Abu Taymiyyah – 2 The four principals The people of quraish believed in Allah!
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The first principle that is mentioned in the
prince from the principles in
the 4 principles
that was collected
and put together by the Imam Muhammad ibn
Abdul Wab.
The Imam Rahimullah Ta'ala he says
That you know
that the disbelievers, the kuffar, that the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam fought against.
They used to acknowledge
the Kuffar that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam fought against. They used to acknowledge that
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the Khalak,
the creator.
Al Mudabbir,
the sustainer.
And after all of this,
believing that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the
Khalq,
the creator and the sustainer
and also the razik, the provider.
This never entered them into Islam.
Pay attention here. This is now Tawhid
Singling out Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's lordship.
From its meaning is what? That one affirms
and acknowledges
that the main creator
and the main sustainer is who? Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
So for someone to come now and say
that it is sufficient
for one now to enter into Islam to
merely believe that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
the creator, the sustainer, the provider. It is
the exact same thing. The Mushrikeen of Khuraish
they believed in. They affirmed it.
They never had a problem in denying this.
And the proof of this is Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala say a statement
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, O Muhammad say
to them, say
Who's the one that provides for you from
the heavens and earth?
And who's the one
that is the owner of the hearing and
the seeing?
And who's the one now that brings to
life?
The death, the dead.
And makes those who are living die.
Who's the one that controls all affairs?
What was the answer?
They would answer this by saying it is
Allah
and then say to them, are you not
people that have taqwa of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala?
When they were asked, who is the one
that creates, provides, sustains? They always said Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah says in another verse
If you ask them now who created the
heaven and the earth? The answer was Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So they never denied
the fact that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala was
the main
creator,
the sustainer and the provider.
And likewise today you have Christians.
Christians
the guy that comes every Tuesday to town
He's standing there saying what?
Come back to your Lord who is the
creator, the provider, the sustainer. I've heard in
my own voice with my own, is.
Many people actually believe that if you now
believe in the presence of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala and you affirm
the of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala you're Muslim.
I think it comes every Wednesday, not every
Tuesday.
Are you now with me? Who can repeat
the that we just took?
Nam, so if a person now affirms that
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is the creator, the
sustainer and the provider
what happened around the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
as analogy.
If this is now the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam dealing with them in such a way
and at the same time
he waged war against the belief, the ideology.
Then we have a hudja, qaima,
a proof, evidence,
nam,
a clear cut authentic evidence from the prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and how he dealt with
people who had this kind of belief. And
today you find people who claim Islam
having the exact same belief. Why is the
Sheikh mentioning this?
You find a lot of the time
when you have these grave worshippers, those who
go to the graves and they say you
Abdul Qadr Jelani, you Madad you Abdul Qadr
Jelani.
Abdul Qadr Jelani was a righteous man.
He was someone that was righteous that we
respect, a scholar.
But the people that were around him
after his death they started worshiping him and
those that came after them.
If you go to Somalia you find it's
a big problem.
Abdul Qadir Jelani
is mentioned quite a lot and you find
them in the Abiad, the lines of poetry
that they have.
Why is the Sheikh mentioning this? It's because
you have statements like
how can you
make takfir or say
a guy that is saying
He merely says it with his tongue and
at the same time that same person he
believes that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is present.
He believes in the presence of Allah and
he also says
that he is the creator, the sustainer, the
provider.
How can you not make takfir of this
guy?
Regardless of him worshiping
those in the grave making dua to them,
How can you not come along and say
that this person is a kafir?
How has he fallen into kufr?
By associating partners of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
in worship.
You have Tawhid
Arububiyah
to single out Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala in
his lordship.
In things like him being the almighty creator,
the provider, the sustainer.
You find many, they don't negate this.
It is something that is agreed upon in
many religions.
Christianity, they say this.
Mushriqin of Quraysh,
those who waged war against the prophet SAWA
Alaihi Wasallam and the prophet. Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala told us that they are Kufar.
They are people that are Kufar.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
tells us
When He was said to them say
They were arrogant.
And He comes in another verse where Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says quoting
them Are we now going to get all
of God's and turn into 1? This is
something that is astonishing. That's what they said.
They were Kuffar.
Sometimes Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala quotes them that
they were people who affirmed that Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala is the almighty creator, provider and
the sustainer. But when it came to now
singling out Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that when
you make dua, when you perform salat, when
you perform any other Ibadah,
make that sincerely for Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
They had a big problem with that. They
were arrogant. That's why Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala
called to them saying what?
