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Imam Abu Hanifa

  Faith (Iman) There are different transmissions about what Abu Hanifa says about faith. The one we can be most sure about is: “Faith is affirmation and confirmation.” He said that Islam is submission and obedience to Allah’s command. Linguistically, there is a difference between faith and Islam, but there is no faith without Islam and no Islam without faith. They are like the outward is to the inward. The deen is the name given to faith, Islam and the laws of the Shari‘a. So we see that Abu Hanifa did not consider faith to be pure affirmation by the heart alone.  He thought that its reality was confirmation by the heart and affirmation by the tongue. He made his views on that clear in a debate between himself and Jahm ibn Safwan.Al-Makki states in The Virtues: The opinions of Abu Hanifa on thought, ethics and society Abu Hanifa’s intellect was remarkable for his profound thinking, analysis, and ferreting out the motives and reasons for all actions and matters which he examine...