Blind Adoption Is Wrong

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Quoted from the book (An Hour with Ghosts) By Mohammed-Ali Hassan Al-Hilli
Any man that imitates and follows others [without thinking] is like a blind man guided by a seer; so that he may stumble in his way, and may fall into a pit if his leader is unaware of him.

God rebuked those who imitate and follow others [without thinking], and He praised those using their mind, and who do not follow others blindly in religion and belief.

God – be glorified – said in the Quran 43: 23-24; dispraising the imitators [who blindly adopt opinions and concepts]:
وَكَذَلِكَ مَا أَرْسَلْنَا مِن قَبْلِكَ فِي قَرْيَةٍ مِّن نَّذِيرٍ إِلَّا قَالَ مُتْرَفُوهَا إِنَّا وَجَدْنَا آبَاءنَا عَلَى أُمَّةٍ وَإِنَّا عَلَى آثَارِهِم مُّقْتَدُونَ . قالَ أَوَلَوْ جِئْتُكُم بِأَهْدَى مِمَّا وَجَدتُّمْ عَلَيْهِ آبَاءكُمْ
The explanation:
(Just in the same way, whenever We sent a warner before you [Mohammed] to any people, the luxurious ones among them said: "We found our fathers following a certain religion, and we will certainly follow in their footsteps."

[And the warner] said: "What! Even though I bring you better guidance than that you found your fathers following?")

God – be glorified – said also in the Quran 2: 170
أَوَلَوْ كَانَ آبَاؤُهُمْ لاَ يَعْقِلُونَ شَيْئاً وَلاَ يَهْتَدُونَ
The explanation:
(What! Eventhough their fathers were completely unreasonable and had no guidance?)

Moreover, God – be glorified – said also in the Quran 5: 104
أَوَلَوْ كَانَ آبَاؤُهُمْ لاَ يَعْلَمُونَ شَيْئًا وَلاَ يَهْتَدُونَ
The explanation:
(What! Even though their fathers were not knowing anything nor were they guided?")

Then God – be glorified – explained that leaders will deny and withdraw from followers and imitators, who imitated and followed them, on the Day of Judgment; and that there will be enmity and hatred between leaders and their followers; as in the Quran 2: 166-167
إِذْ تَبَرَّأَ الَّذِينَ اتُّبِعُواْ مِنَ الَّذِينَ اتَّبَعُواْ وَرَأَوُاْ الْعَذَابَ وَتَقَطَّعَتْ بِهِمُ الأَسْبَابُ . وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ اتَّبَعُواْ لَوْ أَنَّ لَنَا كَرَّةً فَنَتَبَرَّأَ مِنْهُمْ كَمَا تَبَرَّؤُواْ مِنَّا
The explanation:
([On the day] when [leaders] who were followed shall disown [their] followers, and they [shall] see the doom, and all their efforts [to be saved of the torment] shall collapse with them.
And followers will say [to their leaders]: "If a return [to the life of the World] were possible for us, we would disown them even as have they disowned us.")

In addition, God – be glorified – said in the Quran 33: 67 telling about the imitating followers [who blindly adopt opinions and concepts]:
وَقَالُوا رَبَّنَا إِنَّا أَطَعْنَا سَادَتَنَا وَكُبَرَاءنَا فَأَضَلُّونَا السَّبِيلَا
The explanation:
(And they [will] say: "Our Lord, we obeyed our princes and chiefs, and they misled us from the [right] way.")

God – be glorified – said in the Quran 38: 59-61
هَذَا فَوْجٌ مُّقْتَحِمٌ مَّعَكُمْ لَا مَرْحَبًا بِهِمْ إِنَّهُمْ صَالُوا النَّارِ . قَالُوا بَلْ أَنتُمْ لَا مَرْحَبًا بِكُمْ أَنتُمْ قَدَّمْتُمُوهُ لَنَا فَبِئْسَ الْقَرَارُ . قَالُوا رَبَّنَا مَن قَدَّمَ لَنَا هَذَا فَزِدْهُ عَذَابًا ضِعْفًا فِي النَّارِ
The explanation:
(This is a troop rushing in [to the fire] with you; [they will say]: "There is no welcome for them; they will burn in the fire."

[The followers will] say [to their leaders]: "No, it is you have no welcome; you forwarded it for us, so let evil be your settlement [in the fire.]"

[The followers will] say: "Our Lord, whoso forwarded this [torment], give him a double chastisement in the fire.")

I say: the Muslim [and anyone who believes in Jesus Christ and the rest of God's prophets], should not follow anyone of religious doctors and leaders blindly without thinking and contemplation; but he should follow the Quran, which is the word of God that no falsehood can touch whether in the past or in the future.

While as regards the divisions and sects of Muslims; they became seventy three sects inspite of that Prophet – salam be to him – did not bring save one religion, one Book and one law; but God's adversaries have divided Muslims into many divisions aiming to attain the leadership, control and supervision as it is said in an Arabic parable:
"Divide [your enemies] and you will supervene!"

