Questions tagged [shirk]
Shirk means association or joining. The word is referring to association with Allah/God someone or something as a god with Him.
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What is shirk in Islam?
What is the definition of shirk?
Is it a sin? If yes, what kind of sin is it?
What are the types of shirk?
Can you give me some examples?
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Who stays in Hell forever per Islam?
Allah (ﷻ) said only "Shirk" is unforgivable. If only Shirk is unforgivable, does that by default mean that any non-Muslim who doesn't commit Shirk can be forgiven and enter Jannah (Paradise)? Not all ...
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How does praying towards Kaabah not amount to Shirk?
Assalamu alaikum. I am following Islam and very proud to be Muslim. I have few question to clarify my doubts.
Islam is against of idol worship and all the activities in Islam is different than the ...
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Will allah forgive a muslim who used to pretend that he's allah?
So this question popped up on my mind,since shirk is the greatest sin of all what about the muslim who are pretending tobe allah,will allah forgive the muslim if the muslim did sincere repentance?
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How did Ibn Abd al-Wahhab derive the third nullification of Islam: "whoever does not make takfir to the mushrikin ... he has disbelieved"?
I'm interested in this quote from ibn Abd al-Wahhab (who is described as the founder of Wahhabism on Wikipedia):
... the Third Nullification from the nullifications of Islām which the Shaykh ...
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How do I repent from swearing by something other than Allah, without knowing it amounts to shirk? [duplicate]
Three weeks ago, I first heard about the sin of shirk. I read about it, and I found that swearing by anything other than Allah is shirk. I sometimes used to swear by my mother.
Can Allah forgive me ...
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Can Muslims make statues for non worship purpose?
Can Muslims make statues of living things for non worship purpose .
E.g: to beautify a place
Are Muslims allowed to do this or is it completely prohibited?
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Can the Jews and Atheists be forgiven, since Allah might forgive any sins other than Shirk (4:48)?
Indeed, Allah does not forgive associating others with Him ˹in
worship˺, but forgives anything else of whoever He wills. And whoever
associates others with Allah has indeed committed a grave sin.4:48
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Did i commit shirk?
I was on Youtube recently and a video came on my homepage. the title was "what does your husband look like later" i clicked on it and i had to choose a card. And then she started to tell things. but I ...
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Lately found out eating pork [duplicate]
Asalamu alaik Jamah! My name is Abdul Rauf from Ghana. Please my Muslim friend ate pork without his notice and don't know how to do and don't know if Allah will accept his prayers again. Please ...
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Is committing acts of shirk without truly believing in it still shirk?
You commit shirk if you believe that someone other than Allah has power. Or if you just say it but not believe it.
For e.g.: If a person has always believed in tauheed and knows that Allah has ...
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Is it blasphemy to question Islam?
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I'm Muslim, I've always been curious with a lot of imaginations, questions about everything (religions, music, mathematics..etc) even if I'm not as smart as 90% of people I know, they are AWAY ...
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Is it possible that Hinduism was founded by a Prophet of Allah but has been changed into polytheism?
According to Dr Zakir Naik, Allah is mentioned in Hindu scriptures:
"Allah" in Rigveda Book 2 Hymn I verse II
Even in the Rigveda which is the most sacred scripture of the Hindus, one of the ...
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As an outsider, I don't fully understand the notion of idolatry and the extent of its prohibition in various religions, but I do understand and respect that it is an important concept in, for instance,...
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What is grave worship? and what is considered so?
I've heard that going to graveyards and performing worship in front of the deads is forbidden, and is called "grave worship". Is that true?
What is grave worship? what actions and situations are ...
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Is it haram to marry a Christian woman even if she is chaste?
Allah says in the Qu'ran:
الزَّانِي لَا يَنكِحُ إِلَّا زَانِيَةً أَوْ مُشْرِكَةً وَالزَّانِيَةُ لَا يَنكِحُهَا إِلَّا زَانٍ أَوْ مُشْرِكٌ ۚ وَحُرِّمَ ذَٰلِكَ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
The fornicator ...
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In what way do people equate the scholars and monks to Allah according to the verse 9:31?
They have taken their scholars and monks as lords besides Allah , and [also] the Messiah, the son of Mary. And they were not commanded except to worship one God; there is no deity except Him. Exalted ...
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What will be the fate of a nonpracticing Mushrik or a practicing Ahle-Kitab in the next life?
If a nonpracticing Mushrik or a practicing Ahle-Kitab or a nonpracticing Muslim lives an honest life, doesn't do any harm to anybody with his actions and with his words and engages his entire life ...
