The Three Fundamental Principles – Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell

Thalāthat al-Uṣūl (The Three Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The resurrection: "From it We created you, into it We return you, and from it We bring you out once more" (Ṭā Hā 20:55)

• Recompense for evil and for good (an-Najm 53:31)

• The messengers were sent as bringers of good news and warners; guiding hearts belongs to Allāh

• The ṭāghūt are many and their heads are five, the first being Iblīs

• Understanding the texts upon the understanding of the Salaf, and first checking a text's authenticity

• Questions: the one who never heard the message, and the one who heard of it and must look into it

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 21/12/23

Thalāthat al-Uṣūl (The Three Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap: the migrations to Abyssinia and to Madīnah, and leaving the land of disobedience

• Ten years in Madīnah establishing Islām and its legislation

• The patience of the Prophet ﷺ and his Companions in trials

• Tawḥīd is the purpose for which we were created

• Refuting those who claim the Prophet ﷺ is alive, hears their supplications and attends their gatherings

• Islām and Īmān mentioned together and apart; who is called a Muslim

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 14/12/23

Thalāthat al-Uṣūl (The Three Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap: thirteen years of calling in Makkah; ṣalāh made obligatory after ten

• The command to migrate to Madīnah; hijrah includes moving from a land of disobedience or innovation to one where obedience and the Sunnah prevail

• "Was not the earth of Allāh spacious enough for you to migrate?" (an-Nisāʾ 4:97)

• The land of disbelief and the land of Islām, where the rulings of Allāh are established

• Travelling to the lands of the disbelievers for a need such as treatment or knowledge, with knowledge, taqwā and īmān to protect oneself

• Questions on business: take the means without attaching the heart to them

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 7/12/23

Thalāthat al-Uṣūl (The Three Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The third principle: the lineage of the Prophet ﷺ, from Hāshim, from Quraysh, from the Arabs

• Sixty-three years: forty before prophethood and twenty-three as a prophet and messenger

• Made a prophet by "Iqraʾ" and a messenger by al-Muddaththir: warn, magnify your Lord, purify your garments, shun the idols

• Purity of the heart and the limbs; sin committed in secret eventually shows upon the limbs

• The call in Makkah was accepted slowly; he did not rush, but called consistently and with mercy

• The Night Journey: fifty prayers reduced to five, with the reward of fifty

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 30/11/23

Thalāthat al-Uṣūl (The Three Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap: worship stands on two pillars, love of Allāh and humility before Him

• Iḥsān in ṣalāh: establishing it with khushūʿ, as the Prophet ﷺ said "Pray as you have seen me pray"

• Iḥsān in daʿwah is following the way of the prophets; rectification comes from calling to Allāh, and protests oppose it

• The false "freedoms" of conduct and of speech

• There is no unity with those who curse the Companions or deny Allāh's names and attributes

• Voluntary fasts, such as Mondays and Thursdays, as opportunities for good

• Questions and answers, including working in deliveries that contain alcohol

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 23/11/23

Thalāthat al-Uṣūl (The Three Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The third level, Iḥsān, has one pillar: to worship Allāh as if you see Him, and though you do not see Him, He sees you

• Its meaning: what is good in the Sharīʿah and to the intellect; there is no real contradiction between sound intellect and the text

• Iḥsān of the servant with his Lord, and with his own soul by striving against it

• Its two levels: worshipping as though seeing Him, and worshipping knowing He is watching

• Love alongside Allāh is the basis of shirk (as-Saʿdī), unlike the love the Sharīʿah commands

• Affirming the names and attributes: "There is nothing like Him, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing" (ash-Shūrā 42:11)

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 16/11/23

Thalāthat al-Uṣūl (The Three Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• A shorter lesson revising the main points of the second principle

• The three levels Islām, Īmān and Iḥsān; the five pillars of Islām and the conditions of the shahādah

• Ṣalāh: its conditions, including discernment; children are commanded at seven and disciplined at ten

• Fasting Ramaḍān is obligatory so that we attain taqwā (al-Baqarah 2:183), from Fajr until Maghrib

• Every nation was sent a messenger calling to Tawḥīd (an-Naḥl 16:36)

• Belief in the angels, general and specific; the levels of al-Qadar, beginning with knowledge and writing

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 9/11/23

Thalāthat al-Uṣūl (The Three Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The second level of the religion, Īmān, and how people differ over its definition

• The actions of the heart, such as sincerity and submission

• The Jahmiyyah: īmān is only knowledge or affirmation of the heart

• The Murjiʾah of the jurists: belief in the heart and statement on the tongue, leaving out action

• Belief in the angels: they are from the unseen and were created from light

• Belief in al-Qadar: what Allāh wills happens and what He does not will does not; His universal and legislative will; His creating of all things

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 19/10/23

Thalāthat al-Uṣūl (The Three Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap: the seven conditions and two pillars (negation and affirmation) of lā ilāha illallāh

• The proof for the testimony that Muḥammad ﷺ is the Messenger (at-Tawbah 9:128) and what it requires

• The proof for ṣalāh and zakāh (al-Bayyinah 98:5)

• Sins are not all equal: shirk is the greatest of them

• The proof for Ḥajj (Āl ʿImrān 3:97): once in a lifetime for whoever is able, including a safe route

• Whoever rejects the obligation of Ḥajj or ṣalāh is a disbeliever

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 12/10/23

Thalāthat al-Uṣūl (The Three Fundamental Principles) by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The proof for the shahādah: "Allāh bears witness that none has the right to be worshipped but He" (Āl ʿImrān 3:18)

• The knowledge meant is knowledge that is acted upon

• Lā ilāha illallāh: an absolute negation, then the affirmation of worship for Allāh alone

• He alone creates, sustains, gives life and causes death, so He alone deserves worship and thanks

• Ibrāhīm's declaration: "I am free of what you worship" (az-Zukhruf 43:26–28)

• "O People of the Book, come to a word common between us and you" (Āl ʿImrān 3:64)

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 5/10/23