The Explanation of the Nullifiers of Islam – Sheikh Muhammad bin ‘Abd al-Wahhāb

The subject of the epistle of Sheikh al-Islam, the reviving imam Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhāb—may Allah have mercy on him—is the enumeration of the matters through which Islam is nullified for someone who claims Islam. Thus, it is linked to defining the things that take a Muslim out of Islam.

This is because the word Nawāqid (nullifiers) is the plural of Nāqid, and this word is composed of the letters nūn (ن), qāf (ق), and dād (ض). It has a single authentic root meaning, which indicates the breaking or nullification of something. That is why it is said: naqḍ al-‘ahd—“breaking a covenant.” It may also indicate, in one of its linguistic meanings, a type of sound; thus, regarding the sound made by the joints, one says: ṣawt al-mafāsil: naqīḍuhā. This meaning is close to the first because it is as though the joints were breaking, producing a sound due to that.

Book details
Height: 29.7 cm
Width: 21 cm
Number of pages: 264
Author: Sheikh al-Islam Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhāb