Is there verbal shirk (associating partners with Allah) in congratulating someone by saying: "This is a happy chance"?
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Question:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner says: If a person congratulates his companion by saying, "This is a happy chance," meaning something that Allah has bestowed upon him, such as wealth or children, is there verbal shirk in that?
Answer:
No. His saying "This is a happy chance" contains no doubt that fortunes differ; there is a happy chance and an unhappy one, and all of this is by the decree of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). Yes.
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner says: If a person congratulates his companion by saying, "This is a happy chance," meaning something that Allah has bestowed upon him, such as wealth or children, is there verbal shirk in that?
Answer:
No. His saying "This is a happy chance" contains no doubt that fortunes differ; there is a happy chance and an unhappy one, and all of this is by the decree of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1073- 4717] هل في التهنئة بقول:(هذا حظ سعيد) شرك لفظي؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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