Erasing the Accusation of Shirk

we have to believe the hadith first to even accept that the Qur’an is the word
of Allah.
PROSTRATION AND HADITH
In the Qur’an, Allah Almighty commanded the angels to prostrate
themselves before Adam for respect. Elsewhere, Sayyidina Yaqub (peace
be upon him), his wife and his sons prostrated before Sayyidina Yusuf
(peace be upon him), as Allah Almighty says in the Qur’an:
002.034 And when We said unto the angels: Prostrate yourselves before
Adam, they fell prostrate, all save Iblis. He demurred through pride, and so
became a disbeliever.
012.100 And he placed his parents on the dais and they fell down before
him prostrate, and he said: O my father! This is the interpretation of my
dream of old. My Lord hath made it true, and He hath shown me kindness,
since He took me out of the prison and hath brought you from the desert
after Iblis had made strife between me and my brethren. Lo! my Lord is
tender unto whom He will. He is the Knower, the Wise.
From these verses we learn that the angels prostrated to Sayyidina Adam
(peace be upon him) and Sayyidina Yaqub (peace be upon him) and his
family prostrated to Sayyidina Yusuf (peace be upon him). According to
the above verses, to prostrate yourself infront of someone is permissible:
there is no verse in the entire Qur’an which forbids us to prostrate before
others as a sign of respect. However, in the hadith, the blessed Prophet (may
Allah bless him and grant him peace) made it unlawful to prostrate
yourselves before someone as a sign of respect. This means that those who
do not believe in hadith should find it lawful to prostrate themselves before
others! Unless they chose to believe and accept hadith, though this will mean
that you will have to accept all hadith!
One Clarification
The reason the prostrations in the verses that I have just recited were allowed
were because they were done as a sign of respect and not worship.
Prostration in the form of worship can only be to Allah Almighty alone, and
previous nations have never prostrated to anyone with the intention of
worship.
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