Intellectual Fortification Through the Doctrine of People of Sunnah and Jama’ah

Abstract

The research is an inductive study of the topic of intellectual fortification in light of the correct doctrine that the people of Sunnah and Jama'ah had, by highlighting the importance of the doctrine that the predecessors of the nation had - may God have mercy on them and be pleased with them - in fortifying thought from misguidance and deviant ideas. The research aims to: highlight the impact of the doctrine and approach of the people of Sunnah and Jama'ah in fortifying thought, while stating the principles that the people of Sunnah and Jama'ah had in their belief and by which the thought of individuals and societies is fortified. The importance of the topic lies in the necessity of intellectual fortification and its great impact on individuals and societies, especially in such an era in which doubts have increased, means have diversified, and some doctrinal deviations have appeared. The importance of intellectual fortification is due to the stability of societies, and the safety of individuals from all types of deviation, misguidance, and evils, and that the safety of thought from atheism, dissolution, extremism, and extremism in all its forms is through intellectual fortification. It is necessary for the seeker of knowledge and researchers to work on highlighting this to protect societies from these misguidances. The researcher reached To a number of results, the most important of which are: that one of the greatest means of intellectual fortification is the integrity of the sources of reasoning and reception, and that following the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger fortifies, protects and safeguards thought, and that one of the greatest ways of fortifying thought is also: achieving monotheism and purifying it from all types of polytheism, disbelief, innovations and novelties, and the importance of continuous intellectual fortification from extremism and all types of misguidance and atheism and the like, which affect the origin of the servant’s religion, and that the integrity of thought from extremism and extremism is one of the greatest means of intellectual fortification.