Our Aqeedah Governs Our Actions!!!

We know very well that we are obliged in Islam to learn about certain topics and that we must first learn Tawheed Allah before all else. That is to worship Him (swt) exclusively and follow His (swt) commands and prohibitions, to know about Him (swt) and to affirm all His names and attributes without to associate with Him (swt) anybody or make any similarity with anyone or anything else.

When we say to believe in Allah, that is sayings and actions and those sayings and the actions must be to practise his Deen willingly. We know that the action must be based on knowledge, and that is we know that because of that the Shaytaan will make the people run away from the knowledge.
You must have the knowledge about the Tawheed and about Taghout, about the worship, about Islam and Imaan. If we are to worship Allah without that knowledge, then we will inevitably engage in innovationand the Shaytaan is fixed in his way to turn people away from the knowledge of what is known by necessity. He will say “do not learn otherwise you will be accountable for it.” However, if he was capable to know and he never searched for the knowledge, then he will have had the Hujjah established against him.

They should command good and forbid the evil and call for this Deen, that is Fard, and to have Sabr in that is very important. We know how there are many people who, because of carrying the Da’wah have faced suffering, but that is what makes the gold so shiny. If there was no heat to heat up and purify it, it would not shine the way it does. Moreover, the more heat, the shinier the gold. Similarly the harder the test, the purer the Da’wah and the Da’ee will be.
That principle will not change, the people may imprison you, they may stone you, but although they can imprison your body, your heart cannot be imprisoned. So the Da’wah will contain suffering and therefore for those people carrying the Da’wah, the most important thing they need to knowis the Tawheed, the Aqeedah.

Al Aqeedah is from Al ‘Aqd, it is a contract, binding things together. To affirm things and bind things and that is opposite to loosening things. So the one who ties a thing, he is the only one that can untie it. That Aqeedah is what you commit yourself to, Allah says,

“Allah will not account you for what you made laghw in your oath, but what you tied (i.e. ‘Aqd) in your oath [is different].” [5:89]

So whatever he affirmed and bound himself to is his Aqeedah, whether it was Haqq or Baatil. So the Aqeedah is the decisive belief, inner and outer. That is the Imaan, to believe decisively in Allah, the angels, books, messengers etc, and all other matters. 

The term Aqeedah means Tawheed, Imaan, Islam etc, when we say Ahl al Tawheed; we mean the people of the Aqeedah of Islam and the people of Imaan. Allah says,

“Whoever obeys the messenger obeys Allah and whoever turns away; we did not send you to be a protector for them …” [4:80]

And Allah says,

“O you who believe, obey Allah and obey the messenger.” [4:59]

And He (swt) said,

“Whoever differed with the messenger after the revelation has been revealed and he followed a path different to the path of the Sahabah, we will keep him in that path and send him to hellfire” [4:115]

And that is why Allah informed us,

“The one who disobeys Allah and the messenger and exceeds the limit, Allah will, make him enter hellfire forever and will have a humiliating torment.” [4:14]

So it is not enough to say “I believe in Allah”, that belief must include abiding by it, and to obey and carry it. Allah says,

“The example for you is the messenger of Allah if you hope in Allah and the hereafter and remember Allah a lot” [3:21]

So there cannot be any other example or any other way that you follow. Allah says,

“Say: if you love Allah, follow me Allah will love you and forgive your sins.” [3:31]

And so the reference of the salaf whenever they dispute, they always refer to the Qur’an and Sunnah, to Allah and his messenger, Allah says,

“If you differ in any matter then return back to Allah and his messenger if you really believe in Allah and the hereafter….” [4:59]

So we wonder why do those who oppose the khilafah not refer back to the Qur’an and Sunnah whenever we disagree? Ahl Al Sunnah Wal Jama’ah are called Ahl Al Sunnah because they refer back to the Deen, and are called Al Jama’ah because they always agree.

That knowledge that we seek could divert you from the objective, your objective is to please Allah. The target in the Duniya is to please Allah, so now if the Kuffar say “do not seek knowledge because it is against our knowledge” we cannot just obey them and disobey Allah. It is strange that people can be arrested for a leaflet or article on his computer or in his home nowadays! It has become a reality now that a student of knowledge cannot study certain topics objectively and academically without to be arrested!
One day they will arrest you because you recite the Qur’an, then one day, they will arrest you just for carrying the Qur’an unless it was a copy that has the interpretation of “please Mr Kafir”!
The problem is that there are some people waiting to listen to what the Kuffar have to say even though we know that all the apostate rulers are only puppets and are subservient to their false lords i.e. the West!

