al-Jurayri on Faith and God Oneness.
Abu Muhammad al-Jurayri on Faith Know, may God have mercy on you, that the elders of this path built the foundations of their affair upon the sound fundamental principles of God’s oneness. In this way they protected their beliefs from [reprehensible] innovations and tried to bring themselves closer to the ways of the pious forefathers and the followers of the Prophet’s Sunna, namely the doctrine of God’s oneness that contained neither likening nor stripping . They knew well the true nature of God’s eternity and realized fully how an existent entity emerges from nonexistence. It is this issue that the great master of this path al-Junayd, may God have mercy on him, mentioned when he said: “ The [true] doctrine of oneness consists in separating the eternal from the originated. ” Thus, they strengthened the fundamentals of the religious belief by clear proofs and irrefutable evidence . Abu Muhammad al-Ju...