Tawheed And Shirk-Asking Help
“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)17
THE MUSLIM MEANING OF ASKING HELP FROM OTHER THAN ALLAH
If Allah willed, He could make anything possible without the means of anyone or anything. However, we tend to see that when Allah does something He usually does it through the means of something.
It is His decision to use a means to approach us, we are not to question why Allah does this.
Therefore it is permissible to attribute the act to the means Allah has chosen. For example, one may say The medicine cured me, when a Muslims says this, he acknowledges from the heart that it is Allah that has cured him but by taking the medicine, he has been cured. A Muslim child may say out of respect or love to their parents that you have given me life, but the Muslim child knows that Allah is the giver of life.
The polytheist/kuffar say that their means (their idols) of are the direct providers not Allah.
(28/78) Qarun was an extremely wealthy man due to this knowledge. how Qarun wrongfully believed that his knowledge was what made him wealthy and Allah had no part to play in causing his success (mazallah/I seek shelter in Allah!). His knowledge was merely a means through which he became successful, though he attributed his success to his knowledge, even though Allah Azawajal granted him his wealth. This is polytheism.
Allah condemned the polytheists of Makkah for the following reasons
1.They credited their idols with false attributions.
2.They believed their idols were their means of approach to Allah
3.They believed that whenever Allah did something through a means, the polytheists thought that it was the means which was in fact providing them with their needs, not Allah. (I seek shelter in Allah!)
4. They began to take that, which was rightful to Allah alone and offer it to their idols instead, such as sacrificing animals in the name of Allah, they would instead sacrifice their animals using the names of their idols.
5. They would sit and cry in front of the idols, believing that if they did so the idols would help them.
As Muslims we believe that Allah is the only provider.
Whilst believing that the Prophets and the pious are merely a means to approach Allah, Muslims understand that Allah alone is the provider of all benefit and harm.
(3/123-126, 8/9-10) The help provided in Badr is attributed to the angels. One may say The Muslims were victorious in Badr due to the help of the angels, there is no harm in saying this, as it is true, the angels did support the Muslims during Badr. However at the same time one knows that it was Allah Most Gracious who created those very angels, who sent those angels and who made Badr a victory, the angels were purely a means to create that victory.
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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