How is it Muslims do not find "shirk" in Koranic statements such as, "WE created man from sounding clay"?
I was reading of how certain Muslims (not all of them), consider Christians to be guilty of "shirk", that is, associationing something other than God with God, and giving this thing other than God the veneration in prayer and worship and doctrine, that belongs with God alone. Aside from the question of which side is right in Iraq, some of the Muslims fighting the US troops there, consider themselves to be cleansing their land of "shirk".
Having found many passages in the Koran wherein when God's actions are discussed by the being speaking with Muhammad, there are statements such as, "Verily, all things have We created in proportion and measure...We send not the angels down except for just cause: if they came (to the ungodly), behold! no respite would they have!... We created man from sounding clay...We created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, but for just ends", I wonder how it is that that the Koran is not found to be guilty of "shirk", by the Muslims who condemn "shirk" in religions other than Islam. When the Bible of the Christians discusses God's actions, it discusses them in the form of quoting God, "I the Lord did...", or reporting what God did, "God did this, God did that". In such instances the Bible of the Christians paints God in the singular. But when the Koran talks of God's actions, it is the being sent to Muhammad saying things like "we did this" and "we did that" in discussing God's actions. Yet the Muslims accuse the Christians of "shirk".
SHIRK WHAT IT IS
We are battling the cross worshipers in Anbar and elsewhere to defend the deen of Allah and wipe out Shirk and Mushrikeen, be it from the Zionists, cross worshipers, or apostate Iraqi guards.
-- http://www.jihadunspun.net/intheatre_internal.php?article=102030&list=/home.php&
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Shirk - Setting up partners in worship with Allah, swt.
Hadith - Qudsi 5
I am so self-sufficient that I am in no need of having an associate. Thus he who does an action for someone else's sake as well as Mine will have that action renounced by Me to him whom he associated with Me. Shirk is Unforgivable 4:48 Verily, Allâh forgives not that partners should be set up with him in worship, but He forgives except that (anything else) to whom He pleases, and whoever sets up partners with Allâh in worship, he has indeed invented a tremendous sin.
-- http://muttaqun.com/shirk.html
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Al-Baiyyinah
Major Shirk (Shirk that removes a person from the religion of Islaam).
We have already established that Shirk is the greatest of all sins and that those who die upon this way are destined to enter the Hell fire because they have directed worship to other than Allaah when only Allaah has created them and even what they worship. Allaah said: “Verily, whosoever sets up partners in worship with Allah, then Allah has forbidden Paradise for him, and the Fire will be his abode. And for the Zalimun (polytheists and wrongdoers) there are no helpers.” (5:72).
Now this type of Shirk is the Major Shirk i.e. that takes a person out of the religion of Islaam and it is divided into the following categories:
(1) Associating partners with Allah in calling: this is calling upon other than Allaah in a matter which only Allaah is capable of bringing about or preventing. As He is the only one who can bring about the good things in this life and the hereafter and prevent evil things befalling a person in this life and the hereafter. Now the main concept we have to look at is capability of the creature. For example if a person is ill and goes to the pharmacy and purchases medicine to cure that sickness this is not associating a partner with Allaah, because is it upon the Muslim to do two things:
What falls into Shirk then? The answer is quite simple. When a person calls on other than Allaah to bring about or prevent a matter in which only Allaah has the capability of bringing about or preventing and this type of Shirk mainly occurs with the dead rather than living objects although less than often it would occur with living creatures. For example there are many that worship the trees, animals and living humans like Sai Baba. But we must realise that all the things whether human, animal or inanimate will die and have an end i.e. these things or creatures will return to Allaah. There are also people who worship the stars, planets, sun and moon. ... Ibn Qayyim al Jawee said: “As for Shirk in intention, this is an ocean that has no end to it and only a small amount of people are saved from it. Whoever wants by every single one of his actions other than getting closer to Allaah and intends by it not becoming closer to him has made partnership in his intention. As for the one who in some of his actions does not intend the face of Allaah or that his action has some of this type of Shirk then he isn’t out of the Religion of Islaam.
(3) Shirk in following. Allaah said in at-Tawbah 31:
But if the person knows the shaykh or scholar has changed the religion and follows him but does not believe that he is correct then he is a sinner.[1] Love for Allaah. This is not enough to save someone from the punishment of Allaah and to bring one amongst those who get his favours, for verily the idol worshippers, the cross worshippers and the Jews and other than them love Allaah.
[[4] Love with Allaah.
This is the type of love that brings one into Shirk, and whoever loves something with Allaah, not for Allaah, has taken a creature other than Allaah as worship (of course this is in the case of worship, e.g. what the Christians do in loving Jesus with Allaah and not because Allaah has ordered us to love him and this led to their going astray).
