Ali Ibn Abi Talib - Volume 2 of 2

'Ali ibn Abi Trilib 453
%Verily, whosoever sets up partners [in worship] with Allah, then
Allah has forbidden paradise to him, and the fue will be his abode.
And for the Q&?limoon [polytheists and wrongdoers] there are no
helpers.) (Qur'an 5: 72)
That is because AUah (k) created mankind to worship Him
and to affirm HIS Oneness, as He says: (And I [Allah] created not the
jinn and mankind except that they should worship Me [Alone].)
(Qur'an 51. 56)
also sent the Messengers and revealed the Books so
that He alone might be worshipped. Allah (B) says: (And verily, We
have sent among every Ummah [community, nation] a Messenger
[proclaiming]: 'Worship Allah [Alone], and avoid [or keep away
from] Trighoot [all false deities, i.e. do not worship Trighoot besides
Allah].') (Qur'an 16: 36)
He (s)
So exaggeration is contrary to the true concept of
Just as Allah (g) warned against exaggeration in all forms, the
Prophet (g) also warned against it so as to protect tawheed, or belief
in the Oneness of Allah, and to block all means that lead to the
undermining of tawheed because exaggeration leads to polytheism,
and it never spreads in a nation without causing its doom. The
Prophet (g) warned his Ummah against this disease: "0 people,
beware of exaggeration in religious matters, for those who came
before you were doomed because of exaggeration in religious
matters."668 It was narrated from Ibn 'Abbh (&) that he heard
'Umar (&) say on the minbar: "I heard the Prophet (g) say: 'Do not
praise me as the Christians praised the son of Maryam. I am no more
than a slave, so say "the slave of Allah and His ~essenger"."'~~~
The Prophet (g) warned his Ummah against exaggerating and
overstepping the mark in praising him as the Christians did with
regard to 'Eesa (,=). He (g) instructed that he should be described
as a slave as Allah described him: (Glorified be He [Allah] Who took