1) Verily, Allaah has created the world and everything in it in
order to worship Him alone. He sent the Messenger to call the people to Tawheed
and the Noble Qur'aan is concerned with the aqeedah of tawheed in most of
its chapters, and it explains the harm of shirk for the individual and the
society. Shirk is the reason for destruction in this life and the reason for
eternal destruction in the Fire of the Hereafter.
2) Verily, all the Messengers began their call with Tawheed,
which they were commanded by Allaah to convey it to the people. He, the Most
High, said:
We have not sent before you from the Messengers, except We inspired to him that He is the
only One worthy of worship, so worship Him. [21:25]
The Messenger of Allaah stayed in Makkah for thirteen years
while he called his people to the Tawheed of Allaah and he called to Him alone
without associating anything with Him. It was regarding this issue that Allaah
revealed the following verse to His Noble Messenger:
Say: Verily I call to my Lord and I do not ascribe any partners
to Him at all. [72:20]
The Noble Messenger brought up his followers upon Tawheed from
the time of childhood and he said to the son of his uncle, his cousin 'Abdullaah
ibn 'Abbaas: "When you ask, then ask Allaah, and when you seek help,
then seek help from Allaah." [Hasan Saheeh, Tirmidhi]. This
Tawheed is in reality the religion of Islaam, which is built upon it, and
anything other than it is not accepted by Allaah.
3) Verily, the Messenger (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) taught his Companions to begin their
call to the people with tawheed, so he said to Mu'aadh ibn Jabal, when he (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) sent
him to Yemen: "So let the first thing you call them to, be the
testification that none has the right to be worshipped except
Allaah." And in another narration: "...that they worship Allaah alone." [Bukhari and Muslim]
4) Tawheed is embodied in the testification that "None has
the right to be worshipped except Allaah, and Muhammad is the Messenger of
Allaah." Its meaning is that there is no one who is worthy of deserving
worship except Allaah, and there is no worship except that which the Messenger
of Allaah came with. Iris this testification which allows a unbeliever to enter
into Islaam, since it is the key to Paradise, and the one who testifies to it
and believes it enters into Paradise as long as he does not invalidate it by
shirk or a word of disbelief.
5) The disbelieving Quraish offered the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam)
kingship, wealth and wives and other than that from the pleasures of this life
in exchange for him abandon the call to tawheed, and abaudon the attacks against
the idols. However, he did not desire that from them, rather lie continued his
call and endured the onslaught along with his Companions, until the call to
tawliced was victorious after thirteen years, after which Makkah was conquered
and the idols were destroyed. The Messenger of Allaah # recited
Truth has come and falsehood has vanished, surely falsehood is ever
bound to vanish. [17:81]
6) Tawheed is the preoccupation of a Muslim in his life,
so he begins his life with Tawheed and he ends his life with Tawheed. Ilis task
in life is to establish Tawheed and the call to Tawheed, since Tawheed unifies
the believers and gathers them upon the statement of Tawheed.
So we ask Allaah to make the statement of Tawheed (Laa ilaaha lila Allaah)
our last words in this world and we ask Him to gather the Muslims upon the
statement of Tawheed.
On the Importance of Tawhid