(The one who ordered his sons to burn him when he died and scatter half of him in the sea and half in the air) To which type of disbelief does this belong?

Listen, brothers, to your question.

The questioner : The authentic hadith: The man who willed that one of his sons burn him, what type of disbelief is his?

The Shaykh : What type do you mean? What type?

The questioner : Practical disbelief or creedal disbelief?

The Shaykh : No, it is creedal. This is creedal disbelief, but it is disbelief through heedlessness.

...He has nothing more precious to him than his Lord, Blessed and Exalted is He. Therefore, the one who prefers swearing by other than Allah to swearing by Allah has made him a partner with Allah. This type of shirk, unfortunately, is not known by most Muslims. What do Muslims know about shirk? What the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance knew? The people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance knew that shirk is for one to believe that there is a creator with Allah. This is shirk, and in their state, they were not falling into this shirk, because the clear Qur'an says: So, the saying of the Exalted: , and where are the equals? And they knew that they had taken equals with Allah. Here is the secret, and here is the ignorance in the first pre-Islamic age of ignorance and in the pre-Islamic age of the twentieth century today. And it is not among the disbelievers, but among the Muslims. Because shirk is like tawhid (the oneness of Allah). Tawhid has three categories, and shirk has three categories corresponding to them. Tawhid al-rububiyyah (oneness of lordship) is that you make another god with Allah, as came in the hadith of Ibn Mas'ud in the two Sahihs , meaning a partner in creation. This is the greatest of the major sins. Tawhid al-rububiyyah is opposed by shirk in lordship. An example is the Zoroastrians who believe in... a creator of good and a creator of evil. Therefore, he (peace be upon him) said: because they believe that man creates evil, and our Lord creates good. So this is shirk in lordship. Tawhid al-rububiyyah is the first thing a Muslim must believe in, and this is easy, and man is created with it, even the disbelievers in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, as you heard, used to declare the oneness of Allah in lordship. And it came in Sahih Muslim that they were, in their deviation in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, circumambulating the Ka'bah naked, women and men. Until the woman who had some remaining modesty, a modesty of shyness, but ignorance and customs and traditions blind the hearts. Look today, you Muslims, men and women, on the morning of the festival, where are you going? Instead of going to the prayer ground, you go to the graves. You go and come back and find people standing over the graves. And these were the ones who used to circumambulate the Ka'bah naked, women and men. So one of the women would say, pointing to her private parts:
Today, some of it or all of it is exposed, so what is exposed of it, I do not make lawful.
And during this circumambulation, they would say: What is this partner? You possess him and he does not possess you. Believing in tawhid al-rububiyyah that there is no second creator with Allah. But where did their shirk come from? From the other two types. The first, we said, is tawhid al-rububiyyah. The second type is tawhid al-uluhiyyah (oneness of worship), which is called tawhid of worship. Meaning, you, O servant, as long as you believe that Allah is the one who created you and formed you, then He is the one who deserves that you turn to Him with all your worship. Here, the disbelievers, the disbelievers of Quraysh and those who followed their religion, used to disbelieve in this tawhid. So they would worship other gods with Allah. And this also, as narrated in the Qur'an, one of them narrated their belief in lordship and narrated their disbelief in worship. , When it was said to them, why do you worship them besides Allah? They said: When it was said to them, why do you worship them besides Allah? They said, We do not worship them except to bring us closer to Allah in nearness. So this is an admission from them that they worship their awliya (close friends of Allah), and they do not worship them for their own sake, but as a means to bring them closer to Allah in nearness. So they disbelieved in tawhid al-uluhiyyah, or tawhid of worship. And therefore, our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, also narrated about them that they said: Shall we make the gods, meaning the objects of worship, one worshipped god? This is indeed something astonishing. We have not heard of this among our former fathers. And our Lord said in the other verse: The calamity is doubled when we know that the disbelievers understood the meaning of "La ilaha illa Allah" (There is no god but Allah), but they did not submit to it. Whereas many of the ignorant Muslims today do not understand the meaning of "La ilaha illa Allah." So it is not arrogance, but it is ignorance. "La ilaha illa Allah" means there is no worshipped entity with truth in existence except Allah. Did the Muslims fulfill the right of this word, the word of tawhid? Did they, after believing in tawhid al-rububiyyah, believe in tawhid al-uluhiyyah? Unfortunately, they negated it. Why did they negate this type of tawhid? Because they come to the graves of the awliya, prophets, and righteous people, they pray at them, they call for aid from them, and they seek nearness to Allah through them. And if you ask them, they say, We do not worship them. But they do not say, We do not worship them. Look at their ignorance, because they understand worship in a narrow sense, that you sit and pray to this grave. It is not that he prays, but he says, O so-and-so, help me. He does not know that this is prayer and worship of him. He does not know when he reads in Surat al-Fatihah, , that seeking help from the dead is worship of him. He does not know that this is worship. And so, if you asked him, do you worship other than Allah? He would say, I seek refuge in Allah. But he is immersed in this misguidance, which is the worship of other than Allah. So this second tawhid, tawhid al-uluhiyyah or tawhid of worship. The third and final tawhid is tawhid al-asma' wa al-sifat (oneness of the names and attributes). You believe that Allah is One in His essence, with no partner in His creation. You believe that Allah is One in His worship, you do not worship with Him any other. It remains for you to believe that He is One in His attributes, as He is One in His essence, He is One in His attributes. You do not believe, for example, that there is among the people, no matter how high one rises and elevates himself, he raises his head like this and looks, and the Preserved Tablet is revealed to him, and he knows today so-and-so will die wretched and so-and-so will die happy. So he knows the unseen without Allah, the Exalted. And Allah says: So if you believe thatThe Shaykh : So-and-so knows the unseen, and this is what we hear with our ears from the Sufis. ThatThe Shaykh : Our revealer,The Shaykh : Our revealer, we are present for the question and we have not yet asked it, or otherwiseThe Shaykh : He gives us the answer without us asking the question. So there is shirk in the people's belief in the third category of tawhid, in the names of Allah and His attributes. No one knows the unseen except Allah. So there are awliya who know the unseen. And so you find one of them does not trade, does not travel, does not marry, does not come to a movement worthy of mention, except after consultingThe Shaykh : , andThe Shaykh : His revealer remains, and he reveals to him the unseen. All of this is disbelief in "La ilaha illa Allah." Why? Because we have not yet understood this tawhid. And we have prolonged it upon you, so excuse us. And peace be upon you, and that is all.