نشریه سراج منیر
سال دوازدهم شماره 48 (زمستان 1401)

One of the beliefs that has an important place in the Wahhabi discourse is calling someone who believe in supernatural power for someone other than God a pagon. The Wahhabists maintain that the one who claim supernatural power is a tyrant, and there are some qur'anic verses that reject the occult power for someone other than God. But we must know that there are many problems for referring this issue to the Holy Quran:  Firstly, the Quranic verses regarding the occult power is different and only some of them refer to what Wahhabi claim. So, Wahhabi claim for citing the Quranic verses is a kind of selecting some verses and leaving others. Secondly, there are many correct and authoritative Hadiths in both Shia and Sunni sources, proving the occult power to someone other than God. Thirdly, according to Quranic and narrative texts, the occult powers is not dedicated only to the prophets and some saints also possess this power. So, this Wahhabi claim in rejecting the occult power for someone other than God is in contradiction with the religious texts.

Wahhabis are against any learning and education of philosophy; In addition, one of the most common fatwas of Wahhabis is labelling the philosophers as atheists. Although they have tried to present their conflict with philosophy and philosophers as scientific and well-reasoned, but according to the findings of this research, and by evaluating the Wahhabi reasons, we have found that the Wahhabis misconstrue the philosophical concepts and also they have anti-rational prejudices, this attitude had the greatest impact on Wahhabis' misunderstanding of philosophy and philosophers. It seems that the excommunication of philosophers and the banning of philosophy by the Wahhabis are based on prejudices and unfair ratios rather than having a scientific basis. In this essay, with a descriptive-analytical method, the opinions of the opponents of philosophy have been examined and criticized

From the first days of their existence, Wahhabis have promoted this idea that embellishing graves is forbidden, and it is a kind of Heresy and introduction to Shirk that we groom the graves. Based on this idea, Muhammad bin Abd al-Wahhab and his followers destroyed the monuments on the tomb of Imams, Companions,  and many Sunni leaders in different parts of the world. In this essay and with a descriptive - analytic method, the most important reasons of Wahhabism such as the existence of consensus, the narration of  Abu al-heyaj and the narration of Jaber is discussed and analyzed.

Celebrating at the birthday of the Holy Prophet of Islam and the saints of God has been the tradition of Muslims throughout the Islamic world for centuries. This is because of commemorating the Holy Prophet of Islam (PBH). The Wahhabis doubted on the legitimacy of celebrating for the birthday of Holy Prophet, claiming that the Holy Prophet and his disciples have not done this themselves. But care must be taken that this is not a legitimate reason for forbidding the act of celebration, rather we must have an explicit religious text for declaring something Haram. the supporters of commemorating the birthdays consider this act as an example of bowing down to divine rites. They provide several reasons from the verses of the Qur'an to support their views, including: the Qur'an's advice on the need to remember God's Day, the need to celebrate divine rites, and etc.

One of the issues that concerns the jurists is whether someone who abandons Praying is a pagan or not? The Muslim jurists maintain that if leaving the praying leads to denying the praying, this is Kufr. But the question is that if this do not lead to denying the act of praying, what is the verdict?  The majority of jurists believe that not performing the praying without denying it, will not lead to Kufr. Most of contemporary Takfiri Groups have accepted the Takfir idea. They mention the verse (9:11) and the Holy prophet quotation: "the border between the man and Kufr is abandoning the praying". But care must be taken that in above verse the literal meaning is not intended, rather it means that abandoning the praying is hateful. With regard to quotation of the Holy prophet, this quotation is about abandoning the praying intentionally. Furthermore, there is no correlation between abandoning praying and lack of faith.

Book report on Ibn Taymiyyah's approach on the conflict between reason and narrationThe book "Review of Ibn Taymiyyah's approach on the conflict between reason and narration" was written by Rahmatullah Rezaei in connection with Ibn Taymiyyah's criticism. This book is organized in two volumes. The first volume is devoted to the theoretical topics of "conflict of reason and narration" and the second volume is focused on theological topics.The first volume of this book is 454 pages long and decorated by Mohibin Publishing House of Qom city in 2019 AH, it consists of nine chapters and a conclusion, and the mentioned report is from the first volume of this book.From the point of view of the author of the report, this book is a very valuable book for scientific researchers in the field of understanding and criticizing Ibn Taymiyyah's words, because the respected author of the book has well explained and criticized Ibn Taymiyyah's positions.