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  • Crux Of Shirk

    Posted by A Hasan on January 3, 2021 at 8:00 am

    The same way the crux of ibadah is khuzu and tazalul (if someone could give an accurate English translation for both words that would be appreciated), what is the crux of shirk?

    Is it the rebellious attitude, or is it the arrogance, or is it the attribution of a lie unto God? Because 7:33 mentions shirk separately and saying unto God what you have no knowledge for separately.

    I ask because if it’s arrogance then things like narcissism would fall under shirk

    $ohail T@hir replied 3 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 9 Replies
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  • Crux Of Shirk

  • $ohail T@hir

    Moderator January 3, 2021 at 12:13 pm

    attribution of a lie

    • A Hasan

      Contributor January 3, 2021 at 12:18 pm

      7:33 mentions shirk separately and saying unto God what you have no knowledge for separately.

    • $ohail T@hir

      Moderator January 3, 2021 at 12:22 pm
    • A Hasan

      Contributor January 3, 2021 at 12:24 pm

      4) Shirk – Associating partner(s) with Allah.

      Polytheism, praying to a human being, a deceased person or any other creation of Allah etc. would come under this category.

      5) Wa an taqulu a’lallahi ma la ta’lamoon – To say about Allah of which we have no knowledge.

      Bid’ah (innovation in religion) , declaring halaal as haraam and haraam as halaal without any evidence etc. would come under this category.

      This makes it seem as though Shirk is inherently haraam because of the attribution of a partner- I get that this is a lie. Why is the fifth point restrained to simply bidah? Surely the fourth point is under the umbrella of the fifth point

    • $ohail T@hir

      Moderator January 3, 2021 at 12:29 pm

      5th point is not restrained to Bid’ah, its just “one” exmple that belongs to 5th point

    • A Hasan

      Contributor January 3, 2021 at 12:34 pm

      So the 4th point comes under the 5th point right? is it just because shirk was more prevalent in those times?

    • $ohail T@hir

      Moderator January 3, 2021 at 12:38 pm

      It does but it has been explicitly called out.

    • A Hasan

      Contributor January 3, 2021 at 12:42 pm

      is it because most cultures usually fall into this specific attribution of a lie?

    • $ohail T@hir

      Moderator January 3, 2021 at 3:06 pm

      that might be one reason, you are right

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