This work, a detailed explanation of one of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab’s most important works, deals with explaining and refuting the evidences that were used by certain Muslim groups of his time to justify acts of shirk (associating partners with Allah). It is entitled Kashf Al-Shubuhat, which translates as “the clearing of doubts.” Ibn Abd al-Wahhab intended to expose the falsity of these arguments by proving that the pagans whom the Prophet ﷺ fought used the exact same reasoning as these modern practitioners of shirk. Over a dozen different arguments used to justify shirk are presented and then refuted.
What the Book Covers
To maximize the benefit of this work, introductory sections concerning other aspects of shirk not mentioned by Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab have been added by the author: the definitions of shirk, the importance of knowing shirk, the difference between shirk and kufr, the types and categories of shirk, the history of shirk, the evils and futility of shirk, the causes of shirk, and other related topics, alongside a brief biography of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. This work is among the most comprehensive studies in English of shirk, and an essential book for those who wish to understand this great evil.
About the Author
Yasir Qadhi is a prolific author and Islamic teacher, and a popular speaker in many Muslim circles in the United States, Canada, England and Australia. He is one of the few to combine Islamic seminary training (from the Islamic University of Madinah) with Western education (from the universities of Houston and Yale), earning a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, a second bachelor’s in hadith studies, an M.A. in Theology, and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Yale University.
He is the Dean of Academic Affairs and an Instructor at the AlMaghrib Institute, appears on a number of Islamic satellite channels teaching theology, Seerah and Tajweed, gives regular sermons and lectures, and blogs at MuslimMatters.org as the group-blog’s lead specialist.
