A SERMON WARNING AGAINST SHIRK AND ITS CAUSES
All thanks are due to Allah, Who did not create Jinn and mankind except that they should worship Him Alone. He did not grant them with His Favors except that they should praise Him. He has not revealed His Books and sent His Messengers to them except that they should know Him (by His Names and Attributes). I offer thanks and praises to Allah coming from a slave who fears Him and hopes in Him. I bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah Alone without partners, Who is never asked about what He does while He will ask His creation about all that they do. 1 bear witness that Muhammad is Allah’s slave and Messenger who called his Ummah to Tauhid (Islamic Monotheism) and commanded them to fear Alláh and avoid His Wrath. O Alláh! Bestow Your peace and blessings on Your slave and Messenger Muhammad, his progeny and his Companions who aided and helped him.
O people! Fear Alláh the Exalted and feel His Watch over you. Obey His Commandments and never commit disobedience of Him. Know that Alláh has not created you but to worship Him, and only ordered you to abide by His Tauhid and Lordship.
Tauhid asserts Alláh’s Oneness in worship, and it is the religion that all Alláhs Messengers were sent with to His slaves. Prophet Nuh (Noah) was the first of these Messengers, and Alláh sent him to his people after they fell into Shirk (Polytheism) and sin. They used to revere righteous people and worship them instead of Alláh, the Most
Honored. The last of Alláh’s Messengers was Muhammad, the honorable Prophet who shattered the images that were made in the shapes of worshipped righteous people. By this action falsehood vanished and the truth came fourth plain and clear. Alláh sent him to a people who performed acts of worship, Hajj and charity. They mentioned Alláh often in Dhikr, as well. Yet, they elevated some of the creation to the rank of intermediaries between them and He Who has perfect knowledge of the seen and the unseen. They claimed that by doing this, they sought to draw close to Alláh by the intercession of these worshipped objects.
“And they worship besides Allah things that harm them not, nor profit them, and they say: ‘These are our intercessors with Alláh.’ Say: ‘Do you inform Alláh of that which He knows not in the heavens and on the earth?’ Glorified and Exalted is He above all that which they associate as partners (with Him)!” (10:18)
Hence, Allah sent Muhammad , to renew the aspects of the religion of their father, Prophet Ibrahim, which had faded away. He was sent to assure them that worshipping and invoking are the exclusive rights of Alláh over all slaves. No part of worship is ever directed at a prophet, angel or any other among the creations.
Therefore, O slaves of Alláh, fear Alláh and implement your faith by adhering to the implications of La iláha illallah, before a Day when one will be confronted with all that he did. Verily, on that Day none will benefit any other, except by Alláh’s permission and pleasure.
“And the mosques are for AlIah (Alone), so invoke not anyone along with Alláh. And when the slave of Alláh (Muhammad(pbuh))stood up invoking Him (his Lord – Alláh) in prayer they (the jinn) just made round him a dense crowd as if sticking one over
the other (in order to listen to the Prophet’s recitation). Say (O Muhammad (pbuh)): ‘I invoke only my Lord (Alláh Alone), and I associate none as partners along with Him.’ Say: “It is not in my power to cause you harm, or to bring you to the Right Path.” Say (O Muhammad(pbuh)): ‘None can protect me from Alláh’s punishment (if I were to disobey Him), nor can I find refuge except in Him. (Mine is) but conveyance (of the truth) from Alláh and His Messages (of Islárnic Monotheism), and whosoever disobeys Alláh and His Messenger, then verily, for him is the fire of HelI, he shaIl dwell therein forever.” (72:23)
May Alláh direct us and you to the blessings of the Glorious Qurán and benefit us and you in whatever is in it of the Ayat and Wise Dhikr. I say this and ask Alláh the Great, Most Honored for forgiveness for me, you and all Muslims for every sin, so invoke Him for forgiveness, for He is the Most Forgiving, Most Merciful.
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