AT-TAWHEED (ISLÂMIC MONOTHEISM)

Praise be to Allaah and blessings and peace be upon His Messenger and Chosen Prophet.

The meaning of [the confession]: "Laa ilaaha illallaah".

The first confession of a Muslim which means:

‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allaah and its conditions:

The conditions of "Laa ilaaha illallaah" and its meaning:

"Laa ilaaha illallaah" is the key to Paradise, but every key should have teeth by which it opens or it would not be useful.

The conditions of "Laa ilaaha illallaah" are the teeth of this key, and they are:

1. Knowing its meaning, which is the negation of worship except to Allaah, then confirming it only to Him.

Almighty Allaah said: {Know, therefore, None has the right to be worshipped but Allaah, and ask forgiveness for your fault, and for the men and women who believed.

This means that there is no truly worshipped god in earth and in heaven except Allaah.

And the Prophet said: “Whoever dies while he knows that there is no true god worthier to be worshipped but Allaah shall enter the Paradise”. Reported by Muslim.

2. The certainty, which negates doubt.

This could be only achieved by having a certain heart, which never doubts in it.

Almighty Allaah said: {Only those are Believers who have believed in Allaah and His Messenger, and have never since doubted in it.}

And the Prophet said: “Any slave who meets with Allaah, bearing witness that none has the right to be worshipped but Allaah, and that I am his Messenger, without entertaining any doubt about these (two fundamentals), will not be banished from entering Paradise.

To be continued next week Saturday, In Shaa Allaah.

May Almighty Allaah grant us understanding of Tawheed

Posted by: Abu Mardiy Kewdirôrun At-thaqoofiy.

AT-TAWHEED (ISLAMIC MONOTHEISM)

The conditions of "Laa ilaaha illalaah"... (CONTD)

3. Accepting whatever this word necessitates in heart and saying, Allaah said about disbelievers:

{For they, when they were told that none has the right to be worshipped but Allaah, would puff themselves up with Pride.

And say: "What! Shall we give up our gods for the sake of a Poet possessed?’}.

This means that they disobeyed to say it where believers did.

And the Prophet said: “I have been ordered (by Allaah) to fight the people till they say:

‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allaah’, and whoever said it then he will save his life and property from me except on trespassing the law (rights and conditions for which he will be punished justly)”.

4. Submission and surrender to what it shows.

Almighty Allaah said: {Turn yourselves to your Lord (in repentance) and bow to His (Will)}.

5. The Truth, which negates lying.

This means that one should say it truly from heart.

Almighty Allaah said: {Alif Laam Meem. Do men think that they will be left alone on saying, "We believe," and that they will not be tested?

We did test those before them, and Allaah will certainly know those who are true from those who are false (believers)}.

And the Prophet said: “If anyone testifies (sincerely from his heart) that there is no deity worthy of worship but Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and His messenger, Allaah immunes him from Hell Fire.”

May Almighty Allaah grant us understanding of Tawheed.