All praise and thanks are for Allaah alone, and may blessings and peace be

partners in worship with Him (shirk), but He forgives 

whom He pleases other than that.” 

[an-Nisaa 4:116]

 

 

So every sin which a person may commit which is less than associating others 

in worship with Allaah (shirk) and unbelief (kufr), then there is hope that 

Allaah will forgive the person that sin and will enter him into Paradise as long 

as he is free from the stain of shirk. However one who dies upon shirk, even if 

he claims to be upon Islaam, then his destiny is certainly the Hell-Fire, may 

Allaah save us from it. 

 

Therefore, it is essential that we are aware of this tremendously important 

matter, so that we call the people to Tawheed and warn them against 

associating others in worship along with Allaah, and that we place that at the 

head of the list of what we call to. 

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Then when Allaah's Messenger 

U

 sent Mu'aadh to Yemen to call the people to 

Allaah he taught him how to begin his call. He taught him to begin with that 

which was most important and to follow it with that which comes next in 

importance. Ibn 'Abbaas 

radiyallaahu 'anhumaa,

 reports: