Aqeedah & belief
Single-day seminarSaturdayBrisbane
Broken Idols
A Study of Shirk
Dr. Zohair Abdul RahmanInstructor
Not all false gods are made of stone. Today they’re made of money, power, thoughts, and pixels. This is your roadmap through the many idols of today, back to your One true Lord.
What you'll walk away with
- What is shirk: A precise definition, before anything else can rest on it
- The origins of idolatry: How humanity first turned from tawhid, and why it repeats
- What people worship besides Allah: The catalogue of rivals, ancient and contemporary
- Scholarly discussions on the nature of shirk: Where the classical scholars held one view, and where they differed
- Why shirk is the greatest evil: The moral logic behind the one unforgivable sin
- Infiltration of idolatry into Muslim culture: The practices we inherited without ever examining
- Shirk al-Khafī: Hidden shirk: the ant no one hears
- Shirk in pop culture: Law of attraction, horoscopes and astrology, numerology, superstitions
The sin of all sins
Why shirk?
Why not murder? Why not theft? Why not adultery, abuse, or fraud?
Why is shirk the sin of all sins, and why can’t those who don’t believe enter heaven? The root of that question is why this class is more important now than ever.
Because shirk is the rejection of Allah, and the rejection of Allah is the rejection of morality itself.
This class explores the concept of shirk, the many forms it takes, and the key to protecting ourselves from it.
Hidden in plain sight
“But I’m Muslim, is that not enough?”
He ﷺ was not talking about bowing to pagan statues, but to a shirk that Muslims can fall into without ever noticing.
“O people, beware of this idolatry, for it is more hidden than a crawling ant!” (Musnad Ahmad)
The hint of pride that slips into our worship.
How we perform Islam online, and in public.
False beliefs about Allah we let creep into our hearts.
Recognising the signs of shirk is the first step to protecting yourself from it.
Dr. Zohair Abdul Rahman
Instructor
With a broad scope of interests in the classical sciences, he has studied under top scholars worldwide and earned certifications in ʿaqīdah and hadith.
As a specialist in creed, Dr. Zohair has published numerous papers on shirk, tawhid and modern ideologies.
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