al-ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwiyyah – Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq

al-ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwiyyah, taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap: the messengers called people to worship Allāh alone, not merely to believe in Him, which all nations already did

• The three statements "nothing is like Him, nothing renders Him incapable, no god but Him" contain the three categories of tawḥīd

• Tawḥīd ar-rubūbiyyah: Allāh alone creates, provides, gives life and death, and this was never denied by the nations

• The subject of attributes is wider than that of names, and the subject of actions wider still, since transitive names imply actions

• When merely informing about Allāh, one may use wording not found in the Book and Sunnah, provided the meaning is correct

al-ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwiyyah, taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap: the meaning of ʿaqīdah, and how aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī joins speech and belief in "we say … believing"

• The next three statements of aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī: "There is nothing like Him, nothing renders Him incapable, and there is no god other than Him"

• Going through the commentary of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh) on each statement

• Negation in Allāh's attributes is mostly general, or specific to refute a false claim such as a son, a wife or incapability

• Every negation affirms the opposite perfection: not tiring of the heavens and earth affirms His complete power, not wronging anyone affirms His justice and wisdom

al-ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwiyyah, taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap of aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī (raḥimahullāh): an Egyptian scholar, Shāfiʿī then Ḥanafī in fiqh, whose creed matched that of the four imāms

• His following of Abū Ḥanīfah, Abū Yūsuf and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan was not the rigid blind following of later times

• Beginning the text: "We say regarding the tawḥīd of Allāh, believing by Allāh's help, that Allāh is One, without partner"

• Many Muslims hold a deficient tawḥīd that goes no further than proving there is a Creator, as the people of kalām did

• The call of the messengers was to worship Allāh alone and abandon the ṭāghūt, which is where shirk must be clarified

al-ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwiyyah, taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• The first lesson: the biography of Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Salāmah al-Azdī aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī (raḥimahullāh), born in Egypt in 239H, died 321H

• He lived at the time of the great imāms such as Imām Aḥmad and Isḥāq ibn Rāhawayh

• His account showing that he did not blindly follow everything said in the name of Abū Ḥanīfah

• The statement of Abū Hurayrah: "The heart is the king and the limbs are its soldiers"