The First Condition of Tawheed: Knowledge! | Shaykh Dr. Abdulsalam Al Shuwayir

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📌 What is the first condition of La ilaha illa Allah? In this beneficial explanation, Shaykh Dr. Abdulsalam Al Shuwayir explains that the first condition of the Shahadah is knowledge. He clarifies that a person cannot truly testify to La ilaha illa Allah without first knowing its meaning. 🔑 The Shaykh explains that the meaning of La ilaha illa Allah is built upon two foundations: 1️⃣ Negation: Rejecting all worship and the right to be worshipped from everything worshipped besides Allah. 2️⃣ Affirmation: Affirming all worship and the sole right to be worshipped for Allah alone. 📚 He also explains that a person may possess extensive knowledge of worldly affairs and the instrumental sciences, yet still be ignorant if he does not know the meaning of La ilaha illa Allah. 📖 Allah said: "So know that La ilaha illallah (none has the right to be worshipped but Allah), and ask forgiveness for your sin." (Surah Muhammad 47:19, Muhsin Khan) 📚 Imam Al Bukhari commented on this verse: "So Allah began with knowledge before speech and action." 🤲 May Allah grant us beneficial knowledge, sincerity, and firmness upon Tawheed until we meet Him. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ The Murji'ah conflate the outward rulings pertaining to legislative names and labels with the inward rulings pertaining to legislative punishments. - The outward ruling is the worldly judgment based solely on a person’s outward statements and actions. It does not depend on what is in the heart. - The inward ruling concerns the hidden reality of the heart, which cannot be known. It is only considered in matters of punishment and the ruling of the Hereafter. Ignorance, coercion, mistake, and denial are considered here, not in the outward ruling. ✍ 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 https://shamela.ws/book/8381/396#p1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ The methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamaah: The outward ruling is based exclusively on statements and actions. ✍️ 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 #Fiqh #scholarsofsunnah #AhlusSunnah #IslamicClips #IslamicShorts #Creed #IslamicEducation #IslamicLecture #MuslimYouth #Knowledge #IslamicGuidance #Shariah #Reminder #ShirkAkbar #ExcuseOfIgnorance #Takfir #Iman #Kufr #SalafiDawah #AhlusSunnahWalJamaah #ManhajSalaf #IslamicCreed #UsulAlDeen #KitabAlTawhid #ScholarsOfIslam #IbnBaz #IbnUthaymeen #LajnahDaimah #SeekKnowledge #Ilm #Dawah #Truth #Guidance #SunnahWay #IslamicReminder #Sacrifice #Sunnah #Tawhid #Salafi