(Shirk: Exalting the Lord through ignorance, which is likening Him to the kings of this world) So shirk is exalting through ignorance by lik***ing the Lord to the princes and the ruler, thinking that the door is not
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The Shaykh :"So shirk is exalting through ignorance by lik***ing the Lord"
Shirk is exalting Allah, but it is an exalting based on ignorance. How is this ignorance? He said:
"by lik***ing the Lord to the princes and the ruler"
They likened Allah to the creation and said: Just as we do not reach the kings of this world except through intermediaries, so the Lord, Mighty and Majestic, is not reached except through intermediaries.
"They thought that the door is not entered without *** the mediation of intercessors and helpers" This is their thought. "And that clear analogy struck them" "Struck them" means they were hit by a calamity, the obvious one.
"That clear analogy, *** its flaw being evident by human intuition"
Meaning: This analogy is an analogy with a great difference, and its flaw is clear and evident by intuition, requiring no thought, or rather, no depth. What is the indication of that?
Shirk is exalting Allah, but it is an exalting based on ignorance. How is this ignorance? He said:
"by lik***ing the Lord to the princes and the ruler"
They likened Allah to the creation and said: Just as we do not reach the kings of this world except through intermediaries, so the Lord, Mighty and Majestic, is not reached except through intermediaries.
"They thought that the door is not entered without *** the mediation of intercessors and helpers" This is their thought. "And that clear analogy struck them" "Struck them" means they were hit by a calamity, the obvious one.
"That clear analogy, *** its flaw being evident by human intuition"
Meaning: This analogy is an analogy with a great difference, and its flaw is clear and evident by intuition, requiring no thought, or rather, no depth. What is the indication of that?