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The opposite of Shirk is Tauheed. Let us understand the difference between the two. Belief in Almighty Allah (God) Sura Baqra -2. Aya 163: "And your Allah is ONE Allah, There is no god but He…." He is the Sole Creator, Sustainer, Provider, Helper and Ruler of the Universe. He has No Son, No Parents, No Off-spring. He is Omnipotent, Omni-Present, All-Knowing, All-Seeing, All-Listening. HE and He alone deserves worship. All powers lie in His Mighty Hands. He alone is the Master of the Day of Judgment. He has No Partner, No Associate, whatsoever. No one can understand Him completely. All honor, respect, admiration is due to Him. NO ONE can help anybody, not even his own self, if He does not wish. NO ONE can do any harm to anybody if he does not wish so. Even all the holy Prophets (May blessings of Allah Almighty be on them all) joined together can't create a blade of grass against His Will. There is Nothing like Him. He is Most Merciful, Most Gracious, Most Forgiving.

Now we come to Shirk and its kinds. Following are two kinds of shirk:

1. Shirk in the personality of Almighty Allah. Having this belief that there are other gods as well who deserve same respect and should be worshipped as Almighty Allah.

2. Shirk in the Attributes of Almighty Allah. Having this belief that Allah Almighty has delegated some of His powers to Prophets or holy people. They can also exercise these powers independently as and when they like. Now you can think for yourself how shirk is contrary to the Belief in Oneness (Tauheed) of Almighty Allah.

Thus Shirk is the Unpardonable sin. It is the greatest Injustice to worship any other than Almighty Allah as He alone deserves it.

General Definition

It depends on the context.

It generally means: to avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility). -- i.e. He shirked his duty to provide me the documents on time. (He failed to do his duty...)

However, in the case of Islam, shirk means: to bring [other deities] into partnership to Allah. -- i.e. to blaspheme, to apostasize, to be a polytheist or atheist.

Further to the Islamic Definition

Shirk means attributing partners to Allahu ta'ala. A person who does the attributing is called a mushrik(polytheist). There are kinds of disbelief. The worst, the gravest kind is shirk. It has been a generally accepted rule that when several subjects are to be referred to under one common nomenclature, the gravest one is mentioned. For this reason, the word shirk used in Qur'anic verses and hadith-i sharifs comprehends all sorts of disbelief.

The Qur'an al-karim says (what means):

(Allahu ta'ala never forgives shirk[all sorts of disbelief]. He forgives [all] sins [venial or grave] except shirk if He wills.) [An-Nisa' 48]

Owais-E-Dauran, Gaus-E-Zamaan, Qutub-Ul-Waqt, Imam-E-Mujaddine Hazrat Maulana Shah Fazle Rehma Ganjmuradabadi (rahmatullah alaih) Was not only a great Islamic scholar but one of the greatest Auliya Allah of his time .He was a wali by birth. He was born on 1st Ramzan Mubarak 1208 Hijri and died on 22nd Rabi ul awwal 1313 Hijri. He use to not drink milk until it was magrib for the whole month of ramzan mubarak. He was so much involved in the love of Allah and our Holy Prophet (Salla Allahu ta'ala 'alayhi wa Sallam) and in the same way our Holy Prophet (Salla Allahu ta'ala 'alayhi wa Sallam) & His Family (Ahle Bayat)use to love him .When ever he wanted he had the didar(vision) of Holy Prophet (Salla Allahu ta'ala 'alayhi wa Sallam). He had spend his whole life teaching the qualities of Islam, Sunnah, Love and Humanity. He dedicated his whole life for the welfare of mankind. He had the khilafat from Qadri, Chisti, Naqshbandi and Soharwardi Silsila. He also shares the blood realtion with all this 4 silsila including silsila-e-arabiya. He also took the knowledge of silsila-e-madariya from his pir sahab but his main intrest was in silsila-e-naqsbandiya.

Many time he was blessed with the vision of Panjatan Pak(alaih salam), Shaba-E-Karam(radiallahu anhu), Gaus-e- Pak (radiallahu anhu) he use to call him Nana jan, Mujadid Alif Sani(rahmatullah alaih) and many great personalities.

He was the son of Hazrat Makhdoom Shaikh Ahllullah Miyan(rahmatullah alaih) and the grandson of Muhammad Barkatullah Miyan(rahmatullah alaih).

Right from his infancy, the child wasted no time in games and devoted himself completely to prayers. When other children asked him to play, he said to them, "Allah has not sent me for playing in the world." He spoke Kalima (profession of faith) as early as the age of two and a half yers. Those who heard him pray at that age were truly astonished.

