Split: Religion vis a vis Shrine/Buildings/graves

[ajazali]

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

@psyah

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.

Your statement is shirk is the act with intent of worship and appointing the Attributes of Allah (SWT) on other than Allah (SWT).
A person not realising doing shirk implies shirk can be done without intent.

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.

Labeling someone as mushrik or polytheist is separate subject. Talking in context of hadith which mentions the existence of that type of shirk.