LET'S START TONIGHT'S EDUCATION. OUR TOPIC IS 👇. *AQEEDAH AT-TAWHEED (Episode 8)

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AS AS SALAAMU ALAYKUM WARAHMATULLAH WABARAKAATUHU. LET'S START TONIGHT'S EDUCATION. OUR TOPIC IS 👇.                                                                                *AQEEDAH AT-TAWHEED (Episode 8)*                                                               

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The first Shirk practice ever to take place on earth was a result of making pictures and posting them. There were pious figures among the people of Nuh and when they died, people were saddened, and mourned them. Then Sahytaan suggested to them to set up in their meeting places objects representing those figures, and gave them their names which they did. Although people did not worship the, yet when the first generation passed away, and the purpose of setting up those objects was forgotten, the succeeding generations worshipped them.
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When Allah sent Nuh as a Messenger to his people to warn them against worshiping those objects that he later on turned into idols, they rejected his mission and insisted on worshiping them. Allah says: *"And they said to one another: 'Do not forsake your deities, nor forsake Wadd, Suwa, not Yaghooth and Ya'ooq and Nasr."* [Soorah Nuh (71): 23].
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Those were the names of the pious people after whom figures were set up to commemorate and gratify them. Now consider how such commemorative objects turned into objects of worship beside Allah, and led people to reject and oppose His Messengers. And as a result, those people were destructed by the flood, and were abhorred by Allah and the creatures. It also indicates the serious consequences of photography and picture making. It was for that reason the Prophet (salallahu alaihe wa-sallam) cursed the picture making.
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It was for that reason the Prophet (salallahu alaihe wa-sallam) cursed the picture makers, and foretold that they will be most tortured on the Day of Resurrection, and ordered that all pictures be effaced. He also informed that angels do not enter a home in which pictures are posted. All this because of its dangerous effects on the Aqeedah of the Ummah (the Muslim Community).
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The first Shirk practice which was committed on earth was a result of setting up pictures, whether such pictures or statues or figurines exist in homes, public squares or in parks. They are prohibited because they are conducive to Shirk and defect the Aqeedah. The infidels today practice this because they have no Aqeedah to safeguard. But it is not permissible for the Muslims to copy them and participate with them in such practices, in order for them to safeguard their Aqeedah which is the source of their power and happiness.
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▪️ *Ruling on the division of faith and disrespecting its inviolable*
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Ridiculing faith constitutes apostasy and absolute departure from Islam. Allah, the Exalted, says: *"Say, is it Allah and His verses and His Messenger that you mocked at? Give no excuse; you have certainly disbelieved (Kafartum) after believing."* [Soorah at-Tawbah (9): 65,66] This verse signifies that mocking at Allah constitutes infidelity and mocking at the Messenger constitutes infidelity, and mocking at the Ayaat of Allah constitutes infidelity. He who mocks at them would, in fact, be mocking at all.
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_Whoever loves a creature as much as he loves Allah is a polytheist._ There must be a difference between loving for the sake of Allah and loving someone along with Allah. Those who have taken graves for idols gratify their objects of worship, other than Allah, and intercessors to the point that one of them would take an oath swearing by Allah falsely, but would not dare to swear by his Shaikh falsely.

There are many sects whose members consider seeking the help of their Shaikh, either by his grave or elsewhere, as more beneficial than supplicating to Allah in the Masjid at the time of Sahr (which precedes dawn).
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There are many of them, who stop going to mosques and attend their order's celebrations and festivities. Such an attitude of theirs is only a result of their taking Allah, His Ayat, and His Messenger lightly, and gratifying Shirk. Such practice is common among the grave worshippers today. *[Majmoo al-Fatawa 15:39]*.
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*Derision is of two kinds:*

_*▫️, explicit derision*_ which is described in the above-mentioned verse with regard to those hypocrites who said: _"We haven't seen more greedier, nor more lying nor more cowardly in the battle filed than our scholars._ Or saying something to that effect. Such as, _'Your deed (Islam) is a filth religion, or your faith is stupid_,' or saying when such people see those who enjoin the good and forbid the wrong: _'Here comes to you the people of faith.'_ There are so many examples of this kind of derision made by the hypocrites to whom Allah refers in the above verse.
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_*▫️, hidden or insinuative derision,*_ which is considered as a sea without a coast. It includes winking by the eye, sticking the tongue out, or hinting by turning up lips, or any other facial expression connoting displeasure, or a hand sign while the Book of Allah is recited, or Sunnah of the Prophet (salallahu alaihe wa-sallam) is being quoted, or when enjoining the good and forbidding the wrong. *[Majmoo at-Tawheed an-Najdiyah, p.409]*.

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End of Today's Education. Subhanakallahuma wabihamdik ash-Hadu an llaaila Ilan Anta wastagfiruka wa atuuubu ilayhi.*We shall continue on this topic tomorrow in sha Allah*. May Allah Azza wajjala strengthen and make us steadfast in faith. May HE accept our ibaadat and grant us the Good in this World and the Hereafter. May Allah Azza wa jalla forgive and grant us Jannah...Aa MIN