Hazrat Maulana Shah Fazle Rehma Ganjmuradabadi (rahmatullah alaih) comes in the 31st generation of Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique (radhi Allah ta'ala anhu) from his father side, and was a Hassani wal Hussaini Sayed from his mother side. He was born in Mallawan Sharif which is in Uttar Pradesh 9km from Ganjmuradabad Sharif there is a very famous mazar sharif of Hazrat Makhdoom Misbah-ul-Ashiquine urf maghan miyan(rehmatullah alaih) in mallawan sharif. He was so much involved in the love of Allah and his Holy Prophet(sal-lala-laho-tala-alaihi-wasalm) his face was very similar to Holy Prophet(sal-lala-laho-tala-alaihi-wasalm) due to which many Auliya Allah use to come to visit him. He was very Jalali Buzurg when ever he use to see at any tree the tree use to get dry. He use to say that this is not because of me my Allah but you have given me this sift.

Visit the link to see his mazar sharif of Hazrat Makhdoom Misba-hul-ashiquine urf maghan miyan(rehmatullah alaih):

http://aulia-e-hind.com/dargah/MallwanShariff.htm

Hazrat Maulana Shah Fazle Rehma Ganjmuradabadi (rehmatullah alaih) comes in 9th genertaion of Hazrat Makhdoom Misbah-ul-Ashiquine (rehmatullah alaih). When Hazrat Maulana Shah Fazle Rehma Ganjmuradabadi (rehmatullah alaih) was hardly eleven years of age when his father passed away. There was a famine in the land and there was nothing to eat in the house. His mother closed the door and the family lived on boiled leaves. She would not let anybody know her misery. She has many rich relatives but she prayed only to Allah for help.

Hazrat Maulana Shah Fazle Rehma Gajmuradabadi(rehmatullah alaih) has said that he learned darse nizami wa fiqah wa usool wa kalam and other islamic things at Bahrul ullom under the guidance of Maulana Mohameed Noor Sahab Firangi Mahal, The father of Maulana Mohameed Noor Sahab use to tell me to sit at his seat(musnad) and use to love him a lot.

Hazrat Maulana Shah Fazle Rehma Gajmuradabadi(rehmatullah alaih) use to read one and half or two parts of Tafseer Fiqah, this was the grace of Allah tala that he use to directly get benefits from the Prophets and Sahabas (may peace be upon them) while reading the books releated to them. Hazrat Ganjmuradabadi(rahmatullah alaih) has also said that while reading "Yusuf Jhuleka" he was blessed by the ziyarat of Hazrat Yusuf Alaih Salam.

Hazrat Ganjmuradabadi (rehmatullah alaih) has haid that he learned the whole bukhari sharif in 15 days while normal alim use to take almost 2 years to finish it.

Hazrat Maulana Shah Fazle Rehma Ganjmuradabadi (rahmatullah alaih) reached Delhi for the first time in 1221 Hijri to take bayat from Hazrat Khwaja Afaq Sahab(rahmatullah alaih), Hazrat was well informed from begining that the boy who is coming to take bayat is not an ordinary one, Personality like him are rearly born, many of the Mashayak and Aulia of that time has prayed to get him but by the grace of ALLAH, he was sent in the hands of Hazrat Khwaja Afaq Sahab(rahmatullah alaih) and so he send his Khulfas and mureed to welcome him from a long distance, Hazrat Khwaja Afaq Sahab(rahmatullah alaih) said about Hazrat Maulana Shah Fazl-e-Rehman Gujmuradabadi (rahmatullah alaih) that:

"One day you will dazzle the world like a sun."

After taking bayat Hazrat Maulana Shah Fazle Rehma Ganjmuradabadi (rahmatullah alaih) desired his will to learn Usool-E-Hadees Sharif his Pir Sahab Smiled and granted him the permission and gave his blessings, On the first day of his class Hazrat Shah Abdul Aziz Dhelvi(rahmatullah alaih) treated him as a normal student, Hazrat Gajmuradbadi (rahmatullah alaih) slept empty stomach without having any food, but ALLAH knows what Hazrat Shah Abdul Aziz Dhelvi(rahmatullah alaih) saw in the night that very next day early morning he sent one of his servant to call him but he went in the maghrib after taking permission from his Pir Sahab. Hazrat Shah Abdul Aziz Dhelvi(rahmatullah alaih) treated him with great love and affection and told him that from today onwards have your dinner with me, after that he started the Hadees class which would start from Isha and last till Tahajud. Hazrat Shah Abdul Aziz Dhelvi(rahmatullah alaih) sahab use to only allow his Son Inlaw (daughter's husband) Hazrat Sayed Zahiruddine Shaheed to attain class with him. Hazrat Maulana Shah Fazle Rehma Ganjmuradabadi (rahmatullah alaih) learned 18 parts of Bhukhari Sharif in one go on which Hazrat Shah Abdul Aziz Dhelvi(rahmatullah alaih) became very happy and gave his blessings.

