The Importance of Tawḥīd – Ustādh Abu Rayhaanah Yahya

The Importance of Tawḥīd, a lecture by Ustādh Abu Rayhaanah Yahya (hafidhahullāh), based on the words of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh)

• Tawḥīd must be spoken about constantly, clarified, learned and acted upon, because happiness in this life and the next is attained through it

• Its definition: singling out Allāh with all worship and abandoning the worship of everything besides Him; hardly a sūrah of the Qurʾān is free of it

• The false claim that the Muslim world has no need to learn Tawḥīd, and the Companions new to Islām who asked for a tree to hang their weapons on for blessing

• Knowledge is taken away by the death of the scholars, so Tawḥīd must be given the utmost attention

• Calling people to good manners or to leave alcohol and zinā without Tawḥīd is a building without a foundation, bound to collapse

• The Prophet ﷺ spent thirteen years in Makkah calling to Tawḥīd, and sent Muʿādh to call first to the testimony that none has the right to be worshipped except Allāh

• The polytheists affirmed Tawḥīd ar-Rubūbiyyah; the dispute between the Messengers and their people was over Tawḥīd al-Ulūhiyyah

• Worship of the heart, tongue and limbs, and the two conditions for a deed to be accepted: sincerity and following the Sunnah

• Every innovation is misguidance: Ibn Masʿūd and the people counting stones in the masjid

• Those who earned Allāh's anger and those who went astray, the deeds of the disbelievers like scattered dust and a mirage, and ʿaqīdah as the head of the body

• Sūrat al-ʿAṣr: belief, righteous action, advising one another to the truth and to patience

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 11/1/25