Virtue of Tawheed and a Warning Against What Contradicts It

Virtue of Tawheed and a Warning Against What Contradicts it

فضل التوحيد والتحذير مما يناقضه

A concise guide to the excellence of Tawheed — what pure monotheism earns a person in this life and the next — set against the beliefs and practices that weaken or nullify it. Compiled by the Dar-us-Salam Research Division from the Qur'an and authentic Sunnah.

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AuthorDar-us-Salam Research Division
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Pages32
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Weight (lbs)0.08

Books on Tawheed usually lead with the warning. This one leads with the reward, and the order changes how it reads.

Tawheed was the first message of every Prophet Allah sent and the purpose for which mankind was created. It is also, according to the texts, the single most profitable thing a person can hold — and that case is worth making before the warnings begin.

What Tawheed Earns

The book sets out what the Qur'an and Sunnah promise those who uphold monotheism sincerely: Allah's pleasure, the forgiveness of sins, security in this world and the next, and ultimate entry into Paradise. Some of these narrations are so generous that scholars have written at length simply to explain their conditions.

Read together, they make the point that Tawheed is not a doctrinal box to be ticked before the real work of worship begins. It is the work. Every prayer, supplication, sacrifice, vow, hope, fear and act of reliance is either directed to Allah alone or divided, and that single question decides the value of everything else a person does.

What Contradicts It

The second half covers shirk — distinguishing the major form, which takes a person outside Islam, from the minor, which does not but corrupts the worship it touches. It works through the practices that compromise belief in the ordinary course of life: innovation, superstition, reliance on created beings in acts of worship, and customs absorbed from the surrounding culture and never checked against a text.

Every point is carried by evidence rather than assertion, so a reader can weigh a specific practice rather than take a verdict on trust.

Vigilance Rather Than Anxiety

The book's closing emphasis is that Tawheed is preserved by knowledge and by following the Prophet ﷺ, not by worry. A person who knows what shirk actually is can recognise it and avoid it. A person who does not is the one genuinely at risk, however sincere he feels.

Who It Is For

New Muslims and beginners — the language is plain and the length manageable. Also students, teachers, imams and da'wah workers, since the authentic references make it usable as teaching material. Suitable for family study, Islamic schools and masjid classes.

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Subtitle
فضل التوحيد والتحذير مما يناقضه
Author
Dar-us-Salam Research Division
Binding
Paperback
Pages
32
Size
4.7x6.7" (11.7x17cm)
Weight (lbs)
0.08

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ISBN
9960717828
EAN13
9789960717821
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Virtue of tawheed and a warning
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Not really what I was expecting but still it is a good, informative book.