Explaining the Muslims' current negligence in swearing oaths by other than Allah (Mighty and Majestic).

The Shaykh : And after that... and its distance from acts of shirk (associating partners with Allah) and idolatry, let us now enter into another reality, even if it is less severe than the first. The first was explicit shirk. What is your opinion of the Islamic world today, where the old and the young swear by other than Allah (Mighty and Majestic), even though the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say: . How many people are there who swear by their heads, and this one swears by his beard, and perhaps he has no beard, and so on. These are all acts of shirk that they do not care about at all. Why? There is no one to remind them. People are in heedlessness, and it is better than the heedlessness of the People of the Cave, who stayed for three hundred years and added nine more. Why? There is no one to remind them, no one to teach them, especially regarding what concerns tawhid (the oneness of Allah). Like swearing by other than Allah; Muslims must be aware of this and not swear except by Allah. Because the matter is as Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said—look at how the Salaf (the earliest generations) understood it—he said: "It would be more beloved to me to swear by Allah while lying than to swear by other than Allah while telling the truth." Do you know what this statement means? Lying is one of the major sins, lying in general, but swearing by Allah while lying is greater and greater. And yet he says: "It would be more beloved to me to swear by Allah while lying than to swear by other than Allah while telling the truth." Whoever understands tawhid in the correct sense, as previously explained, will find it easy to understand this Salafi statement that came from 'Abdullah ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him). Because swearing by other than Allah while telling the truth is shirk, whereas swearing by Allah while lying is a major sin, meaning a disobedience. So the matter turned for him between swearing by Allah while lying and swearing by other than Allah while telling the truth. No, he tells you: Swearing by Allah while lying is lighter for him than swearing by other than Allah while telling the truth. That is because it is shirk. He (peace be upon him) said: .