The Explanation of the Treatise: The Four Principles of Shirk

Majority of the creation do not understand these principles [of shirk]; because of that these principles obscure are for them. Consequently they end up worshipping graves, those whom inhabit those graves, the 'Awliyaah of Allah, worshipping trees and stones beside Allah, while they think that they are upon something due on their level of ignorance of the true meaning of Tawheed and the reality of Shirk (Polytheism). The author of these principles is Shaykh- ul-Imam Muhammad bin Abdil-Wahhab, may Allah have mercy upon him; He was the reviver of what was obliterated and wiped out from the Muslim world in this Arabian Peninsula in the second half of the twelve century. He passed away in the year 1206 after hijrah.