Thursday, March 11, 2010

Professing Shahādah yet not belonging "to the Community of Islām"

"[The Īṣunīyīm Jews] profess the full Shahādah, hold that Islām is a true religion, perform some of the Five Pillars, and yet are not considered to belong to the Community of Islām." - Al-Baghdadī, Usūlu-l-Dīn (Istanbul, 1928) 325-6; Al-Farq bain al-Firqa (Beirut, 1973) 9

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