The Four Fundamental Principles – Shaykh Uways at-Taweel

The Four Fundamental Principles, taught by Shaykh Uways at-Taweel (hafidhahullāh)

• A short clip from the end of the introduction

• The Four Principles is an independent treatise of Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, printed with al-Uṣūl ath-Thalāthah

• The virtue and importance of seeking knowledge, especially of Tawḥīd

• The text itself begins next week

The Four Fundamental Principles, taught by Shaykh Uways at-Taweel (hafidhahullāh)

• Knowing Allāh through the three categories of Tawḥīd: whoever knows Allāh obeys and loves Him

• No deed is accepted without Tawḥīd, sincerity and following the Sunnah

• We cannot be sincere without studying Tawḥīd, its principles and the harms of shirk

• Correcting the intention in seeking knowledge: removing ignorance from oneself, as Mūsā sought refuge from ignorance

• Seeking knowledge to act upon it, to call to the religion and to defend it

The Four Fundamental Principles, taught by Shaykh Uways at-Taweel (hafidhahullāh)

• A short lesson on the opening of the text, with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh)

• "I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me"

• The author addresses every Muslim man and woman

• The author's supplication for the reader, and how much people need supplication

• Supplicating for one's brother in his absence, and the angel saying "Āmīn, and for you the same"

The Four Fundamental Principles, taught by Shaykh Uways at-Taweel (hafidhahullāh)

• Ibn al-Qayyim on those who deviate from guidance knowingly and those who lack knowledge

• The religion of Ibrāhīm is the religion of all the prophets: worship Allāh and avoid the ṭāghūt

• Worship is only accepted with sincerity and according to the Sunnah

• Worship is not accepted with the stain of shirk, just as the ṣalāh is not valid with impurity

• Questions at the end: whether Islām existed before the creation of the heavens and the earth, and fasting on a Saturday, with the fast of Dāwūd

The Four Fundamental Principles, taught by Shaykh Uways at-Taweel (hafidhahullāh)

• Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, like the Salaf, built his principles on the Qurʾān and the Sunnah

• The fourth principle: the polytheists of our time are worse, as their shirk continues in ease and hardship

• The value of these four principles in clarifying Tawḥīd and the state of the polytheists

• The need to know both Tawḥīd and shirk

• Calling upon the righteous and the prophets is shirk just like worshipping statues