Is following one's desires considered shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This following of wealth and following of desires is an act of shirk.
Answer:
It is minor shirk. Wretched is the slave of the khamsah, wretched is the slave of the khamsilah, wretched is the slave of the dinar, wretched is the slave of this world. This is shirk, because "slave" means he has taken them as gods. But this is called minor shirk, or the shirk that does not take one out of the religion.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This following of wealth and following of desires is an act of shirk.
Answer:
It is minor shirk. Wretched is the slave of the khamsah, wretched is the slave of the khamsilah, wretched is the slave of the dinar, wretched is the slave of this world. This is shirk, because "slave" means he has taken them as gods. But this is called minor shirk, or the shirk that does not take one out of the religion.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 80- هل يُعدُّ اتباعُ الهوى من الشرك؟ - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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