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Author: Shaykhul Islam Muhammad bin Abdul-Wahhab At-Tamimi An-Najdee Translator: Nasrin As-Salafiyah Educating the Children About Tawheed

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Author: Shaykhul Islam Muhammad bin Abdul-Wahhab At-Tamimi An-Najdee Translator: Nasrin As-Salafiyah

Educating the Children About Tawheed

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Table of Contents

Who is your Rabb? .......................................................................................... 3

What is the meaning of “the Rabb”?.................................................................... 3 Meaning of Allah .............................................................................................................................. 3

How did you come to know your Rabb? ................................................................ 4

Why were you created?..................................................................................... 4 Meaning of Shirk .............................................................................................................................. 5 Meaning of Worship ......................................................................................................................... 5 Meaning of Taagoot .......................................................................................................................... 6

What is your religion? ...................................................................................... 7 Meaning of Islam .............................................................................................................................. 7 Meaning of “Laa ilaha illaAllah” ....................................................................................................... 7 Principles of Emaan........................................................................................................................... 9

Who is your Prophet?....................................................................................... 9 The call of the Prophet..................................................................................................................... 11 Levels of Messengers ....................................................................................................................... 12 Best of People.................................................................................................................................. 12 Prophet Isaa will come .................................................................................................................... 13

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I seek refuge with Allah from the accursed shaytaan. In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful All the praises and thanks belong to Allah, the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists), and the prayer and peace be upon the leader of the messengers, upon his family, and his companions. To proceed: This is a beneficial treaty in terms of what is obligatory upon the people to teach the children before teaching them the Quraan, such that he becomes a complete Muslim upon the natural disposition of Islam, and a good follower of Tawheed upon the path of Emaan. And I have organized it by way of question and answer.

Q.1: If it is said to you: Who is your Rabb?

A.1: Say: My Rabb is Allah

Q.2: And what is the meaning of “the Rabb”?

A.2: Say: The King, the One deserves to be worshipped, and the meaning of Allah: the owner of worship over all His creation.

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Q.3: If it is said to you: How did you come to know your Rabb?

A.3: Say: I came to know Him by His signs and creations. And from His signs: The night and the day and the sun and the moon. And from His creations: The skies and the earth, and what is between them. And the evidence on that is His saying, the Most High: “Indeed your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in Six Days, and then He Istawa (rose over) the Throne (in a manner that suits His Majesty). He brings the night as a cover over the day, seeking it rapidly, and (He created) the sun, the moon, the stars subjected to His Command. Surely, His is the Creation and Commandment. Blessed be Allah, the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists)!” (Al-A'raf 7:54).

Q.4: If it is said to you: Why were you created?

A.4: Say: To worship Him alone, He has no partners, and to obey Him by doing what He ordered and leaving what He forbade. As Allah, the Most High, said: “And I (Allah) created not the jinns and humans except they should worship Me (Alone)” (Adh-Dhariyat 51:56). And as He, the Most High, said: “Worship Allah and join none with Him in worship” (An-Nisa 4:36). And the Shirk is the greatest sin through which Allah is disobeyed.

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And as He, the Most High, said: “Verily, whosoever sets up partners in worship with Allah, then Allah has forbidden Paradise for him, and the Fire will be his abode. And for the Zalimun (polytheists and wrongdoers) there are no helpers” (Al-Ma'idah 5:72). And the Shirk: is to set up a partner with Allah while supplicating to him (the one being worshipped beside Allah), to hope in him, to fear him, to rely on him, to desire from him beside Allah, and other than that from the types of worships. For the worship: is a comprehensive noun for everything that Allah loves and is pleased with from the sayings and actions both hidden and apparent. And from it: is the supplication, and He, the Most High, said: “And the mosques are for Allah (Alone), so invoke not anyone along with Allah” (Al-Jinn 72:18). And the evidence for that supplicating to other than Allah is disbelief, is as He, the Most High, said: “And whoever invokes (or worships), besides Allah, any other ilah (god), of whom he has no proof, then his reckoning is only with his Lord. Surely! Al-Kafirun (the disbelievers in Allah and in the Oneness of Allah, polytheists, pagans, idolaters, etc.) will not be successful” (Al-Mu'minun 23:117). And that is because the supplication is one of the best kind of worships, as He, the Most High, said: “And your Lord said: ‘Invoke Me, [i.e. believe in My Oneness (Islamic Monotheism)] (and ask Me for anything) I will respond to your (invocation). Verily! Those who scorn My

