Hudjdjat as-siddik li-daf az-zindik is a short Malay-Arabic polemic by Nuruddin ar-Raniri, reproduced by Voorhoeve from London, Royal Asiatic Society, Maxwell 93, fol. 119–145, composed in Acheh c. 1638–1643 to refute the Wujudiyyah.
Purpose
Raniri states he wrote at the request of “a considerable friend” after “fanatical and ignorant” persons spread deviant views on the relation of God and world. The title means “Proof of the truthful for repelling the heretic.”
Doctrine contrasted
The tract compares four positions:
- Mutakallimun (theologians): God’s Being (wujud) is necessary, the world’s being is possible and created — the two are distinct.
- Sufis: accept the theologians’ meaning but use one term wujud for God alone; the world is pure non-being (‘adam mahd), a mirror, shadow, or property.
- Philosophers: both God and world are eternal (qadim), the world emanates necessarily like heat from the sun.
- Wujudiyyah mulhid: teach that God’s Being is enclosed in all creation — “the world = God, God = the world,” that la ilaha illa Allah means “my being is God’s being,” and that God’s essence is knowable in quality and quantity.
Raniri equates this last view with the Rafidiyah’s Ali-Allahiyah, Jewish claims about Uzair, and Christian incarnation.
Achehnese targets
He names Hamzah Fansuri’s Kitab al-Muntahi and Syamsuddin of Pasai’s Mir’at al-muhaqqiqin and Harakah (Chirkah), quoting passages to show they teach identity of Creator and creature.
Manuscript
Copied Sunday 12 Sha’ban 1186 AH (≈ 1772), by Encik Abdul Aziz b… The Arabic quotations are fuller and more accurate than in the Tibjan, and Voorhoeve used the parallel Batavia manuscript KBG Arab. 420 to correct readings.
See Also
Source
Twee Maleise geschriften, Voorhoeve, pp. 37–43.