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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Examples of shirk in attributes: describing the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) with knowledge of the unseen

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The Shaykh : Among these attributes, for example, is the attribute of knowing what is in the hearts, the Knower of the unseen, the knowledge of hidden matters. As He, the Exalted, said:
(26) [He is] Knower of the unseen, and He does not disclose His [knowledge of the] unseen to anyone (27) Except whom He has approved of messengers, and indeed, He sends before each messenger and behind him observers عَالِمُ الْغَيْبِ فَلَا يُظْهِرُ عَلَى غَيْبِهِ أَحَدًا * إِلَّا مَنِ ارْتَضَى مِنْ رَسُولٍ
[Al-Jinn 72:26-27]
So Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is the only One who knows the unseen; no one else knows the unseen. Since it is among the attributes of our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, that He is unique in His knowledge of the unseen, it is not permissible for a Muslim who truly believes in Allah to believe that a human being, even if he is the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), knew the unseen. This statement is not permissible; it is shirk in the attributes. How can a Muslim, while calling upon his Lord, Blessed and Exalted is He, or invoking Him and drawing near to Him, have his tongue slip and say to his Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):
"For from Your generosity comes the world and its harm, *** And from Your knowledge is the knowledge of the Tablet and the Pen."
How can a Muslim who reads the words of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, in the Qur'an on the tongue of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him):
And if I knew the unseen, I could have acquired much wealth, and no harm would have touched me. وَلَوْ كُنْتُ أَعْلَمُ الْغَيْبَ لَاسْتَكْثَرْتُ مِنَ الْخَيْرِ وَمَا مَسَّنِيَ السُّوءُ
[Al-A'raf 7:188]
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And if I knew the unseen, I could have acquired much wealth, and no harm would have touched me. وَلَوْ كُنْتُ أَعْلَمُ الْغَيْبَ لَاسْتَكْثَرْتُ مِنَ الْخَيْرِ وَمَا مَسَّنِيَ السُّوءُ
[Al-A'raf 7:188]
, say such a poem? How can Muslims still recite this poem today? This is not how one draws near to Allah, Mighty and Majestic, with humility; rather, one should draw near to Him. And it is not only that; they also recite these verses over water to cure a patient, and the patient is cured by the blessing of what? By the blessing of this explicit shirk in these two verses:
"For from Your generosity comes the world and its harm, *** And from Your knowledge is the knowledge of the Tablet and the Pen."
What is the knowledge of the Tablet and the Pen? The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) explained that by saying:
The first thing Allah created was the Pen, and He said to it: "Write." It said: "What shall I write?" He said: "Write what is destined to happen until the Day of Resurrection." أول ما خلق الله القلم فقال له اكتب قال ما أكتب قال اكتب ما هو كائن إلى اليوم القيامة
So, in the opinion of this poet, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) knows what is in the Preserved Tablet, what has been decreed by the Pen. And it is not only that, because he said:
"And from Your knowledge is the knowledge of the Tablet and the Pen."
The word "from" here is partitive; that is, from some of Your knowledge is the knowledge of the Tablet and the Pen. How can a Muslim say this while reading that verse? And perhaps he reads in "Sahih al-Bukhari" that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) said... I say he reads in the Qur'an, but I said perhaps he reads in "Sahih al-Bukhari." I was cautious and did so intentionally, because, unfortunately, for many years, few people have read the books of the Sunnah. Consequently, this has been a clear reason for people’s distance from preserving the roots of the Sunnah. It is reported in the authentic Sunnah in "Sahih al-Bukhari" that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) passed by a slave girl of the Ansar who was reciting poetry. Among the things she said was: "And among us is a Prophet who knows what is in tomorrow." He said (peace and blessings be upon him):
None has the knowledge of the Unseen but Allah. لا يعلم الغيب إلا الله
Sahih al-Bukhari 7380
Listen to the Messenger of Allah hearing a slave girl say, "And among us is a Prophet who knows what is in tomorrow," and the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) refuted that from her by saying:
None has the knowledge of the Unseen but Allah. لا يعلم الغيب إلا الله
Sahih al-Bukhari 7380
I wonder, if the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) had heard that poem:
"And from Your knowledge is the knowledge of the Tablet and the Pen."
Would he not have said
None has the knowledge of the Unseen but Allah. لا يعلم الغيب إلا الله
Sahih al-Bukhari 7380
? He would have recited it dozens of times, repeating it as a disavowal of this shirk, shirk in the attributes. Without a doubt, the Messenger turned to the slave girl and said to her:
Leave that, and say what you used to say. دعي هذا ، وقولي ما كنت تقولين
Sahih Ibn Hibban 47:330
; meaning, before that, from the singing and poetry that did not compromise the oneness of the attributes. But your saying, "And among us is a Prophet who knows what is in tomorrow," is shirk, because you attributed to him the knowledge of the unseen, which our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, has exclusively reserved for Himself, and no one knows the unseen except Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He.
Source www.al-albany.com

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