Question 27: What is the meaning of the saying of Al-Hussein pbuh in the dua of Arafa (O Allah take me out from the humiliation of myself,and purify me from my doubt and my Shirk)? Answer: There are types of Shirk, from them are: 1 - The Apparent Shirk: And it also has divisions, from them are: The outright Shirk in the religious ideology such as worshipping idols and sculptures, and worshipping the deviant non-working clerics. And they are the idols which have tongues, as was mentioned in the Holy Quran, from the Messenger pbuhap and the Imams pbut in their reprimand of the Jews who obeyed their clerics on disobeying Allah, so by that they worshipped them. 2 - The Hidden Shirk: And it includes hypocrisy with all its divisions. And it does not include turning toward the creation for fulfilling a need without turning toward Allah swt, the One Who fulfills all needs (He Who gives to whoever asks Him and to whoever does not ask Him - Compassion and Mercy from Him) Rather this turning toward the creation without Allah swt is disbelief in Allah. And unfortunately this is the dominant situation among people. It [the hidden shirk] does include turning toward the people to fulfill needs along with turning toward Allah, and this is the Hidden Shirk, the Almighty said: ⸨And most of them believe not in Allah except while they are mushriks.⸩ And the truthful way is for the servant to turn towards Allah the Almighty for fulfilling all his needs, and to consider the servants as a mere method and machine in the Hand of Allah which He swt subjugates however He wishes and wherever He wishes to fulfill his need. Thus if he turns towards Allah it does not harm him to deal with the people. 3 - The Shirk of the Self: And it is the most hidden type of Shirk and it is (The “I”) which is inevitable for the created one, and it is tainted with darkness and nothingness, without which nothing remains except Allah swt. Hence every servant from the servants of Allah is a Mushrik by this meaning. And Imam Al-Hussain pbuh intended this meaning of Shirk and the doubt which accompanies it, and Imam al-Hussain (pbuh) was requesting the Clear Opening, and the removal of the defect of nothingness and darkness from the page of his existence, without which none remains except Allah the One the Conqueror swt. Thus it is as if Al-Hussain pbuh was saying, (“My Lord no one deserves existence except You, and my existence is a great guilt. There is no way to forgive it except by my cessation of being and by Your remaining. Exalted are You”). And this doubt and Shirk is by strength, not by action. This means that its origin exists, and not that it exists by action, meaning that the capability for performing [it] is existent however it was not fulfilled by action, which means that it does not exist on the exterior. So the human nature contains a black speck which is the defect of nothingness and darkness, and this black speck is the location of Satan’s snout [and] through it he whispers to the Son of Adam.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 19:45:58 +0000
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