Allah ordered us all,

“Verily this Ummah of yours is a single Ummah and I am your lord so Worship me (exclusively).” [21:92]

And He (swt) says,

“We created the jinn and the mankind only for Allah to be worshipped” [51:56]

So how can we have this Tawheed? Because Ifraad Allah bil ibaadah (exclusivity to Allah in all worship) is not only to be Praying and Fasting, but includes all actions. If there is any shirk by associating with Allah in any matter, that is like someone associating the impurity with his purity, if he combines any urination etc, with his wudhu’, he breaks his wudhu’, similarly any shirk mixed with his actions will invalidate his Tawheed.
So he needs to worship Allah physically, that is unless he is only repeating the Faatihah like a parrot. You cannot say “All praise is only for Allah the Lord of the all things” and then combine that with the saying “we need to obey the man-made law” or “the western law”.

However, people do not want to make Sujood to Allah, they want to make Sujood to the creation. They used to make Sujood to the sun and moon but now they make Sujood to the law of the land. Allah says,

“From among his Ayat (signs and creation of Allah) is the night and the day and the sun and moon, do not make Sujood to the sun or the moon, but make Sujood to Allah the one who created them – if it is Him that you really worship (exclusively).” [41:37]

Allah is declaring in these Ayaat, do not obey the Mushrikeen or the law of the land but rather obey only Allah. Allah is the Creator, the Commander, the One who gives and takes life, He (swt) is the only Lord to be worshipped and anything else is falsehood.
To know about Allah is a condition and to know about Islam is essential, Allah says,

“Whoever seeks any Deen different than Islam, it will never be accepted from him …” [3:85]

Meaning whatever you do while you are not Muslim, will not be accepted from you. What is more than that you will be a failure not only in this life but the hereafter as well,

“… And in the hereafter you will be from the losers” [3:85]

I.e. you will in the hellfire. The Prophet (saws) said,

“By the one whose hand is the soul of Muhammad, nobody hears of me whether Jew or Christian and dies without to believe in what I have been sent with, except that he is in the hellfire” [Sahih Muslim]

He (saws) made sure that nobody from the Jews and Christians will go without to hear about him.

Allah wants you to practise all your life, and that practising is the Ibaadah all your life exclusively only to Him (swt). It is to seek help, seek refuge, to slaughter, to arbitrate, etc, everything that you do.

People live in the Duniya but we should be concerned with the HereAfter. That doesn’t mean we do not look for housing and good clothes and shelter etc, it means that we do not make the Duniya the driving force for our actions, we will take the Duniya but we will never commit or allow any Haraam to be committed in order to obtain it. The driving force behind our actions is the Wahi, the Sahabah used to have clothes, transportation, wives, and children and used to fight for Allah's sake, commanding good and forbidding evil as well, but the Duniya was never the driving force behind their actions.
People, who only want Duniya, will take it however they like, even by gambling, by stealing, fornicating etc. however we only seek the Duniya for the sake of the HereAfter.

Someone who has relationship and realizes its pleasure, he will imagine the extent of the sweetness of the HereAfter and work harder for it. Also Allah created the hellfire, if you touch the fire in the Duniya, you will think and imagine how much hotter the hellfire must be and strive to stay further away from it.
Anyone who faces some suffering in the way of Da’wah, he will appreciate what is coming. So do not let Duniya take you away from the Deen, let the Deen govern your Duniya.

We are in the Dunya now, so enjoy it but invest it for the HereAfter. Make sure that you buy and sell only in Halaal, make sure that you reject the Tawagheet. Do not compromise under any circumstances. If you were under duress, then that is different but you heart cannot be imprisoned, it must remain full of Imaan, full of the same commitment to the Aqeedah that governs your life outside of the duress. Otherwise even the duress will never be an excuse for him.
We saw what happened to many Ulemaa around the world that they were killed or imprisoned for speaking the truth, but that is the Sunnah of Allah and will happen to anyone from Ahl Al Tawheed who calls to the Haqq. So stay firm upon Deenul Haqq!