The Greatest Command in Islam! | Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan

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📌 What is the greatest command in Islam, and what is the foundation upon which the religion is established? In this important explanation, Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan clarifies the statement of Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (d. 1206 AH) concerning the foundation of Islam and its essential obligations. The Shaykh explains that the foundation of the religion is the worship of Allah alone, without associating any partners with Him (Tawhid), and that this foundation requires certain obligations from every Muslim. 🔹 1. Worshipping Allah Alone (Tawhid) - The greatest command and foundation of Islam is to worship Allah alone, without associating any partners with Him. This is the meaning of La ilaha illa Allah. 🔹 2. Al-Wala wal-Bara (Loyalty and Disavowal) - When Allah guides a person to Islam, he is obligated to show loyalty and love toward the Muslims and to disavow shirk, kufr, and the enemies of Allah. 🔹 3. Declaring the Kuffar to Be Kuffar - Shaykh al-Fawzan explains the obligation of declaring the kuffar to be kuffar and disavowing them, as Allah has commanded. He states: - "The person who does not declare a kafir to be a kafir is himself a kafir like him, because he has approved of kufr." 🔹 4. Love and Hatred for the Sake of Allah - The Shaykh explains that al-Wala wal-Bara entails love and hatred, loyalty to the Muslims, and disavowal of the enemies of Allah. 📖 Evidence from the Quran: Allah, the Most High, says: "You (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) will not find any people who believe in Allah and the Last Day, making friendship with those who oppose Allah and His Messenger..." [Surah al-Mujadilah 58:22] Allah also says: "Indeed there has been an excellent example for you in Ibrahim (Abraham) and those with him..." [Surah al-Mumtahanah 60:4] ⚠️ The Shaykh emphasizes that merely claiming to be a Muslim is not sufficient while rejecting the obligations of loyalty and disavowal that Allah has commanded. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Source: ما معنى العبارة الأمر بعبادة الله وحده لا شريك له ، وهل هو على التعيين أم ماذا؟ #فتاوى الفوزان https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wt1cehlTHQ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✍ The Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Fatwas in Saudi Arabia. Fatwah no. 4400: 👉 (❗) "So clarifying the matter and establishing the proof (Iqāmat al-hujjah) is for the purpose of removing any excuse before carrying out the PUNISHMENT upon him, NOT in order for him to be called a kafir only after the clarification. 👉 (❗) Rather, he IS CALLED a kafir based on the outward act he committed. Such as prostrating to other than Allah, vowing as an act of worship to other than Him, or slaughtering an animal, like a sheep, for other than Allah.” 📚 Source: Kitāb Fatāwā al-Lajnah al-Dāʾimah – First Collection, vol. 1, p. 220 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ The methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamaah: The outward ruling is based exclusively on statements and actions. Matters of the heart are only considered in punishment and the final judgment, in this world by the judge and in the Hereafter by Allah. ✍️ Al-Hafidh Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (d. 852H) in Fath al-Bari (12/272), transmitting consensus: وكلهم أجمعوا على أن أحكام الدنيا على الظاهر، والله يتولى السرائر “THEY ALL UNANIMOUSLY AGREED that worldly rulings are based upon what is outwardly apparent, while Allah alone takes charge of what lies within.” End Quote ✍️ Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728H) said in As-Sarim al-Maslul (2/339): فمن قال أو فعل ما هو كفر, كفر بذلك، وإن لم يقصد أن يكون كافرًا، إذ لا بقصد الكفر أحدّ إلًّا ما شاء الله. “Whoever says or does that which is kufr, then he becomes a kafir by that itself, even if he did not intend to become a disbeliever, for no one intends kufr except whom Allah wills.” End Quote ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Authentic and True — From the Scholars to You ✦ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Islam #Quran #Sunnah #Aqeedah #Salafi #salafiyyah #Bidah #IslamicAdvice #IslamicReminders #SeekingKnowledge #Tawheed #Muslim #F