| Three Staunch Enemies of
Shirk [Polytheism]. All the 124,000 Prophets, their successors,
associates and the true followers effectively preached Tawhid [Pure Monotheism]
and exhaustively fought Shirk [Polytheism], but THREE out of them will be remembered
as the Heroes and Men of admirable exploits in the history of mankind. The
three Champions are : - Hazrat Ibrahim (as).
-
Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa (sws)
- Hazrat Ali (as).
Hazrat
Ibrahim (as) embarked a historic war against the Shirk and idolatry. He alone
destroyed all the idols which were being worshipped by his whole nation. Quran
has quoted many of his beautiful scientific speeches which he gave to his nation
denouncing the Shirk and idol-worship. Hazrat Muhammad
Mustafa (sws) waged a grand and heroic war against all kinds of polytheism and
taught pure and absolute monotheism, “There is no god but Allah, Who has
no partner ”.
Thousands of people rejected Shirk and accepted his message
of Tawhid in his life time, and billions of people, since then, have followed
his teaching of pure monotheism. He is the Hero of the Heroes. Hazrat
Ali(as) destroyed all the 360 idols which were placed in the Kaaba. He made the
historic announcement that no Mushrik is allowed to enter in the vicinity of sacred
Kaaba. The Divine Order of Exclusion, declared by him, are enforced till today
and will remain valid until the entire human race rejects polytheism and becomes
Muslim. One of the titles of Hazrat Ali (as) is Killer of Mushrikeens MINOR
SHIRK OR SHIRK-E-ASGHAR. [CONCEALED SHIRK] The Holy Prophet
and the 12 Imams have tightly sealed the Islamic faith to leave no way for penetration
of shirk. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), a Scottish essayist,
historian and great philosopher, writes inhis famous book, ‘On Heroes and
hero-worship’, that Prophet Muhammad (sws) has dismantled all man-made gods
when he acquired the highest position and claimed that heis a human being. The
Holy Prophet made extensive efforts that Muslims should never commit Shirk like
the nations of the previous prophets. But despite his
great efforts of crushing Shirk, he expressed his fear that his Ummah willcommit
Shirk-e-Asghar. He, therefor, specifically cautioned about the Shirk-e-Asghar.
The Holy Prophet (sws) said; “Abstain from minor
Polytheism. The worst thing which I fear for you is your hidden polytheism; so
rise above it since among my followers polytheism is more secret than the creeping
of the ant on a hard stone in the dark night.”
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