Mini Case Study on Shirk: Hinduism
One of the foundations of Hinduism is that Almighty God can manifest himself into many different forms (such as cows, elephants or monkeys) because as they claim he is all powerful and all mighty and therefore capable of this transformation. Hence they will say that their worship is not idol worship, but worship of Almighty God manifest in these creatures and images. And this notion is refuted in many ways:
(1) God Almighty is the all powerful and all mighty and these creatures that you worship are not all powerful and all mighty. These creatures themselves have to nourish themselves by what Allaah has provided for them and as explained earlier Allaah is their provider who possesses all power and strength and he is not the one being provided for.
(2) We as human beings also must not describe a thing except as how it has described itself. If we do opposite to this we will be liars. For example if it is that I described Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin as charitable and upstanding men of good character one would say that I am a liar. Yet many have chosen to speak about God and describe him with other than which he had described himself.
-- http://www.jihadonline.bravepages.com/b6.htm
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EXAMPLES OF THINGS IN ISLAMIC THAT SEEM SIMILAR TO WHAT ISLAM CALLS "SHIRK":
Surah 54. The Moon
1. The Hour (of Judgment) is nigh, and the moon is cleft asunder...
15. And We have left this as a Sign (for all time): then is there any that will receive admonition?
16. But how (terrible) was My Penalty and My Warning?
17. And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition?
18. The 'Ad (people) (too) rejected (Truth): then how terrible was My Penalty and My Warning?
19. For We sent against them a furious wind, on a Day of violent Disaster,
20. Plucking out men as if they were roots of palm-trees torn up (from the ground).
21. Yea, how (terrible) was My Penalty and My Warning!
22. But We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition?
31. For We sent against them a single Mighty Blast, and they became like the dry stubble used by one who pens cattle.
32. And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition?
33. The people of Lut rejected (his) warning.
34. We sent against them a violent Tornado with showers of stones, (which destroyed them), except Lut's household: them We delivered by early Dawn,-
40. And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition?
49. Verily, all things have We created in proportion and measure.
-- http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/rel/islam/Quran/54.html
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Surah 15. Al-hijr,
1. A. L. R. These are the Ayats of Revelation,- of a Qur'an that makes things clear.
2. Again and again will those who disbelieve, wish that they had bowed (to Allah.s will) in Islam...
4. Never did We destroy a population that had not a term decreed and assigned beforehand.
8. We send not the angels down except for just cause: if they came (to the ungodly), behold! no respite would they have!
9. We have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and We will assuredly guard it (from corruption).
10. We did send apostles before thee amongst the religious sects of old:
12. Even so do we let it creep into the hearts of the sinners -
14. Even if We opened out to them a gate from heaven, and they were to continue (all day) ascending therein,
15. They would only say: "Our eyes have been intoxicated: Nay, we have been bewitched by sorcery."
16. It is We Who have set out the zodiacal signs in the heavens, and made them fair-seeming to (all) beholders;
17. And (moreover) We have guarded them from every evil spirit accursed:
18. But any that gains a hearing by stealth, is pursued by a flaming fire, bright (to see).
19. And the earth We have spread out (like a carpet); set thereon mountains firm and immovable; and produced therein all kinds of things in due balance.
20. And We have provided therein means of subsistence,- for you and for those for whose sustenance ye are not responsible.
21. And there is not a thing but its (sources and) treasures (inexhaustible) are with Us; but We only send down thereof in due and ascertainable measures.
22. And We send the fecundating winds, then cause the rain to descend from the sky, therewith providing you with water (in abundance), though ye are not the guardians of its stores.
23. And verily, it is We Who give life, and Who give death: it is We Who remain inheritors (after all else passes away).
26. We created man from sounding clay, from mud moulded into shape;
27. And the Jinn race, We had created before, from the fire of a scorching wind.
47. And We shall remove from their hearts any lurking sense of injury: (they will be) brothers (joyfully) facing each other on thrones (of dignity).
52. When they entered his presence and said, "Peace!" He said, "We feel afraid of you!"
53. They said: "Fear not! We give thee glad tidings of a son endowed with wisdom."
55. They said: "We give thee glad tidings in truth: be not then in despair!"
58. They said: "We have been sent to a people (deep) in sin,
59. "Excepting the adherents of Lut: them we are certainly (charged) to save (from harm),- All -
60. "Except his wife, who, We have ascertained, will be among those who will lag behind."
63. They said: "Yea, we have come to thee to accomplish that of which they doubt.
64. "We have brought to thee that which is inevitably due, and assuredly we tell the truth.
