What is shirk actually?
Let’s talk about shirk. Shirk is what they say when they attribute creation to something that normally belongs to God. SO WHAT they say is: evolution and natural selection. You cannot call these processes God! They are only theories which explain phenomena that normally are part of the creation by an Almighty and Absolute Being. Muslims believe in God, so naturally they attribute creation to Allah. Evolutionists might be calling themselves as nonbelievers, but that is not the case. We have so many believers in God, and they do not worship Him. So, evolutionists might say they do not believe in evolution like we believe in God, but they forget that belief and worship are two different things. So, worshiping God is something different. They are believers in evolution, and if they say Thank you mother nature, then they are not aware that this is a type of worship towards it. SO, we see that theological literacy is very necessary for all people. We must be theologically literate, at least to know basic everyday things we do and say, just like saying “thank you mother nature!”. Without being conscious what this means, they say it. This is a type of worship just like we believers in God say “Thank you God”, the difference is only: that we believe in God, and they believe in nature and attribute all attributes of creation to it.
Options to choose from — Many people might be wondering why it is important to be theologically literate, they might even say “I don’t like religion, so why?”, but let us explain what this really is.
This is like any other subject in school that is going to help you learn about yourself. Until now, you thought that evolution and natural selection are something completely normal and part of your scientific ideas, well, this is not the complete story. We need to identify ideas and concepts in order to give an understanding and explain what they mean and what they are for us. So, basically this doesn’t have to do with religion. This only identifies the concept in terms of theology which is a big domain of human society, and plays a major role in philosophy, which is part of human sciences. So, we can not really leave this up to the people. Because people are different and they have many different opinions, so actually we don’t care about what they choose from the options, what we care about is identifying these options, and so we do not have to do anything with their choices. We’re not trying to force upon them a religion or any form of conviction.
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Why it is important to identify concepts
SO, as I said, it’s about identification and explanation what these theories mean. People love to choose from different options and they like to do this, it is in our nature that we love to have different options to choose from. Think of it as a multiple economy in a state, people love to choose from different types of economies. If there is only a monopoly, nobody is happy about it. So, basically, if there are more options, people benefit more. So, identifying these options helps people know what they are happy about, what they have chosen and what it means in their daily life.
Shirk
So, shirk is two types: in concept, it means to attribute creation to something else along God, and two: it is an object or thing or phenomena: like an idol, or natural selection in this typical case.
