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Today insha'Allah, short and perhaps insha'Allah a bit of an academic

Khatira, I recited Surat Al-Ujjurat and there is a verse in Surat Al-Ujjurat that created

a lot of discussion amongst our ulema and the ulema of other groups as well. In fact, it led

to a big theological dispute amongst our Ummah. Allah says in Surat Al-Ujjurat that

the Bedouins have said, we have Iman, but say you don't have Iman, but say you have accepted

Islam. You have Islam, you don't have Iman. This is what the verse allegedly is saying.

We're going to discuss some of these controversies today. They said we have Iman, Allah says you

don't have Iman, you have Islam and Iman has not yet entered your heart. But as long as

your good deeds will not go to waste, you shall be rewarded for your good deeds and the

verses go on. Now, this verse has led to, as we said, a lot of discussion not just within

our own tradition, but also outside of our tradition, because what then is the relationship

between Islam and Iman? When Allah is saying you can have Islam without Iman and yet think

about it, if you ask an average Muslim, you must have some Iman to have Islam. I mean, why

did you accept Islam if you don't have any Iman? And in the Hadith of Jibri, Iman is defined

as believing in the six pillars, correct? How can you have Islam without believing in the six

pillars? You understand this point as well, right? So what then does it mean that you have Islam

but you don't have Iman? Iman has not yet entered your heart. This is actually, as we said,

one of the most complex questions of our Islamic history and theology, and in fact, interestingly,

this was the first controversy of our Akhida, historically speaking. Actually, you can say

second, because if you wanted to go, the first would be the Khilafa and the difference between

the two main strands. You can say that goes back a little bit, but the largest controversy

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