The Four Principles by Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb﷽ I ask the Noble Allāh, Lord of the Great Throne, to protect you in this world and the Hereafter, and to make you blessed wherever you are, and to make you among those who are grateful when given, patient when tested, and seek forgiveness when they sin, for these three are the essence of happiness. Know, may Allāh guide you to His obedience, that the monotheism of Abraham's creed is to worship Allāh alone, sincerely dedicating the religion to Him, as He, the Exalted, said: "And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me" (Sūrah al-Dhāriyāt, 51:56). So if you understand that Allāh created you for His worship, then know that worship is not called worship except with monotheism, just as prayer is not called prayer except with purification; so if polytheism enters into worship, it corrupts it, just like impurity corrupts purification. So if you understand that when polytheism mixes with worship it corrupts it, nullifies the deed, and makes its doer among the eternal inhabitants of the Fire, you realize that the most important thing for you is to know this, so that Allāh might save you from this trap, which is associating partners with Allāh, about which Allāh, the Exalted, said: "Indeed, Allāh..