Desiring World's Life & Hereafter

"Whoever desires this world's life and its finery, We will pay them in full their deeds therein, and they shall not be made to. suffer loss in respect of them."   "These are they for whom there is nothing but fire in the hereafter, and what they wrought in it shall go for nothing, and vain is what they do."      [11. Surah Hud : Ayah 15-16]

"There are some people who say, Our Lord! give us in the world, and they shall have no resting place."  "And there are some among them who say: Our Lord! grant us good in this world and good in the hereafter, and save us from the chastisement of the fire." "They shall have (their) portion of what they have earned, and Allah is swift in reckoning."    [2. Surah Al-Baqarah : Ayah 200-202]

"Whoever desires this present life, We hasten to him therein what We please for whomsoever We desire, then We assign to him the hell; he shall enter it despised, driven away."   "And whoever desires the hereafter and strives for it as he ought to strive and he is a believer; (as for) these, their striving shall surely be accepted." [17. Surah Bani Israel : Ayah 18-19] 

"Whoever desires the gain of the hereafter, We will give him more of that again; and whoever desires the gain of this world, We give him of it, and in the hereafter he has no portion.    "[42. Surah Ash-Shurah : Ayah 20]
"Say: Shall We inform you of the greatest losers in (their) deeds?"  "(These are) they whose labor is lost in this world's life and they think that they are well versed in skill of the work of hands."  "These are they who disbelieve in the communications of their Lord and His meeting, so their deeds become null, and therefore We will not set up a balance for them on the day of resurrection."    [18. Surah Kahf : Ayah 103-105]

Allah knows what is in the Hearts

"Surely Allah knows what is in the hearts."   [3. Surah Aal-e-Imran : Ayah 119]


 "Say: Had you remained in your houses, those for whom slaughter was ordained would certainly have gone forth to the places where they would be slain, and that Allah might test what was in your breasts and that He might purge what was in your hearts; and Allah knows what is in the breasts."   [3. Surah Aal-e-Imran : Ayah 154]


"And He is Cognizant of what is in the hearts."      [27. Surah Al-Hadid : Ayah 6]


"He knows what is in the heavens and the earth, and He knows what you hide and what you manifest; and Allah is Cognizant of what is in the hearts."     [6. Surah At-Tagabun : Ayah 4]


"And conceal your word or manifest it; surely He is Cognizant of what is in the hearts. Does He not know, Who created? And He is the Knower of the subtleties, the Aware."   [67. Surah Al-Mulk : Ayah 13-14]

Night and Day are the signs of Allah SWT

"They ask thee, (O Muhammad sal-allahu-alleihi-wasallam), of new moons, say: They are fixed seasons for mankind and for the pilgrimage."       [2. Surah Al-Baqarah : Ayah 189]

"He causes the dawn to break; and He has made the night for rest, and the sun and the moon for reckoning; this is an arrangement of the Mighty, the Knowing. And He it is Who has made the stars for you that you might follow the right way thereby in the darkness of the land and the sea; truly We have made plain the communications for a people who know."     [6. Surah Al-An'am : Ayah 96-97]

"He throws the veil of night over the day, which it pursues incessantly; and (He created) the sun and the moon and the stars, made subservient by His command."     [7. Surah Al-Araaf : Ayah 54]

"He it is Who appointed the sun a splendour and the moon a light, and measured for her stages, that ye might know the number of the years, and the reckoning. Allah created not (all) that save in truth. He detaileth the revelations for people who have knowledge."             [10. Surah Yunus : Ayah 5]


"And He has made subservient for you the night and the day and the sun and the moon, and the stars are made subservient by His commandment; most surely there are signs in this for a people who ponder."     [16. Surah Al-Nahl : Ayah 12]



"And We have made the night and the day two signs, then We have made the sign of the night to pass away and We have made the sign of the day manifest, so that you may seek grace from your Lord, and that you might know the numbering of years and the reckoning; and We have explained everything with distinctness."    [17. Surah Bani Israel : Ayah 12]



"Blessed is He Who made the constellations in the heavens and made therein a lamp and a shining moon. And He it is Who made the night and the day to follow each other for him who desires to be mindful or desires to be thankful."      [25. Surah Furqan : Ayah 61-62]


