On the Importance of Tawhid
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.
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