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)

• The sixth place: the apostasy after the death of the Prophet (ﷺ)

• The contradiction of saying Lā ilāha illAllāh while calling upon other than Allāh

• So-called scholars who use ambiguous texts to excuse shirk

• Tawḥīd is not merely affirming that Allāh is the Creator, as the philosophers claim

• Those who believed in Musaylimah are disbelievers by consensus

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 fifth place: the story of the Hijrah

• The Sharʿī definition of hijrah: moving from a land of shirk to a land of Islām for the religion

• Sūrat an-Nisāʾ 97–100: those who stayed among the polytheists

• Their excuses were not accepted

• Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī: Īmān is not by adornment or wishful thinking

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 fourth place: the story of Abū Ṭālib

• He affirmed Tawḥīd, defended the Prophet (ﷺ) and loved those who accepted Islām, yet did not enter it

• Abū Jahl at his deathbed: "Will you leave the religion of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib?"

• Believing in, honouring and following the Messenger are all required

• The intercession that lightens his punishment, and those today who resemble him

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 third place: the recitation of Sūrat an-Najm before the polytheists

• The story of al-Gharānīq and what Shayṭān cast in

• Al-Lāt, a righteous man who fed the pilgrims, whose grave was then venerated

• The emigrants to Abyssinia who returned on hearing the rumour

• The polytheists' aim was intercession and nearness: Sūrat az-Zumar, verse 3

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 polytheists only opposed him when he said their deities could not benefit or harm

• The claim that enmity is only for those who fight us

• Those who praise the religion by saying it has no enmity or hatred

• The one who agrees with the disbelievers by his tongue without compulsion, let alone by his actions

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 first place: the beginning of the revelation and the command to warn

• Warning from shirk came before warning from zinā and theft

• The years of the call in Makkah were spent on Tawḥīd before the other commands

• The boycott and opposition came only because he forbade shirk and named their idols

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 Six Places from the Sīrah

• The meaning of the Sīrah: the Prophet's (ﷺ) actions, statements and way in every affair

• Reading the Sīrah to reflect and act, not merely for blessing

• The polytheists sought nearness to Allāh through intermediaries, and Allāh called it worship

• Khadījah's words: "Allāh will never disgrace you"

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 The Meaning of aṭ-Ṭāghūt

• Rectification between people is only by justice and mutual consent

• How Ṣūfism began with zuhd and went beyond the path of the Messenger (ﷺ)

• The belief of the unity of existence, which makes idol worship the worship of Allāh

• Wearing amulets and threads: depending upon other than Allāh

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 heads of the ṭawāghīt: Iblīs, the one worshipped while pleased with it, and the one who calls to his own worship

• The oppressive ruler who changes the laws of Allāh

• The one who judges by other than what Allāh revealed, and when it is a major sin

• The one who claims knowledge of the unseen: the keys of the unseen are with Allāh alone

• Completing the treatise with the verse of the firmest handhold

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)

• What disbelieving in aṭ-Ṭāghūt actually entails

• The example of Ibrāhīm: "We are free of you and what you worship besides Allāh"

• Sūrat al-Mumtaḥinah and Tawḥīd

• Those who make the lawful unlawful are not obeyed

• Every sin is a form of obeying Shayṭān, and shirk is the gravest