ERRORS IN THE CREED. EPISODE 4️⃣ - Invoking The Dead And The Absent

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*ERRORS IN THE CREED*

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*EPISODE 4️⃣ - Invoking The Dead And The Absent*

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From the types of major Shirk is invoking the dead, the absent, the Jinn, idols, trees and stars; seeking rescue from them, and asking them for the cure of the sick and assistance against the enemies. This is the religion of the first polytheists, from the disbelievers of Quraysh and other than them.

As Allāh–the Exalted and Most High–said regarding them:

 *وَيَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا يَضُرُّهُمْ وَلَا يَنفَعُهُمْ وَيَقُولُونَ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ شُفَعَٰٓؤُنَا عِندَ ٱللَّهِۚ* 

*“And they worship besides Allāh things that hurt them not, nor profit them, and they say: "These are our intercessors with Allāh."”*

[Yunus 10:18]

And He–the Exalted–said:

 *فَٱعْبُدِ ٱللَّهَ مُخْلِصًا لَّهُ ٱلدِّينَ▪️أَلَا لِلَّهِ ٱلدِّينُ ٱلْخَالِصُۚ وَٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِهِۦٓ أَوْلِيَآءَ مَا نَعْبُدُهُمْ إِلَّا لِيُقَرِّبُونَآ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ زُلْفَىٰٓ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَحْكُمُ بَيْنَهُمْ فِى مَا هُمْ فِيهِ يَخْتَلِفُونَۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يَهْدِى مَنْ هُوَ كَٰذِبٌ كَفَّارٌ* 

*“So worship Allāh (Alone) by doing religious deeds sincerely for Allāh's sake only, (and not to show-off, and not to set up rivals with Him in worship). Surely, the religion (i.e. the worship and the obedience) is for Allāh only. And those who take Auliya' (protectors and helpers) besides Him (say): "We worship them only that they may bring us near to Allāh." Verily, Allāh will judge between them concerning that wherein they differ. Truly, Allāh guides not him who is a liar, and a disbeliever.”*

[Az-Zumar 39:2-3]

And the verses with this meaning are many. And they indicate that the first polytheists know that Allāh is the Creator, the Provider, and the One who brings benefit and harm, and that they only worshipped their deities so they can intercede for them with Allāh, and bring them close to Him. So, He declared them to be disbelievers and He ordered His Prophet to fight them until He is solely worshipped, as He–the Exalted–said:

 *وَقَٰتِلُوهُمْ حَتَّىٰ لَا تَكُونَ فِتْنَةٌ وَيَكُونَ ٱلدِّينُ كُلُّهُۥ لِلَّهِۚ فَإِنِ ٱنتَهَوْا۟ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ بِمَا يَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيرٌ* 

*“And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allāh) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allāh Alone [in the whole of the world].”*

[Al-Anfal 8:39]

And the scholars have written many books on that, and they clarified the reality of the Islām Allāh raised His messengers and sent down His books with, and they explained in them, the religion of the pre-Islamic period of ignorance, their beliefs, and their deeds that oppose the legislation of Allāh. [These scholars include] ʿAbdullāh, the son of Imām Aḥmad, and the great Imām, Muḥammad bn Khuzaymah, in Kitāb At-Tawḥīd, and Muḥammad bn Waḍḍāḥ, and other than them from the leading scholars.

And from the best of what was written on that topic is what Shaykh Al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah wrote in his numerous books, and from the most concise of them is his book; *_Al-Qāʿidah AlJalīlah Fī At-Tawassul Wa Al-Wasīlah._*

And likewise, what was written by Shaykh ʿAbdur-Raḥmān bn Ḥasan Ibn Shaykh Muḥammad bn ʿAbdil-Wahhāb, may Allāh have mercy on them, in his book, *_Fatḥ Al-Majīd Sharḥ Kitāb At-Tawḥīd._*

_To be continued... إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللّٰهُ‎_

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