A Beautiful Supplication

In the Name of Allaah, the Most Beneficient, the Most Merciful.

I ask Allaah, the Most Generous, the Lord of the Tremendous Throne, to protect you in this world and the Hereafter, and to bless you wherever you are and to make you from those who are grateful, patient when they are tested, and those who seek forgiveness when they sin. For verily, those are the three signs of happiness.

Know, may Allaah guide you to obeying Him, that Haneefiyah is the religion of Ibrahim (alayhis salaam); it is that you worship Allaah making the religion purely for Him. That is what Allaah commmanded all of mankind with, and for this reason did He create them. As Allaah, the Most High, said:

“And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.” [Quran, 51:56]

When you acknowledge that Allaah has created you for His worship, then know that worship is not regarded as such unless it is accompanied by Tawhid, just as prayer is not regarded as prayer unless it is accompanied by purification. So when Shirk enters into worship it corrupts it just like an impurity invalidates purification. As Allaah, the Most High, said:

“It is not for the polytheists to maintain the mosques of All?h [while] witnessing against themselves with disbelief. [For] those, their deeds have become worthless, and in the Fire they will abide eternally.” [Quran, 9:17]

So when you recognise that if Shirk enters into worship, it corrupts it, negates all the actions and the one who does it is eternally in the Hell Fire, then you will realise the most important matter obligatory upon you is the recognition of this fact, in order that Allaah may save you from this abyss, which is committing Shirk with Allaah. And this knowledge comprises of four principles which Allaah has mentioned in His Book.

– – This is a Beautiful Supplication From The Introduction To “The Four Principles (‘al-Qawaaid al-‘Arba’a’)” – Written By The Imam Of the Dawah, The Shaykh Muhammad Bin ?Abd Al-Wahhab Bin Sulaiman At-Tamimi, May Allaah Bless His Soul.