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 first obligation upon the son of Ādam: disbelieving in aṭ-Ṭāghūt and believing in Allāh

• The prophets and righteous people who are worshipped are not pleased with it

• Calling upon the dead means a person has not disbelieved in aṭ-Ṭāghūt

• Belief in Allāh: that He alone deserves worship

• Ṭawāf around graves and other acts of worship directed to 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)

• Introduction to the treatise The Meaning of aṭ-Ṭāghūt

• "Whoever disbelieves in aṭ-Ṭāghūt and believes in Allāh has grasped the firmest handhold"

• "There is no compulsion in religion" and the jizyah

• Ibn al-Qayyim: the ṭawāghīt are many but their heads are five

• Knowledge of the unseen belongs to Allāh alone

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)

• Freeing oneself from any power or strength except by Allāh

• Ibn al-Qayyim in Madārij as-Sālikīn on the Names in the sūrah: Allāh, ar-Rabb, ar-Raḥmān, al-Mālik

• Mālik Yawm ad-Dīn: every king has those he owns, and all creation are His servants

• The Murjiʾah of the jurists, the least deviant of the Murjiʾah

• Completing the treatise, and its link to the three questions of the grave

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)

• Ar-Raḥmān ar-Raḥīm indicates hope; Mālik Yawm ad-Dīn indicates fear

• The error of those who look only at the threats or only at the promises

• "You alone we worship" is the servant's action; "You alone we ask for help" contains Tawḥīd ar-Rubūbiyyah

• The straight path is one: "This is My straight path, so follow it"

• Worshipping without knowledge resembles the Christians

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)

• Al-Fātiḥah as the foundation the rest of the Qurʾān returns to, and its other names

• A refutation of every innovator who worships Allāh without evidence

• The three types of love: love of Allāh, forbidden love such as loving the polytheists, and natural love

• Those worshipped besides Allāh will disown their worshippers

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 series and to the treatise Some Benefits from Sūrat al-Fātiḥah

• The first three verses are for Allāh; the remainder is for the servant

• Duʿāʾ of worship and duʿāʾ of request: "Guide us to the straight path"

• Yawm ad-Dīn: affirming the Resurrection and the Recompense

• Those who worship upon ignorance resemble the Christians