WHO is REALLY Guilty of "Shirk"??

In the Name of Allah - the Beneficent, the Merciful, the Best Knower:

In Islam, shirk is the sin of practicing idolatry or polytheism, i.e. the deification or worship of anyone or anything other than the singular God i.e. Allah. Literally, it means ascribing or the establishment of "partners" placed beside God.

Many in the Muslim World accuse the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam of "shirk" because We say that We Believe that Allah (God) appeared among us "in the Person of Master W. Fard Muhammad."  THEY interpret this statement to mean that We regard Master Fard Muhammad as a "god besides Allah."  Their interpretation is INCORRECT.  We are NOT saying that Master Fard Muhammad is "a partner with God"...as that would imply a "separateness" from God.  We are saying, as the Honorable Minister Louis FARRAKHAN Teaches, that The SPIRIT, the KNOWLEDGE, the WISDOM, and the POWER of the ORIGINATOR Came to Us IN A MAN!  (Similar to, or rather in Fulfillment of, what is written of Mary, where the Holy Qur'an teaches that "We (Allah) sent to Her Our Spirit, and it appeared to Her in the form of a well-made MAN.").  In other words, ALLAH came to MARY "in the Person" of a "Well made Man".

Also, in the Holy Qur'an, ALLAH says to the ANGELS, "I am going to create a mortal of sounding clay, of Black mud fashioned into shape.  So when I have made him complete and Breathed into him of MY SPIRIT, fall down MAKING OBEISANCE to Him."  Again, ALLAH presented HIMSELF to the ANGLES "in the form" of a "well made BLACK Man", and then COMMANDED the ANGELS to "make obeisance".

In this light, it CANNOT be said that Our Teaching that ALLAH Came to US "in the form of a Well Made Man" - Master Fard Muhammad - is "shirk"...unless one is willing to concede that the examples given above are ALSO instances of "shirk".


That being said, there is ANOTHER meaning of the word "shirk" that I think is worthy of mention here.

shirk:
    to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.).
    to avoid doing something that you are supposed to do
    to evade the performance of an obligation
    to avoid work, duties, or responsibilities, especially if they are difficult or unpleasant:

Prophet Muhammad (PbuH) is recorded as saying that "three generations after me will NO LONGER be OF ME."  What did He MEAN?  To be "OF" the Prophet means to be INSPIRED and GUIDED and MOTIVATED by the SPIRIT, the EXAMPLE and the GUIDANCE of the Prophet.  To "no longer be of" the Prophet means that those who CLAIM Him would "draw nigh" unto Him with their LIPS, but their HEARTS (Desires) would be "far removed" from Him.  It means that they will have DEVIATED from the Path of the Prophet (PbuH).

At the ROOT of their DEVIATION would be their UNWILLINGNESS to STRUGGLE in the Cause of Islam, becoming lovers of COMFORT rather than Lovers of ALLAH and the TRUTH; and would thus COMPROMISE their DUTY to ALLAH.  This manifests, today, in a Visible "Unwillingness" in many in the Muslim World to STAND UP against THE WEST...out of FEAR of the West, and/or a desire to curry FAVOR with the West.

Indeed, they have "taken a small price for the Messages of Allah."  They EVADE their RESPONSIBILITY to COME TOGETHER as an UNITED UMMA to FEND OFF the machinations of the ENEMIES of Islam, and instead, prefer an "every sect for itself" ideology that has Muslim States Competing AGAINST each other for favors from the West, and often results in Wars with MUSLIMS KILLING MUSLIMS.

THIS is NOT "ISLAM".

If the Honorable Minister Louis FARRAKHAN and the Nation of Islam are being Blessed by ALLAH to be SUCCESSFUL in doing the WORK of the Prophet (Pbuh), and His DETRACTORS who accuse him of "shirk" literally REFUSE to do the Work of the Prophet, then, I ask you...

WHO is REALLY guilty of..."shirk"?

Salaam.