1. Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims
  2. Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

35 Questions

If a person reprograms their brain to achieve beauty and high exam scores through the law of attraction and low-frequency messages, could this be considered Shirk?
Amina Inloes

Insofar as Allah has granted us an imaginative faculty and the creative faculty, it is not shirk to imagine a future that we would like, or to change our thinking (as long as it is not causing harm or something haraam).

Of course, you will still need to study for your exams! 
Is it considered Shirk to visit a polytheist temple as a tourist?
Zaid Alsalami

Bismihi ta'ala

No, it is not considered shirk to visit a temple as a tourist, unless they are somehow forced to acknowledge the divinity or the idols there, or entailing some other haram act.

And Allah knows best.
Are the Ahlul Bayt created from Allah's Nur? Is God not independent of His creation and their limits? How can any creation be a part of Allah? How is this distinct from the shirk of Christians?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

No one is part from Allah. Allah, The Glorious Has Created the Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) and his Progeny Ahlul Bayt (AS) from His Noor but no one is part from Allah. Allah Says in Quran abiut the creation of Adam: When I Have Completed creating him and breathed on him from My Spirit, then you fall down prostrating for him. (Sura Al-Hijr, verse 29). This does not mean that Adam was created from a part of Allah.

'We believe that no one and nothing can be part of Allah.

'Wassalam.
What advice to a Sunni can you provide for dealing with the fear of committing Shirk while studying graphic design in school, when it involves drawing and animating living things in their complete form, and switching the subject is not an option?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

The Muslims who believes that there is no God, but Allah can never commit Shirk. Manufacturing idols is not permissible, but it can never make the sinners who believes in the Tawheed of Allah can never make him a Mushrik. Graphic design of animation is permissible and it does not resemble idol manufacturing. It is good to note that the Wahabi claims of allegation of Shirk are based on the misunderstanding the narration of Prophet Muhammad (SAWS). They mix between the meanings of the Arabic words, at that time with the different meanings of the same words in today’s time.

Wassalaam