66. And We made known this decree to him, that the last remnants of those (sinners) should be cut off by the morning.
70. They said: "Did we not forbid thee (to speak) for all and sundry?"
74. And We turned (the cities) upside down, and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay.
79. So We exacted retribution from them. They were both on an open highway, plain to see.
81. We sent them Our Sings, but they persisted in turning away from them.
85. We created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, but for just ends. And the Hour is surely coming (when this will be manifest). So overlook (any human faults) with gracious forgiveness.
87. And We have bestowed upon thee the Seven Oft-repeated (verses) and the Grand Qur'an.
88. Strain not thine eyes. (Wistfully) at what We have bestowed on certain classes of them, nor grieve over them: but lower thy wing (in gentleness) to the believers.
90. (Of just such wrath) as We sent down on those who divided (Scripture into arbitrary parts),-
92. Therefore, by the Lord, We will, of a surety, call them to account,
95. For sufficient are We unto thee against those who scoff,-
97. We do indeed know how thy heart is distressed at what they say.
-- http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/rel/islam/Quran/15.html
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"The Smoke"
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
"44.1": Ha Mim!...
"44.3": Surely We revealed it on a blessed night surely We are ever warning --
"44.28": Thus (it was), and We gave them as a heritage to another people.
"44.30": And certainly We delivered the children of Israel from the abasing chastisement,
"44.32": And certainly We chose them, having knowledge, above the nations.
"44.33": And We gave them of the communications wherein was clear blessing.
"44.35": There is naught but our first death and we shall not be raised again.
"44.37": Are they better or the people of Tubba and those before them? We destroyed them, for surely they were guilty.
"44.38": And We did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them in sport.
"44.39": We did not create them both but with the truth, but most of them do not know.
"44.54": Thus (shall it be), and We will wed them with Houris pure, beautiful ones.
"44.58": So have We made it easy in your tongue that they may be mindful.
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=HolKora.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=44&division=div1
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SURAH 51 DRIVERS OF THE WINDS
[51:0] In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful...
[51:32] They said, "We have been dispatched to criminal people.
[51:33] "We will shower them with rocks of clay.
[51:35] We then delivered all the believers.
[51:36] We did not find in it except one house of submitters.
[51:37] We set it up as a lesson for those who fear the painful retribution.
[51:38] In Moses (there is a lesson). We sent him to Pharaoh with manifest proofs.
[51:40] Consequently, we punished him and his troops. We threw them into the sea, and he is the one to blame.
[51:47] We constructed the sky with our hands, and we will continue to expand it.
[51:48] And we made the earth habitable; a perfect design.
[51:49] We created a pair (male and female) of everything, that you may take heed.
-- http://www.submission.org/suras/sura51.html
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SURAH
[50:4] We are fully aware of anyone of them who gets consumed by the earth; we have an accurate record.
[50:6] Have they not looked at the sky above them, and how we constructed it and adorned it, without a flaw?
[50:7] And we created the earth, and scattered on it mountains, and grew in it all kinds of beautiful plants.
[50:9] And we sent from the sky blessed water, to grow with it gardens and grains to be harvested.
[50:11] Provisions for the people. And we revive with it dead lands; you are similarly resurrected.
[50:15] Were we too burdened by the first creation? Is this why they doubt resurrection?
[50:16] We created the human, and we know what he whispers to himself. We are closer to him than his jugular vein.
[50:22] You used to be oblivious to this. We now remove your veil; today, your vision is (as strong as) steel.
[50:30] That is the day when we ask Hell, "Have you had enough?" It will say, "Give me more."
[50:35] They get anything they wish therein, and we have even more.
[50:36] Many a generation before them, who were more powerful, we annihilated. They searched the land; did they find an escape?
[50:38] We have created the heavens and the earth, and everything between them in six days, and no fatigue touched us.
[50:43] We are the ones who control life and death; to us is the final destiny.
[50:45] We are fully aware of everything they utter, while you have no power over them. Therefore, remind with this Quran, those who reverence My warnings.
-- http://www.submission.org/suras/sura50.html
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surah 23 SURAT AL-MUMINUN
1. Successful indeed are the believers...
12. And indeed We created man (Adam) out of an extract of clay (water and earth).
13. Thereafter We made him (the offspring of Adam) as a Nutfah (mixed drops of the male and female sexual discharge) (and lodged it) in a safe lodging (womb of the woman).
14. Then We made the Nutfah into a clot (a piece of thick coagulated blood), then We made the clot into a little lump of flesh, then We made out of that little lump of flesh bones, then We clothed the bones with flesh, and then We brought it forth as another creation. So blessed be Allâh, the Best of creators.[]
17. And indeed We have created above you seven heavens (one over the other), and We are never unaware of the creation.
18. And We sent down from the sky water (rain) in (due) measure, and We gave it lodging in the earth, and verily, We are Able to take it away.
