Salat al-Musafir - al-Safar wa Ahkamuhu fi Daw al-Kitab wa al-Sunnah - Sa’id Ibn Wahf al-Qahtani - (9)

your God is one God. So whoever hopes to meet his Lord, let him work righteousness and let him associate no one at all in the worship due to his Lord.” (1)

Thus does the Muslim seek nothing but the Countenance of Allah and the Final Abode. For that reason Allah the Exalted said: “Whoever desires the fleeting world, We hasten therein what We will for whom We will; then We assign him to Hell, where he will burn—condemned and banished.” (2)

In the sacred hadith He says: “I am the One most free of need of any partner. Whoever performs a deed in which he associates someone else with Me, I abandon him and his association.” (3)

The Prophet ﷺ feared minor shirk for his community. He said: “The thing I fear most for you is minor shirk.” When he was asked what it was, he replied, “Showing off.” (4) He ﷺ also said: “Whoever seeks to make people hear of his deeds, Allah will expose him; and whoever shows off, Allah will show him up.” (5)

Allah the Almighty said: “They were commanded only to worship Allah, devoting the religion sincerely to Him…”

(1) Quran, Surah al-Kahf, verse 110. (2) Quran, Surah al-Isra, verse 18. (3) Muslim, Book of Zuhd and Heart-Softening Narrations, chapter “Whoever associates someone else with Allah in his deed,” no. 2985. (4) Ahmad, al-Musnad, 5/428; graded hasan by al-Albani in Sahih al-Jami, 2/45. (5) Agreed upon, from the hadith of Jundub: al-Bukhari, Book of Heart-Softening Narrations, chapter on ostentation and seeking reputation, no. 6499; Muslim, Book of Zuhd and Heart-Softening Narrations, chapter “Whoever associates someone else with Allah in his deed,” no. 2987.

إِلَهُكُمْ إِلَهٌ وَاحِدٌ فَمَن كَانَ يَرْجُو لِقَاءَ رَبِّهِ فَلْيَعْمَلْ عَمَلاً صَالِحًا وَلا يُشْرِكْ بِعِبَادَةِ رَبِّهِ أَحَدًا﴾ (١). والمسلم هكذا لا يريد إلا وجه الله والدار الآخرة؛ ولهذا قال الله ﷿: ﴿مَّن كَانَ يُرِيدُ الْعَاجِلَةَ عَجَّلْنَا لَهُ فِيهَا مَا نَشَاءُ لِمَن نُّرِيدُ ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَا لَهُ جَهَنَّمَ يَصْلاهَا مَذْمُومًا مَّدْحُورًا﴾ (٢)، وفي الحديث القدسي: ((أنا أغنى الشركاء عن الشرك، من عمل عملاً أشرك فيه معي غيري تركته وشركه)) (٣). وقد خاف النبي ﷺ على أمته من الشرك الأصغر فقال: ((إن أخوف ما أخاف عليكم الشرك الأصغر)) فسُئل عنه فقال: ((الرياء)) (٤). وقال ﷺ: ((من سمَّع سمَّع الله به، ومن يُرائي يُرائي الله به)) (٥). قال الله تعالى: ﴿وَمَا أُمِرُوا إِلا لِيَعْبُدُوا الله مُخْلِصِينَ

(١) سورة الكهف، الآية: ١١٠. (٢) سورة الإسراء، الآية: ١٨. (٣) مسلم، كتاب الزهد والرقائق، باب من أشرك في عمله غير الله، برقم ٢٩٨٥. (٤) أحمد في المسند،٥/ ٤٢٨ وحسنه الألباني في صحيح الجامع،٢/ ٤٥. (٥) متفق عليه من حديث جندب ﵁: البخاري، كتاب الرقاق، باب الرياء والسمعة، برقم ٦٤٩٩، ومسلم، كتاب الزهد والرقائق، باب من أشرك في عمله غير الله، برقم ٢٩٨٧.