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Categories of Tawhid
- Tthe meaning of Tawhid-ul-Rububiyyah, Tawhid-ul-Uluhiyyah, and Tawhid-ul-Asma’ wal-Sifat
- Forms of Tawhid
Tawhid-ul-Rububiyyah
- Believing that the universe is controlled by other than Allah is Kufr
- Limits of thinking about Allah’s creation
- The claim that the rock of Bayt-ul-Maqdis is floating into space
- Allah creating seven earths and seven heavens
- Sex-change operations
- Believing that children are not the bounty of Allah and that provisions are controlled by other than Him
- Allah making someone a means for obtaining provision or averting harm for another
- Provision as controlled by Allah in every resepct
- What is the validity of the apeman theory
- The creation of man
- Man’s vicegerency on earth
- Can the air and other elements be described as natural
Tawhid-ul-Uluhiyyah
Seeking the help of other than Allah and supplicating to them
- Performing Salah behind an Imam who seeks the help of other than Allah and befriends them
- Awliya’ have no authority over anyone
- Seeking the help of the dead and supplicating to them besides Allah
- Performing the Pillars of Islam and supplicating to other than Allah
- A person who prays, fasts, and observes the pillars of Islam but supplicates to other than Allah
- Permissibility of seeking the help of other than Allah
- Seeking the help of the dead or the absent is major Shirk
- The Hadith of the blind man who sought the help of the Prophet (peace be upon him) after his death
- Refuting the claims of the followers of Bid`ahs about supplicating to the dead and the diacritical marks and dots of the Qur’an
- Repentance from Bid`ahs and sins
- Performing Salah behind an Imam who seeks the help of the dead
- Believing in the supplication of other than Allah and that the Messenger and the Awliya’ are still alive, and describing the Messenger as being created from the Light of Allah
- Supplicating to the dead and the absent and seeking their help
- Invoking the servants of Allah’s Most Beautiful Names to fulfill one’s needs
- Seeking the help of the jinn or angels
- A person is not to be excused for being ignorant about the fundamentals of Iman
- Asking for the help of the dead or the absent
- Saying Dhikr collectively like what is done in the Sufi orders is an act of Bid`ah
- Supplicating to the Awliya’ and the pious people to ward off evil and pretending to know the Ghayb
- Supplicating to other than Allah is major Shirk
- Tawassul by other than Allah and wiping the graves
- None but Allah can relieve distresses and ward off evils
- Visiting the graves of the pious people and seeking help from them in cases of sickness
- The dead, whether pious or not, cannot hear supplications
- Ruling on those who seek the help of other than Allah when stricken by misfortune
- Making Du`a’ to Allah by virtue of the status of the Messenger of Allah, the Sahabah, or others
- Supplicating to other than Allah
- slaughtering for other than Allah and seeking the help of the dead and the absent
- Supplicating to Allah in His Most Beautiful Names
- Allah (may He be Glorified) has prescribed Du`a’ and ordered the people to observe it
- Supplicating to Allah
- Seeking help from the jinn to fulfill one’s needs
- Invoking Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) or other people when standing up or sitting down
- Invoking other than Allah, such as the prophets and the righteous people, and asking for their protection from evil
- The living, whether they are Awliya’ or not, can help whoever seeks their help concerning the normal needs
- Claiming that `Aly ibn Abu Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) can repel harm from others after his death
- Supplicating to Al-Khadir and seeking his help
- Seeking help from the dead is Shirk
- Seeking the help of the prophets and Awliya’
- Seeking help from living humans regarding those things which they are able to do
Vow
- Making vows is an act of worship, which is an exclusive right of Allah
- Believing in the permissibility of making vows and slaughtering animals for the dead
- Making vows for other than Allah
- Slaughtering animals for other than Allah
- Vowing lawful food or animal for other than Allah
- Seeking help from the Awliya’, making vows for them, or supplicating to Allah by the virtue of their status
- Undesirability of making vows
- Making vows for the shrines of shayks is Shirk
Slaughtering animals for other than Allah
- Slaughtering animals at graves
- Prostrating and slaughtering animals at graves
- Slaughtering animals for a dead person claimed to be a Waliy (pious person) and building a shrine over his grave
- Slaughtering animals to entertain guests or out of generosity towards one’s family
- Slaughtering animals at graves
- Slaughtering animals at the graves of Awliya’
- Slaughtering animals at the graves of the Awliya’ and supplicating through them
- Slaughtering animals at graves and making Ruqyah by other than Qur’an are Bid`ahs
- Visiting the dead Awliya’ and asking them to fulfill one’s needs
- Slaughtering animals at the shrines
- Eating from the animals slaughtered at the shrines
- Religious scholars who beat duff and drums and build Masjids on graves
- Seeking medical treatment by slaughtering sheep or chicken on the sick person’s chest or head
- Slaughtering animals to cure diseases
- Going around the graves of the Awliya’
- slaughtering animals at shrines
- Slaughtering animals for jinn
- Slaughtering animals for the jinn and invoking them to fulfill a need
- Claiming the lawfulness of eating the slaughtered animal of a Mushrik on which Allah’s Name is mentioned
- The superstition of slaughtering in the valley
- Slaughtering animals for other than Allah is major Shirk
- Slaughtering by the Name of Allah to feed guests or relatives
- Slaughtering on the threshold of the new house
- Believing in Muhammad (peace be upon him) then associating others in worship with Allah
- Eating the meat of the sacrificial animal offered for the Waliy
- Eating the meat of a sacrificial animal slaughtered on the Prophet’s birthday and other people’s birthdays
- Whoever utters the Shahadah while believing in its significance and acting accordingly is a believing Muslim
- Making benefit of the animals set free to roam by non-Muslims
- Slaughtering animals when holding arbitration for disputes
- Slaughtering animals at the location of one of the two conflicting parties to reconcile between them
- Slaughtering a sheep or the like for another person
- Slaughtering animals for guests
- Slaughtering animals as Sadaqah in special occasions with the intention of drawing close to Allah
- Praying behind an Imam who eats the meat of animals slaughtered for other than Allah
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