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  • Still though they are bid'at, yet they are esteemed good and so are called bid'at-i-Hasana, or "excellent innovation."

    The Faith of Islam Edward Sell

  • The narrators of it have been persons whose characters were not above reproach, whose memories were bad, or who, worse still, were addicted to "bid'at," innovation, a habit now, as then, a crime in the eyes of all true Muslims.

    The Faith of Islam Edward Sell

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