08 August 2015By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
Islamic State Training Camp Textbook: "Course in Monotheism"- Complete Text,
Translation and Analysis (Part One)
Islamic State Training Camp Textbook: "Course in Monotheism"- Complete Text,
Translation and Analysis (Part Three)
And from the Sunna: on the authority of Abu Huraira may God be pleased with
him: he said: the Messenger of God (SAWS) said: "I bear witness there is no
deity but God and I am the Messenger of God: no one will come upon God with
these two expressions, not doubting them, without entering Paradise."-
narrated by Muslim.
3. Al-Ikhlas, incompatible with shirk.
Al-Ikhlas as a word: liquidation and purification: and stripping something,
isolating and separating it from its impurities.
And the truth of al-ikhlas: stripping the intention of nearness to God
Almighty from all the impurities of shirk.
And the evidence for al-ikhlas is the Almighty's words: "To God alone belongs
the pure religion."- al-zumar 3 [Qur'an 39:3]
And the Exalted's words: "And they have not been ordered but to worship God,
purifying for him Hanif religion, establishing prayer and giving zakat. And
that is the right religion."- al-Bayyina 5 [Qur'an 98:5]
And from the Sunna: on the authority of Abu Huraira (may God be pleased with
him) from the Prophet (SAWS): "The happiest of people in my intercession are
those who have said there is no deity but God from the purity of their
hearts."- narrated by Bukhari.
The Sheikh of Islam Ibn Taymiyya (may God have mercy on him) said: "The
original principle of Islam is: I bear witness that there is no deity but God
and Muhammad is the Messenger of God, but whosoever has sought to worship Him
for the sake of display and hearing has not realized the shahada of there is
no deity but God."
4. Al-Sadq, incompatible with al-kadhab
Al-sadq is the application of words to reality.
So one must say these words truthfully from one's heart, one's heart in
parallel with one's tongue, but if one says it with one's tongue outwardly
but is lying within, this person is a munafiq, and nifaq is showing truth
outwardly but harbouring falsehood within, or showing faith outwardly but
harbouring disbelief within.
The evidence for al-sadq: the Almighty's words: "Alif-Lam-Mim: Have the
people reckoned that they will be left to say- We believe- and not be tested?
Indeed We have tested those before them. Verily God knows those who have been
truthful and those who are lying,"- Al-Ankabut 1-3 [Qur'an 29:1-3]
And from the Sunna: what has been established in the two Sahih collections on
the authority of Muadh bin Jabal may God be pleased with him: from the
Prophet (SAWS): "No one will bear witness that there is no deity but God and
Muhammad is the Messenger of God- truthfully from his heart- without God
keeping him from the fire."
5. Al-Mahabba
Al-mahabba is the inclination of the heart towards something and joy and
delight in it.
i.e. Affection for the words of tawheed and what they reveal.
And its opposite is al-karahia: and it is the distancing of the heart, its
disturbance and annoyance.
And the evidence for al-mahabba is the Almighty's words: "And among the
people are those who take idols besides God, loving them as love for God, but
those who believe are stronger in love for God."- al-Baqara 165 [Qur'an
2:165]
And from the Sunna: what has been established in the two Sahih collections on
the authority of Anas (may God be pleased with him): he said: the Messenger
of God (SAWS) said: "There are three things on which the beauty of faith is
founded: that God and His Messenger should be more beloved to him than
anything besides these two, that one should love man only for the sake of
God, and one should hate to return into disbelief after God has rescued him
from it just as he should hate to be thrown into the fire."
6. Al-Inqiyad and its opposite al-Tark
Al-Inqiyad as a word: Subjection and humility, so if you say 'I led him': he
submitted and yielded to me, since he has given you the means to lead him.
The object here: Submission to 'there is no deity but God' and what it
requires outwardly and inwardly in submission incompatible with al-tark.
And the object here: submission to God in tawheed and submission to what His
Messenger (SAWS) has brought: the Book and the Sunna: through obedience, and
that by implementing what God has imposed and abandoning what He has
forbidden, and embracing that. And the one who says 'there is no deity but
God' does not benefit except through this submission. The Almighty has said:
"And the one who submits turning to God and does good has clung to the
indissoluble bond."
And the indissoluble bond- as Ibn Abbas and Ibn Jubair said- is: There is no
deity but God.
7. Al-Qubul- incompatible with al-Radd.
Al-Qubul as a word: contentment with something.
And the object here: Acceptance of 'there is no deity but God' in what it has
required and revealed of meaning, with heart, tongue and rest of the body
parts, acceptance incompatible with rejection for these words and anything
that they require are not to be rejected, for indeed one may say the shahada
and know its meaning but one may not accept some of its requirements in great
part, minutia or otherwise, and so such a person has not realized the
conditions of al-qubul.
And the evidence for al-qubul is the Almighty's words: "And when it was said
to them- 'There is no deity but God'- they were arrogant and said: 'Are we to
abandon our gods for a mad poet?'" al-Saffat 35-6 [Qur'an 35:35-6].
So one must accept these words with heart and tongue, for the one who does
not accept them and rejects them and is haughty about them is a kafir- just
as the kuffar of the Quraysh rejected them with stubbornness and arrogance
and did not accept them.
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