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Categories of Tawhid

• Tthe meaning of Tawhid-ul-Rububiyyah, Tawhid-ul-Uluhiyyah, and Tawhid-ul-Asma’ wal-Sifat
• Forms of Tawhid

Tawhid-ul-Rububiyyah

• Believing that the universe is controlled by other than Allah is Kufr
  
• Limits of thinking about Allah’s creation
• The claim that the rock of Bayt-ul-Maqdis is floating into space
• Allah creating seven earths and seven heavens
• Sex-change operations
• Believing that children are not the bounty of Allah and that provisions are controlled by other than Him
• Allah making someone a means for obtaining provision or averting harm for another
• Provision as controlled by Allah in every resepct
• What is the validity of the apeman theory
• The creation of man
• Man’s vicegerency on earth
• Can the air and other elements be described as natural

Tawhid-ul-Uluhiyyah

• Testifying that there is no true deity except Allah

Seeking the help of other than Allah and supplicating to them

• Performing Salah behind an Imam who seeks the help of other than Allah and befriends them
• Awliya’ have no authority over anyone
• Seeking the help of the dead and supplicating to them besides Allah

• Performing the Pillars of Islam and supplicating to other than Allah
• A person who prays, fasts, and observes the pillars of Islam but supplicates to other than Allah 

• Permissibility of seeking the help of other than Allah
• Seeking the help of the dead or the absent is major Shirk
• The Hadith of the blind man who sought the help of the Prophet (peace be upon him) after his death
• Refuting the claims of the followers of Bid`ahs about supplicating to the dead and the diacritical marks and dots of the Qur’an
• Repentance from Bid`ahs and sins
• Performing Salah behind an Imam who seeks the help of the dead
• Believing in the supplication of other than Allah and that the Messenger and the Awliya’ are still alive, and describing the Messenger as being created from the Light of Allah
• Supplicating to the dead and the absent and seeking their help
• Invoking the servants of Allah’s Most Beautiful Names to fulfill one’s needs
• Seeking the help of the jinn or angels
• Asking for the help of the dead or the absent
• Saying Dhikr collectively like what is done in the Sufi orders is an act of Bid`ah 
• Supplicating to the Awliya’ and the pious people to ward off evil and pretending to know the Ghayb
• Supplicating to other than Allah is major Shirk
• Tawassul by other than Allah and wiping the graves
• None but Allah can relieve distresses and ward off evils
• Visiting the graves of the pious people and seeking help from them in cases of sickness
• The dead, whether pious or not, cannot hear supplications
• Ruling on those who seek the help of other than Allah when stricken by misfortune 
• Making Du`a’ to Allah by virtue of the status of the Messenger of Allah, the Sahabah, or others 
• Supplicating to other than Allah
• slaughtering for other than Allah and seeking the help of the dead and the absent
• Supplicating to Allah in His Most Beautiful Names
• Allah (may He be Glorified) has prescribed Du`a’ and ordered the people to observe it
• Supplicating to Allah
• Seeking help from the jinn to fulfill one’s needs
• Invoking Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) or other people when standing up or sitting down
• Invoking other than Allah, such as the prophets and the righteous people, and asking for their protection from evil 
• The living, whether they are Awliya’ or not, can help whoever seeks their help concerning the normal needs 
• Claiming that `Aly ibn Abu Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) can repel harm from others after his death
• Supplicating to Al-Khadir and seeking his help
• Seeking help from the dead is Shirk
• Seeking the help of the prophets and Awliya’
• Seeking help from living humans regarding those things which they are able to do

Vow

• Making vows is an act of worship, which is an exclusive right of Allah
• Believing in the permissibility of making vows and slaughtering animals for the dead
• Making vows for other than Allah
• Slaughtering animals for other than Allah
• Vowing lawful food or animal for other than Allah
• Seeking help from the Awliya’, making vows for them, or supplicating to Allah by the virtue of their status 
• Undesirability of making vows
• Making vows for the shrines of shayks is Shirk

