(Worksheet) The Types Of Shirk

By Ash-Shaikh Zaid Bin Muhammad Al-Makhalee

Author: Ash-Shaikh Zaid Bin Muhammad Al-Makhalee

Source: الأجوبة السديدة على الأسئلة الرشيدة

Q: What is Shirk, how many categories does it have, and what is the ruling of the one who dies associating partners with Allâh the Most High?

A: Shirk is the worship of other than Allâh or other than Him with Him  from a person, tree, stone, the sun, the moon, living or dead, or other than that from the creation which was preceded by non-existence and approached by annihilation and destruction, those whom do not possess for themselves nor their worshipers harm nor benefit, life nor death, nor resurrection.

Shirk is of two types:

1: Major Shirk:  This is to direct anything of worship to other than Allâh, and the performer of this type of shirk is eternally in the hellfire if he dies upon it, as Allâh the Mighty and Sublime has said:  

إِنَّ اللّهَ لاَ يَغْفِرُ أَن يُشْرَكَ بِهِ وَيَغْفِرُ مَا دُونَ ذَلِكَ لِمَن يَشَاء

 وَمَن يُشْرِكْ بِاللّهِ فَقَدِ افْتَرَى إِثْمًا عَظِيمًا

“Verily, Allâh forgives not that partners should be set up with Him (in worship), but He forgives except that (everything else) to whom He wills; and whoever sets up partners with Allâh in worship, he has indeed invented a tremendous sin.” [An-Nisa: 48]

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