The Four Principles Regarding Shirk – Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell

al-Qawāʿid al-Arbaʿ (The Four Principles regarding Shirk) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Principle 4: the polytheists of the author's time were worse in shirk than those before them

• The earlier polytheists were sincere to Allāh in hardship; the later ones commit shirk in ease and hardship

• This applies to the shirk of people who ascribe themselves to Islām

• Calling upon Allāh alone when in danger at sea

• Conclusion of the explanation of the book

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 20/10/22

al-Qawāʿid al-Arbaʿ (The Four Principles regarding Shirk) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Concluding principle 3: trees and stones that are worshipped ("Have you considered al-Lāt and al-ʿUzzā?")

• Questions that reject the idols and awaken the intellect

• The ḥadīth of Dhāt Anwāṭ: "You have said what the Children of Isrāʾīl said to Mūsā"

• The prohibition of imitating the people of the Book and of Jāhiliyyah

• Seeking blessings from trees, stones and graves is shirk, whatever name it is given

• Questions and answers

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 13/10/22

al-Qawāʿid al-Arbaʿ (The Four Principles regarding Shirk) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• What to memorise from the text

• Principle 3: the Prophet ﷺ fought people who worshipped different things, without distinction

• Refuting those who say worshipping the righteous and graves differs from worshipping idols

• Worshipping angels and prophets is shirk, the same as worshipping idols

• Seeking intermediaries with the creation is prohibited and a means to shirk

• "I am too sinful to ask Allāh directly": rectify yourself instead

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 6/10/22

al-Qawāʿid al-Arbaʿ (The Four Principles regarding Shirk) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Principle 1: the disbelievers affirmed that Allāh is the Creator and Provider (Yūnus 10:31)

• Affirming tawḥīd ar-rubūbiyyah alone did not enter them into Islām

• Principle 2: "These are our intercessors with Allāh" (Yūnus 10:18)

• The intercession of the Prophet ﷺ on the Day of Judgement, and the conditions of intercession

• Questions: martyrs; praying over one whose Islām is in doubt (certainty is not removed by doubt)

• Note: small sections of audio may be missing because of a problem with the live recording

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 29/9/22

al-Qawāʿid al-Arbaʿ (The Four Principles regarding Shirk) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap of lesson 2; why the author began with the basmalah

• The relationship between the scholar and his students is sincere advice, not a transaction

• The meaning of al-Ḥanīfiyyah, the religion of Ibrāhīm

• All the Prophets called to the worship of Allāh alone; the definition of ʿibādah

• Worldly provision is a tool to help us worship, not the goal

• Worship is not worship without tawḥīd, as prayer is not prayer without purification; the dangers of shirk

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 22/9/22

al-Qawāʿid al-Arbaʿ (The Four Principles regarding Shirk) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Why study the life of the author: it explains his books and the trials he faced

• Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb: his name and his birth in 1115H

• Starting with the basmalah

• The author's supplication: thankful when given, patient when tested, seeking forgiveness when sinning

• Patience in the face of trials

• The conditions of repentance, and cutting off the means to the sin

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 15/9/22

al-Qawāʿid al-Arbaʿ (The Four Principles regarding Shirk) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Laying foundations in ʿaqīdah and manhaj; beneficial knowledge is knowledge that is acted upon

• What tawḥīd is, why we study it, and its categories

• The call of all the Messengers was to tawḥīd

• Muʿādh sent to Yemen: call first to the testimony of lā ilāha illallāh

• Following the Sunnah

• How the lessons will run, and encouragement to memorise the text

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 8/9/22