Allah the Exalted said: “Say: Verily
my prayer, my sacrifice, my living, and my dying are for Allah, the Lord
of the worlds. He has no partner. And of this I have been commanded, and
I am the first of the Muslim.” (Ch.6: V162-163)
“Therefore turn in prayer to your Lord
and sacrifice (to Him only)”. (Ch.108:V2)
Ali bin Abi Talib said “Allah’s
Messenger (Peace be upon him) informed me about four Judgments (of
Allah):
1. Allah’s curse is upon the one who
slaughters (devoting his sacrifice) anything other than to Allah;
2. Allah’s curse is upon the one who
curses his own parents;
3. Allah’s curse is upon the one who
shelters heretic (who has brought a Bid’ah in religion);
4. Allah’s curse is upon the one who
alters the landmarks (who changes boundary lines).”
Ahmed reports that Tariq bin Shihab
narrated that Allah’s Messenger (Peace be upon him) said: “A man entered Paradise
because of a fly, and a man entered Hell-fire because of a fly. The Companions
asked, “How was that possible O Messenger of Allah?” He said, “Two men passed
by the people who had an idol by which they would not allow anyone to pass without
making sacrifice to it. They ordered one man to make sacrifice. He said., ‘I have nothing to
present as an offering.’
The people told him, ‘Sacrifice
something, even if it be a fly.’ So he presented a fly (to their Idol). They
opened the way for him, and thus he entered the Hell fire. They said to the
other, ‘Sacrifice something.’ He said, ‘I will never sacrifice anything to any
other than Allah, Most Majestic and Glorious.’ So they struck his throat and
killed him, and so he entered Paradise.”
Important issues of
the Lesson
The curse on those who sacrifice to
any other than Allah. A Curse is upon those who curse their parents (by cursing
others’ parents and in turn, the latter curses his parents).
Cursed is the person who shelters the
heretic (Muhdith) in religion. That is, a person innovates something that is necessarily
only Allah’s right to do and then seeks shelter
with someone who assists him in it.
A Curse is upon him who unjustly
alters the landmark, i.e. The boundaries that differentiate one person’s land
from his neighbor’s, and changes them to encroach upon that land orb obstruct
it.
The simple but tremendous story of the
fly. The person who presented a fly to the idol went to Hell though not
intending to do such an act (beforehand). Indeed, he did it to save himself
from the threat of idolaters.
Knowing how hated Shirk is to
the hearts of the believers in the case of the man who was patient in facing
execution and did not give-in to their demand in spite of the fact that they only
demanded an external act from him.
The man who went to Hell-fire was a
Muslim. If he had been a disbeliever (Kafir), the Prophet (Peace be upon
him) would not have said: “He went to Hell merely for a fly.”
This is a confirmation of the Hadeeth
“Paradise is closer than the laces of your shoes and the Hell-fire is
likewise.”
The action of the heart crucial, even
among the idol worshippers.
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