19. Then We brought forth for you therewith gardens of date-palms and grapes, wherein is much fruit for you, and whereof you eat.
21. And Verily! In the cattle there is indeed a lesson for you. We give you to drink (milk) of that which is in their bellies. And there are, in them, numerous (other) benefits for you, and of them you eat.
23. And indeed We sent Nûh (Noah) to his people, and he said: "O my people! Worship Allâh! You have no other Ilâh (God) but Him (Islâmic Monotheism). Will you not then be afraid (of Him i.e. of His Punishment because of worshipping others besides Him)?"
24. But the chiefs of those who disbelieved among his people said: "He is no more than a human being like you, he seeks to make himself superior to you. Had Allâh willed, He surely could have sent down angels; never did we hear such a thing among our fathers of old.
27. So We inspired him (saying): "Construct the ship under Our Eyes and under Our Revelation (guidance). Then, when Our Command comes, and the oven gushes forth water, take on board of each kind two (male and female), and your family, except those thereof against whom the Word has already gone forth. And address Me not in favour of those who have done wrong. Verily, they are to be drowned.
30. Verily, in this [what We did as regards drowning of the people of Nûh (Noah)], there are indeed Ayât (proofs, evidences, lessons, signs, etc. for men to understand), for sure We are ever putting (men) to the test.
31. Then, after them, We created another generation.
32. And We sent to them a Messenger from among themselves (saying): "Worship Allâh! You have no other Ilâh (God) but Him. Will you not then be afraid (of Him i.e. of His Punishment because of worshipping others besides Him)?"
37. "There is nothing but our life of this world! We die and we live! And we are not going to be resurrected!
38. "He is only a man who has invented a lie against Allâh, but we are not going to believe in him."
41. So As-Saîhah (torment - awful cry, etc.) overtook them with justice, and We made them as rubbish of dead plants. So away with the people who are Zâlimûn (polytheists, wrong-doers, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allâh, disobedient to His Messengers, etc.).
42. Then, after them, We created other generations.
44. Then We sent Our Messengers in succession, every time there came to a nation their Messenger, they denied him, so We made them follow one another (to destruction), and We made them as Ahadîth (the true stories for mankind to learn a lesson from them). So away with a people who believe not.
45. Then We sent Mûsa (Moses) and his brother Hârûn (Aaron), with Our Ayât (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) and manifest authority,
47. They said: "Shall we believe in two men like ourselves, and their people are obedient to us with humility (and we use them to serve us as we like)."
49. And indeed We gave Mûsa (Moses) the Scripture, that they may be guided.
50. And We made the son of Maryam (Mary) and his mother as a sign, And We gave them refuge on high ground, a place of rest, security and flowing streams.
55. Do they think that We enlarge them in wealth and children,
56. We hasten unto them with good things (in this worldly life so that they will have no share of good things in the Hereafter)? Nay, but they perceive not.
62. And We tax not any person except according to his capacity, and with Us is a Record which speaks the truth, and they will not be wronged.
64. Until, when We grasp those of them who lead a luxurious life with punishment, behold! They make humble invocation with a loud voice.
71. And if the truth had been in accordance with their desires, verily, the heavens and the earth, and whosoever is therein would have been corrupted! Nay, We have brought them their reminder, but they turn away from their reminder.
75. And though We had mercy on them and removed the distress which is on them, still they would obstinately persist in their transgression, wandering blindly.
76. And indeed We seized them with punishment, but they humbled not themselves to their Lord, nor did they invoke (Allâh) with submission to Him.
77. Until, when We open for them the gate of severe punishment, then lo! They will be plunged into destruction with deep regrets, sorrows and in despair.
82. They said: "When we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we be resurrected indeed?
83. "Verily, this we have been promised, we and our fathers before (us)! This is only the tales of the ancients!"
90. Nay, but We have brought them the truth (Islâmic Monotheism), and verily, they (disbelievers) are liars.
95. And indeed We are Able to show you (O Muhammad SAW) that with which We have threatened them.
96. Repel evil with that which is better. We are Best-Acquainted with the things they utter.
106. They will say: "Our Lord! Our wretchedness overcame us, and we were (an) erring people.
107. "Our Lord! Bring us out of this; if ever we return (to evil), then indeed we shall be Zâlimûn: (polytheists, oppressors, unjust, and wrong-doers, etc.)."
109. Verily! There was a party of My slaves, who used to say: "Our Lord! We believe, so forgive us, and have mercy on us, for You are the Best of all who show mercy!"
