“Bismillahir Rahmannir Raheem”Al-Hamdu Lillaahi Rabbil ‘Aalameen was Salaatu was- Salaamu ‘Alaa Sayidinaa Muhammadin wa Aalihi wa Asabihi Ajma ‘een (tauheed- risalat- ahkirat and islam-iman-ihsan)

Tawheed and Shirk(Monotheism or Polytheism)

Perfect understanding of religion is by knowing – 1. Tauheed and Shirk 2. Iman and Kufr 3. Biddat and sunnat

The Being (Self / Entity) of Almighty Allah is indeed only One. Almighty Allah is “One” and is actually present.

“Objects are indeed understood by its opposites” –day v/s night , misguidance v/s guidance, Tawheed v/s Shirk

Tawheed” is to believe that there is no partner to Allah in His “Being” and / or in His “Attributes”.

How great is the Being of Allah ? we do not believe that there is another being like Him.

1. If knowledge, listening, seeing, living  which are one of the attributes of Allah is ascribed for another individual, will this really mean that we are guilty of Shirk?

Answer –No .Indeed Almighty Allah possesses the attribute of “living”, yet He has, also through His Mercy, bestowed upon His creation this very quality. The attributes what we posses is (atayi) bestowed ,temporary and non eternal .

2. HAS THE ALMIGHTY ALLAH GIVEN MAN POWER AND AUTHORITY?

Answer-If man has not been given power and authority, then what indeed is the difference between him and a stone? His slave(man) on the other hand, possesses these attributes of power and authority, yet, he is still subservient to Almighty Allah, and these attributes are not his, rather they have been bestowed upon him by Almighty Allah.

 

Almighty Allah possesses attributes and so does the slave. No one has given these qualities to Allah, whilst the slave, on the other hand, has been given these attributes by Almighty Allah. then this belief cannot be termed Shirk.

 

3. DIVINITY CANNOT BE GIVEN

Indeed, Almighty Allah, through His Mercy, may bestow upon His slave whatever powers He wishes, yet He would not bestow “divinity”, which is permanent and independent – the attributes given to His slave are not permanent or even independent.

Idolaters/mushrik  don’t believe in allah’s authority. The creation can never to totally independent of Almighty Allah.They began to believe that although their idols were a creation, Almighty Allah had given the idols “Divinity” and total “God-head”.

Any person who believes that Almighty Allah has given any slave “God-head” and “Divinity”, has committed Shirk.

The Muslim believes that the servant of Allah will always remain a servant and can never become one possessing God-head and Divinity.

4. DEEDS PERFORMED BY THE SLAVE THROUGH THE PERMISSION OF ALLAH CAN NEVER BE TERMED SHIRK

“Who is he that can intercede with Him, except by His command?” (2/255)

Idols have never been given permission to intercede for their worshippers. This clearly proves that their idols are totally useless. The beloved slaves(prophets, martyrs (Shuhada), saints, etc) of Allah, on the other hand, have been given permission to intercede.

If the belief is that anyone can perform miracles without the permission of Allah, then this belief would be considered Shirk

Hazrath isa(as) said “I heal him who was born blind and the leper and I revive the dead by Allah’s command.” (3/49) he has clearly proven by one verse the difference between Shirk and Tawheed.

Hazrat Abdullah Ibn Omar (ra) used to despise the Khaariji sect the most. He considered them the worst of creation. He used to say that “these people have made it a practice of theirs, that whatever verse has been revealed against the idol worshippers, they relate these verses towards the Muslims.”(bukhari)

When I want to talk to allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)

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