusion in which I showed the most important results that I reached in this research.
In all of this, I have referred to the original sources in books of beliefs, biographies, and so on, and I do not claim perfection in that. Whatever was correct is by the grace of God Almighty, and whatever was of defect or error was from myself, my shortcomings, and my incapacity.