Erasing the Accusation of Shirk
Erasing the Accusation of Shirk
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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