"He causes the night to enter in upon the day, and He causes the day to enter in upon the night, and He has made subservient (to you) the sun and the moon; each one follows its course to an appointed time; this is Allah, your Lord, His is the kingdom; and those whom you call upon besides Him do not control a straw."      [35. Surah Fatir : Ayah 13]

Everything has a heart

Hadrat Anas (RA)reported that the Messenger of Allah (Peace And Blessings Be Upon Him) has said, “Everything has a heart, and the heart of the Quran is Surah Yasin. Allah records anyone who recites Yasin as having recited the Quran ten times.” [Sunan Tirmidhi, Vol 2, Page 116]

What is SHIRK?

SHIRK

A. Definition:The omission of any of the above mentioned categories of tawheed or deficiency in the fulfillment of any criteria of Tawheed is referred to as 'shirk'.(Please note that the Arabic word 'Shirk' has the same sound as in the English word 'ship' and not as in the English word 'shirk',which means 'to evade'

‘Shirk’ literally means sharing or associating partners. In Islamic terms it means associating partners with Allah and is equivalent to idolatry.

B. Shirk is the greatest sin that Allah will never forgive:

The Qur’an describes the greatest sin in Surah Al-Nisa’:

"Allah forgives not

That partners should be set up

With Him; but He forgives

Anything else, to whom

He pleases; to set up

Partners with Allah

Is to devise a sin

Most heinous indeed."

[Al-Qur’an 4:48]

The same message is repeated in Surah Al-Nisa’:

"Allah forgives not

(The sin of) joining other gods

With Him; but He forgives

Whom He pleases other sins

Than this: one who joins

Other gods with Allah,

Has strayed far, far away

(From the Right)."

[Al-Qur’an 4:116]

C. Shirk leads to hell fire:

The Qur’an says in Surah Ma’idah:

"They do blaspheme who say:

‘Allah is Christ the son

Of Mary.’ But said Christ:

‘O Children of Israel! Worship Allah, my Lord

And your Lord’. Whoever joins other gods with Allah –

Allah will forbid him the Garden, and the Fire

Will be his abode. There will for the wrongdoers

Be no one to help."

[Al-Qur’an 5:72]

D. Worship and Obedience to none but Allah:

The Qur’an mentions in Surah Ali-’Imran:

Say: "O people of the Book!

Come To common terms

As between us and you:

That we worship none but Allah;

That we associate no partners with Him;

That we erect not, from among ourselves,

Lords and patrons other than Allah."

If then they turn back,

Say ye: "Bear witness that we (at least)

Are Muslims (bowing to Allah’s Will)."

[Al-Qur’an 3:64]

The Glorious Qur’an says:

"And if all the trees on earth were pens

And the Ocean (were ink), with seven Oceans behind it

To add to its (supply), yet would not the Words

Of Allah be exhausted (In the writing): for Allah

Is Exalted in power, Full of Wisdom."

[Al-Qur’an 31:27]

Our analysis of Concept of God in various Religion shows that monotheism is an integral part of every major religion of the world. However, it is unfortunate that some adherents of these religions violate the teachings of their own scriptures and have set up partners to Almighty God.

An analysis of the scriptures of various religions, reveals that all scriptures exhort mankind to believe in, and submit to One God. All these scriptures condemn the association of partners to God, or the worship of God in the form of images. The Glorious Qur’an says:

"O men! Here is

A parable set forth!

Listen to it! Those

On whom, besides Allah,

You call, cannot create

(Even) a fly, if they all

Met together for the purpose!

And if the fly should snatch

Away anything from them,

They would have no power

To release it from the fly.

Feeble are those who petition

And those whom they petition!"

[Al-Qur’an 22:73]

The basis of religion is the acceptance of Divine guidance. A rejection of this guidance has serious implications for society. While we have made great strides in science and technology, true peace still eludes us. All ‘isms’ have failed to provide the much vaunted deliverance.

The scriptures of all major religions exhort mankind to follow that which is good and eschew that which is evil. All scriptures remind mankind that good will not go unrewarded and evil will not go unpunished!

The question we need to address is, which of these scriptures provides us with the correct ‘instruction manual’ that we need to regulate our individual and collective lives?