The Shirk of Voting to Man-Made
Law
The matter of ruling and judging
by other than what Allah (swt) has revealed, is greater than simply one of
disobedience in a single action. Rather, Allah (swt) has likened it to
following another God besides Him (swt) i.e. Shirk (the association of partners
with Allah). Allah (swt) has said,
“They imitate the sayings of
the disbelievers, Allah (swt)'s curse be on them, how they are deluded away
from the truth; They took their Rabbis and their Monks to be their Lords and
Legislators besides Allah (swt) and took the Messiah, the son of Mary, while
they were commanded to worship, obey and follow none but one God/Allah; none
has the right to be worshipped or followed and to legislate but he, praise and
glory be to him from having the partners they associate with him.” [EMQ 9:30-31]
Although we know that the Jews
and Christians do not prostrate, nor bow down to their priests or rabbis, they
followed them and agreed with them when matters that Allah (swt) had declared
forbidden, they would declare allowed; and matters declared allowed, their
priests would declare forbidden. In fact the above ayah was revealed in the
following circumstances.
It has been reported by
Hudhayfah in Ahmad, Tirmidhi and Ibn Jareer that the Messenger Muhammad (saw)
was reciting the above verse and Udayy (ra) said to Him (saw), 'Oh Rasool
Allah, they do not worship the Rabbis and the Monks' To which He (saw) replied:
'The Rabbis and Monks make that which is lawful unlawful and that which is
unlawful lawful and they i.e. the people, follow them, and by doing so they
worship them'
Allah (swt) and the Prophet
(saw) therefore considered that as making them lords and gods besides Allah
(swt), because the obedience (taa'ah) in legislation is worship, and must not
be for anyone except Allah (swt).
In addition, Allah (swt) says
in another explicit verse that obeying any man-made system knowingly with
consent for its source, different to Allah (swt) is an act of apostasy. For Allah
(swt) says,
”Eat not, Oh believers, of
that meat on which Allah (swt)'s name has not been pronounced at the time of
slaughtering the animal, for surely it is Fisq (a sin and disobedience of
Allah) and certainly the evil do inspire their friends to dispute with you and
if you were to obey them by making a dead (un-slaughtered) animal lawful and
eating it, then you would indeed be Mushrikoun (polytheists)” [EMQ 6:121]
As for the circumstances of
this verse, it has been reported in Al-Haakim upon the authority of Ibn Abbas
(ra) that this verse was addressing Muslims when a group of Mushriks were debating
with them on the issue of legislating. The Mushriks said:
'You call the sheep upon which
the name of Allah has not been mentioned; dead, who is the one who killed her?
'The Muslims said, 'Allah' So they replied, 'So what Allah has killed or slaughtered
by a golden knife is haram and what you have slaughtered with a metal knife is halaal?'
To which Allah (swt) revealed
the above ayah. The above ayah and its circumstances are quite explicit in its
distinction between committing a prohibited (haram) action and actually following
the kuffar when they rule against Allah's (swt) pronouncement on any matter.
Committing any prohibited deed
results in sin which will be accounted for on the Day of Judgment. However,
when Allah (swt) has declared a particular matter haram or prohibited, if one
where to obey and follow those who disregard the ruling and say that it is
allowed, then by doing this action it constitutes commiting Shirk (associating
partners with Allah) and one becomes a Mushrik. As Allah (swt) says, "and
if you were to obey them by making a dead (un-slaughtered) animal lawful and
eating it, then you would indeed be Mushrikoun." Shirk being the
gravest of sins since Allah (swt) has said about this,
"Allah (swt) does not
forgive Shirk (making partners with Allah (swt)) but He (swt) forgives what is
less than that to whomever His (swt) wills." [EMQ 4:40]
In another manifest ayah in
the Qur'an Allah (swt) says,
“Or have they partners with
Allah, who have legislated for them what Allah (swt) has not decreed and had it
not been for a decisive word the matter would have been judged between them and
verily for the Polytheists and wrongdoers there is a painful torment” [EMQ 42:21]
Moreover we know very well
that Allah (swt) says:
”And He made none share in his
decision or rule” [EMQ 18:26]
It is well known in Islam that
any law different to the law of Allah (swt) is Taghut (anything worshipped
followed and obeyed other then Allah (swt)), Allah rejects us to even refer to
Taghut,
“Have you seen those who claim
that they believe in that which has been sent down to you and that which has
been sent down before you and they wish to go for judgement in their dispute to
the Taghut i.e. false Judges etc. while they have been ordered to reject them
but Shaytaan wishes to lead them far astray” [EMQ 4:60]
In addition, Allah (swt) has
ordered us to reject the Kufr openly and declare our enmity towards it (bara'a)
as did the Prophet Ibraheem (as) when he (as) said,
"We are through with you
and those you worship other than Allah. We reject you. Enmity and hatred have
come between you and us forever, unless you believe in Allah the
One." [EMQ 60:4]
to be continued . . . .
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