Hazrat Maulana Shah Fazle Rehma Ganjmuradabadi (rahmatullah alaih) has said that one day the Son In law of Hazrat Shah Abdul Aziz Dhelvi (rahmatullah alaih) told him that what is the use of teaching Maulvi Fazl-E-Rehma from Isha to Tahajud change the timings. Hazrat Shah Abdul Aziz Dhelvi(rahmatullah alaih) replied the reason for teaching Maulvi Fazl-E-Rehma alone is that he is learing directly from the bargah(presence) of our Holy Prophet(sal-lal-laho-tala-alahi-wasalm) and this is the only reason why i have asked you to attain the classes so that you might gain something, I suggest you should learn from Hazrat Maulana Shah Fazle Rehma Ganjmuradabadi(rahmatullah alaih). He is getting the knowledge of Hadees Shraif directly from Holy Prophet (sal-lal-laho-tala-alahi-wasalm) what ever he wants he asks our Holy Prophet (sal-lal-laho-tala-alahi-wasalm) and it is granted to him.

Hazrat Maulana Shah Fazle Rehma Ganjmuradabadi (rahmatullah alaih) after completing his studies returned to Ganjmuradabad Sharif and resided there. It became a centre of spiritual learning in the country. He built many mosques all over the country. He lived in a very small house. Both Hindus and Muslims flocked to see him for light and wisdom.

His life was very simple. He dressed very poorly. He lived on bajra bread. He lived in a mud house. He used to smoke the hookah because of constipation. His disciple brought him costly clothes but he wore only rags. He did not use a pillow for sleeping. However, he was fond of Delhi shoes and Delhi caps.

Once an Arab asked him for two hundred rupees. He didnot know who the person was. He borrowed the money from a shopkeeper and gave it to him. But the Arab was not satisfied. He wanted another Rs. 50. He also managed that money for hm. Then the Arab demanded a blanket and a pitcher. The Master gave him his own blanket and his own pitcher. Then the Arab wanted Master to write ten letters for him. The Master did that also for an unknown guest. Then the Arab demanded fare for a pony. The Master directed the Arab to take the money from a certain shopkeeper. Such was the Master's limitless generosity and tolerance.

read more about Hazrat in detailed at the link below:

http://www.hazratfazlerehman.com

Five times each day, Muslims bow down to Allah in prayer. If you are learning how to pray, or are just curious about what Muslims do during prayer, follow along with these general guidelines.

1. Make sure your body and place of prayer are clean. Make the intention to perform your obligatory prayer.
2. Standing, raise hands up and say "Allahu Akbar" (God is Most Great).
3. Standing with hands folded over chest, recite the first chapter of the Qur'an in Arabic. Then recite any other verses of the Qur'an that you would like.
4. Raise hands up, saying "Allahu Akbar." Bow, reciting three times, "Subhana rabbiyal adheem" (Glory be to my Lord Almighty).
5. Rise to standing while reciting "Sam'i Allahu liman hamidah, Rabbana WA lakal hamd" (God hears those who call upon Him; Our Lord, praise be to You).
6. Raise hands up, saying "Allahu Akbar." Prostrate on the ground, reciting three times "Subhana Rabbiyal A'ala" (Glory be to my Lord, the Most High).
7. Rise to a sitting position, saying "Allahu Akbar." Prostrate again in the same manner.
8. Rise to a standing position, saying "Allahu Akbar."
9. This concludes one "rak'a" (cycle or unit of prayer). Begin again from Step 3 for the second rak'a.
10. After two rak'as, one remains sitting after the prostrations and recites the first part of the Tashahhud in Arabic.
11. If the prayer is to be longer than these two rak'as, one now stands up and continues the remaining one or two rak'as (but saying in each only the first chapter of Qura'n) to complete the prayer, sitting again after all rak'as have been completed.
12. Recite the both the first and the second part of the Tashahhud in Arabic.
13. Turn to the right and say "Assalamu alaikum WA rahmatullah" (Peace be upon you and God's blessings).
14. Turn to the left and repeat the greeting.

Tips:

1. If Arabic is not your native tongue, learn the meanings in your language while trying to memorize the Arabic.
2. Software programs are available that can help you learn the correct positions and Arabic pronunciations. Better yet, pray with other Muslims to learn.

Refer to the related question below for more information

5 times a day.

Monism is the philosophical view that a variety of existing things can be explained in terms of a single reality or substance. The main forms of religious monism are:

• Pantheism - the belief that everything composes an all-encompassing, immanent God or that the universe (or nature) is identical with divinity. Pantheists do not believe in a personal or anthropomorphic god.
  
• Panentheism - a belief that the divine (be it a monotheistic God, polytheistic gods, or an eternal cosmic animating force), interpenetrates every part of nature, but is not one with nature.

Prophet Ishmaeels(pbuh) wife's name was Hajar. Here is a Hadith about Hajar.

The Prophet added: "May Allah bestow mercy on Ishmael's mother! Had she let the Zam-zam (flow without trying to control it or had she not scooped from that water to fill her water-skin), Zam-zam would have been a stream flowing on the surface of the earth."

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Hajar is prophet Abraham (Ibrahim) wife and mother of prophet Ishmael (Ismaila). She is not the wife of prophet Ismail.