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Purification of the Creed
from the Filth of Blasphemy
By:
The Imaam, the Muhaddith,
the Well-Known Salafee Mujtahid of Yemen:
Muhammad bin Ismaa’eel Al-Yamanee As-San’aanee
1099-1182
Translated by:
Aboo Imraan al-Mekseekee
In the name of Allaah, The Beneficent, The Merciful and with Him all aide
is sought.
Introduction
All praise is due to Allaah the One who does not accept the Unity of His
Lordship from amongst His servants unless the Unity of Worship is
singled out strictly to Him alone. They do not take any associate, nor call
anyone along with Him, nor trust in anyone except Him, nor do they seek
refuge in any situation except to Him, nor do they call onto Him except
with the Best of His names, nor do they seek a means of attainment
except with Him in intercession:
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May the peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him, upon his family and
those who followed him in perfection from falling into imperfections and
purified the hearts from the belief of every disgracing thing that corrupts
it (the heart).
It is the belief in the graves (bringing about harm or benefit), (and the
other belief) that people allege knowledge of the unseen or divine
revelations. This type of person is from the people of wickedness who
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does not know the Sunnah nor the Book (of Allaah), nor does he fear the
resurrection nor the reckoning.
So you should know: That here in this treatise are (five) principles and
they are from the foundations of the religion of the most important
aspects of knowledge that the muwahheedoon should know.
It is well known from the duty of the religion that everything that is
contained in the Qur’aan is truth not falsehood, it is honesty containing
no fabrication, it is guidance containing no misguidance, it is knowledge
not containing ignorance, in it is certainty containing no doubt. This
principle is a principle that no one’s Islaam nor Imaan is complete until
he or she believes in it and this is agreed upon (by all of the People of
knowledge) with no dispute concerning it.
The Messengers of Allaah and His Prophets-from the First to the Last of
them-were all sent to call the servants to the Oneness of Allaah by way of
Tawheed of ‘Ibadaah (Worship directed only to Allaah). So the first thing
that each Prophet made reach his people’s hearing was His statement:
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“That you all worship Allaah and fear Him and obey Him”
Soorah Nooh: 3
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The second portion is the Oneness of worship (for Allaah alone known as
Tawheed al-Ibadaah). It is defined as singling out Allaah alone in all
types of worship. And this is where they (the polytheists) placed partners
with Allaah. The word, “Partner” indicates an affirmation of association
with Allaah.
So the Messengers, peace be upon them all, were sent to establish the
first (Tawheed ar-Rububeeyah) and to call the polytheists to the second
(Tawheed al-Ibadaah), like their statement in the address (of Allaah) to
the polytheists:
“Is there any doubt that Allaah is the Originator of the Heavens and
the Earth whom you call on to forgive you of your sins…”
Soorah Ibraaheem: 10
and:
“Is there another creator other than Allah who provides for you from
the heaven and the earth there is nothing worthy of worship except
for Him.”
Soorah Faatir: 3
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And He forbade them from the idoltary of worship (Shirk al-Ibadaah) with
this He the Most High said:
Meaning that they said to their people: Worship only Allaah. So what is
derived of benefit from His statement: {…Every nation} is that all of the
nations were sent messengers to request from it’s people with only one
thing and that was the Oneness of Worship. (They were not sent) to
define that Allaah was the Creator of the Universe and that He was the
Lord of the Heavens and the Earth. They had already affirmed this as the
verses (of Allaah’s Book) concerning it was addressed in the form of the
Interrogative of Affirmation like (His statement):
“Is the One who creates like the one who cannot?”
Soorah An-Nahl: 17
“Is there any doubt as to Allaah being the Originator of the Heavens
and the Earth?”
Soorah Ibraaheem: 10
“Is there any other that are taken as a protector like the Originator
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“Show me what they have created from the Earth? Or do they have
a partner in the Sky?”
Soorah al-Ahqaaf: 4
And with that, you now know that the Mushreekoon did not take the
Idols or Statues (as a Lord) nor did they worship them, nor did they take
the Messiah and his mother, or the angels as partners with Allaah, Most
High for the sake of associating them as creators of the heavens and the
earth or as creators of themselves. Rather they called on them only to
seek nearness to Allaah as they stated and they affirmed belief in Allaah
at the same time they disbelieved and they sought intercession with
Allaah.
“And they worship other than Allah what will not harm them nor
benefit them. And they say they intercede for us with Allah. Say; Do
you inform Allah of what is in the heavens and the earth? Glorified
and Exalted is He above all that they associate as partners!”
Soorah Yoonas: 18
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Verily the Mushrikoon, those whom Allah sent the messengers to,
affirmed that Allah created them:
“And if you asked them who created them they will say Allah.”
Soorah az-Zukhruf: 87
And that He was the one who created the heavens and the earth:
“And if you ask them who created the heavens and the earth they
will say He created them, The Mighty, The All Knowing.”
Soorah az-Zukhruf: 9
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And He is the Provider the One who brings out life from death and death
from life. He arranges the issue from the sky to the earth and He is the
One to whom hearing, vision, and the hearts belong to.
“Say who provides you all from the heaven and the earth? Who owns
the hearing and sight? Who brings out the living from the dead and
the dead from the living? Who disposes the affair? They will say;
Allah. So Say; Will you then not fear Him?”
Soorah Yoonas: 31
And this is Firauoon with his excessiveness in his disbelief, and his
allegations were the wickedest of allegations, his statement being an
abominable word. He said of Allah what was of His right (alone) in the
narration concerning Musaa (peace be upon him):
“You know that these signs have been sent down by none but the
Lord of the heavens and the earth with clear evidences.”
Soorah al-Israa’: 102
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And he said:
And he said:
And every mushrik affirmed that Allah created him, and He created the
heavens and the earth, He is their Lord the Lord of them both, He
provides for them, and it is with this that the messengers debated with
them in their statement:
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“Is the One Who creates like the one who cannot create?”
Soorah an-Nahl: 17
“Those who you call on other than Allah will never be able to create
so much as a fly even if they all gathered to do it.”
Soorah al-Hajj: 73
The Mushreekoon affirmed this and they did not reject it.
Then the head of worship and its foundation is that Tawheed is only for
Allah, that which benefits its statement, the one all the messengers
called to, and it is the statement:
And what is meant here is belief of the meaning, and action that is
carried out, not just a statement made by the tongue.
It’s meaning is: To single out Allah in worship and divinity, negating and
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The Disbelievers (During the time of the Prophet may the peace and
blessings of Allah be upon him) knew this meaning because their tongue
was the original Arabic language. They said:
“Has he made gods into One God, verily this is a strange thing!”
Soorah Saad: 5
1- What are the five principles that every muwahhid should known?
2- What five things does the Quraan contain? What five things does the
Quraan not contain?
4- What are the two categories of Tawheed that Imam as- San’aanee
mentions in this text?
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10- Why did Imam as-San’aanee write “Purification of the Creed from the
Filth of Blasphemy”?
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