113. They will say: "We stayed a day or part of a day. Ask of those who keep account."
115. "Did you think that We had created you in play (without any purpose), and that you would not be brought back to Us?"
-- http://www.ummah.net/what-is-islam/quran/noble/nobe023.htm
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Having found many passages in the Koran wherein when God's actions are discussed by the being speaking with Muhammad, there are statements such as, "Verily, all things have We created in proportion and measure...We send not the angels down except for just cause: if they came (to the ungodly), behold! no respite would they have!... We created man from sounding clay...We created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, but for just ends", I wonder how it is that that the Koran is not found to be guilty of "shirk", by the Muslims who condemn "shirk" in religions other than Islam. When the Bible of the Christians discusses God's actions, it discusses them in the form of quoting God, "I the Lord did...", or reporting what God did, "God did this, God did that". In such instances the Bible of the Christians paints God in the singular. But when the Koran talks of God's actions, it is the being sent to Muhammad saying things like "we did this" and "we did that" in discussing God's actions. Yet the Muslims accuse the Christians of "shirk".
SHIRK WHAT IT IS
We are battling the cross worshipers in Anbar and elsewhere to defend the deen of Allah and wipe out Shirk and Mushrikeen, be it from the Zionists, cross worshipers, or apostate Iraqi guards.
-- http://www.jihadunspun.net/intheatre_internal.php?article=102030&list=/home.php&
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Shirk - Setting up partners in worship with Allah, swt.
Hadith - Qudsi 5
I am so self-sufficient that I am in no need of having an associate. Thus he who does an action for someone else's sake as well as Mine will have that action renounced by Me to him whom he associated with Me. Shirk is Unforgivable 4:48 Verily, Allâh forgives not that partners should be set up with him in worship, but He forgives except that (anything else) to whom He pleases, and whoever sets up partners with Allâh in worship, he has indeed invented a tremendous sin.
-- http://muttaqun.com/shirk.html
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Al-Baiyyinah
Major Shirk (Shirk that removes a person from the religion of Islaam).
We have already established that Shirk is the greatest of all sins and that those who die upon this way are destined to enter the Hell fire because they have directed worship to other than Allaah when only Allaah has created them and even what they worship. Allaah said: “Verily, whosoever sets up partners in worship with Allah, then Allah has forbidden Paradise for him, and the Fire will be his abode. And for the Zalimun (polytheists and wrongdoers) there are no helpers.” (5:72).
Now this type of Shirk is the Major Shirk i.e. that takes a person out of the religion of Islaam and it is divided into the following categories:
(1) Associating partners with Allah in calling: this is calling upon other than Allaah in a matter which only Allaah is capable of bringing about or preventing. As He is the only one who can bring about the good things in this life and the hereafter and prevent evil things befalling a person in this life and the hereafter. Now the main concept we have to look at is capability of the creature. For example if a person is ill and goes to the pharmacy and purchases medicine to cure that sickness this is not associating a partner with Allaah, because is it upon the Muslim to do two things:
What falls into Shirk then? The answer is quite simple. When a person calls on other than Allaah to bring about or prevent a matter in which only Allaah has the capability of bringing about or preventing and this type of Shirk mainly occurs with the dead rather than living objects although less than often it would occur with living creatures. For example there are many that worship the trees, animals and living humans like Sai Baba. But we must realise that all the things whether human, animal or inanimate will die and have an end i.e. these things or creatures will return to Allaah. There are also people who worship the stars, planets, sun and moon. ... Ibn Qayyim al Jawee said: “As for Shirk in intention, this is an ocean that has no end to it and only a small amount of people are saved from it. Whoever wants by every single one of his actions other than getting closer to Allaah and intends by it not becoming closer to him has made partnership in his intention. As for the one who in some of his actions does not intend the face of Allaah or that his action has some of this type of Shirk then he isn’t out of the Religion of Islaam.
(3) Shirk in following. Allaah said in at-Tawbah 31:
But if the person knows the shaykh or scholar has changed the religion and follows him but does not believe that he is correct then he is a sinner.[1] Love for Allaah. This is not enough to save someone from the punishment of Allaah and to bring one amongst those who get his favours, for verily the idol worshippers, the cross worshippers and the Jews and other than them love Allaah.
[[4] Love with Allaah.
This is the type of love that brings one into Shirk, and whoever loves something with Allaah, not for Allaah, has taken a creature other than Allaah as worship (of course this is in the case of worship, e.g. what the Christians do in loving Jesus with Allaah and not because Allaah has ordered us to love him and this led to their going astray).
