Part of Selected Miscellany
· Lesson 3 of 31
The Key to Happiness, in Sincerity of Worship, by Sheikh: Ali bin Saad Al-Ghamdi Al-Makki.
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Praise be to Allah in times of ease and adversity, Whose blessing has firmly rooted Tawhid within the innate nature of humanity.
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Whoever supplicates Allah in distress shall find aid, while whoever seeks of other than Him shall be forsaken and broken.
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What delusion has deceived those who supplicate the inhabitants of the graves, calling upon the dead in moments of hardship?
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For Allah has designated supplication in the clear, decisive Surahs as an act of worship, and likewise did the Truthful Prophet in the transmitted reports.
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Direct all worship solely to the Lord of the worlds, and refrain from directing any part of it to creation, which is pure polytheism.
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Indeed, the decisive verses and preserved hadiths corroborate one another regarding its abhorrence.
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Thus, whoever dies while associating partners with Allah in his deeds has suffered an irreparable fracture.
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For polytheism is never accepted by Allah from anyone, and shirk is an immense, unforgivable sin.
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Polytheism invalidates whatever good deeds once existed, and shirk is grave injustice, so be ever wary of it.
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It veils the soul from all the gardens of Allah, and from the intercession of him who is like the guiding star and shining moon.
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The polytheist tastes diverse shades of humiliation, entirely stripped of the garment of security and the robe of inner peace.
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O you who approach the dead in times of affliction: you have missed the pure fountain, so drink from the bitter dregs of distress!
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The dead cannot benefit those who call upon them even by the weight of a mustard seed, nor can they harm; how wretched is the one whose insight is blinded!
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If the matter of guidance were in the hands of the Guide himself, he would have guided Abu Talib to the truth and ultimate triumph.
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None of his Companions ever sought his aid after his passing whenever grave tribulations befell them.
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If divine control belonged to 'Ali, he surely would have repelled death and protected himself from his wicked killer.
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If divine control belonged to the righteous al-Husayn, he would not have tasted death at the hands of the tyrannical and vile.
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When you ask, ask the Lord of all servants, just as the most sincere advisor to mankind instructed you.
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Even the early polytheists, when affliction struck them at sea, did not associate partners with Allah, so take heed!
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Yet some who claim Islam, if they fall ill or are shaken by calamity, call upon the dead buried in their graves.
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How did such people fail to realize what even Abu Lahab understood of old through simple clear reason?
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O you who call upon servants just like yourselves, will you not call upon their Creator in both hardship and ease?
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O you who claim to take the dead as intermediaries, has Allah ever closed His door before the needy?
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For He is the Exalted, Ever-Near, and Responsive; and whoever associates others with Him, Allah is utterly free of him.
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Relying on intermediaries did not save your predecessors from the verdict of polytheism, as stated in the decisive Surahs.
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They fully acknowledged that Allah was their Lord, and they were not merely worshippers of inanimate stones;
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Rather, some of them worshipped prophets, yet the Chosen Prophet made no distinction between them in judgment and practice.
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Nor did their worship of their Creator avail them, for the purity of deeds is erased by the filth of shirk.
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O you who turn away to other than Allah's pure basin: your true share of purity lies solely in turning to Him and departing from all else.
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He is the Refuge of the poor and the rich alike, freeing them from shirk in times of ease and adversity.
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Fill my heart with sincere devotion, that I may thereby be among the most felicitous of men, finding my succor and ultimate victory.