'Shall we get all of the gods and
turn into 1?' So they made shirkware to
heed al Uluhiyah in his worship.
So these people that go and do grave
worshiping
it's a big problem.
Their iman in Tawhidah rububib wasn't sufficient because
this is the exact same thing the people
of the past believed in. They never done
in Karbdis.
Are you now with me?
The second principle
And before I go into this, I wanna
mention something.
And it's important that we know this, so
it gives us
a basis
of how to look at many other aspects.
What is Ibadah?
Ibadah
mentioned
It is a comprehensive word
Comprehensive word.
Everything
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala loves
and is satisfied with
from the actions and the statements.
The righteous ones. The righteous actions and the
righteous statements.
The inward ones and also the outward ones.
Anything
from the matters that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
has turned into Ibadah from the things that
he's satisfied with
and he's pleased with, it is a form
of Ibadah.
I'm gonna ask you a question,
would you now go pray
to
Abdul Qadr Jelani and Sheikh Abdul Qadr Jelani
into his grave? Praise a lot. Why not?
I'm not looking for the answer.
Simply because
simply because that's that's that's right as well.
But I'm the answer I was looking for
simply because it's Ibadah. Ibadah solely for who?
For my dad,
for my uncle,
for my Ustad, my Sheikh.
No. Solely for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
say?
I never created the jinn and the ins
except
to worship me alone.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says do the people
think they've been created without a purpose? The
sole purpose that me and you have been
played in placed in Lesta placed upon this
earth is to worship Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
for Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So shirk
is by getting these Ibadat
and directing it to other than Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
There's an eye and sword
an 'Aam where Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says,
Say to the Muhammad
my prayer.
My life and my death is solely for
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
No associate in partners of Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
Are you now with me?
Tayeb,
Samir just said, 'I wouldn't now go
and pray to Sheikh Abdul Khader Jelani in
his
grave. I wouldn't dedicate that prayer to him.
What about Dua?
Dua? No. Why not?
Who said it was Ibada?
Is it like Salat?
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and this
is vital and crucial.
This is the big problem that we have
today. People differentiating
between salat and dua.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said to us
in hadith that was narrated by Imam al
Tiramidi and also Abu Daoud
on the authority of Muhammad ibn Bashir radiAllahu
an. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
whole Ibadah.
The dua when making dua invoking,
request and asking
is a form of Ibadah, is Ibadah.
Then the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam recited
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
statement
And your lord has said
call on to me
so I can reply back to you.
So just like now, Samir wouldn't go and
pray to Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani, the beloved
Imam, the individual that we love, the righteous
individual.
Likewise, we wouldn't go and make dua to
him
requesting Allah's
asking him
to intercede for us
now
or asking him to make my wife have
a child
or asking him for a better job because
all of this is specific to who?
Who? Allah Subhanahu Ta'ala.
And this is the differentiation
that a lot of those who have embarked
upon grave worshiping haven't made.
And I'm gonna come on to some examples
In sha Allah.
Are you now with me?
Yes. Sure, yeah?
Okay, thank you.
So once we understand that now, any Ibadah,
whether it is salat,
siam, fasting,
zib
slaughtering,
it has to be solely for Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala
Solely for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. That's why
the prophet Sallallahu Wa Ta'ala said regarding
whoever now slaughters Fawdida Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala,
this person has fallen to shirk.
Because is a form of Ibadah.
The second principle.
They say
We never called on to them except
except to request
a nearness
and
intercession.
And the proof of this is
Allah
is talking about those
who took besides him as Auliya.
They said,
We do not worship them
except that they get us closer to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala a little bit.
Pay attention here. In the ayah says
we do not worship them.
We don't,
you know perform these to them except
that they get us closer to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala just a little bit.
Someone will say to you that's Ibad aduwah
salat and that's you know all this other
stuff.
It's like saying mad da'unahum
we didn't invoke make dua to them except
that they get us closer to Allah subhanahu
wa ta just a little bit. Why? Because
we mentioned earlier before what the Dua is?
A form of Ibadah.
So regardless of the ayah saying Ibadah or
Dua,
the Dua goes under the Ibadah.
It's something more comprehensive
where every form of Ibadah will go under
it.
So the mushrik and Horeish,
they knew remember? That was the first principle
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the almighty
creator,
sustainer, provider.
