Eight Ways On How To Gain Knowledge That, ‘None Has The Right To Be Worshiped Except Allah’

Allah says in the Quran:

“Know that none has the right to be worshipped except Allah” (47:19)

Shaykh Ibn Sa’dee (rahimahullah) cites eight different ways in his Tafseer on how to gain knowledge that ‘none has the right to be worshipped except Allah, he said:

1. To contemplate upon the names and attributes of Allah, and his actions that show his perfectness, greatness and magnificence. This causes a person to exert themselves in devotion to Allah and worshipping the perfect lord whom his is all praise, glorification beauty and majesty.
2. knowing that Allah is the sole creator and disposer of affairs requires that a person also know that Allah is solely deserving of worship.
3. Knowing that Allah alone bestows all blessings hidden and apparent, worldy and religious, necessitates that his heart loves and becomes attached to Allah, and that he worships him alone without any partners.
4. The reward, victory and apparent favours Allah bestows upon his awliyaa (supporters) that single out Allah with everything that is specific to him; and the punishment he sends upon his enemies who associate partners with him. This clearly calls to the fact that only he, the most high deserves all worship.
5. knowing the characteristics of the idols, statues, and partners that are worshipped besides Allah and have been taken as gods, and that they are deficient from all angles and needy themselves. They have no power to benifit themselves or those who worship them. They have no power of giving life or raising the dead. They have no ability to make those who worship them victorious and they cannot benifit them even with an atom seed, whether it is bringing about good or repelling evil. Knowledge of this necessitates that a person know ‘none has the right to be worshipped except Allah’, and it attests that the divinity of those that are worshipped besides him is false and futile.
6. All the books are in agreement and conformity about this.
7. the finest of the creation, and these are the prophets, messengers and upright scholars who have the best intellects, manners, understanding, knowledge and opinions, all testify to this.
8. The evidences that Allah has established that are ufuqiyaah and naffsiyaah prove and proclaim in the greatest fashion that Allah should be singled out with all worship, and he has made visible his fine work, amazing wisdom and marvellous creation.

[Tayseer Al-Kareem Al-Mannaan fee Tafseer Kalaam Ar-Rahman by Allaamah As-Sa’dee (pg. 731-732)]

See Also:

Meaning of La Illaha IllaAllah

Importance of Tawheed

Superiority of Tawheed

 

Reality of Barelwis – Is the Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu alayhi wasallam) Dead or Alive

Our Prophet (sallalahu alayhi wasallam) is alive in his grave, living the life of barzakh, where he is enjoying the ease and comfort which Allah has prepared for him as a fitting reward for that which he earned in the life of this world. But his soul is not returned to him as it was in this world or in the manner as it will be on the day of resurrection. Rather, it is the life of barzakh, which is in between the life of this world and the life of the hereafter. And everyone will go through these stages. Based upon this it is clear that the Messanger of Allah died, just as the prophets before him died. The only exception being Eesaa (alayhisallam), who was raised up to the heavens and will descend at the end of time, after which he will die. 

Allah the Most High said: 

“And we granted not immortality to any human being before you (O Muhammad). Then if you are to die, would they live forever?” (Al-Anbiya:34)

“whatsoever is on the earth will perish. And the face of your lord, full of Majesty and Honour will abide forever” (Ar-Rahman:26-27)

Allah also informed the messenger Muhammad in a clear verse of the Quran. 

“verily you (O Muhammad) will die and verily, they too will die” (Az-Zumar:30)

And there are many other such examples among the verses which prove that Allah brought death to the prophet Muhammad (sallalahu alayhi wasallam). The companions washed his body and prayed over him and buried him. Had they considered him to be alive, as in the life of this world, they would have not have buried him in the ground!

And to seal the discussion, when Allah’s messenger died, his closest friend, companion and successor, Abu Bakr (May Allah be pleased with him) entered and kissed the messengers forehead and said, ‘May my mother and father be your ransom! You were good in life and in death.’ then he said, ‘he who worshipped Muhammad, then know that Muhammad has died. But he who worships Allah, then Allah is above the sky, he lives and does not die.’ (Authentically reported by Ad-Daarimee) 

 

Eight Ways on How to Gain Knowledge that “None has the Right to be Worshipped except Allah”

Allah says in the Quran:

“Know that none has the right to be worshipped except Allah” (47:19)

Shaykh Ibn Sa’dee (rahimahullah) cites eight different ways in his Tafseer on how to gain knowledge that ‘none has the right to be worshipped except Allah, he said:

1. To contemplate upon the names and attributes of Allah, and his actions that show his perfectness, greatness and magnificence. This causes a person to exert themselves in devotion to Allah and worshipping the perfect lord whom his is all praise, glorification beauty and majesty.
2. knowing that Allah is the sole creator and disposer of affairs requires that a person also know that Allah is solely deserving of worship.
3. Knowing that Allah alone bestows all blessings hidden and apparent, worldy and religious, necessitates that his heart loves and becomes attached to Allah, and that he worships him alone without any partners.
4. The reward, victory and apparent favours Allah bestows upon his awliyaa (supporters) that single out Allah with everything that is specific to him; and the punishment he sends upon his enemies who associate partners with him. This clearly calls to the fact that only he, the most high deserves all worship.
5. knowing the characteristics of the idols, statues, and partners that are worshipped besides Allah and have been taken as gods, and that they are deficient from all angles and needy themselves. They have no power to benifit themselves or those who worship them. They have no power of giving life or raising the dead. They have no ability to make those who worship them victorious and they cannot benifit them even with an atom seed, whether it is bringing about good or repelling evil. Knowledge of this necessitates that a person know ‘none has the right to be worshipped except Allah’, and it attests that the divinity of those that are worshipped besides him is false and futile.
6. All the books are in agreement and conformity about this.
7. the finest of the creation, and these are the prophets, messengers and upright scholars who have the best intellects, manners, understanding, knowledge and opinions, all testify to this.
8. The evidences that Allah has established that are ufuqiyaah and naffsiyaah prove and proclaim in the greatest fashion that Allah should be singled out with all worship, and he has made visible his fine work, amazing wisdom and marvellous creation.

[Tayseer Al-Kareem Al-Mannaan fee Tafseer Kalaam Ar-Rahman by Allaamah As-Sa’dee (pg. 731-732)]