{"id":15262,"date":"2025-05-29T03:49:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/?p=15262"},"modified":"2025-05-29T03:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:49:30","slug":"what-is-polytheism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/what-is-polytheism\/","title":{"rendered":"What is polytheism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-75239f1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-25632\" data-id=\"75239f1\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c35d4ac elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c35d4ac\" 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\">P<\/span><\/span>olytheism, or <em>shirk<\/em> in Islam, is the act of associating partners with All\u0101h or attributing divine qualities to anyone or anything besides Him. This includes worshiping others alongside All\u0101h, seeking help from idols, saints, or false gods, or believing that anyone else shares in All\u0101h\u2019s power, knowledge, or authority.<\/p>\n<p>Polytheism is considered the gravest sin in Islam because it contradicts the core belief in <em>Taw\u1e25\u012bd<\/em> (the oneness of All\u0101h). All\u0101h strongly warns against <em>shirk<\/em> in the Qur\u2019an:<\/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>Polytheism, or shirk in Islam, is the act of associating partners with All\u0101h or attributing divine qualities to<\/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-15262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamqa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15262","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=15262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15263,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15262\/revisions\/15263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}