Al-Sayyid al-Shaykh MUHAMMAD HISHAM KABBANI comes from
a well-respected Lebanese family of Muslim scholars, jurists,
muftis, and teachers, whose prominence in the Middle East goes
back to the early centuries of Islam. Shaykh Hisham is vice-chairman
of Al-Sunna Foundation of America (ASFA) and presently the most
famous Muslim da`i and scholar in the Americas. He has
lectured in the Middle East, Far East, Africa, and Europe on Islam
in the modern world, Islamic education, and spirituality. He came
to America eight years ago on the orders of his shaykh, Mawlana
Muhammad Nazim Adil alHaqqani, mufti of Cyprus and world
head of the Naqshbandi Tariqa, with the directive to spread Islam
among nonMuslims. He has since helped establish more than
thirty mosques and Islamic centers and has conveyed the Message
of Islam to countless people, by Allah's grace. He authored several
books on Islam and Sufism, and frequently lectures at centers
of religious learning and universities. His most recent work are
a three-volume, 1,500-page refutation of "Salafi" dogmas,
entitled Islamic Beliefs and Doctrine According to Ahl al-Sunna:
A Repudiation of "Salafi" Innovations, as well as
its summarized version entitled al-Radd al-qati` `ala al-salafi
al-da'i` (The Decisive Answer to the Lost "Salafi").
The present work is a response to the growing campaign of "Salafi"
disinformation on tasawwuf. It is hoped the reader will
find in these works an effective antidote against the diseases
of alteration, modernization, and anti-spirituality that are presently
poisening the core and kernel of our Deen.