But Hubul
and all these other statues that they had
they were between them and Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
They believed they had a status
with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So because of their sins and this is
what you hear people saying today as well
'Wallahi Aqi, I've got so many sins, you
know, I'm a transgressor, I'm a Fajr, I'm
a wicked person you know. Not wicked as
in the
you know the other meaning.
Wicked as in the Fajr you know, like
the transgressor
the one that violates and etc.
I'm not gonna make Dua so I'm gonna
go up to that person, that righteous person
inside that grave and I'm gonna ask him
to ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for me.
This is what they do and this is
the exact same thing that Mushriq and Khurish
did
Because of their sins and their transgression and
their balayyah that they had Let me just
go through him and he's gonna get me
closer to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala because he
has minzila status
amongst Allah with Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Is that clear?
I was reading in a book
by
Jama'ah
Al Kinani
where he talks about
the etiquette of a
teacher and likewise the student and things like
that. One of the things that he mentions
in there
don't ever say
have you not understood?
Because it might be the reason why the
students they might lying, they might start lying
due to them fearing
you know
and feeling shy to answer and things like
that. So one of the things that he
mentions in there and I'm so used to
it,
asking always have you not understood and things
like that. But a lot of the time
you find because the people are shy they're
not gonna say to you, instead I haven't
or teacher I haven't understood and things like
that.
So he says to ask the question.
Ask the question in order to find out
Naam if they have understood or not. So
just stay on guard in it.
These kind of people, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
says, quotes them
we don't worship them except that they get
closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala just a
little bit.
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala will judge between them from
the things that are differing upon
Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala doesn't guide
the lying
individual who excessively disbelieves.
I'm going to ask you a question what's
the difference between khadib and Kaldab?
It's the opposite? It's the opposite. Yeah.
He lied he's lying and he's a lie
someone that lies. Or
you could say liar. But lie is used
more for someone that excessively lies.
Is just someone that's lying. Lying. Lying. Someone
that's lying.
So if I lie you can say to
me
you are someone that has light.
It's like the doer of a particular action
you learn in Arabic language. So
he lied.
He's lying
is someone that is lying.
It's like the
Like a kafir, you know kafir?
Is a disbeliever.
It's like saying
He disbelieved, he's disbelieving. He's a disbeliever.
But you find that Somali parents who do
they say
straight away as soon as they find one
thing.
Babe. Here Allah says
What do we mention before? How do you
say this believer?
Here,
it says
kadab
is on the wasn't faaal. When you put
something on the scale faaal
is someone that excessively
does that particular action. So if I say
kadab,
Muhammad is a kadab. Someone that excessively lies.
Kaffar someone that excessively disbelieves.
So, this kind of action now that is
mentioned in this ayah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
has called this fa'il. The individual a excessive
disbeliever.
For what?
Taking things between you and Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala as intermediaries.
It is excessive form of Kufar.
Are you with me?
I said it again and are you with
me?
What did you say?
In Allah subhanahu will judge
There's 2 common things that a lot of
the people who commit shirk they use as
hujjaj
as proof
justification for their actions.
Firstly, I'm only making dua. I'm not making
Ibadah.
First thing we've taken now and we just
basically made clear
that whether it's dua or salat it is
all one thing.
As mentioned in the Aymana, we don't worship
and accept and we know that the worship
is what? Dua also
and dabb and everything else.
Wallahi they understood
just the meaning of Ibadah what he means
and everything that goes under it. That's what
the book of Surah Al Salata is for.
It teaches you many different Ibadah.
And just like how you would and now
perform
Salat to other than Allah Subhanahu wa'tallahu, tell
you you wouldn't do the exact same thing
which is Dua.
With Dua.
Another issue that is common Shafa'a,
intersession.
Are you not are you are you okay?
Yeah? You look
So what does Shafa'a mean?
Shafa'a means
The
having a intermediary
or him like being in the middle now
for someone else.
The intercede
being in the middle now for
someone else.
In order to bring benefit
or to push away evil
or to get this evil removed.
So let me give you an example now.
We have a king
who's got a nice daughter
and our brother Simon wants to go and
get married to her,
Nam.
He knows that if he goes straight to
the king
the king is gonna reject him and he
knows that Akhona Abdur Raheem he's very very
close to the king
due to him for whatever reason.
So he knows there is a better chance
now
If he goes through Abdur Rahim he's gonna
be able to get the khair
of that beautiful young righteous girl.
So he asks
him to be an intercede for him in
order to get that goodness.