Question and Answer

In view of such claims, a few questions are presented below. It is hoped that you will provide satisfactory answers: 1. If shirk continues after reciting the declaration of faith, should such a person be called a polytheist? 2. What is the definition of a Muslim and a polytheist? Can a Muslim be a polytheist? 3. Among Muslims, those who commit clear shirk— what is the evidence for offering prayer behind them, when it is also a fact that the deeds of a polytheist are not accepted? 4. If the prayer of a polytheist imam is not valid, how can the prayer of a monotheist follower be valid? 5. Many scholars of the Muslim ummah believe that, in the light of verse 106 of Chapter Yusuf, even those who recite the declaration of faith can be polytheists. Therefore, prayer should not be offered behind them. 6. If a person who drinks alcohol is called a drunkard, why should a person who commits shirk not be called a polytheist? 7. If, after reciting the declaration of faith, a Hindu continues to go to a temple, this act prevents him from being regarded as a Muslim, and he is still considered a Hindu. But if another person,