09/11/2022
PART 2
Continuing from Muhammad qasim dreams about shirk
AS in Surah Al-An'am in the Qur'an is
very instructive and encouraging. Quran says:We also showed Ibraheem (AS), the wonders of the heavens
and the earth, so he would be sure in faith. When the night
grew dark upon him, he saw a star and said, “This is my
Lord!” But when it set, he said, “I do not love things that set.”
Then when he saw the moon rising, he said, “This one is my
Lord!” But when it disappeared, he said, “If my Lord does not
guide me, I will certainly be one of the misguided people.”
Then when he saw the sun shining, he said, “This must be my
Lord, it is the greatest!” But again when it set, he declared,
“O my people! I totally reject whatever you associate ˹with
Allah in worship˺. I have turned my face towards the One
Who has originated the heavens and the earth being upright
and I am not one of the polytheists.” (Surah Al-An'am, 6:75-
79)
How Did Shirk Begin?
Images can be a form of Shirk (Polytheism). Because the first
people to enter polytheism were through the same pictures
and statues, Allaah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says in the Qur'an:
"And they said, 'Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd
or Suwāʿ or Yaghūth and Yaʿūq and Nasr.'" (Surah Nuh, verse
23)
Ibn 'Abbas RA explained this verse in his Tafsir (explaination
of Quranic verses) that these are the names of some
righteous people of Nuh (AS)'s time. And when they died,
Satan inspired their people to place images at the places
where they used to sit. And to call those images by their
names. The people did so, but those images were not
worshiped till those people (who initiated them) had died and the origin of the images had become obscure,
whereupon people began worshiping them. (Saheeh Bukhari,
4920)