{"id":7172,"date":"2020-06-11T19:33:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T00:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/?p=7172"},"modified":"2020-06-28T21:02:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T02:02:05","slug":"the-origins-of-shirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/en\/the-origins-of-shirk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origins of Shirk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author: Shaykh Muhammad Nasir-ud-Deen al-Albani<\/em><\/p>\n

From that which has been established in the Sharee\u2019ah (prescribed law) is that mankind was \u2013 in the beginning \u2013 a single nation upn true Tawheed, then Shirk (directing any part or form of worship, or anything else that is solely the right of Allaah, to other than Allaah) gradually overcame them. The basis for this is the saying of Allaah \u2013 the Most Blessed, the Most High:
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\nTransliteration: Kana alnnasu ommatan wahidatan fabaAAatha Allahu alnnabiyyeena mubashshireena wamunthireena<\/p>\n

Ibn \u2018Abbaas \u2013 radiallaahu \u2018anhu \u2013 said: \u201cBetween Nooh (Noah) and Adam were ten generations, all of them were upon Sharee\u2019ah (law) of the truth, then they differed. So Allaah sent prophets as bringers of good news and as warners.\u201d [2]<\/p>\n

Ibn \u2018Urwah al-Hanbalee (d.837 H) said: \u201cThis saying refutes those historians from the People of the Book who claim that Qaabil (Cain) and his sons were fire-worshippers.\u201d [3]
\nI say: In it is also a refutation of some of the philosophers and athists who claim that the (natural) basis of man is Shirk, and that Tawheed evolved in man! The preceeding aayah (verse) falsifies this claim, as do the two following authentic hadith:<\/p>\n

Firstly: His (the prophet sallallaahu \u2018alayhi wa sallam) saying that he related from his Lord (Allaah) : \u00abI created all my servants upon the true Religion (upon Tawheed, free from Shirk). Then the devils came to them and led them astray from their true Religion. They made unlawful to people that which I had made lawful for them, and they commanded them to associate in worship with Me, that which I had sent down no authority.\u00bb [Related by Muslim (8\/159) and Ahmad (4\/162) from ‘Iyaadh ibn Himaar al-Mujaashi’ee radiallaahu ‘anhu] \u00ab\u0625\u0646\u064a \u062e\u0644\u0642\u062a \u0639\u0628\u0627\u062f\u064a \u0643\u0644\u0647\u0645 \u062d\u0646\u0641\u0627\u0621 \u0648\u0625\u0646\u0647\u0645 \u0623\u062a\u062a\u0647\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u064a\u0627\u0637\u064a\u0646 \u0641\u0627\u062c\u062a\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0647\u0645 \u0639\u0646 \u062f\u064a\u0646\u0647\u0645 \u0648\u062d\u0631\u0645\u062a \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647\u0645 \u0645\u0627 \u0623\u062d\u0644\u0644\u062a \u0644\u0647\u0645 \u0648\u0623\u0645\u0631\u062a\u0647\u0645 \u0623\u0646 \u064a\u0634\u0631\u0643\u0648\u0627 \u0628\u064a \u0645\u0627 \u0644\u0645 \u0623\u0646\u0632\u0644 \u0628\u0647 \u0633\u0644\u0637\u0627\u0646\u0627\u00bb \u0631\u0648\u0627\u0647 \u0645\u0633\u0644\u0645<\/p>\n

Secondly: His (the prophet sallallaahu \u2018alayhi wa sallam) saying: \u00abEvery child is born upon the Fitrah [4] but his parents make him a jew or a christian or a magian. It is like the way an animal gives birth to a natural offspring. have you noticed any born mutilated, before you mutilate them.<\/p>\n

Abu Hurayrah said: \u00abRecite if you wish: \u201cAllaah\u2019s fitrah with which He created mankind. There is to be no change to the creation (Religion) of Allaah.\u201d<\/p>\n

[Ar-Rum 30 :30]\u00bb [Related by Al-Bukhaaree (11\/418) and Muslim (18\/52)]<\/p>\n

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After this clear explanation, it is of the upmost importance for the Muslim to know how Shirk spread amongst the believers, after they were muwahhideen (people upon Tawheed). Concerning the saying of Allaah \u2013 the most perfect \u2013 about the people of Nooh:
\n\u201cAnd they have said : You shall not forsake your gods, nor shall you forsake Wadd, nor Suwaa\u2019, nor Yaghooth, nor Ya\u2019ooq, nor Nasr.\u201d<\/p>\n

[Nooh 71: 23] {\u0648\u064e\u0642\u064e\u0627\u0644\u064f\u0648\u0627 \u0644\u064e\u0627 \u062a\u064e\u0630\u064e\u0631\u064f\u0646\u0651\u064e \u0622\u0644\u0650\u0647\u064e\u062a\u064e\u0643\u064f\u0645\u0652 \u0648\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0627 \u062a\u064e\u0630\u064e\u0631\u064f\u0646\u0651\u064e \u0648\u064e\u062f\u0651\u064b\u0627 \u0648\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0627 \u0633\u064f\u0648\u064e\u0627\u0639\u064b\u0627 \u0648\u064e\u0644\u064e\u0627 \u064a\u064e\u063a\u064f\u0648\u062b\u064e \u0648\u064e\u064a\u064e\u0639\u064f\u0648\u0642\u064e \u0648\u064e\u0646\u064e\u0633\u0652\u0631\u064b\u0627 }\u0646\u0648\u062d 23<\/p>\n

Transliteration: Waqaloo la tatharunna alihatakum wala tatharunna waddan wala suwaAAan wala yaghootha wayaAAooqa wanasran<\/p>\n

