What is worshipping?
The linguistic meaning of worship is subservience and
submission. And in Shri’a (Islâmic Legislation), it is as Shiekh Al-Islâm Ibn
Taimiah said, “it is the obedience of Allâh, in doing what He has ordered
through His Messengers. And he said also: “worship is a collective name for all
what Allâh likes and pleases at among actions, sayings and deeds apparently and
concealed”. Therefore, Muslim has to admit Oneness to His Lord in all kinds of
worships, and do it sincerely the way the Prophet has ruled by word and deed.
Worship comprehends the following kinds.
Be informed that worship
comprehends Salat (Prayer), Tawaf (circumambulating), Hajj (Pilgrimage), Syiamm
(Fasting), Nathr (Vow), Ietikaf (seclusion), Thabh (slaughtering), Sujud
(prostration), Ruku (kneeling), Khawf (fear), Rahbah (awe), Raghbah (desire),
Khashiah (fear causing avoidance), Tawakkul (depending), Istighathah (call upon
for help), and Rajaa (hope) and many other kinds of worship which were decreed
by Allâh in His Noble Book, or by His Messenger in the Sound Sunnah in word and
deed. Therefore, if any of these is offered to someone besides Allâh, then this
is considered Shirk (Polytheism), for Allâh says, “وَمَنْ يَدْعُ مَعَ
اللَّهِ إِلَهًا آخَرَ لا بُرْهَانَ لَهُ بِهِ فَإِنَّمَا حِسَابُهُ عِنْدَ
رَبِّهِ إِنَّهُ لا يُفْلِحُ الْكَافِرُونَ” - meaning – {If
anyone invokes, besides Allâh, any other god, he has no authority therefor; and
his reckoning will be only with his Lord! And verily the Unbelievers will fail
to win through!}, and He says, “وَأَنَّ الْمَسَاجِدَ لِلَّهِ فَلا
تَدْعُوا مَعَ اللَّهِ أَحَدًا” - meaning – “And the places of
worship are for Allâh (alone): so call not upon anyone along with Allâh;”.
And “Anyone” here includes all creatures no matter if they were Messengers,
Angels, or good men.
The first time Shirk
(Polytheism) occurred:
If what preceded is known, then be
informed that the first time Shirk has occurred was in Noah’s people, but when
Allâh sent Noah to them invoke them to worship Allâh alone and leave all those
worshipped statues, they resisted and insisted and opposed Noah by accusing him
of lying and disbelief. Moreover, they said, as in the Qur’ân: “وَقَالُوا
لا تَذَرُنَّ آلِهَتَكُمْ وَلا تَذَرُنَّ وَدًّا وَلا سُوَاعًا وَلا يَغُوثَ
وَيَعُوقَ وَنَسْرًا” - meaning – “And they have said (to
each other),`Abandon not your gods: abandon neither Wadd nor Suwa, neither
Yaguth nor ya'uq, nor Nasr”.
Narrated in
the Sahih (Al-Bukhari) that Ibn Abbass said, “All the idols which were worshipped by the people of Noah formerly
belonged to some pious men of the people of Noah, and when they died Satan
inspired their people to (prepare) and place idols at the places where they
used to sit, and to call those idols by their names. The people did so, but the
idols were not worshipped till those people (who initiated them) had died and
the origin of the idols had become obscure, whereupon people began worshipping
them.”
Ibn Al-Qayyim said, “More than one among the Salaf (Good Ancestors) said,
‘when they died, they went to their graves and placed idols for them, and when
time passed, they worshipped them’.”
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