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worship [i.e. do not invoke Me, and do not believe in My Oneness, (Islamic Monotheism)] they will surely enter Hell in humiliation!’” (Ghafir 40:60). And in the Sunnah: From Ans radi Allahu anhu (raised to the Prophet sallallahu alayhe wa sallam): “The supplication is the essence of the worship” [Related by At-Tirmidhi 3371, graded weak by Shaykh Albanee in “Daeef Al-Jame3a” 3003], and the wording that sufficed from it is, “The supplication is the worship” [Related by Imam Ahmed, 18368, and authenticated by Imam Albanee in “Sahih Al-Jame3a” 3407], and it is the best as evidence for the purpose. And the first thing that Allah made obligatory upon His slaves: is the disbelief in all that is worshipped beside Allah (Taagoot), and belief in Allah, as He, the Most High, says: “And verily, We have sent among every Ummah (community, nation) a Messenger (proclaiming): ‘Worship Allah (Alone), and avoid (or keep away from) Taagoot (all false deities, etc. i.e. do not worship Taagoot besides Allah)’” (An-Nahl 16:36). And the Taagoot: is what is worshipped beside Allah, or the shaytaan, soothsayer, and astrologer, and whoever rules by other than what Allah sent down, and everyone who is being followed and obeyed upon falsehood. And the Imam Ibnul Qayyem may Allah, the Most High, have mercy upon him, said: “The Taagoot: is whatever by which the worshipper exceeds in his limitation in terms of being worshipped, followed, or obeyed” (I3lam al-Mooqe3een 5/1).

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Q.5: If it is said to you: What is your religion?

A.5: Say: My religion is Islam. And the meaning of Islam: is to submit to Allah with Tawheed (Singling Allah with Worship, Lordship, and Names and Attributes), and submitting to Him with obedience, and having loyalty to the Muslims, and enmity to the Disbelievers. He, the Most High, said: “Indeed, the religion with Allah is Islam” (Aali-Imran 3:19). And He said: “And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted from him” (Aali-Imran 3:85). And it is authentically reported from the Prophet sallallahu alayhe wa sallam that he said: “Islam is that you bear witness that none has the right to be worshipped except Allah, and that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, and you establish prayer, give obligatory charity, fast the month of Ramadan, and perform the pilgrimage to the House of Allah if you are able to do” [Reported by Al-Bukhari, 4777, and Muslim, 106]. And the meaning of “Laa ilaha illaAllah”: is None has the right to be worshipped except Allah, as He, the Most High, said: “And (remember) when Ibrahim (Abraham) said to his father and his people: ‘Verily, I am innocent of what you worship. Except Him (i.e. I worship none but Allah Alone) Who did create me, and verily, He will guide me. And he made it [i.e. La ilaha ill-Allah (none has the right to be worshipped but Allah Alone)] a Word lasting among his offspring (True Monotheism), that they

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may turn back (i.e. to repent to Allah or receive admonition)’” (Az-Zukhruf 43:26-28). And the evidence on the prayer and the obligatory charity: is His, the Most High, saying: “And they were commanded not, but that they should worship Allah, and worship none but Him Alone (abstaining from ascribing partners to Him), and perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat) and give Zakat: and that is the right religion” (Al-Baiyinah 98:5). And in this verse, He started with Tawheed and dissociation from the Shirk. And the greatest matter that He ordered with is the Tawheed, and the greatest matter that He forbade is the Shirk, and He ordered to establish the prayer and to give the obligatory charity. And this is most of the religion, and what is after from the legislation follows it. And the evidence on the obligation of fasting: is His, the Most High, saying: “O you who believe! Observing As-Saum (the fasting) is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, that you may become Al-Muttaqun (the pious). [Observing Saum (fasts)] for a fixed number of days, but if any of you is ill or on a journey, the same number (should be made up) from other days. And as for those who can fast with difficulty, (e.g. an old man, etc.), they have (a choice either to fast or) to feed a Miskin (poor person) (for every day). But whoever does good of his own accord, it is better for him. And that you fast, it is better for you if only you know. The month of Ramadan in which was revealed the Qur'an, a guidance for mankind and clear proofs for the guidance and the criterion (between right and wrong). So whoever of you sights (the crescent on the first night of) the month (of Ramadan i.e. is present at his home), he must observe Saum (fasts) that month” (Al-Baqarah 2:183-185).

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And the evidence on the obligation of Hajj: is His, the Most High, saying: “And Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah) to the House (Ka'bah) is a duty that mankind owes to Allah” (Aali Imran 3:97). And the principles of Emaan are six: that you believe in Allah, His angels, His Books, His Messengers, and the Last Day, and in the pre-destination, its good and its bad. And its evidence is what is in the “Sahih” from the hadith of Umar ibnul Khattab…. Al-Hadith. [Sahih Al-Bukhari & Muslim]

Q.6: And if it is said to you: Who is your Prophet?

A.6: Say: Our Prophet is Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Abdul-Muttalib bin Haashem bin Abdul-Manaf.

