We are being lied to. Time to tell the truth.

Lies

Lie: We are told that faith is a private sedative, not a holistic light; that Islam is a museum of memories, not the most-relevant living guidance for a burning present.

Lie: We are told that creed is a divisive abstraction, not the spine that holds a broken soul upright, not the compass that keeps a civilization from walking off a cliff.

Lie: We are told that the Qur’an is too hard, too distant, too severe; that its commands crush “authenticity”, that its prohibitions suffocate “freedom”, that its promises are for another world and useless in this one.

Lie: We are told that the Sunnah is an archaism, a costume drama; that the Messenger ﷺ is to be admired as a figure of history, not obeyed as a binding authority, not imitated as the only safe way to walk.

Lie: We are told that the path of People of Sunnah is narrow, harsh, “literalist”; that clarity is cruelty, that boundaries are bigotry, that submission is humiliation, that humility before revelation is intellectual suicide.

Lie: We are told that sins are “self‑expression”, that desires are “identity”, that repentance is “self‑rejection”; that the only unforgivable crime is to say “no” to the nafs.

Lie: We are told that the heart is fine as it is; that guilt is always toxic, that fear of Allah is unhealthy anxiety, that hope without absolute obedience is noble “spirituality”.

Lie: We are told that all religions are the same fragrance in different bottles; that doctrine is negotiable, that paradise is automatic, that Hell is a medieval metaphor and nothing burns but “orthodoxy”.

Lie: We are told to be angry at the Law of Allah and indulgent with the law of the ego; harsh with scripture, gentle with whim.

Lie: We are told that the past is only darkness, that our righteous ancestral scholars were primitive, that the imams of guidance were “men of their time” to be explained away, not our connectors to our Master ﷺ on the road to be followed.

Lie: We are told to distrust a scholar when he speaks of the heart’s diseases, to downplay when he speaks of sincerity, to ignore when he speaks of the weight of a hadith on the Day of Judgment.

Lie: We are told that worship must be entertaining, that dhikr must be branded, that knowledge must be bite‑sized and harmless; that nothing may pierce, wound, or reorder us in the name of Allah.

Lie: We are told that to live by tawhid in public is “imposing”, that to forgive for Allah is weakness, that to lower the gaze is repression, that to guard the tongue is naiveté.

Lie: We are told that the only realistic future is a future without fiqh, without adab, without awe — a future where the Muslim is an empty label, a cultural flavor, a tame mascot for other people’s projects.

Lie: We are told to be embarrassed by revelation, to apologize for our creed, to dilute our worship, to flatten our history, to forget our righteous ancestors, to disown our scholars, to blur our boundaries until nothing distinct remains.

Lie: We are told to be pessimistic about Allah’s promise, pessimistic about the power of sincere repentance, pessimistic about the possibility of a purified heart, pessimistic about our Ummah's guidance.

Lie: We are told to be miserable about the hereafter, and desperate to squeeze all joy from a world that is already slipping through our fingers.

We reject the aforementioned lies.

Truth

We believe in Allah, the One, the Subduer, the Most Merciful — utterly perfect in His Names and Attributes, exalted above every defect, doing only what is wise, just, and beautiful.

We believe that the Qur’an is His uncreated Speech, the final Criterion, and that the Sunnah of His Messenger ﷺ is its living exegesis, binding in belief, worship, law, identity, and character.

We believe that the straight pathway is the path of People of Sunnah: the Companions, those who followed them with excellence, and those who carefully tread their way with humility, including the scholars of Ahl Al-Sunnah in what they agreed upon of creed, purification, and ihsan.

What we believe about Allah

We believe that Allah is known by His Names and Attributes as revealed, without distortion, denial, asking “how,” or likening Him to His creation, and without stripping Him of what He affirmed for Himself.

We believe that His decree encompasses all things, that His wisdom is never absent from any event, and that no evil is attributed to His action, even when evil exists in what He allows to occur.

We believe that His mercy outstrips His wrath, that He forgives whom He wills, punishes whom He wills, and never wrongs anyone the weight of an atom.

What we believe about Revelation

We believe that guidance is exclusively in what descended upon Muhammad ﷺ: the Book recited, and the Sunnah followed, understood by the first generations who learned at the feet of prophethood.

We believe that every path that contradicts the Qur’an and authentic Sunnah — however adorned in philosophy, rhetoric, or mysticism — is a path of loss, even if its champions are many and its slogans seductive.

We believe that the heart is only cured by the remembrance of Allah, the recitation of His Book, reflection upon the meanings, and following the Prophet’s ﷺ way inwardly and outwardly.

What we believe about the heart and the self

We believe that the heart is the king of the body; when it is sound, all is sound, and when it is corrupt, all is corrupt.

We believe that sins darken the heart, that repentance polishes it, that remembrance gives it life, and that reliance on Allah steadies it amidst storms.

We believe that true knowledge is what leads to khushu‘, tears, humility, and obedience; knowledge that inflates the ego while leaving the limbs idle is a veil, not a virtue.

