Tag: shirk

How do define shirk?

Al-Hujweri said worship is shirk because worship demands duality which is (polytheism) because it establishes multiplicity of being.”

“Worship demands duality and duality is separation. It is when duality vanishes, that oneness with the Divine Beloved is achieved” Hadhrat Rabbani in “The Kashful Mahjub”

Ahmed Hulusi-Thoughts on the matter.

“MOST SURELY POLYTHEISM IS A GRIEVOUS OPPRESSION (SIN)!” (31:13)

Why is it a “SIN,” an “OPPRESSION” (zulm)? Who is
“OPPRESSED?”

It is “oppression on your self,” a sin “against your own true self !”

Having been quite veiled of your own truth, your own essence, your original being, you worship a DIETY off in the heights somewhere, out there beyond yourself, and as such you fall into a polytheism against “ALLAH” by ascribing a partner to HU. Eventually, that polytheism leaves you deprived of countless qualities all available within the reality of your own self! Here, this is the greatest oppression you ever bring on your self, on your own self!

In point of fact, the ever ultimate oppression on yourself is to remain deprived of the reality of your own SELF”.

The rule that “he who does not know himself cannot know his Lord (Rabb)” results from the statement that “He who knows himself knows his Lord.”