شرح الخريدة البهية في علم التوحيد-الدقاق

Aqidah is important. No one disputes this.
Ilm al-Kalam is also required, to properly understand and defend our aqidah.
But why are most aqidah works so hard to understand!It sometimes seems as if they deliberately use difficult, complex language to put you in your place and make you realise you know nothing!Due to the scarcity of comprehensive well-written aqidah works, the few suitable ones become very popular.

Dardir’s Nazm titled al-Kharidah al-Bahiyyah, with his sharh is one such work.The nazm is beautiful, flowing and easy to memorise, in just 71 lines.As for his sharh, it is an Ashari primer, that covers everything you need to know.It does go into the detailed, slightly complex discussions when required, but he adopts language that makes it easy to understand.This book is a standard aqidah text in many parts of the world.

This edition boasts the beneficial footnotes of Sh Abd as-Salam Shannar, a Syrian Aqidah expert.