The Ahadeeth of Tawheed
from the
Silsilah Ahadeeth As-Saheehah
of
Shaykh Al-Albaani
Translated by
Abbas Abu Yahya
34- From Obligatory Behaviour with Allaah is Leaving Shirk even if it is in Wording
136 – “Say: Whatever Allaah wills then say whatever you will, and say: I swear by the Lord of the Ka’ba.“
The origin of the hadeeth is: “Verily a Rabbi came to the Prophet -sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam – and said; Verily you commit Shirk! You say ‘whatever Allaah wills and whatever you will‘, and you say, ‘By the Ka’ba‘. So, the Messenger of Allaah -sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam – said; “Say: Whatever Allaah wills then say whatever you will, and say: I swear by the Lord of the Ka’ba.”
137 – “Do not say: whatever Allaah wills and whatever so and so wills, but you should say: whatever Allaah wills then whatever so and so wills.”
138- “Without doubt Tufail (a Companion) saw a dream and he informed some of those amongst you about it. In it you were saying a sentence, which some of those who are living amongst you, were trying to prevent me from forbidding.’ Then he mentioned: ‘Do not say: Whatever Allaah wills and whatever Muhammad wills.”
139 – “Have you made me equivalent with Allaah (and in a wording: a partner?!) No, but you should say whatever Allaah Alone wills.”
Fiqh ul-Hadeeth:
I say: So in these Ahadeeth, the saying of a man to another person: “Whatever Allaah wills and whatever you will” is regarded as Shirk in the sight of the Sharia’. And it is committing Shirk in wording, since it gives the impression that whatever the slave wills is at the same level as what Allaah Subhana wa Ta’ala wills. The reason being is that it equates the two wills.
Similar to this is the saying of some of the general people and their like, from those who claim to have knowledge who say, “I have no one other than Allaah and you.” Or they say, “we have relied upon Allaah and yourself.” Similar to this is the statement of some of those who deliver lectures: ‘In the name of Allaah and the country’ or ‘In the name of Allaah and the people’ and other similar words of Shirk. It is obligatory to leave them and repent from them, so as to have good conduct with Allaah Tabaraka wa Ta’ala.
Many of the general people have become neglectful of this noble behavior, not just the minority of educated Muslims who justify the pronouncement of these types of Shirk – such as calling on other than Allaah in circumstances of extreme hardship or seeking aid with the deceased of the righteous people such that they swear by them, rather than swearing by Allaah Ta’ala and such that they swear by them above Allaah. So, if a scholar of the Book and the Sunnah refutes them, instead of them being with him in aiding against evil, they rebel against him by refuting him and saying that: the intention of those who call on other than Allaah is good and “verily actions are but by their intentions” as is mentioned in the hadeeth!
So, they are ignorant or pretend to be ignorant, trying to please the general people. If a good intention is found with the aforementioned, then it still does not make an evil action good. As for the meaning of the hadeeth which is mentioned, then it is that actions are but with sincere intentions, the meaning is not that actions which oppose the Sharia’ become good, permissible actions just because a good intention is attached to them. No one says this except an ignorant person or one who follows his desires!
Do you not see that if a person prays towards a grave that this would be regarded as an evil action due to him opposing the Ahadeeth and the Athaar which mention the prohibition of facing a grave in prayer? So would an intelligent person say that, if a person returns and faces the grave in prayer after knowing its prohibition that, his intention was good and his action was permissible? No never! Likewise, those people who seek aid from other than Allaah Ta’ala whilst they forget Him when they are in a situation where they are in most need of His help and aid, it is not possible to say that their intention was good, let alone that their action was good. Yet they proceed upon this evil while they know it is wrong.