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Tawheed & Shirk

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Venerating other than Allah (may He be Glorified)

Welcoming a coming person by standing up and kissing them

Bowing or to taking off shoes to greet others

Impermissibility of bowing to greet a Muslim or a non-Muslim

Students standing up when their teacher enters the classroom

Standing up as a way of honoring the national anthem

Saluting the flag, honoring officers, and shaving beards when in the army

Saluting the leaders and the presidents like non-Muslims do

Ruqyah and amulets

The Qur'an heals the ailments of the hearts and bodies

Reciting Surah Al-Ikhlas, Al-Mu`awwidhatayn, and Al-Fatihah as a cure for illness

Ruqyah with the Qur’an, Dhikr, and Du`a'

Seeking treatment by reciting the Qur'an through Ruqyah and making amulets and charms with it

Saying Ruqyah in return for fees

Reciting the Qur'an for a sick person

Treating patients through Ruqyah by reciting the Qur'an and saying Dhikr and Du`a' reported in authentic Hadith

Writing some Ayahs of the Qur'an

Whoever visits a diviner and asks them about anything, their Prayers will not be accepted for forty nights

Permissibility of Ruqyah by reciting the Qur'an for others

The lawful Ruqyah is that taken from the Qur'an and the Du`a' reported in authentic Hadith

Ruqyah by reciting the Qur'an and saying Dhikr and Du`a' reported in authentic Hadith

Charms, amulets and love-potions count as Shirk

Treating a person possessed by jinn according to the Shari`ah

Ruqyah is permissible when it does not entail any Shirk

Permissibility of supplicating with the Names of Allah to be cured from illness

Going to a diviner in cases of illness

Ruqyah used by Bedouins seeking treatment from vermin bites

Going to practitioners of acts of Shirk who supplicate and seek help from the dead

Treating a patient possessed by jinn by reciting Ayat over them

Ruqyah by reciting the Qur'an, Dhikr and anything that does not entail Shirk

Amulets

Writing an Ayah of the Qur'an and wearing it around the upper arm

Carrying pocket-sized copies of the Mushaf for protection against envy or the envious eye

Reciting the Qur'an on some water of Zamzam then giving it to someone to drink to fulfill a need

Writing Qur'anic Ayahs or any other Du`a' Ma'thur to be hung on the sick seeking recovery

Wearing Qur'anic amulets by humans

Wearing amulets and talismans containing some Qur'anic Ayahs

Reciting some Ayahs on water for the sick and asking them to drink it

Ruling on Ruqyah and amulets

Writing some Ayahs of the Qur'an and Allah's Most Beautiful Names in amulets to be worn around the neck

Wearing amulets containing Ayahs, Hadith, or strange words by the sick

Istighfar and Du`a' for a person who used to invoke the dead

Receiving fees for making amulets

"Whoever wears an amulet, may Allah not fulfill their want for them, and whoever wears a seashell, may Allah not give them peace"

Putting a piece of cloth, leather, or the like on the abdomen of a baby

Praying behind who makes amulets containing Ayahs or Du`a'

Offering Salah while wearing amulets

Al-Hijab Al-Hasin is an abhorred Bid`ah and a kind of making amulets

Using a chain for self-preservation, marketing, and offering it to a girl to marry her

Hanging a piece of metal by a woman during the postpartum period or by a circumcised person as a charm to bring benefit or prevent evil

Eating from animals slaughtered by those who profess Shahadah, perform Salah, pay Zakah, observe Sawm, and perform Hajj but wear amulets

Wearing amulets containing Ayahs and other writings

Making unlawful Dhikr a means of protection

Prostration before other than Allah

Whoever dies as a disbeliever will not be forgiven and shall abide forever in Hell

Prostrating before other than Allah and slaughtering animals for them

Performing Ruku` for one's parents

Swearing by other than Allah

Swearing by other than Allah and saying "What Allah and I will" and "None can help me except Allah and you"

Swearing by honesty

Swearing by other than Allah as Shirk

Seeking help from the Jinn, hypnosis and swearing by people

Swearing by other than Allah

Taking an oath by other than Allah

Praying behind someone who swears by other than Allah and hangs amulets

Swearing by Allah and His Attributes

Swearing by a pious shaykh

Swearing by graves and shaykhs

Swearing by the Qur'an and by other than Allah

Exaggeration regarding graves and building Masjids over them

Cursing the religion and ridiculing anything related to the Qur’an or the Sunnah

The vision attributed to the attendant of the Prophet's grave

Visiting graves for anyone other than women

There is no obedience to a creature in disobedience to the Creator

Destroying statues and obliterate their drawings and wiping out pictures and their drawings

Demolishing small and big Masjids built over graves

Prostrating and slaughtering animals on graves

Taking graves as places of worship

Prostrating and slaughtering animals on graves

Praying in a Masjid where someone is buried

Praying in Masjids that have graves and shrines

Building Masjids over the graves of the Awliya'

Praying in a Masjid with a grave and honoring the dead and invoking them

Building and praying in a Masjid that has a grave in it

Building Masjids over graves

Giving in charity to build a Masjid over the grave

Participating in building a Masjid over a grave

Building over graves as an abominable Bid`ah

Building Masjids over graves

Cursing Islam is an act of serious Riddah

Praying in a Masjid that has a grave and taking it a place of distributing charity and food among people

Praying in the shrine seeking blessings from the Waliy

Praying in a Masjid built over an old cemetery

Building a Masjid over an old cemetery

Offering Jumu`ah prayer in the Masjid where there are graves

Including the mentioned grave or any part of the cemetery in the Masjid

Placing a grave in the Masjid

Specifying an area in the Masjid to bury the person who built it or any other person

Praying in the Masjid built over a grave and invoking the dead

Making the Prophet's grave a place visited daily

Visiting Al-Masjid Al-Nabawy

Traveling to Madinah to pray in Al-Masjid Al-Nabawy

Traveling to visit the graves of the prophets, righteous people and others

Visiting the Prophet's Masjid and praying there

Pilgrims visiting the Prophet's grave and Al-Baqi`

Visiting the graves of righteous men, slaughtering for them and supplicating to them

Ibn Al-Qayyim's stance from traveling to Al-Khalil's grave and claiming the fire will end

Seeking blessings from graves and their dwellers