Spiritual Disease and Its Cure by Imam Shams-ud-Deen Muhammad bin Abi Bakr bin Qayyim AlJ awziyyah

Allah ~ sent His Messengers, sent down His Revelation, and created the heavens and the earth in order to be worshipped, Alone. Allah ~ wants all obedience and invitations of worship to be directed to Hirn ~. as He ~ is the One God, Who owns all things. Allah ~ has said: (I (Allah) did not create the jinn and mankind except that they should worship Me (Alone)) 1 (We did not create the heavens and the earth and all that is between them except with the truth)2 (It is Allah Who has created seven heavens and of the earth the like thereof. His Command descends between them, that you may know that Allah has power over all things, and that Allah surrounds all things in (His) Knowledge.) 3 ( Allah has made the Ka'bah, the Sacred House, an asylum of security and benefits for mankind, and also the Sacred Month and the animals of offerings and the garlanded, that you may know that Allah has knowledge of all that is in the heavens and that is in the earth; and Allah is the All-Knower of all things.)4 So Allah ~ has informed us that the purpose of His Creation and Command is: that He should be known through His Names and Attributes, and that He, Alone, should be worshipped, without associating any partner with Him. He ~ wants people to act fairly among themselves, as this fairness is the justice upon which the heavens and the earth were established; He ~ said: (Indeed, We have sent Our Messengers with clear proofs, and revealed with them the Scripture and the Balance Gustice) that mankind may keep up justice) 5 The highest example of justice is Monotheism (Worshipping Allah, Alone), while the greatest act of injustice is polytheism, being the greatest of the major sms. One should reflect well on this foundation, and know its details , in order to learn the wisdom of the Best of Judges (Allah ~ ), in everything that He has Commanded to do as well as everything He forbade. The basis of Shirk (polytheism) is certainly the opposite of Tawhid (Monotheism), and therefore Shirk is defined as the greatest of the major sins. Consequently, Allah ~ has forbidden the entry of every polytheist to Paradise. He ~ has legalised, for the Muslims, the blood, property and family of a polytheist, and they may even be taken as slaves. This is because they have rejected the Command of Allah ~ to worship Him, Alone. He ~ does not accept any of the deeds of polytheists, nor does He accept any intercession from them. He ~ will not answer their supplications in the Hereafter, because they were the most ignorant of Him ~' as they associated partners with Him, which was the worst act of injustice on their part, even though they were simply acting unjustly towards themselves.