The Haaiya is a didactic poem on Islamic Creed in the tradition of the early Hanbali scholars written by Imam Haafiz Abu Bakr Abdullah the son of the renowned Imam Abu Dawud al-Sijistaani RH. The son was an authoritive scholar in his own right and some considered him to be greater than the father. Despite its brevity i.e. 33 lines, multiple commentaries exist on the Creed. The most extensive being the later era Hanbali giant of Palestine Imam Saffirini’s (d. 1188 AH or 1774 CE) two-volume masterpiece Lawaaih al-Anwaar al-Saniyya. The Haaiya is forceful and spells out in clear terms the fundamental beliefs that a Muslim needs to live and die by like the early Muslims. It is hoped that through this course, core beliefs of Islam that all Muslims agree upon and their sources will be highlighted from a Hanbali perspective.
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Shaykh Khalid Shah
Mufti Khalid was born in Brazil to Pakistani parents and raised in Australia. His late father Maulana Gul Saeed Shah was an Aalim and Imam. After obtaining a Bachelors of Information Systems from Monash University, he devoted his time to the study at Darul Ulum (Melbourne) and with his father, he completed the 6 years Aalim course in 2009. During the same period, he completed Masters in TESOL (Teaching English to speakers of other languages).
He completed his Mufti course with Al-Balagh Academy (UK) researching and writing fatwas in both Hanafi and Hanbali madhhabs. He currently is studying and deepening his understanding of all aspects of the Hanbali madhhab under Shaykh Dr. Faris bin Falih al-Khazraji (originally of Mosul, Iraq but currently based in Konya, Turkey).
Mufti Khalid is passionate about Classical Islamic education and furthering its establishment in Australia especially in the establishment of maktabs and madrasas. He is the founder and principal of Kashiful Uloom, where he teaches daily. He is the Imam and Khatib at UMMA centre, Doncaster East and oversees UMMA’s maktab and teaches adult classes. Furthermore, he has taught several courses for Al-Balagh Academy (UK), WISE English (UK), PGCC (Australia) and Melbourne Muslim Seminary (Australia). He has also translated and published 3 books available on Amazon.