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QURAN
VERSES
ON SHIRK
Shirk, the act of associating partners with Allah, is
considered the gravest sin in Islam. The Quran addresses
this concept extensively, emphasizing its severity and the
importance of monotheism. Below is a compilation of key
verses related to shirk
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1. Surah An-Nisa (4:48):
Indeed, Allah does not forgive association with Him, but
He forgives what is less than that for whom He wills. And
he who associates others with Allah has certainly fabricated
a tremendous sin.
2. Surah An-Nisa (4:116):
Indeed, Allah does not forgive association with Him, but
He forgives what is less than that for whom He wills. And
he who associates others with Allah has certainly gone far
astray.
3. Surah Luqman (31:13):
And [mention, O Muhammad], when Luqman said to his
son while he was instructing him, “O my son, do not
associate [anything] with Allah. Indeed, association [with
Him] is great injustice.”
4. Surah Al-Ma’idah (5:72):
They have certainly disbelieved who say, “Allah is the
Messiah, the son of Mary” while the Messiah has said, “O
Children of Israel, worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord.”
Indeed, he who associates others with Allah—Allah has
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forbidden him Paradise, and his refuge is the Fire. And
there are not for the wrongdoers any helpers.
5. Surah Az-Zumar (39:65):
And it was already revealed to you and to those before you
that if you should associate [anything] with Allah, your
work would surely become worthless, and you would
surely be among the losers.
6. Surah Al-An’am (6:88):
That is the guidance of Allah by which He guides
whomever He wills of His servants. But if they had
associated others with Allah, then worthless for them
would be whatever they were doing.
7. Surah Al-An’am (6:151):
Say, “Come, I will recite what your Lord has prohibited to
you. [He commands] that you not associate anything with
Him, and to parents, good treatment…”
8. Surah An-Nahl (16:51):
And Allah has said, “Do not take for yourselves two deities.
He is but one God, so fear only Me.”
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9. Surah Al-Kahf (18:110):
Say, “I am only a man like you, to whom has been revealed
that your god is one God. So whoever would hope for the
meeting with his Lord—let him do righteous work and not
associate in the worship of his Lord anyone.”
10. Surah Al-Mu’minun (23:117):
And he who invokes besides Allah another deity for which
he has no proof—then his account is only with his Lord.
Indeed, the disbelievers will not succeed.
11. Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:213):
So do not invoke with Allah another deity and [thus] be
among the punished.
12. Surah Al-Qasas (28:88):
And do not invoke with Allah another deity. There is no
deity except Him. Everything will be destroyed except His
Face. His is the judgment, and to Him you will be returned.
13. Surah Az-Zumar (39:45):
And when Allah alone is mentioned, the hearts of those
who do not believe in the Hereafter shrink with aversion,
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but when those [worshipped] other than Him are
mentioned, immediately they rejoice.
14. Surah Ghafir (40:12):
[They will be told], “That is because, when Allah was called
upon alone, you disbelieved; but if others were associated
with Him, you believed. So the judgment is with Allah, the
Most High, the Grand.”
15. Surah Muhammad (47:19):
So know, [O Muhammad], that there is no deity except
Allah and ask forgiveness for your sin and for the believing
men and believing women. And Allah knows of your
movement and your resting place.
16. Surah Al-Hashr (59:23):
He is Allah, other than whom there is no deity, the
Sovereign, the Pure, the Perfection, the Bestower of Faith,
the Overseer, the Exalted in Might, the Compeller, the
Superior. Exalted is Allah above whatever they associate
with Him.
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17. Surah At-Tawbah (9:31):
They have taken their scholars and monks as lords besides
Allah, and [also] the Messiah, the son of Mary. And they
were not commanded except to worship one God; there is
no deity except Him. Exalted is He above whatever they
associate with Him.
18. Surah Al-Ankabut (29:65):
And when they board a ship, they supplicate Allah, sincere
to Him in religion. But when He delivers them to the land,
at once they associate others with Him.
19. Surah Ar-Rum (30:40):
Allah is the one who created you, then provided for you,
then will cause you to die, then will give you life. Are there
any of your “partners” who does anything of that? Exalted
is He and high above what they associate with Him.
20. Surah Al-Baqarah (2:22):
He who made for you from the earth a bed [spread out] and
the sky a canopy and sent down from the sky rain and
brought forth thereby fruits as provision for you. So do not
attribute to Allah equals while you know [that there is
nothing similar to Him].
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21. Surah Al-Baqarah (2:165):
And [yet], among the people are those who take other than
Allah as equals [to Him]. They love them as they [should]
love Allah. But those who believe are stronger in love for
Allah. And if only they who have wronged would consider
[that] when they see the punishment, [they will be certain]
that all power belongs to Allah and that Allah is severe in
punishment.