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Is playing video games such as Skyrim shirk? [duplicate]
I used to play a game called Skyrim. It was a really good game and I recommended it to all my friends.
But in the game, there is magic as well as polytheism, as there are many gods eg: if you get a ...
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I'm too scared to pray salah because of my doubts
I always believed that Allah is one. I never thought that I would start doubting the oneness of Allah.
Recently, I started having these sort of thoughts (auzubillah): What if Isa was part of god ...
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Is it haram if someone calls me a god?
There's a game I like to play and once you reach a certain point in the game you get called a 'god', I want to know if its haram or not because its not me who's saying it but its still me who chose to ...
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is it encouraged to break the idol statues of polytheists even if they are not enemies with Muslims?
Its well known that the prophet Muhammad PBUH emptied the Ka’bah of its idols and stabbed them,
The Prophet entered Mecca and there were 360 idols around the Kaba. He started stabbing the idols with ...
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How can I repent for thinking of praying like my non-Muslim friends, which I later learned could be considered shirk?
When I was at age of 18-19, even though I could read the Quran at that time (Arabic), perform salah and fasted the full month on Ramadhan, I didn't know what "shirk" is, didn't heard of this word ...
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Is bowing in martial arts forbidden?
I, before converting to Islam used to take part in weekly Tae Kwon do classes. These kept me fit, taught be discipline as well as focus. I would be interested in taking up another martial art, but I'm ...
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Doing black magic but you did not know shirk was a sin
When I was around in middle school I did black magic but I never heard of the sin shirk or black magic when I heard the news I asked Allah for forgiveness and I sincerely promised not to do it again ...
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I, a 14-year-old, prayed to Jesus as God. Can this act of Shirk be forgiven?
At age 14, I thought that Shirk was simply believing in more than one God. I then thought foolishly that Christianity might be true, and so I prayed to Jesus Christ (PBUH) as God. I feel sick to my ...
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Can polytheists pay jizya?
In this Hadith prophet is allowing the polytheists the option of Jizyah:
...When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action... Invite them to (accept) Islam.... ...
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Does writing fiction with world history based around Allah amount to shirk?
My question is: I have written an online book, and realised that for the setting of that world (wrote it in a different world medieval setting), I had the world history based around Allah, but ...
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Can we say "this person saved my life"?
Is it allowed to say that "this person saved my life"?
And also "If it was not for him I would have been dead"?
Also "We won the match because of him"?
Are these statements contradicting to Tawhid ...
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Will Allah (S.W.T) forgive me for this sin?
I committed shirk and then after sometime I asked repentance from Allah (S.W.T). So will Allah (S.W.T) forgive me
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Do Islamic pre-modern scholars think the trinity is polytheism or not?
So my question is, is it right for a sunni to deem of christians who believe in the trinity as polytheists?
what scholars agree with this? is there a consensus?
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Can I possibly be forgiven for doing this?
Guys im really worried so a while ago I talked to an anonymous person on the internet and they may have committed shirk because of something I said but I only really thought about it now. I heard that ...
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Is it shirk for a Muslim to celebrate Valentine's Day?
Is it shirk for a Muslim to celebrate Valentine's Day, according to the Sunna?
Wikipedia writes:
Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is an annual ...
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I am proud to be a muslim but i said jesus christ is it shirk. Can it be forgiven?
I am thinking a lot and i cry at times because i think Allah will punish me. I think a lot about these things but i cannot control. Please tell me what to do.
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Is this an act of shirk?
I am a muslim and I have utterd an statement unintenionally which represent shirk but i had no believe in it neither i was doing this as an act of worship.so can it be regarded as shirk or not?
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Worried I committed shirk?
I was fascinated by jinns and wanted to them to do me small favors and speak with them and have them follow me around n I asked my friend how it was possible but he didnt know. I have never actually ...
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Is this a shirk
Is saying Jesus Christ in a sentence shirk? Example. Saying “Jesus Christ is not my lord.” Because I said the following sentence stated above and now I fear I might’ve committed shirk as only ...
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What do I do will allah forgive me? And is this Kufr
Assalamu Alaikum
I am 15 year old boy who has found the path and guidance of Allah SWT, The exalted, most gracious, most merciful. I have been trying my best to stay away from anything considered ...
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Will Allah forgive me if i repent
I want to know that is a person asks for forgiveness from All sins major or minor even from shirk if he repents then can he be forgiven if the person commits even the bigest sin of all but seeks ...
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Is saying "landlord" shirk?
We usually say landlord for the owner of a house or a particular property. My question is whether calling the owner of the house landlord is shirk?
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