Al-Qawl al-Mufid ala Kitab al-Tawhid — Volume 1 (القول المفيد على كتاب التوحيد) — Page 11

Arabic text · النص

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

أَنْ تَأْتِيَ إِلَى قَبْرِ إِنْسَانٍ صَارَ رَمِيمًا تَدْعُوهُ، وَتَعْبُدُهُ، وَهُوَ بِحَاجَةٍ إِلَى دُعَائِكَ،

That you come to the grave of a human who has become decayed bones, calling upon him and worshipping him, while he is in need of your supplication.

وَأَنْتَ لَسْتَ بِحَاجَةٍ إِلَى أَنْ تَدْعُوَهُ فَهُوَ لَا يَمْلِكُ لِنَفْسِهِ نَفْعًا وَلَا ضَرًّا فَكَيْفَ يَمْلِكُهُ لِغَيْرِهِ

And you are not in need of calling upon him, for he does not possess for himself any benefit or harm, so how could he possess it for others?!!

وَلَوْ كَانَ أَرْفَعَ الْبَشَرِ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ مَرْتَبَةً وَهُوَ النَّبِيُّ

Even if he were the highest of mankind in rank before Allah, and he is the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him).

قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: (وَمَنْ يَرْغَبُ عَنْ مِلَّةِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ إِلَّا مَنْ سَفِهَ نَفْسَهُ)

Allah the Exalted said: 'And who would be averse to the religion of Abraham except one who makes a fool of himself.'

وَهَذَا الْقِسْمُ كَفَرَ بِهِ، وَجَحَدَهُ عَامَّةُ الْخَلْقِ، وَمِنْ أَجْلِ ذَلِكَ أَرْسَلَ اللَّهُ الرُّسُلَ، وَأَنْزَلَ الْكُتُبَ

This category was disbelieved in and denied by the general masses of creation, and for that reason, Allah sent the messengers and revealed the books.

قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: ﴿وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا مِنْ قَبْلِكَ مِنْ رَسُولٍ إِلَّا نُوحِي إِلَيْهِ أَنَّهُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنَا فَاعْبُدُونِ﴾

And We sent not before you any messenger except that We revealed to him that, "There is no deity except Me, so worship Me."

وَمَعَ هَذَا فَأَتْبَاعُ الرُّسُلِ قِلَّةٌ

And despite this, the followers of the messengers are few.

قَالَ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ : «فَرَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ وَمَعَهُ الرَّهْطُ، وَالنَّبِيَّ وَمَعَهُ الرَّجُلُ وَالرَّجُلَانِ وَالنَّبِيَّ وَلَيْسَ مَعَهُ أَحَدٌ»

He (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: 'I saw the Prophet with a group of people, and the Prophet with a man or two, and the Prophet with no one with him.'

تَنْبِيهٌ: مِنَ الْعَجَبِ أَنَّ أَكْثَرَ الْمُصَنِّفِينَ فِي عِلْمِ التَّوْحِيدِ مِنَ الْمُتَأَخِّرِينَ يُرَكِّزُونَ عَلَى تَوْحِيدِ الرُّبُوبِيَّةِ،

Alert: It is a matter of wonder that most of the authors in the science of Tawheed from the later generations focus on the Tawheed of Lordship.

وَكَأَنَّمَا يُخَاطِبُونَ أَقْوَامًا يُنْكِرُونَ وُجُودَ الرَّبِّ - وَإِنْ كَانَ يُوجَدُ مَنْ يُنْكِرُ الرَّبَّ - لَكِنْ مَا أَكْثَرَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ الْوَاقِعِينَ فِي شِرْكِ الْعِبَادَةِ

As if they are addressing people who deny the existence of the Lord - although there are those who deny the Lord - but how many are the Muslims who fall into the polytheism of worship.

وَلِهَذَا يَنْبَغِي أَنْ يُرَكَّزَ عَلَى هَذَا النَّوْعِ مِنَ التَّوْحِيدِ حَتَّى نُخْرِجَ هَؤُلَاءِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ الَّذِينَ يَقُولُونَ بِأَنَّهُمْ مُسْلِمُونَ وَهُمْ مُشْرِكُونَ، وَلَا يَعْلَمُونَ

Therefore, it is necessary to focus on this type of Tawheed until we bring out these Muslims who say they are Muslims while they are polytheists, and they do not know.

Vocabulary · المفردات (28 verbs · 50 nouns)

• أَتَى — to come
• صَارَ — to become
• دَعَا — to supplicate to
• عَبَدَ — to worship
• مَلَكَ — to own
• كَانَ — to be
• قَالَ — to say
• رَغِبَ — to desire
• سَفَهَ — to be foolish
• كَفَرَ — to disbelieve
• جَحَدَ — to deny
• أَرْسَلَ — to send
• أَنْزَلَ — to reveal
• أَوْحَى — to inspire
• رَأَى — to see
• صَنَّفَ — to write/author
• رَكَّزَ — to focus
• خَاطَبَ — to address
• أَنْكَرَ — to deny
• وَجَدَ — to find
• وَقَعَ — to fall
• اِنْبَغَى — to be necessary
• أَخْرَجَ — to bring out
• عَلِمَ — to know
• رَفَعَ — to elevate
• نَبَّهَ — to alert/warn
• اكْتَوَى — to be cauterized
• كَوَى — to cauterize
• قَبْرٌ — grave
• إِنْسَانٌ — human
• رَمِيمٌ — decay
• حَاجَةٌ — need
• دُعَاءٌ — supplication
• نَفْعٌ — benefit
• ضَرٌّ — harm
• بَشَرٌ — humanity
• مَرْتَبَةٌ — rank
• نَبِيٌّ — prophet
• مِلَّةٌ — creed
• قِسْمٌ — part
• عَامَّةٌ — general public
• خَلْقٌ — creation
• أَجْلٌ — sake
• رَسُولٌ — messenger
• كِتَابٌ — book
• إِلَهٌ — god
• أَتْبَاعٌ — followers
• قِلَّةٌ — fewness
• صَلَاةٌ — prayer
• سَلَامٌ — peace
• رَهْطٌ — group
• رَجُلٌ — man
• تَنْبِيهٌ — alert
• عَجَبٌ — wonder
• عِلْمٌ — knowledge
• تَوْحِيدٌ — monotheism
• رُبُوبِيَّةٌ — lordship
• قَوْمٌ — people
• وُجُودٌ — existence
• رَبٌّ — lord
• مُسْلِمٌ — muslim
• شِرْكٌ — polytheism
• عِبَادَةٌ — worship
• نَوْعٌ — type
• مُشْرِكٌ — polytheist
• نَفْس — self/soul
• أَحَد — one/anyone
• مُصَنِّف — author
• سُورَة — surah
• آيَة — verse
• حَدِيث — hadith
• طِبّ — medicine
• إِيمَان — faith
• دَلِيل — evidence
• طَائِفَة — group
• جَنَّة — paradise
• حِسَاب — reckoning
• عَذَاب — punishment