And Allah, the Most High, choose him from Quraish, and they are chosen from the son of Ismail alayhe assalam, and He sent him to the red and black people, and revealed upon him the Book and the Wisdom (Sunnah), and he called the people to make the worship sincerely for Allah, and to leave what they used to worship beside Allah from: Idols, stones, trees, prophets, righteous people, angels, and other than them. So, he called people to leave the Shirk, and he fought them to leave it, and so that they would be purified for the worship of Allah. As Allah, the Most High, said: “Say (O Muhammad): ‘I invoke only my Lord (Allah Alone), and I associate none as partners along with Him’ (Al-Jinn 72:20).

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And He, the Most High, said: “Say (O Muhammad) ‘Allah Alone I worship by doing religious deeds sincerely for His sake only and not to show-off, and not to set up rivals with Him in worship’” (Az-Zumar 39:14). And He, the Most High, said: “Say (O Muhammad): ‘I am commanded only to worship Allah (Alone) and not to join partners with Him. To Him (Alone) I call and to Him is my return’” (Ar-Ra'd 13:36). And He, the Most High, said: Say (O Muhammad to the polytheists, etc.): “‘Do you order me to worship other than Allah O you fools?’ And indeed it has been revealed to you (O Muhammad), as it was to those (Allah's Messengers) before you: ‘If you join others in worship with Allah, (then) surely (all) your deeds will be in vain, and you will certainly be among the losers.’ Nay! But worship Allah (Alone and none else), and be among the grateful” (Az-Zumar 39:64-66). And from the principle of Emaan is the safety from the disbelief: The Emaan in Resurrection, Judgment, Recompense, Reckoning, Paradise, and Hellfire are true. He, the Most High, said: “Thereof (the earth) We created you, and into it We shall return you, and from it We shall bring you out once again” (Ta-Ha 20:55). And He, the Most High, said: “And if you (O Muhammad) wonder (at these polytheists who deny your message of Islamic Monotheism and have taken besides Allah others for worship who can neither harm nor benefit), then wondrous is their saying: ‘When we are dust, shall we indeed then be (raised) in a new creation?’ They are those who disbelieve in their Lord! They

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are those who will have iron chains tying their hands to their necks. They will be dwellers of the Fire to abide therein” (Ar-Ra'd 13:5). And in the verse, there is evidence that whoever denies the resurrection, committed disbelief that obligates the entering in the Hellfire. We seek refuge with Allah from disbelief and actions of disbelief. So, these verses gathered an explanation as to what the prophet sallallahu alayhe wa sallam has been sent with from the sincerity of worship for Allah, and the prohibition of worshipping other than Allah, and the restriction of worship to Allah, and this is his religion which he called the people to, and struggled with them for it, as He, the Most High, said: “And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world]. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allah), then certainly, Allah is All-Seer of what they do” (Al-Anfal 8:39). And the fitnah: is the Shirk. And Allah, the Most High, sent him at the head of 40 years of age, and he called people to the sincerity (of worship of Allah) and leaving of worship of whatever else beside Allah for 10 years, then he has been ascended to the Sky, and the five daily prayers were made obligatory upon him without there being an interdictory between him and Allah, the Most High, in that. After that, he has been ordered with migration, so they migrated to Madinah, and then he has been ordered with the fighting in the way of Allah, so, he fought in the way of Allah rightfully for about 10 years until people entered the religion of Allah in large number.

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So, when he completed 63 years of age, and Allah, the Most High, perfected the religion, and he conveyed the message from the news of Allah, the Most High, for him as to what is with Him, and thereafter he passed away, may the prayers of Allah and His peace be upon him. And the first of the messengers is Nuh alayhis salam, and the last of them is Muhammad may Allah sent His prayers upon him and his family and peace. As Allah, the Most High, said: “Verily, We have inspired you (O Muhammad) as We inspired Nuh (Noah) and the Prophets after him” (An-Nisa 4:163). And He, the Most High, said: “Muhammad is no more than a Messenger” (Aali Imran 3:144) and “Muhammad is not the father of any man among you, but he is the Messenger of Allah and the last (end) of the Prophets. And Allah is Ever All Aware of everything” (Al-Ahzab 33:40). And the best of the messengers is our prophet sallallahu alayhe wa sallam, and the best of people after the prophets sallallahu alayhim assallam are: Abu Bakr radi Allahu anhu, then Omar radi Allahu anhu, then Uthman radi Allahu anhu, then Ali radi Allahu anhu, and may Allah be pleased with them all. And the best of generations is my generation, then those who follow them, then those who follow them. [Reported by Al-Bukhari, 2652, and Muslim 6635, with wording: “The best of people”.]

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And Isaa sallallahu alayhe assallam will descend from the sky and will kill the Dajjal. [Hadith of descending of Isa alayhis salam and his killing of the Dajjal, Imam Muslim reported it in his Sahih, 7560.] And All Praises belong to Allah, the Lord of all that exist. Completed based on what preceded.

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