Question: Your website states that there are six pillars of faith, but another website says there are only five. Since it claims that belief in predestination is not one of the pillars of faith, how can you say that there are six?
ANSWER
Another reader raised a similar objection:
"Your website says there are six pillars of faith, but another website claims there are seven. It says that reaching Allah is the seventh pillar of faith. How can you say there are only six?"

It should be noted that the reader criticizes our website based on an article on another website. In the same way, those who read articles on our website criticize the articles on other websites. However, such objections are not scholarly. The standard of truth in religious matters is not what one website says versus another, but the authentic and authoritative sources of Islam, that is, the four fundamental sources of Islamic law. Any view that is not grounded in these sources has no binding value. Especially, criticizing a website based on another one is intellectually unsound.

It has been explained with documentary evidence on our website that there are six pillars of faith. Those who claim that there are five or seven are outside the Ahl as-Sunnah.