{"id":6580,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/why-is-shirk-unforgiveable\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:26:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:26:51","slug":"why-is-shirk-unforgiveable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/why-is-shirk-unforgiveable\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is &#8220;Shirk&#8221; Unforgiveable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>I have following questions: <\/p>\n<div>1 &#8211; Why is &#8220;<em>shirk<\/em>&#8221;  been declared as a sin which will not be forgiven in any case. A  Buddhist friend of mine says that isn\u2019t God very selfish while declaring  this? Kindly, respond and also tell the effect of &#8220;<em>shirk<\/em>&#8221; on worldly life? <\/div>\n<div>2 &#8211; My second question is regarding the act of <em>zina<\/em>. A person who is committing <em>zina<\/em> or (in second case) going near <em>zina<\/em>, answerable to God only or the society as well? Can some body say, to the person who is committing <em>zina<\/em> or going near, that you are answerable to us as well? <\/div>\n<p>3-  Thirdly, if one comes to know that an individual near him or in his  community is doing something wrong, what should be the right approach  towards his correction? <\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>1.  The reason that the Almighty has called shirk a heinous sin is that a  person has no means to know whether God has partners or not. Only God  could have revealed this information to man and since He has not,  ascribing partners to God is like imputing falsehood to Him.<\/p>\n<div>2. A person who is doing <em>zina<\/em>  is answerable to God only if the matter has not been reported to the  law\/police. He or she should repent after this act and others should  hide their sin. However, if the matter is taken to the court of law,  then even if he or she repents the law will takes its course, and in  this case the repentance might be able to save them from punishment in  the Hereafter. <\/div>\n<div>3.  There is no rule of thumb in this regard. It depends on the person who  is to be corrected and his circumstances. At times, talking to him helps  and at others setting an example before him is useful. In some cases,  it is better for an elder to talk and in some cases, children too can  play a role. In short, it is a case to case issue.<\/div>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Dr. Shehzad Saleem<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-02-21<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6580\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have following questions: <\/p>\n<div>1 &#8211; Why is &#8220;<em>shirk<\/em>&#8221;  been declared as a sin which will not be forgiven in any case. A  Buddhist friend of mine says that isn\u2019t God very selfish while declaring  this? Kindly, respond and also tell the effect of &#8220;<em>shirk<\/em>&#8221; on worldly life? <\/div>\n<div>2 &#8211; My second question is regarding the act of <em>zina<\/em>. A person who is committing <em>zina<\/em> or (in second case) going near <em>zina<\/em>, answerable to God only or the society as well? Can some body say, to the person who is committing <em>zina<\/em> or going near, that you are answerable to us as well? <\/div>\n<p>3-  Thirdly, if one comes to know that an individual near him or in his  community is doing something wrong, what should be the right approach  towards his correction? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1265],"tags":[1737,2443,2404],"class_list":["post-6580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith-and-beliefs","tag-polytheism","tag-polytheist","tag-shirk"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Is &quot;Shirk&quot; Unforgiveable? - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/why-is-shirk-unforgiveable\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Is &quot;Shirk&quot; Unforgiveable? - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have following questions: 1 - Why is &quot;shirk&quot; been declared as a sin which will not be forgiven in any case. 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