[
In the Name of Allaah, the All-Merciful, may His Salaah
and Salaam be upon His final Messenger, and upon
all his family members and companions, and those who follow
his way, to proceed... ]
There
are those who say that tawheed is only one category
- tawheed ar-ruboobiyyah. It is to acknowledge that
Allaah is the Creator, the Provider, the Bringer of life and
death, etc. They only refer to the actions of Allaah and to
His Attributes. Upon this thought the scholars of philosophy
and the independent thinkers have built their 'aqeedah.
Their beliefs are found in their books, and if you were to
read them, you would surely find that they affirm tawheed
ar-ruboobiyyah only. So as far as they are concerned,
whoever proclaims awareness of that is someone of tawheed
to them. They have no understanding of tawheed al-uloohiyyah,
nor of tawheed al-asmaa' was-sifaat, so they do not
consider worshipping a grave or calling on the dead to be
shirk. They may only say, "This is making one's
intention for other than Allaah, and it is wrong,"
but they will not say it is shirk.
Some
of them say, "Verily these people that call on the
dead and seek help from those buried in graveyards are not
people of shirk because they do not believe that these dead
people or other objects of worship can actually create anything,
nor can they provide or control the affairs along with Allaah.
Since they have not believed that, they are not mushrikoon.
These actions are not considered shirk, they have only taken
these things as intercessors and intermediaries between them
and Allaah!!"
These
are their sayings, and they are identical to the sayings of
the polytheists of old, who said [1]:
(
We only worship them to get us closer to Allaah )
And
Allaah says about them [2]:
(
And they worship other than Allaah, things that neither harm
them nor benefit them, saying: "These are our intercessors
with Allaah" )
The
philosophers say, "Verily it is not shirk to worship
graves, nor to call on the dead or seek their their help.
It is merely tawassul (seeking a means to get close to
Allaah), seeking intercession, and making intermediaries
between us and Allaah. It is not shirk unless they believe
that these things create, provide, or control the affairs
along with Allaah!"
This
is stated specifically in their books and speeches. The few
philosophers who do show any dislike for people falling into
this merely say, "This is only a mistake, as these
people are ignorant and fell into this mistake due to their
ignorance, not intentionally."
However
the majority of them do not show any contempt for it, rather
they say, "This is making intermediaries and intercessors
with Allaah, it is not shirk."
I
am not attributing things to people that they have not actually
said. These statements are present in their books that refute
the people of tawheed and defend the people of shirk.
As
for Allaah's Names and Attributes, they believe that affirming
them would necessitate making Allaah like His Creation, so
they deny them. They, like the Jahmiyyah, Mu'tazilah,
Ash'arees, and the Maatureediyyah, negate tawheed
al-asmaa' was-sifaat, thinking to preserve Allaah's Glory
by not likening Him to His created things. So tawheed
with them is limited to tawheed ar-ruboobiyyah only,
as they have no understanding of tawheed al-uloohiyyah,
nor any understanding of tawheed al-asmaa' was-sifaat.
They
despise those who divide tawheed into three categories,
so much so that one of their modern day writers wrote, "Dividing
tawheed into three categories is something from the Trinity!"
Their shamelessness reached this point, that they called this
division an imitation of the Christians, and with Allaah is
the Refuge!
This
article was taken from BAKKAHnet (www.bakkah.net)
