Is it prescribed to call the heavenly laws heavenly religions?
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The questioner : Before we get to the verse, we call them religions.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : Before we get to the verse, we call them religions.
The Shaykh : Yes, yes.
The questioner : It means, in the sense of laws, that the religion with Allah is Islam; that is the intended meaning.
The Shaykh : You are reciting with me the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Ali 'Imran 3:19] Do you understand that the Islam brought by all the prophets is the religion, or not?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So, Islam is not just our Islam, but also the Islam of those who came before us. If the religion is Islam now, it was so in ancient times as well. Therefore, they are religions, and Islam encompasses them all.
The questioner : Religions, meaning in the sense of laws...
The Shaykh : What does[Ali 'Imran 3:19] mean?
The questioner : It means, in the sense of belief, and so on.
The Shaykh : This same meaning that we have now existed in that time as well.
The questioner :[Ali 'Imran 3:85] .
Another questioner : And when we say religions, it does not mean that all religions are for those who submit; shirk was also a religion in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance.
The Shaykh : Is the problem with the plural, my brother, or with the singular?
Another questioner : He intends that the religions are such that one understands "religion" to mean legislation. If so, they are not called religions because they do not contain a correct law. That is how I understood it.
The Shaykh : I do not think so.
The questioner : No, religions encompass both the correct religion and the incorrect one.
The questioner : Meaning, considering that their origin is heavenly.
Another questioner : A true religion, and if it is not heavenly, it is a man-made religion. Then, religion encompasses legislation and non-legislation; it contains beliefs and a methodology.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : Before we get to the verse, we call them religions.
The Shaykh : Yes, yes.
The questioner : It means, in the sense of laws, that the religion with Allah is Islam; that is the intended meaning.
The Shaykh : You are reciting with me the saying of Allah the Exalted:
Indeed, the religion in the sight of Allah is Islam
إن الدين عند الله الاسلامThe questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So, Islam is not just our Islam, but also the Islam of those who came before us. If the religion is Islam now, it was so in ancient times as well. Therefore, they are religions, and Islam encompasses them all.
The questioner : Religions, meaning in the sense of laws...
The Shaykh : What does
Indeed, the religion in the sight of Allah is Islam
إن الدين عند الله الإسلامThe questioner : It means, in the sense of belief, and so on.
The Shaykh : This same meaning that we have now existed in that time as well.
The questioner :
And whoever desires other than Islam as religion - never will it be accepted from him
ومن يبتغ من غير الإسلام دينا فلن يقبل منهAnother questioner : And when we say religions, it does not mean that all religions are for those who submit; shirk was also a religion in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance.
The Shaykh : Is the problem with the plural, my brother, or with the singular?
Another questioner : He intends that the religions are such that one understands "religion" to mean legislation. If so, they are not called religions because they do not contain a correct law. That is how I understood it.
The Shaykh : I do not think so.
The questioner : No, religions encompass both the correct religion and the incorrect one.
The questioner : Meaning, considering that their origin is heavenly.
Another questioner : A true religion, and if it is not heavenly, it is a man-made religion. Then, religion encompasses legislation and non-legislation; it contains beliefs and a methodology.
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