{"id":15236,"date":"2025-05-29T02:10:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/?p=15236"},"modified":"2025-05-29T02:10:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:10:53","slug":"are-good-deeds-accepted-by-allah-if-a-person-commits-polytheism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/are-good-deeds-accepted-by-allah-if-a-person-commits-polytheism\/","title":{"rendered":"Are good deeds accepted by All\u0101h if a person commits polytheism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7b63049 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-25644\" data-id=\"7b63049\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f12f50e elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f12f50e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p><span class=\"elementor-drop-cap\"><span class=\"elementor-drop-cap-letter\">N<\/span><\/span>o, good deeds are not accepted by All\u0101h if a person commits <em>shirk<\/em> (polytheism). In Islam, <em>shirk<\/em>\u2014associating partners with All\u0101h\u2014is the most severe sin, and it nullifies any good deeds performed alongside it. All\u0101h emphasizes this in the Qur\u2019an, warning that polytheism voids all acts of worship and devotion, as true worship must be directed to Him alone.<\/p>\n<p>All\u0101h says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>\u201cIf they had associated others with Him, then all that they used to do would have been in vain.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2014 <em>Surah Al-An\u2019am (6:88)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And also:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cIndeed, All\u0101h does not forgive associating partners with Him, but He forgives anything else for whom He wills.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2014 <em>Surah An-Nisa (4:48)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, good deeds are not accepted by All\u0101h if a person commits shirk (polytheism). In Islam, shirk\u2014associating partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamqa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15237,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15236\/revisions\/15237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}