U say shirk means invoking other than Allah whereas till date I have known it as association of partners besides Allah (Islamic studies),so from where have u got this meaning ?
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U say ‘shirk’ means
‘ invoking other than Allah’ whereas till date I have known ‘it’ as
‘association of partners besides Allah’ (Islamic studies),so from where have u
got this meaning ? (I’m not being rude, just wont to go till the depth)
And if u say it has same meaning then how did u come upto this conclusion. According to the meaning in the
Islamic Studies, we have never worshipped anybody then Allah and Syedna is a preacher or a parent to us and nothing else. We
of course love him but not to be confused with ‘worship’
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The Sin Most Hated By Allah
In the name of Allah, We praise
Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can
misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We
bear witness that there is no one (no idol,
no person, no grave, no
prophet, no imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone,
and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of
His Messengers.
Your Statement: (I’m not being rude, just wont to go till the
depth).
May Allah bless you in this
world and in the hereafter, for having the quest for knowledge and seeking
nothing but the Truth.
If Allah helps us, and opens yours and our hearts to accept and
understand the Truth, rather than blindly following the deen
just because one is born into it; it will indeed be His Mercy and His
Grace.
If you are indeed seeking only
the Truth, and are willing to accept the Truth without any prejudice, and are
not swayed by sect-ism or blind faith; we will try to prove it to you, Insha Allah, from the clear aayahs
of the Holy Quran, and the practice of the Messenger
of Allah (saws); that what is happening in our sect, is, without an iota of a
doubt, manifest shirk…… which is the most hated, heinous, and the only
unforgivable sin in the sight of Allah Subhanah!
Please read this article with an
open heart, seeking nothing but the Truth; and we humbly implore Allah to guide
you and us to nothing but the Truth.
The Last Messenger of Allah
(saws) was sent to the people of Makkah, and Allah
says in the Glorious Quran that they committed
shirk. Just give a moments thought to
what was it exactly, that they were doing…and Insha Allah, you will realize what exactly is this ‘shirk’.
These ‘mushriks’
were the custodians of the Sacred House of Allah Subhanah,
the Kaabah.
These ‘mushriks’ performed the tawaaf (circumambulation) of the Sacred House! These ‘mushriks’
perfomed the pilgrimages of Umrah
and Hajj! These ‘mushriks’ believed sincerely that they were following the ‘millah’ or path of Prophet Ibrahim
(a.s.)! They even chanted and pronounced
the same ‘talbeeyah’ that the believers pronounce
today in Hajj and Umrah, with only a little
‘addition’.
The Talbeeyah
taught by Prophet Mohamed (saws) to the believers, and which is still declared
today by the muslims,
is:
Labbayk Allah humma Labbayk!
(Here I come, O
Allah, Here I come!)
Labbayka La Shareeka laka Labbayk! (Here I come.
You Have No Partners, Here I come!)
Innal Hamda,
Wan-Nehmata, Laka wal Mulk! (All Praise is for You,
and All Blessings from You, Sovereignty belongs to You!)
Laa Shareeka Lak! (You have no partners).
The mushriks
used to pray the above exact same Talbeeyah during Umrah and Hajj, but used to add this statement in the end
to justify their shirk….
Illa Shareekan Tamlekohu, wama malak! (Except
those partners, whose ‘Maalik’ are You, and You are also the Maalik of their
possessions!)
It was not as if these ‘mushriks’ of Makkah did not
believe in Allah as their Lord and Creator! They believed in Allah as their Creator and
the Creator of everything that was in existence. They believed that Allah ordained life and
death. They believed that Allah gave
the rains and their produce. They
believed that Allah created the sun and the moon, the heavens and the earth,
and everything that exists in between.
They even worshipped Allah… believed in the Prophets Ibrahim
(a.s.) and Ismail (a.s.)…..believed that they were on the path of these noble
Prophets…..they believed in the Sacred House of Allah … did its tawaaf in worship…performed pilgrimages of Umrah and Hajj to the Sacred House of Allah in
worship…..bowed down to Allah in worship…..
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 23 Surah Muminoon verses 84-90:Ask them
(these mushriks, O Mohamed), “Tell me, if you know,
Whose is the earth and all who dwell in it?”
They (the mushriks) will surely say,
“Allah’s!” Ask them, “Then why do you
not understand this?” Ask them, “To Whom
do the seven heavens and the Glorious Throne belong?” They will surely say, “To Allah!” Say, “Then why do you not fear Him?” Say to them, “Tell me, if you know, Whose is the Sovereignty over everything? And Who is that
Being Who gives protection while none can give protection against Him?” They will surely say, “This Power belongs to Allah
Alone!” Say, “How then are you so deluded?” The fact is that We
have brought the Truth before them, and un-doubtedly
these people (the mushriks) are liars!
