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You
should know, may Allah have mercy on you, that it is compulsory for us to learn
four issues:
1.
Knowledge: it is knowing Allah, knowing His Messenger, and knowing
the religion of Islam through the evidences.
2.
Acting according to this knowledge.
3.
Calling others to this
knowledge.
4.
Patience in the face of adversity that results from calling the
people to it.
And
the evidence for that is the saying of Allah ta’ala:
By
the Time. Verily, Man is in loss. Except those who believe and do righteous good
deeds, and exhorts one another to Truth, and exhorts one another to Patience and
Constancy.
(103:1-3)
Ash-Shaafi,
may Allah have mercy on him, said about these verses: "If no argument
besides this verse had been revealed by Allah to his creation, it would have
been sufficient for them."
Al-Bukhari,
may Allah have mercy on him, named a chapter in his Sahih:
"Chapter:
Knowledge before Saying and Acting"
The
evidence is the saying of Allah azza wa jall:
Know,
that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah, and ask forgiveness for your
sin… (47:19)
He,
azza wa jall, began with knowledge first before saying and acting.
Know,
may Allah have mercy on you, that it is obligatory upon every Muslim, male and
female, to learn these three aspects and to act according to them:
That
Allah has created us, has given us sustenance, and has not left us without
guidance. He has sent His messenger to us; whosoever obeys Him is destined to
enter Paradise, and whosoever disobeys Him is consigned to Hell.
The evidence is in His saying:
Verily,
We have sent to you, (O men) a Messenger, to be a witness over you, as We did
send a Messenger to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh disobeyed the Messenger; so We seized
him with a severe Punishment.
(73:15-16)
Allah
does not accept that any partner is associated with Him in worship, be he an
exalted angel or a Prophet that has been sent. The evidence is in His saying:
And
the places of worship are for Allah (alone): So invoke not any one along with
Allah.
(72:18)
Whosoever
bears obedience to the Prophet and worshipped Allah alone, it is not permissible
for him to take as friends those who deny Allah and His messenger, even if they
were his closest kin.
The
evidence is in His saying:
You
will not find any people who believe in Allah and the Last Day, making
friendship with those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, even though they were
their fathers or their sons, or their brothers, or their kindred. For such He
has written Faith in their hearts, and strengthened them with Ruh from
Himself. And He will admit them to Gardens beneath which Rivers flow, to dwell
therein (for ever). Allah will be well pleased with them, and they with Him.
They are the Party of Allah. Truly it is the Party of Allah that will be
Successful. (58:22)
Know
you, may Allah guide you to His obedience, that the Hanifiyyah is the
creed of Ibrahim, which is to worship Allah alone, with pure religious devotion.
It is this that Allah has ordered all people with; and indeed He created them
for this purpose. The evidence is in His saying:
And
I (Allah) created not the Jinn and mankind, except that they should worship Me
(alone).
(51:56)
To
"Worship Me" is “to believe in the oneness of Me”
(Allah) alone without partners.
The
greatest of that which Allah has ordered is Tawheed, that is to worship Allah
alone. The greatest of that which He has forbidden is Shirk (polytheism),
which means associating partners with Allah. The evidence is in His
saying:
Worship Allah, and do not associate any partners with
Him (in worship)…
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