WHAT IS QURANIC DEFINITION OF SHIRK?

[Mughal1]

Re: WHAT IS QURANIC DEFINITION OF SHIRK?

@psyah

Salams Mughal1

Ok my point should be clearer with the following narrative: Although you are sharing with us your path towards an understanding the premise you have given us is quite difficult to achieve. For example shirk fizzat or shirk fissifat or shirk fiamaal are three terms, new ones that you have introduced. We have been trying to find the term “shirk” in the Qur’an. These subdivisions sound like something that scholars would do to classify the types of shirk not something that can be found in the Qur’an. All of a sudden we are being given three separate terms instead of the one. Now it is your obligation to show in the Qur’an where each of these three exist and furthermore to show in the Qur’an that some types of shirk are acceptable. Additionally you need to show that Abdul Wahab introduced the redefining of tawheed and shirk.

I am not a follower of Abdul Wahab because of the agreement that was made with the Al-Sauds causing a secularisation of Deen in the region. However every claim against him may not always be warranted either.

Coming back to the Qur’an, we can see that Christians and Jews are collectively called “People of the Book” together with some other groups. Are we saying according to your definition that Jews do not commit an unforgivable form of shirk but the Christian do? If so the term Mushrikeen has not been used for Christians … why?

There is a problem that we need to overcome … Do we worship Allah (SWT) because He is the Only One who deserves worship since ALL His Qualities are Unique to Him? Or do we worship Him because He is Deity and nothing else is supposed to be worshipped regardless of the Attributes? How would we identify Allah (SWT) in other nations who have another Name for Him? Somewhere we need to see the critical importance of the Asma WasSifaat as being the “MEANS” to understand how we should “feel” and “regard” Allah (SWT).

Also there is Riya’ as mentioned in hadith, this will need to be clarified in what you have stated. This is a huge discussion actually and people of Athari, Asha’ri and Maturidi aqaid all have different slants on this, but each of them is considered acceptable. Some hardliners of any of these positions do not agree with me. Is there a resolution to this … perhaps but first each and every one needs to be willing to listen to one another.

wa alaikum salaam dear psyah and thank you for replying.

You are absolutely right the quran does not mention such things but the quran is right in telling us the whole thing in just two short surah already mentioned.

The quran calls some jews and christians kufaar but not mushrik. It is because they rejected truth after believing it.

The quran defines only and only shirk fizzaat by saying there is none like un to him=allah. Word KUFU stands for classification or category ie allah belongs to category or kind of god. Just like humans belong to human kind and cats to cat kind.

There is no need to mention shirk fissifaat because allah is ever lasting and ever powerful ie all his sifaat are ever lasting not haadath=accidental like creation.

So people who believe in oneness of allah ie that allah is the only one of his kind, they become free of any kind of shirk. In other word it is not possible for a muslim to be mushrik as well, as a matter of rule ie oppsite are impossible to occur ie the while one is a muslim he cannot be a mushrik too.

regards and all the best.