Lesson 16 – Explanation of the Book of Tawḥīd – Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq

Explanation of the Book of Tawḥīd, taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Chapter 50 of Kitāb at-Tawḥīd on the verse: "But when He gave them a good child, they ascribed partners to Him in what He had given them" (al-Aʿrāf 7:190)

• Naming someone "ʿAbd" of other than Allāh, such as ʿAbd al-Kaʿbah: minor shirk when only the name is intended, and major shirk when servitude is intended, as with ʿAbd ar-Rasūl

• Ibn Ḥazm's exception of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, why that name too is not to be given today, and why mentioning such names when narrating history is allowed

• The two explanations of the verse: that it refers to Ādam and Ḥawwāʾ, as narrated from Mujāhid, al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī and Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, or that it refers to the mushrikūn

• Benefits of the chapter, including a warning against the plots of Iblīs, who vowed to misguide all but Allāh's sincere servants

• The grave worshippers who name their children as servants of the dead usually intend the meaning of worship