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Shirk (Arabic: شِرْك, lit. 'association') in Islam is a sin often roughly translated as 'idolatry' or 'polytheism', but more accurately meaning 'association [with God]'. [1] [2] [a] It refers to accepting other divinities or powers alongside God as associates.
Shirk may refer to: Shirk (surname) Shirk (Islam), in Islam, the sin of idolatry or worshiping beings or things other than God ('attributing an associate (to God)') Shirk, Iran, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran; Shirk-e Sorjeh, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran "Shirk break", a synonym for coffee break
A number of different words for sin are used in the Islamic tradition. According to A. J. Wensinck's entry on the topic in the Encyclopedia of Islam, Islamic terms for sin include dhanb and khaṭīʾa, which are synonymous and refer to intentional sins; khiṭʾ, which means simply a sin; and ithm, which is used for grave sins.
Moses Indignant at the Golden Calf, painting by William Blake, 1799–1800. Idolatry is the worship of an idol as though it were a deity. [1] [2] [3] In Abrahamic religions (namely Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, Islam, and the Baháʼí Faith) idolatry connotes the worship of something or someone other than the Abrahamic God as if it were God.
The practice of many Islamic healers who claim to talk to jinn for the purpose of curing and preventing the evil eye and exorcism of possession by jinn, is believed to be the extremely serious sin of shirk (mentioned above) by more strict/conservative/orthodox Muslims.
The problems can come when resistance to defining a relationship is used as a kind of plausible deniability – a get-out-of-jail-free card that enables one party to shirk any responsibility for ...
“He didn’t shirk responsibility.” Unlike Trump, who hates to accept defeat and seldom admits to making a mistake, Grover Cleveland “could admit when he was wrong,” his grandson said.
The Kaaba (pictured c. 2018) was a prominent site for the Mushrikites. The Mushrikites (Arabic: الْمُشْرِكِين, romanized: al-Mushrikīn or Arabic: الْمُشْرِكُون, romanized: al-Mushrikūn, singular Arabic: مُشْرِك, romanized: mushrik) were the Arab polytheists who committed shirk and opposed the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers, the Muslims, in the ...