📘 ❞ The Meaning of our Testimony that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah ❝ كتاب ــ عبد العزيز بن عبدالله العال شيخ

عن كتاب The Meaning of our Testimony that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah:
Praise be to Allah. And may
His
peace and blessings be upon the Messen
ger, his family,
his Companions, and all those who follow
h
is way until the Day of
Judgment
.
This is a short treatise about the meaning of our testimony when we say “Muhammad is
the Messenger of Allah”. We wish to distribute it among the people because the
re is a
dire need
for such information to be made
available
. Many Muslims, not to mention non
-
Muslims, are ignorant of what this testimony really means. Many Muslims fall into what
contradicts or even invalidates this testimony.
Therefore, it is incumbent
upon us to make this matter clear to the Muslims
.
In this way
we obey
Allah’s command
given in the following verses of the
Qur’ân
:
“But teach
(the
Message) for teaching benefits the Believers” [
Sûrah al
-
Dhâriyât
: 55]
“Therefore give admonition in case the
admonition profits (the hearer).” [
Sûrah al
-
A`lâ
:
9]
“Therefore give admonition, for you are but to admonish. You are not a keeper over
them” [
Sûrah al
-
Ghâshiyah
:
21
-
22
]
The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “Religion is sincere advice.” His Companions
as
ked him to whom this was
for
. He answered: “
About
Allah, His Messenger,
and
His
Book
to
the leaders of the Muslims, and
to
the Muslim masses.”
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It is the duty of all who know the truth to convey it to the people and make it clear,
especially in these times
when Islam has come to
be viewed as
strange and good and evil
have become confused with one another. Few people today are willing to raise their
heads and declare the truth.
We can take solace in the
following
words of Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon hi
m):
“Islam began strange and it will become strange again, so give glad tidings to the
strangers.”
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I ask Allah to bless us with guidance and protect us from the evil that is within ourselves.
O Allah! Show us the truth and bless us to follow it. Let us se
e falsehood for what it is
and help us to avoid it. Make our intentions pure and our works correct. Cause everyone
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who reads this treatise to benefit from it. Bless us and all the Muslims to help one another
in works of righteousness. You are truly the Mos
t Generous, Most Kind.
Introduction
When Allah created Adam
and breathed into him his spirit, He commanded the angels to
prostrate themselves
before
him
. Satan, who
was not an angel but from the Jinn,
was in
their company
,
worshipping Allah
along with them
. However, when they were all
commanded to prostrate before Adam,
Satan refused and was cursed. Allah says: “
And
remember when we said to the angels: ‘Prostrate before Adam’ and they all prostrated

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That is how Satan swore he would lead Allah’s servants from the progeny of Adam
astray.
He would take them off the path of truth
and salvation. He would cause them to
abandon the worship of Allah
or
bring them to polytheism
. He would
lead them to any
path that would cut them off from all that is good and enamor them of all that is evil.
Allah also relates to us the following words o
f Satan:
“
(Satan) said: ‘O my Lord! Because You have
put me in the wrong, I will make wrong
fair
-
seeming to them on the Earth, and I will put them all in the




The meaning of our testimony that Muhammad peace be upon him is the messenger of Allah.