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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Respected Muslims be careful:
Your Deen (Religion) starts with the Aqeedah (Faith) of Tawheed, this is the bases /the Foundation.
Al-Tawheed ( pronounced as At-Tawheed) means to believe in the Absolute Oneness of God “Allah”. So becareful not to fall in any type of shirk ( associating anything or anyone with Allah in God-hood or Lord-ship).
Tawheed is a very delicate matter. Allah said in surah Al-Baqrah verse 22 (its translation is):
(2:22) It is He Who has made the earth a resting-place for you, and the sky a canopy, and sent down water from above wherewith He brought forth fruits for your sustenance. Do not, then, set up rivals[SUP]23[/SUP] to Allah when you know (the Truth).
Exp.note 23:
23. That is, when man recognizes that all those things were done by none but God, then worship, devotion and service must be exclusively for Him. For who besides the Creator can legitimately claim these things from man?
Not to set up others as rivals to Allah means not to make anyone other than God the object of worship, service and obedience that one owes to God alone. Later on we shall see, in some detail, how the Qur'an itself specifies the forms of worship and service which we owe exclusively to God, and wherein associating anyone else amounts to shirk (associating others with God in His divinity). This, the Qur'an seeks to eradicate.
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[Ibn `Abbas (ra) said, concerning this verse: "Al-Andaad means Shirk which is less conspicuous than a black ant crawling on a black stone in the darkness of the night, such as the saying: "By Allah and by your life, oh so-and-so!" or: "By your life," or: "If it had not been for this little dog, the burglars would have come to us," or "Had it not been for the duck in the house, the burglars would have come," or like a man's saying to his companion: "By Allah's and your will..." or: "As Allah and you will," or the saying of a man: "Had it not been for Allah and so-and-so..." - Do not mention anyone with Allah , because all of this is Shirk." (Narrated by Ibn Abi Hatim)]
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The danger of the word “andaad” (equal) can be understood by the above mentioned hadeeth which told us that it is like a black ant on a black rock moving towards you in the darkness of the night. An example of this kind of shirk (making something equal to God) is:
Some thieves enter a house at night. A dog in the house starts barking or some ducks start making noise, so the owners of the house wake up and the thieves run away. Then the owners say;
If this dog was not here (or they say; if the ducks were not here), the thieves would succeed. Thus they proclaim that they were protected from the thieves by the dog or ducks. They did shirk as in reality Allah (the All-Mighty God) protected them but made the dog or ducks a cause for their protection. But their faith became wrong as they made the dog / ducks andaad (equal to All-Mighty God).
So we all must be very careful about the Tawheed of Allah in all cases.
For more details see kitaab At-Tawheed: chapter 40.