Slaughtering animals for other than Allah

• Slaughtering animals at graves 
• Prostrating and slaughtering animals at graves
• Slaughtering animals for a dead person claimed to be a Waliy (pious person) and building a shrine over his grave 
• Slaughtering animals to entertain guests or out of generosity towards one’s family 
• Slaughtering animals at graves
• Slaughtering animals at the graves of Awliya’
• Slaughtering animals at the graves of the Awliya’ and supplicating through them
• Slaughtering animals at graves and making Ruqyah by other than Qur’an are Bid`ahs
• Visiting the dead Awliya’ and asking them to fulfill one’s needs
• Slaughtering animals at the shrines
• Eating from the animals slaughtered at the shrines
• Religious scholars who beat duff and drums and build Masjids on graves
• Seeking medical treatment by slaughtering sheep or chicken on the sick person’s chest or head 
• Slaughtering animals to cure diseases
• Going around the graves of the Awliya’
• slaughtering animals at shrines
• Slaughtering animals for jinn
• Slaughtering animals for the jinn and invoking them to fulfill a need
• Claiming the lawfulness of eating the slaughtered animal of a Mushrik on which Allah’s Name is mentioned
• The superstition of slaughtering in the valley
• Slaughtering animals for other than Allah is major Shirk
• Slaughtering by the Name of Allah to feed guests or relatives 
• Slaughtering on the threshold of the new house 
• Believing in Muhammad (peace be upon him) then associating others in worship with Allah
• Eating the meat of the sacrificial animal offered for the Waliy
• Eating the meat of a sacrificial animal slaughtered on the Prophet’s birthday and other people’s birthdays 
• Whoever utters the Shahadah while believing in its significance and acting accordingly is a believing Muslim
• Making benefit of the animals set free to roam by non-Muslims
• Slaughtering animals when holding arbitration for disputes
• Slaughtering animals at the location of one of the two conflicting parties to reconcile between them 
• Slaughtering a sheep or the like for another person 
• Slaughtering animals for guests
• Slaughtering animals as Sadaqah in special occasions with the intention of drawing close to Allah
• Praying behind an Imam who eats the meat of animals slaughtered for other than Allah 

 

Venerating other than Allah (may He be Glorified)

• Welcoming a coming person by standing up and kissing them 
• Bowing or to taking off shoes to greet others 
• Impermissibility of bowing to greet a Muslim or a non-Muslim 
• Students standing up when their teacher enters the classroom 
• Standing up as a way of honoring the national anthem
• Saluting the flag, honoring officers, and shaving beards when in the army 
• Saluting the leaders and the presidents like non-Muslims do

Ruqyah and amulets

• The Qur’an heals the ailments of the hearts and bodies 
• Reciting Surah Al-Ikhlas, Al-Mu`awwidhatayn, and Al-Fatihah as a cure for illness 
• Ruqyah with the Qur’an, Dhikr, and Du`a’ 
• Seeking treatment by reciting the Qur’an through Ruqyah and making amulets and charms with it 
• Saying Ruqyah in return for fees 
• Reciting the Qur’an for a sick person
• Treating patients through Ruqyah by reciting the Qur’an and saying Dhikr and Du`a’ reported in authentic Hadith
• Writing some Ayahs of the Qur’an
• Whoever visits a diviner and asks them about anything, their Prayers will not be accepted for forty nights 
• Permissibility of Ruqyah by reciting the Qur’an for others 
• The lawful Ruqyah is that taken from the Qur’an and the Du`a’ reported in authentic Hadith 
• Ruqyah by reciting the Qur’an and saying Dhikr and Du`a’ reported in authentic Hadith 
• Charms, amulets and love-potions count as Shirk 
• Treating a person possessed by jinn according to the Shari`ah
• Ruqyah is permissible when it does not entail any Shirk 
• Permissibility of supplicating with the Names of Allah to be cured from illness 
• Going to a diviner in cases of illness 
• Ruqyah used by Bedouins seeking treatment from vermin bites 
• Going to practitioners of acts of Shirk who supplicate and seek help from the dead
• Treating a patient possessed by jinn by reciting Ayat over them 
• Ruqyah by reciting the Qur’an, Dhikr and anything that does not entail Shirk