Each sect says: We are right and the others are wrong, but [actually] each follows his fathers and forefathers even if those were wrong.

God – be glorified – said in the Quran 7: 30
إِنَّهُمُ اتَّخَذُوا الشَّيَاطِينَ أَوْلِيَاء مِن دُونِ اللّهِ وَيَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّهُم مُّهْتَدُونَ
The explanation:
(These, indeed, take devils [out of men] for [their] friends instead of God, [yet] they deem themselves rightly guided.)

Moreover, God – be glorified – said in the Quran 43: 37
وَإِنَّهُمْ لَيَصُدُّونَهُمْ عَنِ السَّبِيلِ وَيَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّهُم مُّهْتَدُونَ

The explanation:
(And the [devils] surely turn the [associaters] from the way [of the truth], and yet the [associaters] deem themselves rightly guided.)

I say: Have they referred to a just judge or a referee, so that he judged for one of the Islamic sects that it is right, while the other sects are wrong; or has God revealed in the Quran that a certain sect or division is right?

No, neither of these two suppositions is right; but merely it is a blind adoption.

In fact, God – be glorified – explained and made it clear, in several soora's [or chapters] of the Quran, that monotheists are right and are rightly guided, while associaters or polytheists are wrong, and they will abide in Hell forever.

But if you say to anyone of them: You are an associater (or a polytheist), he will deny that and become angry and say: No, on the contrary, I am a monotheist, and God is One without any associate with Him. 23

But if you say to him: Then why do you serve and sanctify graves?
He will say: These are our intercessors and mediators with God.
Which is just as how the pagan Arab, who served angels, said as indicated by His saying – be glorified – in the Quran 10: 18
وَيَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ اللّهِ مَا لاَ يَضُرُّهُمْ وَلاَ يَنفَعُهُمْ وَيَقُولُونَ هَؤُلاء شُفَعَاؤُنَا عِندَ اللّهِ
The explanation:
(They worship, apart from God, what [can] neither hurt them nor profit them, and they say: "These [idols] are our intercessors with God!")

And God – be glorified – said in the Quran 39: 3
وَالَّذِينَ اتَّخَذُوا مِن دُونِهِ أَوْلِيَاء مَا نَعْبُدُهُمْ إِلَّا لِيُقَرِّبُونَا إِلَى اللَّهِ زُلْفَى
The explanation:
(But those who chose "protecting friends" apart from [God], [and say:] "We serve them only that they may bring us nearer to God in honor!")

Nowadays, those who worship the graves and shrines say the same words.
I say: Do the silver and the gold which is on the shrines of the saints and imams: is it which brings them near to God? Or do the souls of the saints and imams do that?

If they say: the gold and the silver; then they are wrong; for God – be glorified – said in the Quran 34: 37
وَمَا أَمْوَالُكُمْ وَلَا أَوْلَادُكُم بِالَّتِي تُقَرِّبُكُمْ عِندَنَا زُلْفَى
The explanation:
(It is not your [abundant] wealth [even though you spent all of it in charity] would bring you to Our neighborhood, nor would your children [even though they worked righteous work] have an honorable degree before Us [because you are associaters])

But if they say: Souls of saints will bring us near to God; then I say: Prophets and saints ascended to the Gardens following their death, and nothing remained on the earth except decayed bodies and corpses which do not bring any benefit nor drive away any harm.

And because the abode of prophets and saints is in the heavens, they do not hear anyone who call them, and they do not perceive their secret conversation, and are unable to grant people their needs.

God – be glorified – said in the Quran 35: 14
إِن تَدْعُوهُمْ لَا يَسْمَعُوا دُعَاءكُمْ وَلَوْ سَمِعُوا مَا اسْتَجَابُوا لَكُمْ وَيَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يَكْفُرُونَ بِشِرْكِكُمْ
The explanation:
(If you pray to them [your associaters], they hear not your prayer [because they are in the ethereal heavens faraway from you], and if they [: those angels present on the earth] heard they could not grant it you [because they work according to their Lord's instructions.] On the Day of Judgment they will disown your associating [them with God.])

Therefore, if you like to be saved, then abandon worshipping men and sanctifying them, even though they are prophets, but worship and serve your Lord alone, and don't associate anyone else in the worship.

God – be glorified – said in the Quran in the end of chapter 18: 110
فَمَن كَانَ يَرْجُو لِقَاء رَبِّهِ فَلْيَعْمَلْ عَمَلًا صَالِحًا وَلَا يُشْرِكْ بِعِبَادَةِ رَبِّهِ أَحَدًا
The explanation:
(Then let him who hopes to meet his Lord work righteous works, and associate none in worshipping his Lord.)

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An Hour with Ghosts

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- Therefore, if they are asked on Judgment Day about their association with God, they will say, as in the aya 6: 23-
قَالُواْ وَاللّهِ رَبِّنَا مَا كُنَّا مُشْرِكِينَ
The explanation:
([They] say: "By God, our Lord, we never associated [other gods with You.]")