Al-Qawl al-Sadid fi al-Radd ala Man Ankara Taqsim al-Tawhid - Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Muhsin al-Badr - (72)

Al-Qawl al-Sadid fi al-Radd ala Man Ankara Taqsim al-TawhidAbd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Muhsin al-Badr

a tree or a stone—this would not constitute polytheism unless the worshipper believed that the object of his worship possessed some attribute of Lordship. Accordingly, the Prophet’s statement (peace and blessings be upon him), “Whoever dies while calling upon a rival besides Allah will enter the Fire,” would be missing this qualification: “namely, that he believes the one invoked to possess some attribute of Lordship”!!

Did the scholars among the Companions, the Successors, and their followers neither notice nor know of this qualification until this writer and others like him came along in the fourteenth century AH to point it out? “You have either wrongfully introduced an innovation or surpassed Muhammad’s Companions in knowledge!” Glory be to Allah, who by His grace guides whomever He wills to the truth and, in His justice, withholds His aid from whomever He wills among His creation. His is perfect wisdom.

In any case, this claim which the writer has made and defended is false: it contradicts the fundamental principles of the religion, conflicts with its foundations and rules, and opposes the evidence of the Quran and Sunnah. The very many passages in the Noble Quran that call for exclusive devotion to Allah and for directing all forms of worship to Him alone provide the most decisive refutation of the writer’s foregoing claim.

Among these is the saying of Allah, the Exalted:

“And among people are those who take others besides Allah as equals, loving them as they should love Allah. But those who believe are stronger in their love for Allah.” 1.

In this verse, “the Exalted describes the condition of those who associate partners with Him in this world and what awaits them in the Hereafter. They have set up equals—that is, peers and counterparts—whom they worship alongside Him and love as they love Him. Yet He is Allah; there is no deity except Him. He has no rival, no equal, and no partner. In the two Sahīh collections, ‘Abdullāh ibn Mas‘ūd (may Allah be pleased with him) reported asking: ‘O Messenger of Allah, which sin

1 Surah al-Baqarah, verse 165.

شجر أو حجر فإنَّ ذلك لا يكون شركاً ما لم يعتقد العابد فيها أنَّ لها شيئاً من صفات الربوبية، وعلى هذا فقول النبي ﷺ: "من مات وهو يدعو من دون الله ندّاً دخل النَّار" ينقصه هذا القيد "وهو أن يعتقد في المدعو شيئاً من صفات الربوبية"!!. وهل أهل العلم من الصحابة والتابعين وأتباعهم لم يفطنوا لهذا القيد ولا عرفوه حتى جاء هذا الكاتب وأمثاله في القرن الرابع عشر فنبهوا عليه "لقد جئتم ببدعة ظلماً، أو فقتم أصحاب محمد علماً"! فسبحان الله هدى من شاء إلى الحق بفضله وخذل من شاء من الخلق بعدله، له الحكمة البالغة. وعلى كلٍّ فهذه الدعوى التي ادَّعاها الكاتب وانتصر لها هي دعوى كاذبة مناقضة لأصول الدين ومخالفة لأسسه وقواعده، ومضادة لأدلة الكتاب والسنَّة؛ فإنَّ نصوص القرآن الكريم المشتملة على الدعوة إلى إخلاص الدين لله وإفراده وحده بجميع أنواع العبادة وهي كثيرة جداً فيها أبلغ رد على الكاتب في دعواه المتقدمة. ومن ذلك قول الله تعالى: ﴿وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَن يَّتَّخِذُ مِن دُونِ اللهِ أَندَاداً يُّحِبُّونَهُمْ كَحُبِّ اللهِ وَالذِينَءَامَنُوا أَشَدُّ حُبّاً للهِ﴾ ١. ففي هذه الآية "يذكر تعالى حال المشركين به في الدنيا وما لهم في الدار الآخرة، حيث جعلوا أنداداً، أي: أمثالاً ونظراء يعبدونهم معه ويحبونهم كحبه، وهو الله لا إله إلا هو، ولا ضدَّ له ولا ندَّ له، ولا شريك معه، وفي الصحيحين عن عبد الله بن مسعود ﵁ قال: قلت: يا رسول الله أيّ الذنب

١ سورة البقرة، الآية ١٦٥.