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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
Alhamdulilah wasalatu wasalam ala Muhammad
This is the first post since I have been reading Islamic posts on NL that didn't lead to insults. I commend everyone for their composure.
There are things I'd like to point out.
1. Sunni Muslims and Shi'a Muslims are brothers not opponents. Everyone who follows the Sunnah of Muhammad is a Muslim. It has been noted that inter and intra religious warfare can lead us to a third world war and Muslim scholars have gathered to prevent this, hence, the Amman message. I recommend we all read it. These gathered scholars were Sunnis and Shi'as, they didn't hurl abuses and curses at each other, they wrote to solve the common dispute. So I won't have to write this twice, I should expatriate that they were Suffis, Salafs, Wahabis, fivers twelvers, Ahmaddiyyahs and every other divide you can think of. In the light of this I'd like AlBaqir and Empiree to consider themselves brothers.

2. That your creed has no basis for a thing does not signify it's inexistence; verily there's most likely a basis it's just that your creed does not agree with it. Example is temporary marriage in Islam, there's a basis for it that Shi'a Muslims hold dear but Sunni Muslims refute. I shouldn't go into details about that since its not the basis for this discussion. Muhammad being Nur, light. In the famous qasida Muhammadiyya of Imam Al Busiri, there's a line: Muhammadin nuruhul haadi minaz dhulamin Muhammad is the light that guides out of darkness. That is to say to not be in Islam is darkness. I think to refute Muhammad as light will only be valid when we look at what he lights for instance it will be heresy to say Muhammad is the light of heaven and earth since Allah (SWT) already said Allahu nuru samawati wal ard. But Muhammad is light if we think of him as a guide to Allah's Nur. That is what I make of Empiree's initial post.

Salam

What is the creed and theology of the Arab Nigerian Institute, Mahad l Arabiya, Elekuro, Ibadan?

What's creed and theology؟