On the Importance of Tawhid
- Categories: Aqeedah (Islamic Faith) -
Author: Sheikh Muhammad bin Jameel
Zainoo
1) Verily, Allaah has created the world and everything in it
in order to worship Him alone. He sent the Messenger to call the
people to Tawheed and the Noble Qur'an is concerned with the
Aqeedah of tawheed in most of its chapters, and it explains the
harm of shirk for the individual and the society. Shirk is the
reason for destruction in this life and the reason for eternal
destruction in the Fire of the Hereafter.
2) Verily, all the Messengers began their call with Tawheed, which
they were commanded by Allaah to convey it to the people. He, the
Most High, said:
"We have not sent before you from the Messengers, except We
inspired to him that He is the only One worthy of worship, so
worship Him."[Al-Anbiyaa21:25], {
وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا مِن قَبْلِكَ مِن رَّسُولٍ إِلَّا نُوحِي إِلَيْهِ
أَنَّهُ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا أَنَا فَاعْبُدُونِ},
Transliteration: Wa Mā 'Arsalnā Min Qablika Min Rasūl 'Iinillā Nūĥī
'Ilayhi 'Annahu Lā 'Ilāha 'Illā 'Anā Fā`budūni
The Messenger of Allaah stayed in Makkah for thirteen years while
he called his people to the Tawheed of Allaah and he called to Him
alone without associating anything with Him. It was regarding this
issue that Allaah revealed the following verse to His Noble
Messenger:
"Say: Verily I call to my Lord and I do not ascribe any partners to
Him at all."[Al-Jin72:20], { قُلْ
إِنَّمَا أَدْعُو رَبِّي وَلَا أُشْرِكُ بِهِ أَحَدًا},
Transliteration: Qul 'Innamā 'Ad`ū Rabbī Wa Lā 'Ushriku Bihi
'Aĥadāan.
The Noble Messenger brought up his followers upon Tawheed from the
time of childhood and he said to the son of his uncle, his cousin
'Abdullah Ibn 'Abbas: «When you ask,
then ask Allaah, and when you seek help, then seek help from
Allaah» [Classified as hasan Saheeh, Tirmidhi]
This Tawheed is in reality the religion of Islam, which is built
upon it, and anything other than it is not accepted by
Allaah.
3) Verily, the Messenger -peace and blessings be upon him- taught
his Companions to begin their call to the people with tawheed, so
he said to Mu'aadh Ibn Jabal, when he -peace and blessings be upon
him- sent him to Yemen:
«So let
the first thing you call them to, be the testification that none
has the right to be worshipped except Allaah» And in another narration: «...that they worship Allaah
alone» [Bukhari and
Muslim]
4) Tawheed is embodied in the testification that "None has the
right to be worshipped except Allaah, and Muhammad is the Messenger
of Allaah." Its meaning is that there is no one who is worthy of
deserving worship except Allaah, and there is no worship except
that which the Messenger of Allaah came with. It is this
testification which allows a nonbeliever to enter into Islam, since
it is the key to Paradise, and the one who testifies to it and
believes it, enters into Paradise as long as he does not invalidate
it by shirk or a word of disbelief.
5) The disbelieving Quraish offered the Messenger of Allaah -peace
and blessing be upon him- kingship, wealth and wives and other than
that from the pleasures of this life in exchange for him abandon
the call to tawheed, and abandon the attacks against the idols.
However, he did not desire that from them, rather he continued his
call and endured the onslaught along with his Companions, until the
call to tawheed was victorious after thirteen years, after which
Makkah was conquered and the idols were destroyed. The Messenger of
Allaah # recited:
Truth has come and falsehood has vanished, surely falsehood is ever
bound to vanish.[Al-Israa17:81], {وَقُلْ جَاءَ الْحَقُّ وَزَهَقَ الْبَاطِل
إِنَّ الْبَاطِلَ كَانَ زَهُوقاً} , Transliteration: Wa Qul
Jā'a Al-Ĥaqqu Wa Zahaqa Al-Bāţilu 'Inna Al-Bāţila Kāna
Zahūqāan.
6) Tawheed is the preoccupation of a Muslim in his life, so he
begins his life with Tawheed and he ends his life with Tawheed. His
task in life is to establish Tawheed and the call to Tawheed, since
Tawheed unifies the believers and gathers them upon the statement
of Tawheed.
So we ask Allaah to make the statement of Tawheed (Laa ilaaha ila
Allaah; there is no God but Allah) our last words in this world and
we ask Him to gather the Muslims upon the statement of
Tawheed.
Source: The Methodology of the Saved
Sect trans. Abu Nasi