Allowing What Allah has Forbidden
Believing that anyone has the right to do so except Allah , referring matters for judgment to jaahili ( non-Islamic ) courts freely and by choice , and believing that this is permissible . Allah has mentioned this form of major kufr ( infidelity ) in the Qur`aan
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They ( Jews and Christians ) took their rabbis and their monks to their lords besides Allah ( by obeying them in things which they made lawful or unlawful according to their own desires without being ordered by Allah
"
.
[ Surah at-Tawbah (9):31]
When `Adiyy ibn Haatim heard the Prophet :salla: recite this aayah , he said
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" But they were not worshipping them "
The Prophet :salla: replied : " Yes , but they permitted things that Allah had forbidden , and the people accepted this , and they forbade things that Allah had Allowed , and the people accepted this too , and this is a form of worshipping them
"
.
Reported by al-Bayhaqi in al-Sunan al-Kubraa , 10/116 . See also at-Tirmidhi , no.3095.Al-Albaani classified it as hasan in Ghaayat al-Maraam , p. 19
Allah described the mushrikeen ( those who commit shirk , or polytheism ) as
:
" …
those who do not / forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth
…"
[ Surah at-Tawbah (9):29]
And Allah said
:
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Say : Tell me , what provision Allah has sent down to you , and you have made of it lawful and unlawful . Say : Has Allah permitted you ( to do so ) , or do you invent a lie against Allah
? "
[ Surah al-Yoonus (10):59]
