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Erasing the Accusation of Shirk

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words and actions. In <strong>the</strong> same way Allah has commanded <strong>the</strong> final<br />

Messenger (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) to say this in many<br />

places <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Qur’an.<br />

003.031 Say, (O Muhammad, to mankind): If ye love Allah, follow me; Allah<br />

will love you and forgive you your sins. Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.<br />

From this we can see that if one wishes to be a beloved <strong>of</strong> Allah, he should<br />

follow <strong>the</strong> Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace). Also, when<br />

<strong>the</strong> prophet says, ‘follow me,’ he is not referring to <strong>the</strong> Qur’an to be<br />

followed, but himself. If <strong>the</strong> Prophet ( may Allah bless him and grant him<br />

peace) was referring to <strong>the</strong> Qur’an <strong>the</strong>n he would have said, ‘follow what has<br />

been reveled unto me.’ Fur<strong>the</strong>rmore, we learn from this verse that it is<br />

permissible to call Muhammad (may Allah bless him and grant him peace)<br />

<strong>the</strong> beloved <strong>of</strong> Allah as he has said whoever follows me Allah will love him.<br />

This clearly means that Rasulullah ( may Allah bless him and grant him<br />

peace) is <strong>the</strong> beloved <strong>of</strong> Allah. Finally, if an average Muslim can be Allah’s<br />

beloved <strong>the</strong>n surely <strong>the</strong> Prophet can be Allah’s beloved. (Even though this<br />

point is not directly relevant to our topic, I thought it was important to<br />

mention it because once a khariji said to me that calling <strong>the</strong> Prophet Allah's<br />

beloved ‘habib’allah’ is shirk!)<br />

In <strong>the</strong> next verse that I shall recite to you, we are informed that <strong>the</strong><br />

hypocrites turned away from two things; one being <strong>the</strong> revelation <strong>of</strong> Allah<br />

and <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r was that <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong> Prophet Muhammad’s (m ay Allah be<br />

pleased with him) sayings and actions, as Allah Almighty says in <strong>the</strong><br />

Qur’an:<br />

004.061 And when it is said unto <strong>the</strong>m: Come unto that which Allah hath<br />

revealed and unto <strong>the</strong> messenger, thou seest <strong>the</strong> hypocrites turn from <strong>the</strong>e<br />

with aversion.<br />

From this verse we learn that <strong>the</strong> revelation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Qur’an and <strong>the</strong><br />

‘personality’ <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> blessed Prophet ( may Allah bless him and grant him<br />

peace) are two different things. This shows us that Allah Almighty not only<br />

wanted us to follow <strong>the</strong> Qur’an but also <strong>the</strong> ‘way’ <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Prophet (may Allah<br />

bless him and grant him peace) by means <strong>of</strong> obeying both his speech and<br />

actions. If Allah wanted us to simply follow <strong>the</strong> Qur’an, He, The Almighty<br />

would not have also mentioned to follow that which was also revealed to <strong>the</strong><br />

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