Why is denying the Creator’s attributes considered shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
Why is denying the Creator’s attributes called shirk? This is because the one who denies them does not worship another god alongside Allah; rather, he denies the existence of the Lord. Yes, he has stripped Him of His lordship, stripping Allah of His lordship, Glorified and Exalted is He, and making nature the one who does it. Yes.
The questioner:
And the celestial bodies create? Is making two creators alongside Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, shirk? So the one who denies them does not say that these existing things came into being without an existing creator. The celestial bodies created them, or the ten intellects, or nature created them, or something like that, or the stars and planets.
The Shaykh:
This is shirk against Allah, Mighty and Majestic. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
Why is denying the Creator’s attributes called shirk? This is because the one who denies them does not worship another god alongside Allah; rather, he denies the existence of the Lord. Yes, he has stripped Him of His lordship, stripping Allah of His lordship, Glorified and Exalted is He, and making nature the one who does it. Yes.
The questioner:
And the celestial bodies create? Is making two creators alongside Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, shirk? So the one who denies them does not say that these existing things came into being without an existing creator. The celestial bodies created them, or the ten intellects, or nature created them, or something like that, or the stars and planets.
The Shaykh:
This is shirk against Allah, Mighty and Majestic. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [223 -521] لماذا سُمي تعطيل الخالق شركاً؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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