Lesson 18 – Silsilat Sharḥ ar-Rasāʾil – Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq – The Meaning of Lā ilāha illAllāh

Silsilat Sharḥ ar-Rasāʾil: Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān's explanation of the short treatises of Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Beginning a new treatise: Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb's explanation of the word of Tawḥīd, Lā ilāha illAllāh • The word that distinguishes between disbelief and Islām, the word of taqwā, the firm handhold, and the legacy Ibrāhīm (ʿalayhis-salām) left among his offspring • Light on the tongue and heavy on the Scale, yet not mere words: it has a meaning and requirements • al-ʿUrwat al-Wuthqā: disbelieving in the ṭāghūt and believing in Allāh (al-Baqarah 2:256) • It makes a person Muslim only with knowledge of its meaning and acting on its requirements • Those whom Shayṭān has misled about its meaning, and those he has made heedless so that they rarely say it • All the prophets and messengers were sent with this word, and some of Ibrāhīm's offspring will carry it until the Hour