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 lesson moved from the Phil Martin Centre to the masjid, so it revises the main points covered so far

• Beginning with the basmalah, in line with the Book of Allāh and the Sunnah

• The four matters are obligations: the one who does them is rewarded and the one who leaves them is sinful

• Knowing the Prophet ﷺ includes loving him more than oneself and one's wealth

• Knowledge without action resembles the Jews; action without knowledge resembles the Christians

• Enjoining the truth requires knowing it and acting upon it first

• Patience upon obedience, away from disobedience, and with what Allāh decrees

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 25/2/23

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: loving and hating for Allāh's sake is a foundation of Islām; distinguishing ourselves from those who oppose the truth

• A Muslim is loved in proportion to his obedience; the innovator is disliked for his opposition to the Sunnah yet loved for his Islām

• The two kinds of differing: differing of variety and differing of contradiction

• Refuting "we cooperate in what we agree upon and excuse each other in what we differ"

• Giving concern to the Qurʾān through the books of tafsīr, such as al-Jalālayn and as-Saʿdī, and to the Sunnah

• The scholar who spreads knowledge and refutes innovation is like the mujāhid on the battlefield, or greater

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 2/2/23

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 matter: Allāh is not pleased that anyone be associated with Him in worship, angel or prophet (al-Jinn 72:18)

• Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah's definition of worship: everything Allāh loves and is pleased with, of speech and action, apparent and hidden

• Directing any act of worship to other than Allāh is major shirk

• The caller must know the forms of shirk that can enter the ranks of the Muslims

• The third matter: al-walāʾ wal-barāʾ, without which the friendship of Allāh is not attained

• Boycotting the people of falsehood protects you first; companionship should not be passed off as advice

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 26/1/23

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)

• Allāh did not leave us without purpose; He sent messengers calling to Tawḥīd

• The Prophet ﷺ was not sent only to Makkah and its surroundings; he is the seal of the messengers

• The people of Nūḥ will deny on the Day of Judgement that he conveyed the message

• Convey the truth, so that no one can say it never reached them

• "Just as We sent a messenger to Firʿawn" (al-Muzzammil 73:15–16), who claimed "I am your lord, most high"

• Allāh wrongs no one: He created us to worship Him and made that purpose known to us

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 19/1/23

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)

• Allāh created and provided for us, and sent the messengers to be obeyed; obeying them brings His pleasure and Paradise

• Whoever obeys Allāh and the Messenger is with the prophets, the truthful, the martyrs and the righteous (an-Nisāʾ 4:69)

• Causes of disobedience: the whispers of Shayṭān and the soul that commands evil; striving against the soul

• Do not be deceived by this world; Shayṭān is a clear enemy, so take him as an enemy (Fāṭir 35:5–6)

• Believing the Sharīʿah is not binding upon oneself is disbelief, from the nullifiers of Islām

• The Prophet ﷺ was sent to all of mankind (Sabaʾ 34:28)

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 5/1/23

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)

• Ash-Shāfiʿī: had Allāh sent down no proof but this sūrah, it would have sufficed them

• Sūrat al-ʿAsr calls to īmān and to righteous actions, obligatory and recommended

• Knowledge without action is the path of those who earned anger; action without knowledge is the path of those astray

• al-Bukhārī's chapter "Knowledge comes before speech and action" (Muḥammad 47:19)

• Those who rejected the word of Tawḥīd: the Quraysh, the grave worshippers, the atheists, the Jews and the Christians

• The conditions of lā ilāha illallāh: knowledge, certainty, acceptance, submission, truthfulness, sincerity and love, plus freeing oneself from shirk and its people

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 15/12/22

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)

• Shaykh Zayd's summary of the introduction

• Knowledge: knowing Allāh, His names and attributes, and what the Messenger ﷺ brought of commands, prohibitions and rulings

• Acting upon it is the path of those Allāh has blessed: the prophets, the truthful, the martyrs and the righteous (an-Nisāʾ 4:69)

• Calling to it completes acting upon knowledge; some accept the call and some reject it out of ignorance

• We need knowledge and action more than we need food, drink and air

• The caller seeks no payment or thanks from the people, only that they please their Lord

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 1/12/22

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: knowledge, action, calling and patience are obligations upon everyone

• Ahl as-Sunnah tie people to the texts and to the understanding of the Salaf

• The proof for the four matters: Sūrat al-ʿAsr

• Righteous actions of the limbs are part of īmān

• The call of every prophet began with Tawḥīd, as with Mūsā before Firʿawn

• Patience upon obedience and patience away from disobedience; nations destroyed for their sins

• Patience like the resolute messengers: Nūḥ, Ibrāhīm, Mūsā, ʿĪsā and Muḥammad ﷺ

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 24/11/22

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: knowing Allāh means singling Him out with all worship

• Knowing the Prophet ﷺ: no one is excused from it

• The testimony that he is the Messenger: belief in the heart and affirmation on the tongue; he speaks only revelation (an-Najm 53:3–4)

• Knowing the religion of Islām: worship upon any other religion is rejected (Āl ʿImrān 3:85)

• The soul that commands evil, the soul that reproaches and the soul at rest

• Patience upon the harms that come with calling to Allāh, from the best provisions He gives the callers

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 17/11/22

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 start of the new series: the book, and Shaykh Zayd's explanation, which is concise but full of benefit in ʿaqīdah

• Why every Muslim should study this text, alongside the author's other books of ʿaqīdah

• Sincerity to Allāh and following the Messenger ﷺ as the basis of every action

• Beginning with the basmalah, following the Qurʾān and the letters of the Prophet ﷺ

• "Know": a command that draws attention to what follows

• Knowledge that is obligatory on every individual (farḍ ʿayn) and on the community (farḍ kifāyah)

Streamed LIVE from the Salafi Centre of Manchester's South Manchester lesson at the Phil Martin Centre, Moss Side, on 3/11/22