It has been related by a group from the Salaf (Pious Predecessors), in many narrations, that these five deities were righteous worshippers. However, when they died, Shaytaan (Satan) whispered into their people to retreat and sit at their graves. Then Shaytaan whispered to those who came after them that they should take them as idols, beautifying to them the idea that you will be reminded of them and thereby follow them in righteous conduct. Then Shaytaan suggested to the third generation that they should worship these idols besides Allaah \u2013 the most high \u2013 and he whispered to them that this is what their forefathers used to do!!!<\/p>\n

So Allaah sent to them Nooh alayhis-salaam, commanding them to worship Allaah alone. However none responded to hiscall except a few. Allaah \u2013 the mighty and majestic \u2013 related this whole incident in Soorah Nooh Ibn \u2018Abbas relates: \u00abIndeed these five names of righteous men from the people of Nooh. When they died Shataan whispered to their people to make statues of them and to place these statues in their places of gathering as a reminder of them, so they did this. However, none from amongst them worshipped these statues, until when they died and the purpose of the statues was forgotten. Then (the next generation) began to worship them.\u00bb<\/p>\n

[Related by al-Bukhaaree (8\/534)]<\/p>\n

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The likes of this has also been related by Ibn Jareer at-Tabaree and others, from a number of the salaf (Pious Predecessors) \u2013 radiallaahu \u2018anhum. In ad-Durral-Manthoor (6\/269): \u2018Abdullaah ibn Humaid relates from Abu Muttahar, who said: Yazeed ibn al-Muhallab was mentioned to Abu Ja\u2019far al-Baaqir (d.11H), so he said: He was killed at the place where another besides Allaah was first worshipped. Then he mentioned Wadd and said: \u201cWadd was a Muslim man who was loved by his people.<\/p>\n

When he died, the people began to gather around his grave in the land of Baabil (Babel), lamenting and mourning. So when Iblees (Satan) saw them mourning and lamenting over him, he took the form of a man and came to them, saying : I see that you are mourning and lamenting over him. So why don\u2019t you make a picture of him (i.e. a statue) and place it in your places of gatherings so that you maybe reminded of him. So they said: Yes, and they made a picture of him and put in their place of gathering; which reminded them of him. When Iblees saw how they were (excessively) remembering him, he said : \u201cWhy doesn\u2019t every man amongst you make a similar picture to keep in your own houses, so that you can be (constantly) reminded of him.\u201d So they all said \u201cyes\u201d. So each household made a picture of him, which they adored and venerated and which constantly reminded them of him. Abu Ja\u2019far said: \u201cThose from the later generation saw what the (pevious generation) had done and considered that\u2026\u2026..to the extent that they took him as an ilah (diety) to be worshipped besides Allaah. He then said : \u00abThis was the first idol worshipped other than Allaah, and they called this idol Wadd\u00bb [5]<\/p>\n

Thus the wisdom of Allaah \u2013 the Blessed, the Most High \u2013 was fufilled, when he sent Muhammed sallallaahu \u2018alayhi wa sallam as the final prophet and made his Sharee\u2019ah the completion of all divinely Prescribed Laws, in that He prohibited all means and avenues by which people may fall into Shirk \u2013 which is the greatest of sins. For this reason, building shrines over graves and intending to specifically travel to them, taking them as places of festivity and gathering and swearing an oath by the inmate of a grave; have all been prohibited. All of these lead to excessiveness and lead to the worship of other than Allaah \u2013 the Most High.<\/p>\n

This being the case even more so in an age in which knowledge is diminishing, ignorance is increasing, thre are few sincere advisors ( to the truth) and shaytaan is co-operating with men and jinn to misguide mankind and to take them away from the worship of Allaah alone \u2013 the Blessed, the Most High.<\/p>\n

FOOTNOTES:
\n1. Tahdheerus-Saajid min Ittikhaadhil-Quboori Masaajid (pp.101-106)
\n2. Related by Ibn Jareer at-Tabaree in his tafseer (4\/275) and al-Haakim (2\/546) who said: \u201cIt is authentic according to the criterion of al-Bukhari.\u201d Adh-Dhahabee also agreed.
\n3. Al-Khawaakibud-Duraaree fee Tarteeb Musnadul-Imaam Ahmad\u2019alaa Abwaabil-Bukhaaree (6\/212\/1), still in manuscript form.
\n4. [From the Editors] Ibn-al-Atheer said in an-Nihaayah (3\/457): \u201cAl-Fitr: means to begin and create, and al-Fitrah is the condition resulting from it. The meaning is that mankind were born upona disposition and a nature which is ready to accept the true Religion. So if he were to be left upon this, then he would continue upon it. However, those who deviate from this do so due to following human weaknesses and blind following of others\u2026..\u201d Al-Haafidh Ibn Hajar said in Al-Fath (3\/248): \u201cThe people differ concerning what is meant by al-Fitrah and the most famous saying is that it means Islaam. Ibn \u2018abdul-Barr said: That is what was well known with most of the salaf (pious predecessors), and the scholars of tafseer are agreed that what is meant by the saying of Allaah \u2013 the Most High \u2013 \u201cAllaah\u2019s fitrah wiht which He created mankind.\u201d is Islaam
\n5. Related by Ibn Abee Haatim also, as is in al-Kawaakibud-Duraaree (6\/112\/2) of Ibn \u2018Urwah al-Hanbalee, along with an isnaad which is Hasan, up to Abu Muttahar. However, no biography could be found for him, neither in ad-Dawlaabee\u2019s al-Kunaa wal-Asmaa, nor Muslim\u2019s al-Kunaa, nor any one elses. And the hidden defect here is that he is from the Shee\u2019ah, but his biography is not included in at-Toosee\u2019s al-Kunaa \u2014 from the index of Shee\u2019ah narrators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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