i've got books i don't want.........

[knowrass]

i've got books by some sufis (some are even qubooris if i'm not mistaken) and i bought them at a time i wasn't aware of aqeedah issues etc., i haven't even read these books properly, but i spent some good amount of money on them... anyways, are there any suggestions what i could do about them? there's a website (kitaabun.com) that sells all kinds of books, is it islamically permissible to sell those books that have deviancy in them (i'm considering this, unless it's haraam), should i get rid of them or keep them for future references?

[Abu_Abdallah]

al-Salamu 'Alaikum,

I would not sell them, nor read them or make known that you possess them.

Actually, you should know that it is not allowed for the general Muslims to possess such books which contain deviation and which threathen your religious conviction. The Hanbalis, maybe brother Abuz Zubair could inform us of it since he has good knowledge of them, forbid it categorically to possess such books of Mutakallimun, Sufis, Ghulât etc. even for the sake of knowing what it contains, since it endangers the Muslim's life [in this life and the hereafter]. Ibn Qudamah's book Tahrim al-Nazar fi Kutub Ahl al-Kalam mentions its forbiddance, as another work of the same Hanbalite is devoted to it.

I suggest you to learn a lot and reach a firm conviction in 'Aqidah and Manhaj, before turning your eyes into the dangers of innovative beliefs and practices. Especially if you haven't been exposed to those matters that contain both truth and falsehood, for they are more dangerous than things that are blatantly bâtil. Those works that contain a lot of benefit in matters of Fiqh al-'Ibadah, the rules of transactions etc. as in the Reliance of the Traveller, they contain also dangerous material such as mentioned in this forum and elsewhere. Having al-Kulayni's Hadith-collection of lies would be less harmfull, since its lies are more obvious and plentyfull and unmixed with the truth (since the truth in it is absent). So you should keep it safe I suggest - whatever you have and having some good in it or more good than evil - and benefit from it at a later date. And if not, then I would throw it away (if it is not a classical work).

wa-Allahu A'lam.

[knowrass]

jazaak Allaah khayr ul-jazaa' bro sharif!

[Abd al-Haqq Marshall]

jazaak Allaah khayr ul-jazaa' bro sharif!

Let me know what books they are.

[knowrass]

well, one of them is "the secret of the secrets" supposedly by shaykh al-jeelaanee

i've also got a few by ahmed thomson, umar ibrahim vadillo, nuh keller. i've got aisha bewley's translation of imaam an-nawawi's "bustaan ul-'aarefeen"... but they're all ash'ari sufis, so it's best to take bro sharif's advice, jazaahu Allaah.

[Abd al-Haqq Marshall]

well, one of them is "the secret of the secrets" supposedly by shaykh al-jeelaanee

i've also got a few by ahmed thomson, umar ibrahim vadillo, nuh keller. i've got aisha bewley's translation of imaam an-nawawi's "bustaan ul-'aarefeen"... but they're all ash'ari sufis, so it's best to take bro sharif's advice, jazaahu Allaah.

I'd buy "Secret of Secrets", "Bustaan al-Arifeen", and if the Vadillo book is "Esoteric Deviation in Islam" I'd buy it also.