Amulets

• Writing an Ayah of the Qur’an and wearing it around the upper arm 
• Carrying pocket-sized copies of the Mushaf for protection against envy or the envious eye 
• Reciting the Qur’an on some water of Zamzam then giving it to someone to drink to fulfill a need
• Writing Qur’anic Ayahs or any other Du`a’ Ma’thur to be hung on the sick seeking recovery 
• Wearing Qur’anic amulets by humans 
• Wearing amulets and talismans containing some Qur’anic Ayahs
• Reciting some Ayahs on water for the sick and asking them to drink it 
• Ruling on Ruqyah and amulets
• Writing some Ayahs of the Qur’an and Allah’s Most Beautiful Names in amulets to be worn around the neck 
• Wearing amulets containing Ayahs, Hadith, or strange words by the sick 
• Istighfar and Du`a’ for a person who used to invoke the dead
• Receiving fees for making amulets
• “Whoever wears an amulet, may Allah not fulfill their want for them, and whoever wears a seashell, may Allah not give them peace” 
• Putting a piece of cloth, leather, or the like on the abdomen of a baby 
• Praying behind who makes amulets containing Ayahs or Du`a’ 
• Offering Salah while wearing amulets
• Al-Hijab Al-Hasin is an abhorred Bid`ah and a kind of making amulets
• Using a chain for self-preservation, marketing, and offering it to a girl to marry her 
• Hanging a piece of metal by a woman during the postpartum period or by a circumcised person as a charm to bring benefit or prevent evil
• Eating from animals slaughtered by those who profess Shahadah, perform Salah, pay Zakah, observe Sawm, and perform Hajj but wear amulets 
• Wearing amulets containing Ayahs and other writings 
• Making unlawful Dhikr a means of protection

Prostration before other than Allah

• Whoever dies as a disbeliever will not be forgiven and shall abide forever in Hell 
• Prostrating before other than Allah and slaughtering animals for them
• Performing Ruku` for one’s parents

Swearing by other than Allah

• Swearing by other than Allah and saying “What Allah and I will” and “None can help me except Allah and you” 
• Swearing by honesty
• Swearing by other than Allah as Shirk
• Seeking help from the Jinn, hypnosis and swearing by people
• Swearing by other than Allah
• Taking an oath by other than Allah
• Praying behind someone who swears by other than Allah and hangs amulets
• Swearing by Allah and His Attributes
• Swearing by a pious shaykh
• Swearing by graves and shaykhs
• Swearing by the Qur’an and by other than Allah

Exaggeration regarding graves and building Masjids over them

• Cursing the religion and ridiculing anything related to the Qur’an or the Sunnah
• The vision attributed to the attendant of the Prophet’s grave
• Visiting graves for anyone other than women
• There is no obedience to a creature in disobedience to the Creator
• Destroying statues and obliterate their drawings and wiping out pictures and their drawings
• Demolishing small and big Masjids built over graves
• Prostrating and slaughtering animals on graves
• Taking graves as places of worship
• Prostrating and slaughtering animals on graves
• Praying in a Masjid where someone is buried
• Praying in Masjids that have graves and shrines
• Building Masjids over the graves of the Awliya’
• Praying in a Masjid with a grave and honoring the dead and invoking them
• Building and praying in a Masjid that has a grave in it
• Building Masjids over graves
• Giving in charity to build a Masjid over the grave
• Participating in building a Masjid over a grave
• Building over graves as an abominable Bid`ah
• Building Masjids over graves
• Cursing Islam is an act of serious Riddah
• Praying in a Masjid that has a grave and taking it a place of distributing charity and food among people
• Praying in the shrine seeking blessings from the Waliy
• Praying in a Masjid built over an old cemetery
• Building a Masjid over an old cemetery
• Offering Jumu`ah prayer in the Masjid where there are graves
• Including the mentioned grave or any part of the cemetery in the Masjid
• Placing a grave in the Masjid
• Specifying an area in the Masjid to bury the person who built it or any other person
• Praying in the Masjid built over a grave and invoking the dead
• Making the Prophet’s grave a place visited daily
• Visiting Al-Masjid Al-Nabawy
• Traveling to Madinah to pray in Al-Masjid Al-Nabawy
• Traveling to visit the graves of the prophets, righteous people and others
• Visiting the Prophet’s Masjid and praying there
• Pilgrims visiting the Prophet’s grave and Al-Baqi`
• Visiting the graves of righteous men, slaughtering for them and supplicating to them
• Ibn Al-Qayyim’s stance from traveling to Al-Khalil’s grave and claiming the fire will end
• Seeking blessings from graves and their dwellers 

 

Exceeding the proper limits regarding the Messenger

• The Prophet is a light in terms of the light of his message and guidance
• The presence of the Prophet or any other dead person at the deathbed of another
• Claiming the Messenger is not human like us and that he knows the Ghayb and is omnipotent
• Allah is the only Self-Existing Being
• Allah showing in the Qur’an that Muhammad is human
• Claiming the Prophet is unified with Allah
• The one who approached and came closer was Jibril until the Prophet saw him
• The first human being Allah created was Adam
• The Prophet as a light that provides the right guidance
• The Prophet is human and has a shadow like all humans 
• The Hadith “Had it not been for you, the orbit of celestial bodies would not have been created”
• The claim that the Prophet is created from the Light of Allah 
• The Messenger is born to a human father and mother
• The claim that the Messenger is created from the Light of Allah
• The heavens and the earth were not created for his sake (peace be upon him)
• Our Prophet is alive in his grave in the sense of the life of Al-Barzakh
• The dead do not hear the calls or supplications of living people
• Invoking the Prophet after his death to fulfill needs or seeking his help in removing distress
• The formula of sending blessings on the Messenger when visiting his grave
• Allah is over His Throne
• The heaven and earth were not created for the sake of Muhammad
• Allah revealed to the Prophet what He revealed to no other
• The dead hearing the Prophet’s call
• The Prophet is alive in his grave in the sense of the life of Al-Barzakh

Tawassul

• The guidance of the Messenger in visiting the graves
• Tawassul through the Awliya’
• Tawassul to Allah by the honor, sanctity or blessings of the Prophet or another
• Tawassul through prophets and the Awliya’
• Visiting the graves to supplicate to the dead or ask for their help or intercession
• Believing the Awliya’ as means of healing from illnesses and holding annual Mawlids for them
• Tawassul through the entities, honor, or right of creatures
• Calling on “the Prophet’s honor” or “being dutiful to parents” upon leaving a gathering
• Tawassul by the Messenger and Awliya’
• Tawassul through creatures
• Tawassul through the Qur’an and certain days
• Tawassul by the honor, person or status of the Messenger
• Tawassul through the blessing of the Qur’an or some creatures
• Reading a book that includes Tawassul through the Prophet and asking for his intercession
• Tawassul through prophets and righteous men
• Swearing by other than Allah
• Tawassul by the rights of prophets and Awliya’ and through their honor
• Tawassul through the Prophet as in the weak Hadith

Magic

• Definition and meaning of magic
• The difference between magic and evil eye
• Death and life are predestined by Allah
• Learning magic
• The fabricated Hadith of “Learn magic, but do not practice it”
• A sorcerer using something against Islam
• A woman going to see a male doctor
• Causing harm to others
• Visiting a sorcerer to break a spell
• “Whoever goes to a soothsayer and believes what he says, has disbelieved”
• The Shari`ah allowed treatment for a spell
• Seeking treatment in unlawful means and consulting sorcerers and soothsayers
• Visiting sorcerers and enchanters to treat diseases
• Treating magic with Ruqyah and Shari`ah supplications
• Breaking the spell of a sorcerer by using a counter spell 
• Breaking a spell by a counter spell
• Believing that knot tying cures diseases
• The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) was afflicted with Sihr

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood

• Miracles of the Prophets

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood  > Karamat-ul- Awliya’

• The truth of Karamat-ul-Awliya’
• The Awliya’ are faithful and pious people 
• Allah has created the people with different minds and knowledge