Mini Case Study on Shirk: Hinduism
One of the foundations of Hinduism is that Almighty God can manifest himself into many different forms (such as cows, elephants or monkeys) because as they claim he is all powerful and all mighty and therefore capable of this transformation. Hence they will say that their worship is not idol worship, but worship of Almighty God manifest in these creatures and images. And this notion is refuted in many ways:
(1) God Almighty is the all powerful and all mighty and these creatures that you worship are not all powerful and all mighty. These creatures themselves have to nourish themselves by what Allaah has provided for them and as explained earlier Allaah is their provider who possesses all power and strength and he is not the one being provided for.
(2) We as human beings also must not describe a thing except as how it has described itself. If we do opposite to this we will be liars. For example if it is that I described Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin as charitable and upstanding men of good character one would say that I am a liar. Yet many have chosen to speak about God and describe him with other than which he had described himself.
-- http://www.jihadonline.bravepages.com/b6.htm
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EXAMPLES OF THINGS IN ISLAMIC THAT SEEM SIMILAR TO WHAT ISLAM CALLS "SHIRK":
Surah 54. The Moon
1. The Hour (of Judgment) is nigh, and the moon is cleft asunder...
15. And We have left this as a Sign (for all time): then is there any that will receive admonition?
16. But how (terrible) was My Penalty and My Warning?
17. And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition?
18. The 'Ad (people) (too) rejected (Truth): then how terrible was My Penalty and My Warning?
19. For We sent against them a furious wind, on a Day of violent Disaster,
20. Plucking out men as if they were roots of palm-trees torn up (from the ground).
21. Yea, how (terrible) was My Penalty and My Warning!
22. But We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition?
31. For We sent against them a single Mighty Blast, and they became like the dry stubble used by one who pens cattle.
32. And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition?
33. The people of Lut rejected (his) warning.
34. We sent against them a violent Tornado with showers of stones, (which destroyed them), except Lut's household: them We delivered by early Dawn,-
40. And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition?
49. Verily, all things have We created in proportion and measure.
-- http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/rel/islam/Quran/54.html
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Surah 15. Al-hijr,
1. A. L. R. These are the Ayats of Revelation,- of a Qur'an that makes things clear.
2. Again and again will those who disbelieve, wish that they had bowed (to Allah.s will) in Islam...
4. Never did We destroy a population that had not a term decreed and assigned beforehand.
8. We send not the angels down except for just cause: if they came (to the ungodly), behold! no respite would they have!
9. We have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and We will assuredly guard it (from corruption).
10. We did send apostles before thee amongst the religious sects of old:
12. Even so do we let it creep into the hearts of the sinners -
14. Even if We opened out to them a gate from heaven, and they were to continue (all day) ascending therein,
15. They would only say: "Our eyes have been intoxicated: Nay, we have been bewitched by sorcery."
16. It is We Who have set out the zodiacal signs in the heavens, and made them fair-seeming to (all) beholders;
17. And (moreover) We have guarded them from every evil spirit accursed:
18. But any that gains a hearing by stealth, is pursued by a flaming fire, bright (to see).
19. And the earth We have spread out (like a carpet); set thereon mountains firm and immovable; and produced therein all kinds of things in due balance.
20. And We have provided therein means of subsistence,- for you and for those for whose sustenance ye are not responsible.
21. And there is not a thing but its (sources and) treasures (inexhaustible) are with Us; but We only send down thereof in due and ascertainable measures.
22. And We send the fecundating winds, then cause the rain to descend from the sky, therewith providing you with water (in abundance), though ye are not the guardians of its stores.
23. And verily, it is We Who give life, and Who give death: it is We Who remain inheritors (after all else passes away).
26. We created man from sounding clay, from mud moulded into shape;
27. And the Jinn race, We had created before, from the fire of a scorching wind.
47. And We shall remove from their hearts any lurking sense of injury: (they will be) brothers (joyfully) facing each other on thrones (of dignity).
52. When they entered his presence and said, "Peace!" He said, "We feel afraid of you!"
53. They said: "Fear not! We give thee glad tidings of a son endowed with wisdom."
55. They said: "We give thee glad tidings in truth: be not then in despair!"
58. They said: "We have been sent to a people (deep) in sin,
59. "Excepting the adherents of Lut: them we are certainly (charged) to save (from harm),- All -
60. "Except his wife, who, We have ascertained, will be among those who will lag behind."
63. They said: "Yea, we have come to thee to accomplish that of which they doubt.
64. "We have brought to thee that which is inevitably due, and assuredly we tell the truth.
66. And We made known this decree to him, that the last remnants of those (sinners) should be cut off by the morning.
70. They said: "Did we not forbid thee (to speak) for all and sundry?"
74. And We turned (the cities) upside down, and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay.
79. So We exacted retribution from them. They were both on an open highway, plain to see.
81. We sent them Our Sings, but they persisted in turning away from them.
85. We created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, but for just ends. And the Hour is surely coming (when this will be manifest). So overlook (any human faults) with gracious forgiveness.
