This booklet, which addresses a major aspectof the Islamic creed, is very important for Muslims today. ImamIbn Taimiyyah, one of the greatest scholars of Islam, discusses issues pertaining to the Islamic creeed, specifically invoking the dead and classifying this act as shirk, ploytheism, that annuls one’s Islam. The issues discussed here are current, as if Ibn Taimiyyah is living among us today and witnessing the serious problems namy Muslims currently face in their religion.

For some inexplicable reason, many Muslims are fascinated with the dead, directing their invocations to or through them, instead of directly invoking Allah, the Creator of all things. However, dead people cannothelp anyone. They could not avert death from touching them, so how can they help anyone else?

Reading this booklet will enlighten Muslims about this, and several other crucial aspects of the Islamic faith, explained by Ibn Taimiyyah, a polymath of Islamic knowledge.