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood  > Soothsaying

• Praying behind an Imam who denies the Sunnah and commits Bid`ahs
• Going to soothsayers to be pregnant
• Claiming knowledge of the Ghayb by drawing lines on the sand or the like is an act of soothsaying 
• “Whoever visits a diviner and asks them about anything, their Salah will not be accepted for forty nights” 
• Consulting a practitioner of Arab medicine is soothsaying
• Fortunetelling
• Seeking help from the jinn to know the Ghayb and the ruling on hypnosis
• Dealing with soothsayers and diviners
• Offering Salah behind an immoral soothsayer who claims knowledge of Ghayb 
• Funeral Prayer offered for soothsayers
• Seeking the help of jinn and turning to them to fulfill one’s needs 
• Going to those who seek the help of jinn to cure diseases
• Going to soothsayers, diviners, and the like, and seeking their help 
• Going to soothsayers, diviners, and sorcerers, and asking them about the Ghayb 
• Going to soothsayers to soothsayers to know the thief
• Going to someone who claims to know where lost items are just by reading the Qur’an and Hadith 
• Seeking healing from soothsayers
• Going to soothsayers for the sake of treatment and the like
• Going to soothsayers and believing them
• No one can harm or benefit anybody except by the Will of Allah 
• Giving soothsayers money to avoid their harm
• Consulting diviners and soothsayers and wearing amulets
• Breaks spells using the method of numbers 
• Consulting those who claim knowledge of the Ghayb
• Consulting a doctor who treats patients with Arabic medicines 
• Going to a person who claims knowledge of the book
• Reconciling between the two Hadiths of “Whoever visits a diviner and asks them…” and “Whoever visits a soothsayer and believes them…”

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood  > Astrology

• Prediction of natural occurrences according to the positions of celestial bodies 
• Astrologers do not know the Ghayb
• Speaking, supplicating, or whispering to a stone is an act of Shirk

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood  >The science of arithmetic and astronomy

• Reconciling between science and religion in issues that appear to be contradictory 
• Relying on calendar to determine the beginning of Ramadan 
• Knowing the time of solar and lunar eclipses through calculation of planets movements 
• Predicting the weather conditions is based on awareness of the universal laws of Allah

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood  > Charlatanry

• The Awliya’ of Allah and the Awliya’ of Satan
• Consulting charlatans and wearing amulets
• Sufi Tariqahs and charlatanism
• Going to charlatans for treatment
• Using Jinn and conjuring them by means of supplications and charms
• Talking to the dead

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood  > Modern inventions

• Testing the earth with modern equipment and instruments to discover what is inside it
• Chemistry taught to students in schools is different from alchemy regarded as unlawful by scholar 

 

Bad Omens

• Authenticity of Hadith “Run from the leper as you run away from a lion”
• Being superstitious of months, days, birds and the like

Major Shirk

• The difference between major Shirk and minor Shirk
• The meaning of “And do not marry Al-Mushrikat”
• Invoking other than Allah such as Jinn, dead and absentees and those who follow idolatrous conventions
• Similarity of committing acts of Shirk and never entering Islam
• Obeying Allah in His legislations
• Praying behind someone who invokes other than Allah
• Allah created all creatures to worship Him Alone
• Sending peace on Allah’s Messenger while facing his grave and deeds of major and minor Shirk
• Manifestations of Shirk in Muslim Communities
• Ruling on violating Islamic `Aqidah out of ignorance

Minor Shirk

• Refraining from doing a deed because of people is Riya’ and doing a deed because of them is Shirk
• Persisting to follow Allah’s Orders and abstain from His Prohibitions seeking His Reward and fearing His Punishment
• Swearing by other than Allah
• Expressing pride in being knowledgeable to others
• Getting rid of ostentation

Tawaghit

• Those who judge by other than Allah’s revealed laws
• Obligation of appealing to the Qur’an and the Sunnah for legal rulings in case of disputes
• The meaning of Al-Taghut and interpreting the Ayah “They wish to go for judgement (in their disputes) to the Taghut”
• Taghut is anything in which a servant exceeds the limits whether it is worship, following, or obedience
• Not everything worshiped besides Allah is considered as Taghut
• Impermissibility of pursuing lawsuits under a non-Muslim government
• Seeking judgment from Shari`ah and not from tribal rules
• Participating in enacting a law opposing Islamic rulings
• A Muslim cooperating with a Christian in whatever does not contradict with Islamic Shari`ah
• Taking oaths to respect positive laws
• Ruling on invoking Allah against a ruler who does not judge according to what Allah has revealed
• Studying positive laws and working as an attorney
• Studying positive laws and working as an attorney or a judge 

 

Source : abdurrahman.org