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1st Edition: April 2014 |

E-book Edition: September 2014

ISBN: 978-1-927012-37-6 | Printed in Hong Kong

Table Of Contents

Translator’s Preface

Introduction

What is the Meaning of Tawheed?

The Meaning of Islam, Eemaan and Ihsaan

The Meaning of the Testimony: None Has the Right To Be Worshipped Except Allaah, and Muhammad Is the Messenger of Allaah

Do not Swear Except by Allaah Alone

Who are the Jews and the Christians?

Allaah is One in His Essence and in His Attributes; He Does Not Have a Wife or a Son

Allaah Loves the Pious; He Loves the Good-Doers; He Loves the Patient

Allaah Is above the Magnificent Throne

Allaah, the Exalted and High, Descends at the End of the Night to the Lowest Heaven and Calls Out to His Slaves

Allaah, the Mighty and Majestic, Has Two Noble and Magnificent Hands

Allaah Is the All-Hearing; He Hears All Sounds

Allaah Is the All-Seeing, Glorified Be He; He Sees Everything in the Light or in the Dark

Allaah Is the All-Knowing; He Knows What You Will Do Tomorrow

Allaah Is the Noble Provider, the One Who Gives and Withholds

Allaah is Beautiful and He Loves Beauty, but He Does Not Like Arrogance

Allaah Says Whatever He Wants, Whenever He Wants

Allaah, the Oft-Forgiving, Forgives the Sins and Accepts the Repentance of Whom He Wills

The Believers Will See Allaah in Paradise

Translator’s Preface

In the Name of Allaah, the Most-Gracious, the Ever-Merciful.

All Praise is for Allaah who has facilitated the publication of the translation of this book, The Islamic Creed for Children by Shaykh Abu ‘Abdul-A’laa Khaalid ‘Uthmaan al-Misree. The original title of the book is: Teaching Children the ‘Aqeedah of the Salafus-Saalih in Tawheed and the Names and Attributes of the Lord of the Earth and the Heavens()

The title has been simplified to appeal to a wider audience of parents who wish to introduce the Islamic creed to their children or who wish to solidify their children’s comprehension of this important aspect of the religion.

The book is divided into eighteen chapters, each chapter explaining, in simple language, an aspect of the Muslim Creed. After each chapter is a series of related questions which were added to reinforce each lesson learnt.

Besides the translator, a number of people were instrumental in putting this book together, by the Permission of Allaah. Thanks are due to Umm Zakee for her role in typesetting, editing and proofreading the translated version of the book; ‘Umar Abu Zakee, of TROID in Toronto, Canada for assisting in proofreading the English translation and the Arabic Qur’an and Ahaadeeth, as well as overseeing the printing of the publication; and Ahmad Abu Sakeenah, also of TROID, for his additional review. May Allaah bless all of them for their valuable contributions, and may He reward them well.

Raha ibn Donald Batts

Translator

Introduction

Indeed all praise is for Allaah. We praise Him; we seek His Help, and we seek His Forgiveness. We seek refuge with Allaah from the evil of our souls and the consequences of our evil actions. He whom Allaah guides, there is none to misguide, and he whom Allaah misguides, there is none to guide. I testify that none has the right to be worshipped except Allaah alone, having no partners, and I testify that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.

O you who believe! Fear Allaah [by doing all that He has ordered and by abstaining from all that He has forbidden] as He should be feared. [Obey Him, be thankful to Him, and remember Him always], and die not except in a state of Islam [as Muslims] with complete submission to Allaah.

[Soorah Aali ‘Imraan, 3:102]

O mankind! Be dutiful to your Lord, Who created you from a single person [Adam], and from him [Adam] He created his wife [Hawwa (Eve)], and from them both He created many men and women. And fear Allaah through Whom you demand your mutual [rights], and [do not cut the relations of] the wombs [kinship]. Surely, Allaah is Ever an All-Watcher over you.

[Soorah an-Nisaa’, 4:1]

O you who believe! Keep your duty to Allaah and fear Him, and speak [always] the truth. He will direct you to do righteous good deeds and will forgive you your sins. And whosoever obeys Allaah and His Messenger (sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) he has indeed achieved a great achievement [i.e. he will be saved from the Hell-fire and made to enter Paradise].

[Soorah al-Ahzaab, 33:70-71]

Indeed the best speech is the Book of Allaah. The best guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam). The worst of all matters are the newly invented. Every newly invented matter is an innovation, and every innovation is deviation.

This small treatise is the first in an upcoming series acquainting the Muslim boys and girls with the ‘aqeedah of the Salaf as-Saalih. I have formulated this book like a curriculum to be taught to children from age five to around twelve years old, within the Salafee schools. These Salafee schools are no more than bricks; however, I hope that Allaah, the Glorified, causes them to bear ripe fruits in order that a righteous generation is brought up upon the Book and the Sunnah, with the understanding of the Salaf of the Ummah.

Perhaps someone may ask: Are not the centres of Qur’an memorization widespread within the towns, villages and cities?

I say: Yes; however, none of these centres concentrates on bringing up the children upon the creed and manhaj of the pious predecessors. For this lofty objective, I have formulated this small treatise to be an introduction and a starting point in the path of truth and guidance.

The believer who has taqwaa knows the magnitude of this trust, and that which enters into the generality of the statement of Allaah, the Mighty and Majestic:

Verily! Allaah commands that you should render back the trusts to those to whom they are due.

[Soorah an-Nisaa’, 4:58]

Likewise, in the statement of Allaah, Glorified be He:

Those who are faithfully true to their Amanaat [all the duties which Allaah has ordained, honesty, moral responsibility and trusts etc.] and to their covenants.

[Soorah al-Mu’minoon, 23:8]

Those who establish this great action must know the magnitude of this trust and anticipate the great reward from this action. For it is as the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) has said:

“By Allaah, that Allaah guides through you, one man, is better for you than if you were to have red camels.”¹