☪️Islamic Creed ('Aqidah)

Footnote to the Book of Tawheed

حاشية كتاب التوحيد

Author: عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن قاسم العاصمي القحطاني الحنبلي النجدي (المتوفى: 1392هـ) (d. 1392)

About this work

هذا الكتاب هو حاشية على كتاب "توحيد" لشيخ الإسلام محمد بن عبد الوهاب، ألفها عبد الرحمن بن قاسم. يتناول الكتاب موضوع التوحيد وبيان معناه وأهميته، ويستعرض أوجه الشرك وينبه على ما يجر إليه من أخطار. كما يبين الكتاب فضائل التوحيد وثمراته، ويدعو إلى اتباعه والتحذير من مخالفته. يركز المؤلف على توضيح العقيدة الصحيحة ونبذ الممارسات الخاطئة التي تخرج عن دائرة التوحيد، مبيناً أخطار الغلو في تقدير الأشخاص والقبور والتمائم وغيرها من الممارسات التي قد تجر إلى الشرك.

Translation

This book is a footnote to the book “Tawhid” by Sheikh al-Islam Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab, written by Abdul Rahman bin Qasim. The book deals with the topic of monotheism and explains its meaning and importance. It reviews the aspects of polytheism and warns of the dangers it leads to. The book also explains the virtues of monotheism and its fruits, and calls for following it and warning against violating it. The author focuses on clarifying the correct doctrine and rejecting wrong practices that fall outside the circle of monotheism, pointing out the dangers of exaggeration in estimating people, graves, amulets, and other practices that may lead to polytheism.

Topics covered

introduction
The Book of Monotheism
Chapter on the virtue of monotheism and what expiates sins
Chapter: Whoever achieves monotheism will enter Paradise without reckoning
Chapter on fear of polytheism
Chapter on supplication to bear witness that there is no god but God
Chapter on the interpretation of monotheism and the testimony that there is no god but God
Chapter on what was mentioned about ruqyah and amulets
Chapter: Whoever seeks blessings from a tree or a stone or the like
Chapter on what was mentioned regarding slaughtering for other than God
Chapter: Do not sacrifice to God in a place where sacrifice is done to other than God
Chapter on polytheism: vowing to anyone other than God
Chapter of polytheism is seeking refuge in other than God
A section of polytheism is to seek help from other than God or call upon other than Him
The door to intercession
Chapter on the words of God Almighty: {You do not guide whom you love}
Chapter on what was said that some of this nation worship idols
Chapter on what is mentioned in magic
Chapter on explaining some types of magic
Chapter on what was mentioned about soothsayers and the like
Chapter on what was mentioned in the bulletin
Chapter on what was mentioned in flying
Chapter on what is mentioned in astrology
Chapter on what was mentioned about rainwater
Chapter on the words of God Almighty: {And put your trust in God if you are believers}

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