Shirk

Shirk Many people know, that praying to someone other than to Allah is shirk. So they think praying, fasting, performing hajj to anybody or to anybody beside Allah is shirk. But they are not aware, that being judged, seeking judgment by anybody beside Allah... More

Shirk Many people know, that praying to someone other than to Allah is shirk. So they think praying, fasting, performing hajj to anybody or to anybody beside Allah is shirk. But they are not aware, that being judged, seeking judgment by anybody beside Allah falls into the same category and is shirk too. Shirk in Arabic means taking a partner, i.e., regarding someone as the partner of another. It is said [in Arabic]: ashraka baynahuma (he joined them together) when he regarded them as two of equal status; or ashraka f amrihi ghayrahu (he introduced another into his affair) when he made two people involved in it. In terms of sharee’ah or Islamic terminology, shirk means ascribing a partner or rival to Allah in Lordship (ruboobiyyah), worship or in His names and attributes. ash-Shirk is the opposite of at-Tawhid is. Sulayman bin Abdillah in “Taysir’ul Aziz’il Hamid” quoted from Qurtubi that he stated the following in this regards: “Asl (origin) of the Shirk which is made Haraam (prohibite Less