23rd Dars: 19th chapter: (Excessive Dogma in the Righteous Persons) 📗 Explaining (Kitab Attawheed)📗 By: Shaykh Ibn Othaimeen

📗 Explaining (Kitab Attawheed)📗

By: Shaykh Ibn Othaimeen

What are these Doroos about? 👇👇

A great book, authored by a great Imam in the 12th century, 

contains the clearest creed of Islam in simple way.

We will study it from the explanation of Shaykh Ibn Othaimeen rA. 

The 23rd Dars: The 19 chapter of: [Kitab Attawheed].

Dated 22nd of Shawwal 1446H👇👇 

In this Dars will discuss: 👇👇

1-  About this chapter.

2-  Danger of exaggeration.

3-  Noah’s people exaggeration.

4-  The 5 pious men of them.

5-  He (ﷺ) forbade exaggeration

6-  Extremers are destroyed.

CHAPTER No: 19 

 (Excessive Dogma in the Righteous Persons is the Root Cause of Infidelity of Mankind and its deviation from True Religion).

The Almighty stated:

﴿ يَا أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ لَا تَغْلُوا فِي دِينِكُمْ وَلَا تَقُولُوا عَلَى اللَّهِ إِلَّا الْحَقَّ ۚ﴾ [سورة النساء:١٧١]

(Meaning): "O People of the Scripture (Jews and Christians)! Do not exceed the limits in your religion, nor say of Allah anything but the truth..." (4:171)

In the Sahih, Ibn Abbas (rAa) commented on the verse:

﴿ وَقَالُوا لَا تَذَرُنَّ آلِهَتَكُمْ وَلَا تَذَرُنَّ وَدًّا وَلَا سُوَاعًا وَلَا يَغُوثَ وَيَعُوقَ وَنَسْرًا﴾ [سورة نوح:٢٣]

(Meaning): "And they have said: You shall not leave your gods, nor shall you leave Wadd nor Suwa` nor Yaghuth nor Ya'uq nor Nasr (names of the idols)." (71:23)

He said:

"These are the names of some righteous persons from Noah's (Nuh) people. When they

passed away, Satan inspired their people to set up statues in their honour and set them in their gathering places, and to give these statues the names of those departed. They did this but did not worship them until these people passed away and knowledge of their origins were forgotten, then they were worshipped."

Ibn Al-Qaiyim (May Allah be pleased with him) said that most of our predecessors have stated: After the death (of the righteous persons), they confined at their graves and made statues and after much time passed they started worshipping them.

Umar (bin AI-Khattab (rA) is reported to have said that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said:

(Meaning): "Do not exaggerate in praise of me just as the Christians exaggerated in the praise of Jesus, son of Mary. I am but a slave, so call me Allah's slave and His Messenger."

(Al-Bukhari and Muslim)

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said:

(Meaning):"Beware of exaggeration. Your predecessors perished on account of their exaggeration."

In (Sahih) Muslim, Abdullah bin Mas'ud (rAa) reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said:

(Meaning): "Destroyed are those who are extreme (in religion)." He (ﷺ) said it three times.

Important issues of the Chapter

1) Whoever understood this chapter and the following two, will recognize clearly the "strangeness" of Islam and see Allah's wondrous power and wisdom to change hearts.

2) The first Shirk on the earth happened due to the confusion regarding righteous persons (that

they have attributed godly characteristics).

3) The first thing to cause changes in the religion of the Prophets and the reason for that, despite

the knowledge that they were sent by Allah.

4) The acceptance of heresy though it is against legal laws and inborn nature. 5) The reason for

all of that is the mixing of truth with falsehood: firstly, the exaggeration in the love of the

righteous; and secondly, the action of people with religious knowledge intending to do good

(performed with well intentions); but the later generations thought that they intended

something else.

6) Explanation of the verse in Surah Nuh (71:23).

7) Human nature towards the truth weakens in the heart while falsehood increases. (Except upon

whom Allah has bestowed His mercy).

8) It confirms the sayings of righteous predecessors that heresy(Bid'ah) is the main cause leading

to Kufr (disbelief) [and that it (Bid'ah) is more loved by Iblis than sinfulness because one

may repent from sins but will not repent from Bid 'ah].

9) Satan (the devil) knows what the result of heresy is (and how much will it misguide), even if

one commits it with good intention.

10) Knowledge of the general rule that excess and exaggeration (in the righteous ones) is

prohibited, and knowledge of what it leads to.

11) The harm of seclusion at the grave even with intention of performing a righteous deed.

12) The prohibition against statues and the wisdom in destroying them.

13) Greatness of the matter within this story and how badly it is needed (i.e. the lesson within) in

the face of the heedlessness and neglect of it.

14) It is absolutely amazing! And more amazing is that despite their (people of Bid'ah) reading

this story in the books of Tafsir and Hadith, along with their understanding of its meaning,

and knowing about the obstruction that Allah has put between them and their hearts, they

believed that the deed of the people of Nuh (i.e. over praising the dead and memorializing

their graves with statues) is the best type of worship. They believed in what Allah and His

Messenger have forbidden which is the disbelief (Kufr) that permits the taking of life and

wealth ...!

15) The declaration that they only wished the righteous ones to intercede for them.

16) Their assumption that those scholars who first shaped the statues had intended so.

17) The tremendous statement of Prophet Muhammad (May the peace and blessing of Allah be

upon him) “Do not exaggerate in praise of me just as the Christians had exaggerated in the

praise of Jesus, son of Mary". May the peace and blessing of Allah be upon him who has

conveyed the clear message!

18) The admonition by the Prophet (May the peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) to us of

destruction of those going to extreme in religion.

19) The clear statement that they (the statues) were not worshipped until true knowledge was

forgotten. This explains the value of the presence of knowledge and the harm of losing it.

20) The reason for the loss of knowledge is the death of scholars.

Video link for 23rd Dars:👇👇

https://youtube.com/live/jI2VTpdszbk

Slides for 23rd Dars: 18th chapter:👇👇

https://tinyurl.com/25f7f9pj

Book in English (PDF):👇👇

• Kitab Attawheed
• Commentary on Kitab At-Tawheed (1st Volume) by Shaikh Ibn Uthaimeen.

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