What we believe about worship and action

We believe that every act of worship must unite two wings: ikhlas (sincerity) for Allah alone, and mutaba‘ah (conformity) to the Sunnah; one wing missing, the deed falls.

We believe that the most beloved deeds to Allah are those that are most consistent, even if small; that hidden deeds are safer than famous ones; and that the first thing to be devoured by riya’ is the reward of the show‑off.

We believe that justice, mercy, and good character are not optional embellishments but the very marrow of this religion; whoever surpasses you in character has surpassed you in religion.

What we believe about law, destiny, and effort

We believe that Shari‘ah is pure mercy, pure wisdom, and pure justice; wherever the result is cruelty, folly, or injustice, there has been a departure from its intent — not a fault in the Lawgiver.

We believe that relying on qadar to excuse sin is a fraud of the nafs; the believer takes the means, blames his soul, repents, and seeks refuge in the One who decreed.

We believe that tying the camel and trusting Allah is one act, not two: taking full responsibility in effort while knowing that outcomes are from Him alone.

What we believe about the Prophet ﷺ and his Ummah

We believe that love of the Prophet ﷺ is a duty of the heart, shown in obedience to his command, reverence for his Sunnah, sending abundant salawat, and preferring his guidance over the cravings of the soul.

We believe that his Companions are the purest generation, that their disagreements do not permit us to insult them, and that seeking salvation is by following their way, not by judging their histories.

We believe that the Ummah will remain, till the Hour, with a visible group manifest upon the truth; they may be slandered, marginalized, or few, but they are never extinguished.

What we believe about trials, suffering, and evil

We believe that this world is a place of testing, not settling; tribulations are scalpel, not scythe — they cut to heal, purify, elevate, and reveal what lies hidden in the heart.

We believe that the believer’s every state is خير (good): ease, a field for gratitude; hardship, a field for patience; sin, a door to humbled repentance; obedience, a ladder of nearness.

We believe that the real calamity is a heart veiled from Allah; any trial that drives a servant back to his Lord is a disguised gift.

What we believe about success and failure

We believe that true success is not in wealth, rank, or followers, but in a heart that meets Allah sound, a tongue moist with His remembrance, and a record heavy with sincere, accepted deeds.

We believe that the greatest bankruptcy is to come on the Day of Judgment with mountains of prayer, fasting, and charity, only to see them transferred to those we wronged with our tongues, hands, and hidden oppressions.

We believe that the highest station is not to be seen as righteous, but to be unknown on earth while known in the heavens, hidden among people while present with Allah.

What we believe about purification and tazkiyah

We believe that tazkiyat al‑nafs is a lifelong war, not a weekend workshop; that the nafs is never safe, even after decades of worship, and that complacency is the first step toward ruin.

We believe that muraqabah (vigilant awareness of Allah), muhasabah (honest self‑reckoning), and mujahadah (struggle against the ego) are daily disciplines, not poetic slogans.

We believe that every station of the path — fear, hope, love, tawakkul, zuhd, sabr, shukr — is only sound when tethered to the Qur’an and Sunnah, not floating in private fantasies or unbounded tastes.

What we believe about knowledge and scholarship

We believe that every scholar, however towering, is taken from and left, except the Prophet ﷺ.

We believe that the honor of scholars is in how closely they transmit the Prophetic inheritance, not in how cleverly they innovate beyond it.

We believe that the seeker of knowledge must unite five things: sincerity to Allah, adherence to the Sunnah, learning sound texts, and sitting with living teachers, then acting upon what is known — or else knowledge curdles into argument, pride, and fragmentation.

What we believe about this life and the next

We believe that dunya is a bridge, not a homeland; whoever builds on it has built on water, and whoever makes it his concern has traded the eternal for what perishes.

We believe that the grave is the first station of the Hereafter; its darkness is lit by Qur’an recited and acted upon, charity given, injustices avoided, and nights spent remembering the One who never sleeps.

We believe that Paradise is near to those whose hearts are broken for Allah, and that Hell is near to those whose hearts are hard while their arguments are refined.

What we must do

We believe that the call of Ahl Al‑Sunnah is not a museum of quotations but a living program of repentance, remembrance, study, service, and struggle against the ego.

We believe that the age of confusion demands not despair, but a return: to the Book, to the Sunnah, to the humility of the early generations, and to the deep, careful insights of scholars that lived in similar times of confusion, filtered through the scale of Qur’an and authentic sunnah.

We believe that every believer — scholar or lay, young or old — is invited into this work: to clean the heart, straighten the prayer, guard the tongue, rectify dealings, seek knowledge, and walk quietly but firmly toward Allah until meeting Him is more beloved than remaining here.

In lieu of endnotes, read the following, and you too will differentiate between lies, and will support divine Truth spoken by Allah in his book, his messengerﷺ, the companions, and those that tread on their path.

القران الكريم

‎السنة المسندة الصحيحة من أمور رسول الله ﷺ وسننه وأيامه

إعتقاد الصحابة وال بيته ﷺ

إجماع علماء أهل السنة والجماعة