The Means That Help One to Guard Against Minor Shirk
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Question:
What are the means that help one to guard against and be saved from minor shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
Answer:
The means are that you know, you must learn, you have to learn the types of major and minor shirk (associating partners with Allah) and the causes that lead to shirk. You will not be saved from this except through knowledge, through the knowledge by which you distinguish between these matters. As for the ignorant person, he cannot be saved; he falls into these matters. So knowledge, knowledge, O my brothers, knowledge is what benefits by which Allah benefits and by which Allah saves from shirk and other things. Learn the correct knowledge. This is one aspect. The second aspect is supplication. A person supplicates to Allah the Exalted that Allah will make him firm, that Allah will guide him, and that Allah will save him from shirk. And he does not praise himself. In the hadith:Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 716 something he supplicates to Allah the Exalted along with knowledge and insight. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence the Shaykh
What are the means that help one to guard against and be saved from minor shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
Answer:
The means are that you know, you must learn, you have to learn the types of major and minor shirk (associating partners with Allah) and the causes that lead to shirk. You will not be saved from this except through knowledge, through the knowledge by which you distinguish between these matters. As for the ignorant person, he cannot be saved; he falls into these matters. So knowledge, knowledge, O my brothers, knowledge is what benefits by which Allah benefits and by which Allah saves from shirk and other things. Learn the correct knowledge. This is one aspect. The second aspect is supplication. A person supplicates to Allah the Exalted that Allah will make him firm, that Allah will guide him, and that Allah will save him from shirk. And he does not praise himself. In the hadith:
O Allah! I seek refuge in you lest I associate anything with you
اللهم إني أعوذ بك أن أشرك بكAnd I seek Your forgiveness for the sin I do not know
وأنا أعلم وأستغفرك من الذنب الذي لا أعلم،The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence the Shaykh
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/106 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (33:57)
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