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Aspects of the Days of Ignorance

ASPECTS OF THE DAYS OF IGNORANCE

Book foreword

There are several source texts for Imaam Ibn ‘Abd-il-Wahhaab’s treatise, all varying in the amount of points and the order in which these points are arranged.

For example, Shaikh ‘Abdur-Rahmaan Ibn Hasan Aali Shaikh states in Fat’h-ul-Majeed (page 310) that it consists of 120 points.

Other sources, such as Ad-Durar list it as 127 points. Still, the text form of it was printed several times on different occasions, containing 128, 129 and 131 points.

The source we based our translation on was a brochure-like pamphlet given to us by one of our brothers from Yemen, which was printed and distributed free by Daar Al-Watan of Riyaad, Saudi Arabia. This text contains 128 points.

To our knowledge, this is the first time this book has been translated into English and put into printable book format, although the text for it was roughly translated on cassette recording when Shaikhs Saleem Al-Hilaalee and Abu Anas Hamad Al-‘Uthmaan came to the United Kingdom to teach it a few years ago.

The translator of this present treatise referred to these sets of tapes, which can be purchased from Salafi Publications, for corrections and additional footnotes.

So we ask Allaah to reward the brothers who were responsible for producing these sets of tapes,¹ especially Dawood Burbank for his work on translating from both of the Shaikhs on separate occasions.

We have also made the Arabic text from the pamphlet available for download on a separate file, which can be attached to this book as an Appendix.

Footnotes were added by the translator to add clarification and provide evidence for points that required it. These footnotes are based on the explanation found in the cassettes and on research of other books.

Book Introduction

The subject matter of this treatise is one of great importance, for the aspects of the Days of Ignorance have not ceased to be acted upon till this very day. And the people that call towards these misguided beliefs and practices of the Days of Ignorance are many, such as the innovators and the people of desire.

The word Masaa’il here refers to the various Aspects the people of the Days of Ignorance were upon from beliefs, actions, sayings, practices, ideologies and customs.

The word Al-Jaahiliyyah (Days of Ignorance) is a term that refers to the period of time before the advent of Islaam.

It is derived from the word al-jahl, which means ignorance, because the aspects that the people of these pre-Islamic times were upon were either not based on any source of guidance or they were from previous revelations that had been corrupted and altered.

So Allaah attributed this name to this point in time, out of dispraise for what its people were upon from beliefs, actions and methodology.

And He did not mention it once in His Glorious Book, except that He condemned and repudiated it, as is evident in the following four ayaat, which are the only times the word Al-Jaahiliyyah occurs in the Noble Qur’aan: