Alhamdulillah Culture

culture continued to reign supreme. This was totally against God’s creation plan for man. That is why God intervened in history. This divine intervention occurred through the Companions of the Prophet in the seventh century. The role played by the Companions of the Prophet was in obedience to the divine injunction set forth, thus, in the Quran: “Fight them until there is no more (religious) persecution, and religion belongs wholly to God” (8:39). In this verse, fitnah means shirk (associating other things as deities with God). This is how the commentators have generally described it. What is shirk? Shirk is another name for giving praise to something other than God. When man failed to see God, he began to worship creatures visible to him. He began to live to glorify creatures other than the Creator. This is what I have called the alhamdu lighairillah culture. ALHAMDULILLAH CULTURE