87. And We have bestowed upon thee the Seven Oft-repeated (verses) and the Grand Qur'an.
88. Strain not thine eyes. (Wistfully) at what We have bestowed on certain classes of them, nor grieve over them: but lower thy wing (in gentleness) to the believers.
90. (Of just such wrath) as We sent down on those who divided (Scripture into arbitrary parts),-
92. Therefore, by the Lord, We will, of a surety, call them to account,
95. For sufficient are We unto thee against those who scoff,-
97. We do indeed know how thy heart is distressed at what they say.
-- http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/rel/islam/Quran/15.html
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"The Smoke"
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
"44.1": Ha Mim!...
"44.3": Surely We revealed it on a blessed night surely We are ever warning --
"44.28": Thus (it was), and We gave them as a heritage to another people.
"44.30": And certainly We delivered the children of Israel from the abasing chastisement,
"44.32": And certainly We chose them, having knowledge, above the nations.
"44.33": And We gave them of the communications wherein was clear blessing.
"44.35": There is naught but our first death and we shall not be raised again.
"44.37": Are they better or the people of Tubba and those before them? We destroyed them, for surely they were guilty.
"44.38": And We did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them in sport.
"44.39": We did not create them both but with the truth, but most of them do not know.
"44.54": Thus (shall it be), and We will wed them with Houris pure, beautiful ones.
"44.58": So have We made it easy in your tongue that they may be mindful.
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=HolKora.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=44&division=div1
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SURAH 51 DRIVERS OF THE WINDS
[51:0] In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful...
[51:32] They said, "We have been dispatched to criminal people.
[51:33] "We will shower them with rocks of clay.
[51:35] We then delivered all the believers.
[51:36] We did not find in it except one house of submitters.
[51:37] We set it up as a lesson for those who fear the painful retribution.
[51:38] In Moses (there is a lesson). We sent him to Pharaoh with manifest proofs.
[51:40] Consequently, we punished him and his troops. We threw them into the sea, and he is the one to blame.
[51:47] We constructed the sky with our hands, and we will continue to expand it.
[51:48] And we made the earth habitable; a perfect design.
[51:49] We created a pair (male and female) of everything, that you may take heed.
-- http://www.submission.org/suras/sura51.html
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SURAH
[50:4] We are fully aware of anyone of them who gets consumed by the earth; we have an accurate record.
[50:6] Have they not looked at the sky above them, and how we constructed it and adorned it, without a flaw?
[50:7] And we created the earth, and scattered on it mountains, and grew in it all kinds of beautiful plants.
[50:9] And we sent from the sky blessed water, to grow with it gardens and grains to be harvested.
[50:11] Provisions for the people. And we revive with it dead lands; you are similarly resurrected.
[50:15] Were we too burdened by the first creation? Is this why they doubt resurrection?
[50:16] We created the human, and we know what he whispers to himself. We are closer to him than his jugular vein.
[50:22] You used to be oblivious to this. We now remove your veil; today, your vision is (as strong as) steel.
[50:30] That is the day when we ask Hell, "Have you had enough?" It will say, "Give me more."
[50:35] They get anything they wish therein, and we have even more.
[50:36] Many a generation before them, who were more powerful, we annihilated. They searched the land; did they find an escape?
[50:38] We have created the heavens and the earth, and everything between them in six days, and no fatigue touched us.
[50:43] We are the ones who control life and death; to us is the final destiny.
[50:45] We are fully aware of everything they utter, while you have no power over them. Therefore, remind with this Quran, those who reverence My warnings.
-- http://www.submission.org/suras/sura50.html
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surah 23 SURAT AL-MUMINUN
1. Successful indeed are the believers...
12. And indeed We created man (Adam) out of an extract of clay (water and earth).
13. Thereafter We made him (the offspring of Adam) as a Nutfah (mixed drops of the male and female sexual discharge) (and lodged it) in a safe lodging (womb of the woman).
14. Then We made the Nutfah into a clot (a piece of thick coagulated blood), then We made the clot into a little lump of flesh, then We made out of that little lump of flesh bones, then We clothed the bones with flesh, and then We brought it forth as another creation. So blessed be Allâh, the Best of creators.[]
17. And indeed We have created above you seven heavens (one over the other), and We are never unaware of the creation.
18. And We sent down from the sky water (rain) in (due) measure, and We gave it lodging in the earth, and verily, We are Able to take it away.
19. Then We brought forth for you therewith gardens of date-palms and grapes, wherein is much fruit for you, and whereof you eat.
