The Six Fundamental Principles – Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell

al-Uṣūl as-Sittah (The Six Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Principle 6, the final principle: refuting the doubt that only an absolute mujtahid may take from the Qurʾān and Sunnah

• The conditions they place on ijtihād, which were not even found complete in the great imāms

• Every individual must have knowledge of what he acts upon; ignorance is no excuse in tawḥīd and shirk

• The qualities of the mujtahid: uṣūl al-fiqh, the abrogating and abrogated, and not opposing ijmāʿ

• There is no ijtihād where there is a clear text

• Referring disputes back to the Book of Allāh and the Sunnah

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 6/8/24

al-Uṣūl as-Sittah (The Six Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Two ways of knowing who the scholars are: the testimony of other scholars, and widespread recognition

• Principle 5: who the awliyāʾ (allies) of Allāh are

• Drawing near to Allāh with the obligations and by leaving the ḥarām

• The verse of testing: "Say: if you love Allāh, then follow me"

• Learning about evil in order to avoid it, from the ḥadīth of Ḥudhayfah

• The isnād is from the religion and protects the Sharīʿah

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 23/7/24

al-Uṣūl as-Sittah (The Six Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap: the virtue of knowledge and of the people of knowledge

• Those who resemble the scholars but are not from them

• The worst of them: those who have knowledge but do not act upon it

• The call of the scholars from the Ṣaḥābah onwards: tawḥīd and the Sunnah

• Rejecting "it makes sense to me" in place of the Qurʾān and Sunnah: who from the Salaf understood it that way?

• Advice to read the books of the scholars rather than rely on short clips and social media

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 9/7/24

al-Uṣūl as-Sittah (The Six Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Principle 4: knowledge and the scholars, fiqh and the jurists, and those who resemble them

• This principle establishes the virtue of knowledge, which is what came in the Qurʾān and the Sunnah

• Knowledge must be taken from its people

• The parable of the rain falling on different types of land, and the three types of people regarding knowledge

• An increase in knowledge of Allāh brings an increase in fear of Him

• Allāh, the angels and the people of knowledge bear witness to tawḥīd

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 2/7/24

al-Uṣūl as-Sittah (The Six Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Principle 3: hearing and obeying those in authority, a completion of Principle 2 on unity

• Declaring a ruler a disbeliever requires clear, certain disbelief that is seen, not presumed

• Patience with the rulers rather than revolting against them (khurūj)

• Protests and demonstrations are a form of khurūj

• Unity is only complete with hearing and obeying

• Speaking ill of the rulers splits society and increases the people in ignorance

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 25/6/24

al-Uṣūl as-Sittah (The Six Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap of Principle 1: ikhlāṣ is tawḥīd, and knowing shirk in order to avoid it

• To understand something fully, you must know what opposes it

• Principle 2: unity in the religion and the prohibition of splitting

• Splitting into blameworthy parties comes from following desires and ignorance

• Ascribing oneself to the Salaf is not splitting; the split came from those who left the Straight Path

• Acting upon evidence, not merely upon hearing that a scholar said something

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 4/6/24

al-Uṣūl as-Sittah (The Six Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap of the introduction and why the Shaykh wrote the treatise

• Principle 1: making the religion sincerely for Allāh alone (ikhlāṣ)

• Ikhlāṣ together with following the Sunnah of the Messenger ﷺ

• Ikhlāṣ and tawḥīd likened to the good tree

• The categories of tawḥīd: Rubūbiyyah, Ulūhiyyah, and the Names and Attributes

• Why the people of innovation invent a separate category of tawḥīd in order to declare the rulers disbelievers

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 28/5/24

al-Uṣūl as-Sittah (The Six Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Opening of the series on al-Uṣūl as-Sittah by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb

• The importance of the text: a deficiency in any of these six principles is a deficiency in one's Islām

• A text that benefits everyone, the beginner and the advanced student alike

• The meaning of aṣl (principle), linguistically and in the Sharīʿah

• Guidance is of two types: guidance of direction and guidance of success (tawfīq)

• The truth is not measured by large numbers; the Jamāʿah is whoever is upon the truth, even if few

Streamed LIVE at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, Manchester on 21/5/24