Fighting Shirk & Bid'ah - Reviving Tawheed & Sunnah (Islamic Book)

TAWHEED#1 TAWHEED,Its Meaning and Importance

Tawheed: Its importance.

- It is the purpose of the creation of Man and Jinn.
Allaah Ta'aala said:  {And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.} [51: 56]

- It is the actual message of the Prophets alayhem assalam.
Allaah Subhaanahu Wa Ta'aala said: {And We sent not before you any messenger except that We revealed to him that, "There is no deity except Me, so worship Me."} [21:25]

- Good deeds are not accepted without Tawheed.

Rasoolullah Sallallaahu 'Alayhi Wa Sallam said: "Allah Tabaraka Wa Ta'ala said: "I am the One Who does not stand in need of a partner. If anyone does anything in which he associates anyone else with Me, I shall abandon him with one whom he associates with Allah."" [Saheeh Muslim]

Yahya Ibn Sallaam Rahimahullah (d. 200 H.) said commenting on the Aayah: {And speak words which are Sadeed – 33: 70} "Sadeed means: Just, and that is "Laa Ilaaha Illallaah", {He will [then] amend for you your deeds – 33:71}, good deeds are not accepted except from one who says: , sincerely from his heart." (1)

- Jannah is forbidden upon one who associates partners (commits shirk) with Allaah.
Allaah Ta'aala said: {Indeed, he who associates others with Allaah - Allaah has forbidden him Paradise, and his abode is the Fire.} [5: 72]

- Whoever associates partners with Allaah his deeds are worthless.
Allaah Subhaanahu Wa Ta'aala said: {But if they had associated others with Allaah, then worthless for them would be whatever they had done.} [6:88]

- It (Tawhid) is the greatest reason for the forgiveness of sins.
It comes in a Hadeeth Qudsi: "And whoever meets Me with an earth full of sins without associating any partners with me, I will meet him with a similar amount of forgiveness." [Saheeh Muslim]
And other than that.


Tawheed: is Laa Ilaaha Illallaah

Allah Ta'ala said: {And We sent not before you any messenger except that We revealed to him that, "La Ilaha Illallah"} [21: 25]

The Prophet -Sallallaahu 'Alayhi Wa Sallam- said: "Whoever says:"La Ilaha illa Allah", and rejects whatever is worshipped besides Allaah, his blood and wealth becomes forbidden, and his reckoning is upon Allaah." [Saheeh Muslim]

And in another narration: "Whoever professes Tawheed (the Oneness of Allah)...", then he mentioned like the previous hadeeth.[Saheeh Muslim]

Uthman Ad-Darimi (d. 280 H.) said: «And the explanation of At-Tawheed according to the Ummah, and the correct view; is: La Ilaha Illallah, Wahdahu la sharika Lahu * » (2)

Abu Ja'far An-Nahhas (d. 338 H.) said: "The words of Allaah 'Azza Wa Jal: {Indeed they, when it was said to them "La Ilaha Illallah", were arrogant}.[37:35] meaning: arrogant in (accepting) the Tawheed of Allah 'Azza Wa Jal. (3)

Abu Abdullah Al-Qurtubi (d. 671 H.) said: "And in {Say, "He is Allaah, [who is] One,} ([12: 1] is complete Tawheed. And in this meaning comes the statement of Rasoolullaah Sallallaahu 'Alayhi Wa Sallam to Ubayy (Radhiallaahu 'Anhu) "Which Aayah (verse) in the Qur'aan is the greatest?" he said: {Allaah - la ilaha illa Huwa, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of [all] existence.} [2: 255]", and it is the greatest verse because it is complete Tawheed, like how the Messenger of Allah -Sallallaahu 'Alayhi Wa Sallam- saying: "The best (word) which I and the Prophets -'Alayhimus Salaam- before me had said is: "La Ilaha Illallah, Wahdahu, la sharika Lahu" * was the best Dhikr, " because it is words which encompass all the knowledge of Tawheed. (4)

Ibn Katheer (D. 774 H.) said: {And it was not for us to associate anything with Allaah. That is from the favor of Allaah upon us and upon the people.} [12: 38] This is Tawheed, and that is declaring that "La Ilaha Illallah, Wahdahu, la sharika Lahu" * (5)