Split: Religion vis a vis Shrine/Buildings/graves

[ajazali]

Re: Split: Religion vis a vis Shrine/Buildings/graves

@psyah

My Shaykh is of the opinion that doing sajood is haram and a mortal sin to anyone other than Allah (SWT), but it is not shirk, unless we can ascertain the intention and motivation of the act from the one doing it. He says, that it was the opinion of Ibn Taymiyyah (RA) and Ibn Jawzi (RA) that any act of sujood to other than Allah (SWT) constitutes shirk, but the majority of the ulema reject this stating that they were mistaken, because there utilise a rule in Shari’ah and that is - that what was allowed to previous ummahs cannot be considered shirk - because Allah (SWT) would never allow shirk … it can be made haram or something that was previously haram can be made halal … but not shirk. Shirk is directly linked to the intent of the act - i.e. the outer form is not enough to determine shirk.

So shirk cannot be incurred unless shirk doer has a clear intention of doing shirk in his/her mind?