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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................11
CHAPTER ONE..............................................................................................................................................15
Tawheed, and how to acquire it...............................................................................................................................16
Lights on the Text of the Tahhawiyya:.....................................................................................................................................16
Introduction to Imam At-Tahhawiyy, the Author of the text:...................................................................................................16
The Continuous Sanad To Al-Imam At-Tahhawiyy, rahimahu Allah.................................................................18
CHAPTER TWO..............................................................................................................................................19
Pre-Requisites to studying Aqeedah:........................................................................................................................................20
Are good intentions enough?....................................................................................................................................................20
PRELIMINARY CONCEPTS TO UNDERSTANDING AQEEDAH.................................................................26
1 – Back To Basics:..................................................................................................................................................................26
Islam is faith and practice not a given birth right.....................................................................................................................26
2 – Categories of knowledge:...................................................................................................................................................30
3 – Criteria of Acquiring knowledge:.......................................................................................................................................31
4 – Freedom of Speech and Ethical Obligations:.....................................................................................................................35
Increasing ignorance is a direct sign of the day of judgment................................................................................39
CHAPTER FOUR...........................................................................................................................................41
Al-Aqeedah At-Tahhawiyyah..................................................................................................................................41
Translation:...............................................................................................................................................................................42
CHAPTER FIVE.............................................................................................................................................43
Tawheed.....................................................................................................................................................................44
1 – We say about the Tawheed of Allah (monotheism), believing in Allah's help – that Allah is One, without any partners.44
WHY AQEEDAH FIRST?.......................................................................................................................................................44
Ignorance in Tawheed is dangerous:........................................................................................................................................45
2 – And there is nothing is like Him.........................................................................................................................................46
3 – There is nothing that can overwhelm Him..........................................................................................................................47
4 – And there is no God other than Him...................................................................................................................................48
5 – He is The Eternal without a beginning and The Everlasting without end..........................................................................50
6- He will never perish or come to an end................................................................................................................................50
7 – Nothing happens except what He wills...............................................................................................................................51
8 – No imagination can conceive of Him, and no understanding can comprehend Him. He does not resemble the creation..51
9 – He does not resemble the creation......................................................................................................................................52
Anthropomorphism: (Tashbeeh and Tajseem)......................................................................................................52
Anthropomorphism (Tashbeeh/Tajseem), a Dangerous Belief.................................................................................................53
Anthropomorphism in the current Torah and Bible..................................................................................................................53
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