Introduction
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Sound Words in Refutation of Those Who Deny the Division of Tawhīd (Monotheism) into Categories

By Abd al-Razzāq ibn Abd al-Muhsin al-Badr

In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful

Foreword by the eminent scholar, Shaykh Sālih ibn Fawzān ibn Abd Allāh al-Fawzān

All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, who hurls truth against falsehood, crushing it, and behold, it vanishes:

“And say, ‘Truth has come, and falsehood has vanished. Indeed, falsehood is bound to vanish.’” 1

May blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad, through whom Allah brought people out of darkness into light, and who left his community on the clear path from which none strays except one who is doomed.

To proceed: It is part of the wisdom of Allah—glorified and exalted be He—to test the people of truth through the people of falsehood, so that they may strive in Allah’s cause with weapons, the pen, and the tongue, defending truth and refuting falsehood:

“Such is the command. Had Allah willed, He could have taken vengeance upon them, but He has ordained this to test some of you by means of others.” 2

Indeed, in our own time there are successors who prattle about what they do not know and repeat the words of people who sought to oppose the truth