All praise is due to Allāh, the Lord of the worlds. And may He extol the Messenger ﷺ in the highest company of Angels, and grant him peace, likewise to his family, Companions and those who follow him until the Day of Resurrection.
Kitāb At-Tawḥīd
Book of Imām Muḥammad bn ʿAbdil-Wahhāb bn Sulaymān At-Tamīmī رحمه الله
Explanation of Shaykh ʿUbayd bn ʿAbdillāh al-Jabirī رحمه الله
Taught by Ustādh Raha Batts حفظه الله
Points discussed during the class:
The orderly arrangement of the chapters of Kitāb At-Tawhīd.
Shirk is the greatest sin.
All other sins are either done against oneself or other people while Shirk is done against Allāh.
Allāh will not forgive this sin except by way of Tawbah.
A call to the du’āt to clarify Tawhīd and its opposite, shirk, to the people.
Whoever traverses upon this path is a caller to Allāh upon Basīrah. Whoever is not like this is either ignorant of the da’wah of the prophet ﷺ and other prophets عليهم السلام or he is a person of desires/bid’ah.
When the scholars cite a concept, they cite evidences for the concept beginning with evidences from the Qur’ān, and then the Ahādīth and then the statements of the Salaf-us-sālih.
The threat of the punishment for Shirk includes both minor and major shirk because the verse did not specify between the two.
Major shirk is different from minor shirk.Major shirk expels a person from Islām and makes him a disbeliever.
An example is worshipping other than Allāh.
An example of minor shirk is showoff. It can occur before, during or after an action.
Once shirk enters into an action, it nullifies that action. Minor shirk is worse than major sins.
Anyone who deems major sins to be permissible intentionally and based upon knowledge is expelled from Islām.
Major shirk condemns a person to Jahannam permanently while minor shirk does not. Major sins make a person a Fāsiq but not a Kāfir.
Anyone who commits major sins persistently and dies upon that, he is under the Will of Allāh.