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 29 Surah Ankaboot verse 61-63:If you (O
Mohamed) ask them (the mushriks), “Who has Created the earth and the heavens,
and Who has subjected the moon and the sun?”
They will surely say,
“Allah!” How are they
then being deceived? Allah it is Who gives abundantly to those of His servants He pleases,
and sparingly to those He Wills. Surely
Allah knows everything. If you ask
them, “Who sent down rainwater from the sky, and thereby raised the dead earth
back to life?” They will surely say,
“Allah!” Say, “Praise be to Allah” Yet most of them
do not use their commonsense!
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 39 Surah Zumar verse 38:If you (O Mohamed)
ask them (the mushriks), “Who Created the heavens and
the earth?” They will say, “Allah!” Ask them, “When the fact is this, do you
think that if Allah wills harm for me, those whom you invoke instead of Allah, will avert His harm from me? Or, if Allah wills to show me mercy, will
they be able to withhold His Mercy?”
Therefore, tell them,
“Allah is enough for me!
In Him do those who trust, repose their trust.”
BUT!!!!!!!!!!!,
They believed that Allah was too
distant and would not hear or answer their prayers, if they did not go through
one or more of His pious holy slaves….!!
Thus, they created idols and images in the names of some of the pious holy
men who had passed away, and put them in and near the Sacred House of Allah …
and believed that Allah would only answer their prayers, if they went ‘through’
one of these idols or images. These
idols were nothing but images they had created of the pious holy men who had
died amongst them, or before them…. It is reported
from Ibn Abbas that some of
these idols were the images of the pious believers who were saved by Allah
along with Prophet Noah in his
To make these idols pleased with
them, these ‘mushriks’ of Makkah
would sacrifice in these idol’s name, feed the poor in their name, do ‘niyaaz’ and ‘nazr’ in these
idol’s names, celebrate their birthdays and death-days as festivals, and serve
them devotedly….only to get closer to Allah, as they believed that these idol’s had
some sway or influence over the decisions of Allah Subhanah!
None of these ‘mushriks’ believed that any of these idols was their
Creator, and/or the Creator of the heavens or the earth! Their only belief was that these idols were
somehow very close to Allah; and Allah would only accept their prayers, if they
invoked one of these idols, and told them to take their messages and prayers to
Allah!
This invocation and this serving
of the idols, this sacrifice, and niyaaz, and nazr, and celebration of certain days of the idols… is
exactly what Allah Subhanah wa Taala calls ‘SHIRK’ in
the Glorious Quran!!!!
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 39 Surah Zumur verse 2-3:So worship Allah
Alone, making your religion His exclusively.
Beware! Religion is the exclusive
Right of Allah. As for those who have
taken other ‘auliyas’ (guardians) with Allah (and
justify their this conduct by saying): “We
serve them only that they may bring us closer to Allah.” Allah will surely judge between them
concerning all that in which they differ.
Allah does not show guidance to any liar and denier of the Truth.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 10 Surah Yunus verse 18:These people serve beside
Allah those which can neither harm nor benefit them, and say, “These are our ‘shofa’a’ (intercessors) with Allah!” (O Mohammed), tell them, “Do you wish to
inform Allah of that thing which He knows not in the heavens, or in the
earth?” He is absolutely free
from, and exalted above the SHIRK that they commit.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 10 Surah Yunus verse 66:Note it well that
all the dwellers of the heavens and the earth belong to Allah. And those who invoke partners besides Allah, follow nothing but surmises and merely
indulge in guess-works!
These mushriks
of Makkah believed and worshipped Allah; but they
also invoked and worshipped and sacrificed and did rites and rituals to please
their gods, along with Allah! This
is exactly what Allah Subhanah has termed ‘shirk’ in
the Glorious Quran!!!!
They invoked and worshipped
Allah; but along with Allah they also invoked and worshipped their idols, and
images, and gods and goddesses… which were nothing but images made in the name
of their holy priests and saints who had passed away! This is exactly what Allah Subhanah has termed ‘shirk’ in the Holy Quran!!!
They worshipped Allah, but did
not worship Him Alone!!! They invoked
Allah, but they did not invoke Him Alone!!!
