The Primordial Covenant
"My school is not a recent edifice built by men, but the primordial faith: the Deen of Noah's solitude, Abraham's conviction, Moses' revelation, Jesus' breath, and Muhammad's completion—the one call to submission that is our oldest identity."
—Whalid Safodien
The Feather Pen
Madhhab Al-Anbiyā’
(The School of the Prophets)
You ask which school of thought I follow, as if the path is a narrow alleyway branching into a thousand divergent lanes. I tell you, I walk the great river valley carved by the Prophets themselves.
My school is not a recent edifice built by the hands of men, arguing over the color of the stones. My school is the primordial faith, the Deen that was ordained for Noah in the silence of the ark, entrusted to Abraham in the fire of his conviction, revealed to Moses on the sanctified mountain, embodied in the healing breath of Jesus, and completed for Muhammad, upon them all be peace, as a mercy to the worlds.
The Almighty says, "He has ordained for you of religion what He enjoined upon Noah and that which We have revealed to you, [O Muhammad], and what We enjoined upon Abraham and Moses and Jesus - to establish the religion and not be divided therein..."
Do you hear the profound unity in this divine decree? The message is one. The source is one. The call is one: to establish justice, worship the One, and enjoin good. The differences in law were a mercy for different times and peoples, but the core—the soul of submission to the One God—remained immutable.
Therefore, I do not follow a school born of division. I follow the call to unity. I am a student of all the Messengers, for they all graduated from the same divine university. My madhhab is the straight path they all walked, the path of islām—submission.
And this is not a new name for me. It is my oldest identity. As God reminds me, "...He named you 'Muslims' before [in former scriptures]..."
So, when Abraham stood before his people, or when Moses spoke to Pharaoh, or when Jesus called his disciples, they were not Jews or Christians as we know them today. They were Muslims—those who had submitted their will to the Will of the Divine. This name is etched in the eternal scripture, my original name, waiting for me to remember and live up to it.
So I ask not, "Which school do you follow?" but rather, "Do you submit?" That is the only question. The rest is but commentary. My school is the Ummah of Tawḥīd, the community of Divine Oneness, and my teacher is the collective wisdom of every Messenger who ever pointed to the sky and said, "There is no god but God." That is the school I strive to follow.
-Whalid Safodien
The Feather Pen
