Re: Split: Religion vis a vis Shrine/Buildings/graves
Not realising one is doing shirk does not contradict my statement … please think carefully about what I have said … It is possible for a person to be doing shirk without the intent of shirk (out of ignorance) … it is not however possible for a person to be doing shirk when their intent is not worship or appointing Attributes of Allah (SWT) on other than Allah (SWT) - in other words when the intent of the act is respect.
Either way … whether shirk is being done out of ignorance or shirk is not being done - the outer form alone is not enough to deem (for the onlooker) the person to be a mushrik - unless they acquire that information. Even for the person who is doing shirk unknowingly he must be taught against it, allowed to change, before deeming him one who has chosen shirk.