Library Ethics Greater Sins Chapter 3 First Greater Sin: Shirk (Polytheism) Hidden Shirk in the Praise of the Creature
Hidden Shirk in the Praise of the Creature
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Hidden Shirk in the Praise of the Creature
“And most of them do not believe in Allah without associating others (with Him).”
(Surah YÅ«suf 12:106)
While explaining this verse, Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (a.s.) informed that one form of Shirk is,
“Like the saying of someone that if so and so had not been there I would have been destroyed. If so and so had not been there I would have got that thing. In the same way is to say that if so and so had not been there my children would have perished.”
(BihÄr al-AnwÄr)
Such utterances signify the type of belief the speaker possesses. If he really has such a belief then he is surely a polytheists (mushrik). After this Imam (a.s.) said,
“If one says, ‘If Allah had not helped me through such and such person I would have perished,’ there is no harm in it.” In fact this is the essence of Tawhid.