22. Surah Al-Mumtahanah (60:12):
O Prophet, when the believing women come to you
pledging to you that they will not associate anything with
Allah…
23. Surah Yusuf (12:106):
And most of them believe not in Allah except while they
associate others with Him.
24. Surah Al-An’am (6:82):
They who believe and do not mix their belief with injustice
- those will have security, and they are [rightly] guided.
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25. Surah Al-An’am (6:14):
Say, “Is it other than Allah I should take as a protector,
Creator of the heavens and the earth, while it is He who
feeds and is not fed?” Say, [O Muhammad], “Indeed, I have
been commanded to be the first [among you] who submit
[to Allah] and [was commanded], ‘Do not ever be of the
polytheists.’ “
26. Surah Al-An’am (6:19):
Say, “What thing is greatest in testimony?” Say, “Allah is
witness between me and you. And this Qur’an was
revealed to me that I may warn you thereby and whomever
it reaches. Do you [truly] testify that with Allah there are
other deities?” Say, “I will not testify [with you].” Say,
“Indeed, He is but one God, and indeed, I am free of what
you associate [with Him].”
27. Surah Al-An’am (6:22):
And [mention, O Muhammad], the Day We will gather
them all together; then We will say to those who associated
others with Allah, “Where are your ‘partners’ that you used
to claim [with Him]?”
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28. Surah Al-An’am (6:137):
And likewise, to many of the polytheists their partners have
made [to seem] pleasing the killing of their children…
29. Surah Al-A’raf (7:190):
But when He gives them a good [child], they ascribe
partners to Him concerning that which He has given them.
Exalted is Allah above what they associate with Him.
30. Surah Al-A’raf (7:191):
Do they associate with Him those who create nothing and
they are [themselves] created?
31. Surah At-Tawbah (9:107):
And [there are] those [hypocrites] who took for themselves
a mosque for causing harm and disbelief and division
among the believers and as a station for whoever had
warred against Allah and His Messenger before. And they
will surely swear, “We intended only the best.” And Allah
testifies that indeed they are liars.
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32. Surah Yunus (10:18):
And they worship other than Allah that which neither
harms them nor benefits them, and they say, “These are our
intercessors with Allah.” Say, “Do you inform Allah of
something He does not know in the heavens or on the
earth?” Exalted is He and high above what they associate
with Him.
33. Surah Hud (11:101):
And We did not wrong them, but they wronged
themselves. And those gods they invoked besides Allah did
not avail them at all when there came the command of your
Lord, and they did not increase them in other than ruin.
34. Surah Ibrahim (14:30):
And they have attributed to Allah equals to mislead
[people] from His way. Say, “Enjoy yourselves, for indeed,
your destination is the Fire.”
35. Surah An-Nahl (16:54):
Then when He removes the adversity from you, at once a
party of you associates others with their Lord.
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36. Surah Al-Hajj (22:31):
Inclining [only] to Allah, not associating [anything] with
Him. And he who associates with Allah - it is as though he
had fallen from the sky and was snatched by the birds or
the wind carried him down into a remote place.
37. Surah Al-Qasas (28:68):
And your Lord creates what He wills and chooses; not for
them was the choice. Exalted is Allah and high above what
they associate with Him.
38. Surah Ya-Sin (36:74):
But they have taken besides Allah [false] deities that
perhaps they would be helped.
39. Surah Az-Zumar (39:8):
And when adversity touches man, he calls upon his Lord,
turning to Him [alone]; then when He bestows on him a
favor from Himself, he forgets Him whom he called upon
before, and he attributes to Allah equals to mislead [people]
from His way. Say, “Enjoy your disbelief for a little; indeed,
you are of the companions of the Fire.”
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40. Surah Ghafir (40:42):
You invite me to disbelieve in Allah and associate with Him
that of which I have no knowledge, and I invite you to the
Exalted in Might, the Perpetual Forgiver.
41. Surah Fussilat (41:6):
Say, “I am only a man like you to whom it has been revealed
that your god is but one God; so take a straight course to
Him and seek His forgiveness.” And woe to those who
associate others with Allah.
42. Surah Ash-Shura (42:21):
Or have they partners who have ordained for them a
religion to which Allah has not consented? But if not for the
decisive word, it would have been concluded between
them. And indeed, the wrongdoers will have a painful
punishment.
43. Surah Az-Zukhruf (43:15):
Indeed, man is clearly ungrateful. Yet they attribute to
some of His servants a share with Him (in his godhead)!
truly is man a blasphemous ingrate avowed! Yet they have
made some of His servants a part of Him.
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