Silsilat Sharḥ ar-Rasāʾil – Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq

Silsilat Sharḥ ar-Rasāʾil: Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān's explanation of the short treatises of Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Worship as utmost love with utmost humility; khushūʿ

• The example of the well: the means must be taken

• "My prayer and my sacrifice are for Allāh… He has no partner"

• The two types of hope, and fear (rahbah) restricted to Allāh: "and Me alone fear"

Silsilat Sharḥ ar-Rasāʾil: Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān's explanation of the short treatises of Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Fulfilling vows, which Allāh praised

• Fear: directing the fear of worship to creation is shirk

• Tawakkul: entrusting the affairs to Allāh and depending upon Him

• Inābah, love and its great position in worship

• Raghbah: hope for what is with Allāh drives obedience

Silsilat Sharḥ ar-Rasāʾil: Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān's explanation of the short treatises of Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Introduction to the treatise A Comprehensive Explanation of Worshipping Allāh Alone

• Worship is obeying Allāh by fulfilling His commands and avoiding His prohibitions

• The definitions of Ibn al-Qayyim and Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah

• Those called upon besides Allāh do not own an atom's weight

• Seeking help: what is permissible from people and what is shirk; slaughtering as worship

Silsilat Sharḥ ar-Rasāʾil: Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān's explanation of the short treatises of Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Questions and answers on the treatise

• Tafsīr is only by its principles: the Qurʾān by the Qurʾān, then the Sunnah

• The Mawlid is an innovation

• The parables Allāh gives of the polytheist and his many masters

• Advances in manufacturing and medicine cannot create anything

Silsilat Sharḥ ar-Rasāʾil: Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān's explanation of the short treatises of Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• False interpretations of the kalimah: the Jahmiyyah, the Muʿtazilah and the political interpretation of the Ḥizbīs and Ikhwān

• Seeking nearness to Allāh through prophets and angels is the same disbelief

• The one who claims he need take no position regarding the polytheists has lied

• Why the shirk of later times is more severe than that of the first polytheists

• Explaining the names mentioned at the end of the treatise

Silsilat Sharḥ ar-Rasāʾil: Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān's explanation of the short treatises of Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Why "there is no deity in existence except Allāh" is wrong

• A great word that saves from the Fire for the one who understands and acts on it

• The Ṣūfī shaykh and his murīd: like a corpse with the one who washes it

• The deities renamed as intermediaries and intercessors

• Those who say affirming Lordship is enough to be Muslim

Silsilat Sharḥ ar-Rasāʾil: Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān's explanation of the short treatises of Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• The aim is not to say it while ignorant of its meaning

• Those who stop at Tawḥīd ar-Rubūbiyyah and never address worship

• Its two pillars: negation and affirmation

• The indefinite negation covers everything worshipped besides Allāh

• The unity of existence makes everything worshipped Allāh Himself

Silsilat Sharḥ ar-Rasāʾil: Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān's explanation of the short treatises of Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Introduction to the treatise The Meaning of Lā ilāha illAllāh

• The word that distinguishes between disbelief and Islām; al-ʿurwat al-wuthqā

• Belief in the heart and speech on the tongue need action upon its requirements

• Calling upon the righteous and the dead nullifies its benefit

• The hypocrites say it and are in the lowest depths of the Fire

Silsilat Sharḥ ar-Rasāʾil: Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān's explanation of the short treatises of Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Beginning a new treatise: Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb's explanation of the word of Tawḥīd, Lā ilāha illAllāh

• The word that distinguishes between disbelief and Islām, the word of taqwā, the firm handhold, and the legacy Ibrāhīm (ʿalayhis-salām) left among his offspring

• Light on the tongue and heavy on the Scale, yet not mere words: it has a meaning and requirements

• al-ʿUrwat al-Wuthqā: disbelieving in the ṭāghūt and believing in Allāh (al-Baqarah 2:256)

• It makes a person Muslim only with knowledge of its meaning and acting on its requirements

• Those whom Shayṭān has misled about its meaning, and those he has made heedless so that they rarely say it

• All the prophets and messengers were sent with this word, and some of Ibrāhīm's offspring will carry it until the Hour

Silsilat Sharḥ ar-Rasāʾil: Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān's explanation of the short treatises of Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• The apostasy continued: so-called scholars who still counted the apostates as Muslims

• Whoever believes Ṭulayḥah or other false prophets is a disbeliever

• Those who say "we are upon the religion of our forefathers"

• Questions and answers: does the one who commits shirk become a disbeliever only after knowing?