An Explanation of Kitab Al-Tawheed from Sahih Al-Bukhari. Presented by: Sh. Mohamad Doar.

Shaikh ul Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullaah) said: “The religion of Islaam is built upon two fundamental principles:

That Allaah is to be worshipped alone and that nothing is to be associated with Him, and that Allaah is to be worshipped according to that which He legislated upon the tongue of His Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam).” (Qaa’idah al-Jaleelah fee at-Tawassul wal-Waseelah p.305)

Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullaah) said likewise: “Making clear that which Allaah favoured Muhammad and his Ummah with and blessed them with from the establishment of Tawheed (1) for Allaah and calling to the worship of Allaah alone is making the word of Allaah and His religion uppermost, and a manifestation of that which Allaah sent His Messenger (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) with from guidance and the true religion.” (Al-Ikhna’iyyah p.286) (1) Reported by Abu Dawood (no.3116) and Ahmad with similar wording (no.22034) and Al-Haakim (1/351). It was declared Hasan (sound) by Shaikh Al-Albaanee in Irwa al-Ghaleel (no.687). Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullaah) said: “Indeed the reality of Tawheed is that we worship Allaah alone, so no one is to be called upon (in supplication) except Him, and no one is to be reverentially feared except Him, and no one is to be feared and devoted with piety and dutifulness except Him, and there is no reliance to be placed except upon Him. Likewise the religion is not to be except for Him, not for any one from the creation, and we do not take the Angels and the Prophets as lords, so how then with regard to the Imaams and Shuyookh and the scholars and the kings and other than them?” (Minhaaj as-Sunnah an-Nabawiyyah 3/490)