They invoked and worshipped their deities with Allah! And this is exactly what Allah has called
‘shirk’ all over the Quran! Having worshipped and invoked Allah
with any thing, or being, or deity, or god, or goddess, or name … is like not having
worshipped Allah at all!!!!!
And this sin of ‘shirk’ is so
grave, and so heinous, and so horrible, and so monstrous… that Allah Subhanah has declared it as the only unforgivable sin on
the Day of Judgment, and has Himself promised that He has made Paradise ‘haraam’ for those who die in the state of ‘shirk’!!!!
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 5 Surah Maidah verse 72:Whoever
commits ‘shirk’ (invoking anything with Allah), Allah shall forbid for him
Allah says in the Quran: Chapter 4 Surah An-Nisa Verse 48:Shirk
(associating other deities with Allah) is the only sin that Allah does not
forgive, and He forgives, whomsoever He pleases, sins other than
this. For whosoever associates any other
partner with Allah, does indeed forge a big lie and commits the most heinous
sin
If one prays all his life, and
keeps fasts, and performs Hajj and Umrah every year,
and gives his whole wealth in charity, and spends his whole life in doing good
works…but is a committer of ‘shirk’…. Allah has declared that all his deeds
will be worthless on the Day of Judgment, and this person will be thrown in the
fire of Hell!!! This is how serious is
this sin of ‘shirk’!!!
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 39 Surah Zumar verse 65-66:If you commit
‘shirk’ all your works will be rendered vain and you will be among the
losers. Therefore, you should worship
Allah Alone, and be among His grateful servants.
You said,
you are looking only for the Truth! And
the Glorious Quran is nothing but the Words of Truth
from none other than the Truthful Lord!
Now, sincerely ask your heart…
what is the difference between the mushriks of Makkah and what happens in our sect today?
They made images and idols of
clay and mud of their holy men and priests who died before them; Our people made graves, tombs, and shrines over our dead
holy men, and pious slaves of Allah!
They fed the poor in the name of
their deites, did nazr, did
niyaaz, did sacrifice in their name, celebrated their
birth and death days, and served them devotedly to please them; our people do
the exact same thing!
They spent their lives trying to
please their deities, so that these deities may take their prayers to Allah and
help them to get it answered; our people do exactly the same thing!
They bowed down to their
deities, and they also bowed down to Allah; our people do exactly the same
things!
They named themselves the slaves
of their deities, like Abdul-Manat, Abdul-Laat,
Abdul-Uzza, etc. Our people do exactly the same thing and name
themselves Abde-Syedna, and Abde-Ali,
and Abdul-Hussain, and Abdul-Nabi!
They never ever believed that
their deities were their creators. They
only served them because they believed that these deities were very close to
Allah and if they could somehow please the deities, Allah would be pleased with
them and answer their prayers; our people too, don’t ever believe that Mohamed
(saws), or Ali (r.a.), or Fatema
(r.a.), or Hussain (r.a.), or the Imams (r.a.) or the
Dais are the creators of the heavens or the earth! But, they believe exactly as the mushriks of Makkah believed, that
if they served these noble and pious slaves of Allah, and invoked their names
with Allah, and did rites and rituals in their names….Allah will be pleased
with them and answer their prayers!
Shirk is the same…
whether it was practiced 1400 years ago at the time of the Messenger of Allah
(saws)… or it is practiced today! Some
rites, rituals, manners,
and styles of deities may change… but the concept remains exactly the
same!!!!!!
If one looks and contemplates
closely, he will realize that these idols, or graves, or images, etc… these
deities that they have invented…. Do not speak to them, neither guide them, nor
can give them a Book that guides! But
each of these idols and graves have a group of
unscrupulous supposedly religiously-clad pandits and maulas behind them, whose discreet slogan always is: Worship these deities, and obey and follow
us!!!!!
And that is exactly what is
shirk!
And what Allah is guiding
towards in the Quran… is that He is the All-Seeing
(therefore He Alone sees everthing), He is the
All-Hearing (therefore He Alone hears everything), He is the All Powerful (no
one has any power or strength besides Him), and He Alone is the Master of the Day
of Judgement (therefore, none can influence His Decision or Decree in
the least!). He Alone is the Creator of
everything in the heavens and the earth….
Therefore, He Alone deserves our worship…and He Alone
must be obeyed and followed!
And that is the Message
of Tawheed!
Your Statement: We of course love him but not to be confused
with ‘worship’.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 9 Surah Taubah verse 31:
They have made their
scholars and their monks as their Rabbss besides
Allah!
