Kitab At-Tauhid by Shaykh Muhammad bin Abdul-Wahhab is the foundational work on Islamic monotheism and the text most commonly set as a first serious study in creed.
It is also short and dense. The Shaykh states a principle and then lets the Quran and the authentic Sunnah carry the argument, with very little explanation of his own — which is deliberate, and which is why the book has always been studied with a commentary beside it.
What This Commentary Does
Chapter by chapter, it opens up the verses, narrations and statements of the early scholars that the original author cited — explaining why each was chosen, what it establishes, and how the argument of the chapter is built from them.
It gives particular attention to shirk in its open and hidden forms, and to bid'ah, since those are the subjects the original text is largely concerned with. A reader who found the bare text terse will find here what the Shaykh assumed his students already knew.
Who It Is For
Farsi-speaking students of creed working through Kitab At-Tauhid, teachers taking a class through it, and any reader who wants his belief grounded in evidence rather than in inherited practice.
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توضیحات به فارسی
غایة المرید — مقصد جویندهٔ حقیقت — شرحی به فارسی بر کتاب التوحید شیخ محمد بن عبدالوهاب رحمه الله.
کتاب التوحید کوتاه و فشرده است. مؤلف اصلی یک قاعده را بیان میکند و سپس میگذارد آیات قرآن و سنت صحیح خود دلیل را بیاورند، و از سخن خویش بسیار کم میافزاید. این کار عمدی است، و به همین سبب این کتاب همواره همراه با شرح خوانده شده است.
این شرح باب به باب آیات، احادیث و سخنان سلف را که مؤلف آورده است میگشاید: چرا هر دلیل برگزیده شده، بر چه دلالت میکند، و ساختمان استدلال هر باب چگونه است. به مسائل شرک — آشکار و پنهان — و بدعت توجه ویژه شده است.