The Difference Between Major Shirk and Minor Shirk
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Question:
Your Excellency the Shaykh, the questioner asks: Are there guidelines or rules for distinguishing between minor shirk (associating partners with Allah) and major shirk? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Yes, there are great differences between major shirk and minor shirk, even though both are evil. But major shirk takes one out of the religion. It takes one out of the religion and invalidates faith, so the person becomes a disbeliever and one who associates partners with Allah. And minor shirk does not take one out of the religion, but it diminishes the creed and diminishes faith, and it is a means to major shirk. One should not be lax with it; it diminishes faith and diminishes the creed, and it is also a means to major shirk. Yes.
Your Excellency the Shaykh, the questioner asks: Are there guidelines or rules for distinguishing between minor shirk (associating partners with Allah) and major shirk? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Yes, there are great differences between major shirk and minor shirk, even though both are evil. But major shirk takes one out of the religion. It takes one out of the religion and invalidates faith, so the person becomes a disbeliever and one who associates partners with Allah. And minor shirk does not take one out of the religion, but it diminishes the creed and diminishes faith, and it is a means to major shirk. One should not be lax with it; it diminishes faith and diminishes the creed, and it is also a means to major shirk. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-087-مظاهر ضعف العقيدة في عصرنا الحاضر وطرق علاجها|صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (48:44)
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