It is
reported in an authentic narration, that when Hadrat
Adi bin Hatim Tai, who was formerly a Christian, came before the Prophet of Allah (saws) to
embrace Islam, and asked the Prophet
(saws) regarding the above verse of Surah Taubah and said: “This verse accuses us of making our
scholars and our monks Rabbs besides Allah, but we never ever worship our scholars and
monks.” The Messenger of Allah (saws)
replied: “Is it not a fact that you accept as haraam
whatever they declare haraam; and halaal
whatever they declare halaal?” Adi bin Hatim Tai (r.a.)
admitted that they did. The Messenger
of Allah (saws) said, “What is that, other than worshipping them?”.
In light of the above aayah of the Quran and the
tradition of the Messenger of Allah (saws),
it is evident that those who set limits to the haraam
and halaal,
without the authority from Allah Subhanah, assume for themselves the rank of
godhead; and those who acknowledge this
right of their scholars and monks, have
made them their rabbs; and those who believe and follow the commands
of the scholars and monks of halaal and haraam blindly,
without any authority from Allah Subhanah, are in truth their worshippers.
Your Question: U say ‘shirk’ means ‘ invoking other than
Allah’ whereas till date I have known ‘it’ as ‘association of partners besides
Allah’ (Islamic studies),so from where have u got this meaning ? (I’m not being
rude, just wont to go till the depth) And if u say it
has same meaning then how did u come upto this
conclusion.
The Quran
uses two words to describe the concept of shirk… invoking others besides Allah,
and worshipping others besides Allah!
Both are direct manisfestations of the heinous
crime of ‘shirk’ according to the Quran!
The Quran
uses the Arabic word ‘a’bod’ for worship. And it uses the word ‘ad-ou’ for the term invoke!
Both of these terms are used
extensively all over the Glorious Quran as forms of
shirk, when used to invoke or worship others besides Allah!
Almost all the people who today
call themselves muslims and
also commit ‘shirk’, will never admit that they are involved in ‘shirk’! If only they knew and understood the clear aayahs and teachings of the Glorious Quran,
they would immediately understand what exactly does Allah
call ‘shirk’….but alas! They are
conveniently kept by their unscrupulous leaders, priests, and holy men away
from understanding the clear Message of their Lord and Creator! It is only by reading the Quran with understanding, can one realize what exactly is this
heinous crime of ‘shirk’ and what are its manifestations! If these people knew that they were
committing shirk, they would abstain from it immediately! And because of their ignorance of the
guidance of the Revelations of Allah, they believe that they are on the Right
Path of Islam; but in reality, they are heavily involved in the rites, and
rituals, and beliefs, of shirk!
We humbly implore you, for your
own sake… read the Glorious Quran, even only once, from
the first to the last Surah with understanding! The whole Quran
revolves around the concept of Tawheed (Oneness of
Allah) and the refutation of the concept of Shirk (associating, invoking and
worshipping others with Allah)!!!
Nothing clarifies the concept of Tawheed and
Shirk like the very words of our Merciful Lord and Creator!!!!
Please do bear in mind, that
Allah Subhanah will accept absolutely no excuses for
committing this most heinous and monstrous of crimes…after He has revealed unto
mankind His Very Book of Guidance….The Holy Quran! Read it with understanding, and then decide
what is Tawheed, and what is
Shirk!
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 18 Surah Kahf verses 103-106:Tell them (O
Mohamed), “Should We tell you who are the most unsuccessful people and
miserable failures in regard to their deeds?
They are those, all whose edeavours in the
worldly life, had gone astray from the
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 7 Surah Aaraaf verses 52-53:We have
brought to these people a Book which gives details based on knowledge and which
is a guidance and blessing for those who believe. Now, are these people waiting for anything
other than the consequence of which they have been warned in the Book? When the consequence will
come before them, those very people who aforetime had disregarded it, will say,
“Indeed, the Messenger of our Lord had come with the Truth. Shall we have, then, any ‘shufaa’ who will intercede for us? Or could we be sent back that we might do
deeds different from those we did before?”
They have, indeed, incurred heavy loss upon themselves, and all the
false things they had invented have forsaken them today.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 10 Surah Yunus verse 66:Note it well that
all the dwellers of the heavens and the earth belong to Allah. And those who invoke partners besides Allah, follow nothing but surmises and merely indulge in
guess-works!
From Allah we have all come, and
to Him is our ultimate return.
Whatever written of Truth and
benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error
is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He
is the Only Source of Strength.
Your Brother in Islam,
Wister