21. And Verily! In the cattle there is indeed a lesson for you. We give you to drink (milk) of that which is in their bellies. And there are, in them, numerous (other) benefits for you, and of them you eat.
23. And indeed We sent Nûh (Noah) to his people, and he said: "O my people! Worship Allâh! You have no other Ilâh (God) but Him (Islâmic Monotheism). Will you not then be afraid (of Him i.e. of His Punishment because of worshipping others besides Him)?"
24. But the chiefs of those who disbelieved among his people said: "He is no more than a human being like you, he seeks to make himself superior to you. Had Allâh willed, He surely could have sent down angels; never did we hear such a thing among our fathers of old.
27. So We inspired him (saying): "Construct the ship under Our Eyes and under Our Revelation (guidance). Then, when Our Command comes, and the oven gushes forth water, take on board of each kind two (male and female), and your family, except those thereof against whom the Word has already gone forth. And address Me not in favour of those who have done wrong. Verily, they are to be drowned.
30. Verily, in this [what We did as regards drowning of the people of Nûh (Noah)], there are indeed Ayât (proofs, evidences, lessons, signs, etc. for men to understand), for sure We are ever putting (men) to the test.
31. Then, after them, We created another generation.
32. And We sent to them a Messenger from among themselves (saying): "Worship Allâh! You have no other Ilâh (God) but Him. Will you not then be afraid (of Him i.e. of His Punishment because of worshipping others besides Him)?"
37. "There is nothing but our life of this world! We die and we live! And we are not going to be resurrected!
38. "He is only a man who has invented a lie against Allâh, but we are not going to believe in him."
41. So As-Saîhah (torment - awful cry, etc.) overtook them with justice, and We made them as rubbish of dead plants. So away with the people who are Zâlimûn (polytheists, wrong-doers, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allâh, disobedient to His Messengers, etc.).
42. Then, after them, We created other generations.
44. Then We sent Our Messengers in succession, every time there came to a nation their Messenger, they denied him, so We made them follow one another (to destruction), and We made them as Ahadîth (the true stories for mankind to learn a lesson from them). So away with a people who believe not.
45. Then We sent Mûsa (Moses) and his brother Hârûn (Aaron), with Our Ayât (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) and manifest authority,
47. They said: "Shall we believe in two men like ourselves, and their people are obedient to us with humility (and we use them to serve us as we like)."
49. And indeed We gave Mûsa (Moses) the Scripture, that they may be guided.
50. And We made the son of Maryam (Mary) and his mother as a sign, And We gave them refuge on high ground, a place of rest, security and flowing streams.
55. Do they think that We enlarge them in wealth and children,
56. We hasten unto them with good things (in this worldly life so that they will have no share of good things in the Hereafter)? Nay, but they perceive not.
62. And We tax not any person except according to his capacity, and with Us is a Record which speaks the truth, and they will not be wronged.
64. Until, when We grasp those of them who lead a luxurious life with punishment, behold! They make humble invocation with a loud voice.
71. And if the truth had been in accordance with their desires, verily, the heavens and the earth, and whosoever is therein would have been corrupted! Nay, We have brought them their reminder, but they turn away from their reminder.
75. And though We had mercy on them and removed the distress which is on them, still they would obstinately persist in their transgression, wandering blindly.
76. And indeed We seized them with punishment, but they humbled not themselves to their Lord, nor did they invoke (Allâh) with submission to Him.
77. Until, when We open for them the gate of severe punishment, then lo! They will be plunged into destruction with deep regrets, sorrows and in despair.
82. They said: "When we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we be resurrected indeed?
83. "Verily, this we have been promised, we and our fathers before (us)! This is only the tales of the ancients!"
90. Nay, but We have brought them the truth (Islâmic Monotheism), and verily, they (disbelievers) are liars.
95. And indeed We are Able to show you (O Muhammad SAW) that with which We have threatened them.
96. Repel evil with that which is better. We are Best-Acquainted with the things they utter.
106. They will say: "Our Lord! Our wretchedness overcame us, and we were (an) erring people.
107. "Our Lord! Bring us out of this; if ever we return (to evil), then indeed we shall be Zâlimûn: (polytheists, oppressors, unjust, and wrong-doers, etc.)."
109. Verily! There was a party of My slaves, who used to say: "Our Lord! We believe, so forgive us, and have mercy on us, for You are the Best of all who show mercy!"
113. They will say: "We stayed a day or part of a day. Ask of those who keep account."
115. "Did you think that We had created you in play (without any purpose), and that you would not be brought back to Us?"
-- http://www.ummah.net/what-is-islam/quran/noble/nobe023.htm
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