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==Causes and Roots of Shirk== | ==Causes and Roots of Shirk== | ||
The following causes and roots have been mentioned for shirk: | The following causes and roots have been mentioned for shirk: | ||
* Following conjectures | * '''Following conjectures'''; The Qur'an states, "And what do they pursue who invoke partners besides Allah? They merely follow conjectures and they just make surmises" ([[Qur'an 10|10]]:66). | ||
* Materialism | * '''Materialism'''; Many people are deeply attached to sensory objects, and understand everything, including God and His attributes and actions, in a material framework. | ||
* Ignorance | * '''Ignorance'''; The Qur'an speaks of those who "without any knowledge" ascribe partners to God and maintain that He has sons and daughters ([[Qur'an 6|6]]:100). | ||
Love for the material world, following the desires, forgetting God, exaggerating about religious figures, fanaticism, and corrupt rulers are counted in the Qur'an among the factors that have promoted shirk. | Love for the material world, following the desires, forgetting God, exaggerating about religious figures, fanaticism, and corrupt rulers are counted in the Qur'an among the factors that have promoted shirk. | ||