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The Muftee Of Makkah of his time, Shaykh Aboo Bakr Bin Muhammad ‘Aarif Khuqayr (d. 1340H) divided shirk into shix categories:
1) Shirk in Independence (Istiqlaal: affirming two independant gods, like the shirk of the Magians.
2) Shirk in Division (Tab’eedh): which is extracting a god from another god, like the shirk of the Christians.
3) Shirk in Nearness (Taqreeb): worshipping other than Allaah in order to gain nearness to Him. (1)
4) Shirk of Taqleed: like the shirk of the later people of the times of Jaahiliyyah.
5) Shirk in Causes (Asbaab): to ascribe causes to toher than the Power of Allaah as the philosophers and atheists do when they say, ‘it rained due to the planet tempset (alone)’.
6) Shirk in Needs (Aghraadh): doing actions for other than Allaah and this is judged as being sinful as some of the scholars have mentioned.
[Kitaan Maa Laa Budda Minhu, p. 31]
Footnotes:
(1) Based on the saying of Allaah, quoting the Mushrikeen, “ ‘We only worship them that they may bring us closer to Allaah in position,’ ” [39:3]
1) Shirk in Independence (Istiqlaal: affirming two independant gods, like the shirk of the Magians.
2) Shirk in Division (Tab’eedh): which is extracting a god from another god, like the shirk of the Christians.
3) Shirk in Nearness (Taqreeb): worshipping other than Allaah in order to gain nearness to Him. (1)
4) Shirk of Taqleed: like the shirk of the later people of the times of Jaahiliyyah.
5) Shirk in Causes (Asbaab): to ascribe causes to toher than the Power of Allaah as the philosophers and atheists do when they say, ‘it rained due to the planet tempset (alone)’.
6) Shirk in Needs (Aghraadh): doing actions for other than Allaah and this is judged as being sinful as some of the scholars have mentioned.
[Kitaan Maa Laa Budda Minhu, p. 31]
Footnotes:
(1) Based on the saying of Allaah, quoting the Mushrikeen, “ ‘We only worship them that they may bring us closer to Allaah in position,’ ” [39:3]
