Managing Polytheistic tendencies in an Islamic family-Islamic Dawah Group

By Ajayi Sodiq

These days, a large number of people engage in polytheistic acts of shirk. You feel as though there’s nowhere left to stop it from happening. Our homes are not immune to the spread of this deadly sin, whether through television or other forms and shapes of campaigns. We need to be shielded from it. To safeguard our loved ones and ourselves from these circumstances, we must be aware of them.

The Islamic Dawah Group hosted its monthly family seminar on February 3, 2023, where Professor Taofeek Abdul Azeez, the Chief Imam of the University of Abuja, discussed strategies for handling the tendency of shirk in an Islamic household. According to Imam Taofeek, shirk in the Muslim community is defined as directing our time, energy, resources, senses, shaytan (the devil), and desires away from worshipping Allah and toward something else instead of obeying Him. This includes worshipping statues.

He declared that the gods that people worship are explained by the scholars in pairs and are based on guidance from Allah and his messenger Muhammad ﷺ.it was reported that the prophet Muhammad ﷺ said “No obedience to any creature in disobedience to the creator”. Muslims worshipped the gods of intention and show-off, dua (supplication) and love, obedience and senses. Regarding intention combined with arrogance, any deed intended to appease someone other than Allah becomes a kind of worship, such as a wife who disobeys Allah or directs an act for her husband’s pleasure is more likely to be worshipping her spouse at all costs. The energy that is invested in pleasing other than Allah will be a thing of regret on the last day except for those that are directed to what the Shariah has legislated. Imam said that according to Allah’s message in the magnificent Quran, spending money for friendship, purchases, and intervention or rescue is acceptable, but using money to appease deities other than Allah is regarded as a polytheistic propensity.

Imam Taofeek also added, On the end day, Allah will question our hearts, hearings, and visions, therefore we must always use them to please Him. Shaytaan is our enemy, we must distance ourselves away from him. Spouses should be cautious of submitting to the whispering of the devil and repel all advances that may earn the anger of Allah.

Anyone who expects his/her partner to be perfect is a bad person. Professor Taofeek Abdul Azeez

The attendees recognized real-world instances of polytheistic inclinations inside an Islamic household. When a spouse learns that their partner has some demonic ability, they often regard them as gods due to the potential for good or ill luck. When a husband provides for his wife and never deprives her of her necessities or the home, the woman will often worship him and obey him at all costs. This is another instance of polytheistic inclinations in a Muslim home.

Audience contribution focused on looking back at previous generations. Wives had a duty to serve Allah through their husbands, and since this produced righteous children, the marriage was praised.

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