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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What is the opinion of one who interprets the saying of Allah the Exalted: “And keep me and my sons away from worshipping idols” as a trial of wealth?

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Question:
And I said to the Shaykh, and I said, O Allah, what is your opinion of the words of one who says that the idols are of the type of the words of the Forgiving One, peace and blessings be upon him, and that it means the people of the idols, that the idols are the idols of the people and the neighbors, and not the idols of the neighbors, and he says that Muzaynah

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means that Ibrahim smashed the gold and silver, he broke the gold and silver, Ibrahim smashed the idols, what are these
these statues to which you are devoted?"التَّمَاثِيلُ الَّتِي أَنتُمْ لَهَا عَاكِفُونَ
[Al-Anbya 21:52]
? The idols, so when they went to their festival, he went to these idols and smashed them. This speech is false, and its speaker does not feel ashamed that he is interpreting the words of Allah. I seek refuge in Allah. Speaking about Allah without knowledge, and interpreting the Qur'an without knowledge, this is among the greatest lies against Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, and among speaking about Allah without knowledge. I want to tell you.
Gold and silver are among the interests of the servants, among the blessings of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, upon the servants. And for a person to love gold and silver is a natural love for which he is not held accountable,
And indeed he is, in love of wealth, intense.وَإِنَّهُ لِحُبِّ الْخَيْرِ لَشَدِيدٌ
[Al-'Adiyat 100:8]
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And you love wealth with immense love.وَتُحِبُّونَ الْمَالَ حُبًّا جَمًّا
[Al-Fajr 89:20]
, a person’s love for wealth is a natural love for which he is not held accountable. But if he prioritizes it over obedience to Allah, it becomes worship of it. Woe to the slave of the dirham, woe to the slave of the dinar, this is worship, but he does not know if it is major shirk (associating partners with Allah) or minor shirk.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 13- ما الرأي فيمن يفسر قوله تعالى: ﴿واجنبني وبني أن نعبد الأصنام﴾ بفتنة المال؟ - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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