Gus Baha: People, how come it's so easy to accuse Shirk!

 

Gus Baha: People, how come it's so easy to accuse Shirk!

KH Bahaudin Nursalim or who is familiarly called Gus Baha admitted that he was surprised by the behavior of some people. In one of his studies, as reported by the Santri Gayeng Youtube account , Gus Baha regretted that it was easy for people to accuse shirk.

According to Gus Baha, shirk is in the heart. How can we easily accuse other people of shirk when we do not understand what is in their hearts. In a more concrete example, for example in the case of storing a keris.

"How can you punish shirk for people who wear kris and others, when you don't know what the motive is for wearing them," explained Gus Baha when delivering a study at the East Java PWNU Office on October 12, 2019.

For Gus Baha, it could be that people use the kris like people who always carry an ATM everywhere.

“City people are not convicted of shirk, even though they always carry cell phones and ATMs. The Javanese also don't like it if they don't wear a keris," he continued.

Gus Baha's astonishment has a point. The author also found the same thing. Once, the author saw an Islamic influencer on Twitter accusing others of committing shirk just because he made a video as if he was talking to Allah SWT. When the influencer was asked where the element of shirk was, he was mute.

If what is meant by shirk is as if we think of God as a creature because we can talk, even in prayer we actually talk to God. Not only that, even praying we are actually talking to God.

Imam Sayyid Ahmad Masyhur Al-Haddad said, "It has become a consensus among scholars' not to disbelieve in a person from the Qibla (Muslim) unless that person denies the existence or existence of the Creator of the Almighty, the Most High, the Most High. Or commit shirk that is clearly shirk that cannot be interpreted as denying the existence of nubuwwah (prophecy).”

From Imam al-Haddad's explanation above, we can understand that it is strictly forbidden to sentence others to shirk, let alone disbelief, unless the shirk is clear, such as not believing in Allah, the prophets and the Last Day.

So, if someone does something other than that. So we are prohibited from condemning him to shirk, let alone disbelievers. Because we don't know what's in his heart. This was stated by Imam al-Ghazali in his  Bidayatul Hidayah. According to him, people who just judge others as polytheists or disbelievers are people who like to interfere in the personal affairs of a servant and his Lord. They seem to know what is really in the heart of a Muslim, only armed with outward actions that can save many possibilities.

Even though we are always reminded of a hadith that says that accusing others of being infidels, while the accusation is not proven, will return to the accuser.

عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُمَا قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: إذَا قَالَ الرَّجُلُ لِأَخِيهِ: يَا كَافِرُ، فَقَدْ بَاءَ بِهَا أَحَدُهُمَا. فَإنْ كانَ كَمَا قَالَ، وَإلاَّ رَجَعَتْ عَلَيْهِ. (متفق عليه)

It means, "It was narrated from Ibn Umar radhiyallahu 'anhuma, he said: 'The Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: 'When a person says to his brother: 'O infidels', then the speech will return to one of them, provided that the accusation can be proven, otherwise it is a sin. the charge goes back to him'.” (Muttafaq 'Alaih).

May we be kept away from the origin of accusations of shirk and disbelief. 

Wallahu a'lam.