Who First Associated Partners with Allah: The People of Noah or the Story of 'Abd al-Harith
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: Were the people of Noah (peace and blessings be upon him) the first to associate partners with Allah the Exalted? Or is the incident that occurred among the descendants of Adam, where they named their son 'Abd al-Harith, the first instance of shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
Answer:
'Abd al-Harith is not major shirk. The first major shirk occurred among the people of Noah. Between Adam and the people of Noah, there were ten generations, meaning a thousand years, during which they were upon tawhid (the oneness of Allah) until shirk occurred among the people of Noah due to the images they hung up.[Nuh 71:23] These are the names of the righteous ones whose images they made and hung up. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: Were the people of Noah (peace and blessings be upon him) the first to associate partners with Allah the Exalted? Or is the incident that occurred among the descendants of Adam, where they named their son 'Abd al-Harith, the first instance of shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
Answer:
'Abd al-Harith is not major shirk. The first major shirk occurred among the people of Noah. Between Adam and the people of Noah, there were ten generations, meaning a thousand years, during which they were upon tawhid (the oneness of Allah) until shirk occurred among the people of Noah due to the images they hung up.
And said, 'Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd or Suwa' or Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr.
وَقَالُوا لَا تَذَرُنَّ آلِهَتَكُمْ وَلَا تَذَرُنَّ وَدًّا وَلَا سُوَاعًا وَلَا يَغُوثَ وَيَعُوقَ وَنَسْرًا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 29 من 86 /شرح كتاب إغاثة اللهفان في مصائد الشيطان/كيد الشيطان/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (56:49)
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