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As-Salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wa barakatuhu wa l-hamdulillah wa salatu wa sallamu ala Rasulillah

wa ala'alihi wa sahbihi wa menu wa l-hamadadi.

I welcome you to another episode of our regular series on Tuesday, which is our Q&A series.

And today, insha'Allah, we will be discussing theological questions.

I've been delaying these for quite a while.

I've been concentrating on legal issues.

But this week insha'Allah, we'll be doing two very important theological questions that I've

been asked a lot of times.

And so we begin with our first question, sister Samina from Wisconsin.

She says that she has heard a lot about the Salafi and Ashadi ideologies or theologies.

And she's asking, can I explain the difference between these two

theologies or ideologies?

This question is actually a very common one.

And anybody who is in any way a fashion or form linked with the Datwa scene,

or with the online debates and issues, or even with Islamic scholarship,

they're very well aware of these two strands within mainstream sunnism.

At the same time, those that are not involved with the online Datwa scene,

those that are not involved with Islamic academics,

they are blissfully alhamdulillah unaware.

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