shirk

shirk
(lit. ‘sharing’ or ‘associating’)
   Worshipping other deities or creatures alongside God (i.e. polytheism). This is the worst form of disbelief and, according to the Qur’an, the one sin that cannot be forgiven. This is because it flies in the face of Islam’s fundamental tenet, ‘There is no god but God’ (la ilaha illa Allah), effectively denying God’s existence as such. The accusation of shirk occurs as a common polemical denunciation against theological and philosophical opponents, where it can be employed rather loosely, based on the potential, unforeseen implications of a position rather than explicit claims. For instance, in the controversy concerning free will and predestination, both Mu‘tazilites and Ash‘arites accused each other of committing shirk (the Mu‘tazilites because they attribute to the human being a creative power comparable to God’s, the Ash‘arites because their doctrine of acquisition involves an association between God and the human being).

Islamic Philosophy. . 2007.

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