بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
والصلاة والسلام على رسوله الكريم
والعاقبة للمتقين
A faction of the Ajarida
(an old Kharijite sect, followers of Abd al-Karim b. Ajrad), known as the
Maimuniya, denied Sura Yusuf, the twelfth chapter of the Qur’an, maintaining
that since it is, in their minds, a “love story”, it could not possibly have
been part of the divine revelation (God forbid). The Maimuniya were adherents
of a man named Maimun b. Khalid (or Maimun b. Imran). Among their scandalous
ideas was that it is allowed for a man to marry a daughter of his daughter
(grand daughter) and a daughter of his niece or nephew. (al-Milal wan-Nihal,
Ibn Abd al-Karim al-Shahrastani; pp. 124, 126)
The Maimuniya, Ajarida
Kharijites are an example of why it is so critical for Muslims to cling to the
way of Ahl al-Sunna and eschew the dangerous and heretical ideas of the Khawarij.
The modern-day Kharijites, the likes of Shukri Mustafa and his so-called Jama’at
al-Muslimin dubbed “Takfir wal-Hijra”, likewise had scandalous beliefs and
practices which not only deviated from normative Islam but were also
anti-social. But in denying Sura Yusuf, the Maimuniya faction of the Ajarida
had clearly become apostates from Islam, as Allah Most High says:
أَفَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِبَعْضِ الْكِتَابِ وَتَكْفُرُونَ بِبَعْضٍ
So do you believe in a part of the Book and disbelieve in
a part?
(Sura 2:85)
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