What is shirk?: Associating partners with (GOD)

in #wafrica6 years ago

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Shirk is a serious and unpardonable sin to anybody who intentionally commits it.

Qur'an chapter 4 verse 48 says : Allah forgive not that a partner should ascribed unto Him. But He forgives anything else to whom He pleases who so acribes partners to Allah, has indeed invented a tremendous sin.

Shirk means "ascribing partners to Allah" that is, giving to something or someone the love, respect and obedience that is due to god alone or believing that someone is equal to Allah or surpass Him in any of his attributes, works or essence.

who is a mushrik?

A mushrik is he who practices shirk i.e associates partners with Allah.

Forms of shrik?

Shirk takes many forms. Some forms of shirk are obvious such as Idol-worship, while other forms are hidden.

  1. Idol-worship
    This is the worship of man made objects like masquerades pieces of wood of un usual shape iron or worship of natural objects like natural rocks (i.e olumo rock in Abeokuta- Nigeria), mountains (Oke Ibadan- Nigeria), rivers (Osun Oshogbo-Nigeria), trees, sun and stars.

  2. Worship of human beings.
    i. The typical example of worshipping human are:
    Ancestor worship and hero worship. People worship their dead ancestor with the behalf that they live on and come back to oversee their activities. Example of this are the people that make sacrifices for the spirit of ancestors in shrine or graves and the people that perform funeral ceremonies in an excessive manner or seeking helps with spirit of dead ancestors.

ii. Heroworship
This worship also takes many forms. Examples of Heroworship are the belief of some people that the ancient kings or great men. In the past are gods (e.g Sango, Obatala and It's in Nigeria and the Pharaohs of Egypt. The erection of images and statues of the past Heros and great men at the important places in some countries is also shirk.

May Allah Rahmon continue to leads us to the right path... Ameen
@cisse56

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