Then with regard to the world of prescribed laws, not
system of prescribed laws can stand except based on belief system/creed
('Aqeedah). So if a system of prescribed laws has no 'Aqeedah, then it will be
ruin and will not remain as a correct and sound system of prescribed laws. So,
for example. the prescribed laws followed by Ibraaheem,: alaihis-Salaatu
was-Salaam, remained for centuries amongst the Arab nation, then when 'Amr ibn
Luhayyal-khuzaa'ee entered shirk into it, then it became an idolatrous system of
laws and its reality changed and it became corrupted and ruined. This was
because it was the 'Aqeedah of Tawheed which provided its firm foundation upon
which it stood. From Aboo Hurairah, radiyallaahu 'anhu, who said: Allaah's
Messenger (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) said: I saw 'Amr ibn 'Aamir al-khuzaa'ee dragging his intestines
in the Fire. he was the first one who introduced the practice of setting free
animals for the sake of their deities.'~4 So Aktham said; 'Perhaps the fact that
I resemble him' will cause harm to me, 0 Messenger of Allaah?' He (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) said:
?Co, you are a Believer and he was an Unbeliever. He was the first one who
altered the religion of Ismaa'eel. He created the idols, and established the
practice of keeping the milk of certain animals for the deities. and of freeing
animals for the sake of the idols, and of freeing for their idols the she camels
which gave birth to female camels as their first and second deliveries, and of
freeing for their idols male camels completing their allotted number of sirings.
So after 'Amr ibn Luhayy corrupted the 'Aqeedah supporting the Sharee'ah which
Ibraaheem came with and which was followed by Ismaa'eel, then it became an
idolatrous religion, and the Arabs became idol worshippers, even though they
continued to associate themselves and attach themselves to 1braaheem and his
religion and his code of laws, and even though they still clung to a few
remnants of what he came with such as honouring the Ka’bah, and performing
Tawaaf around it, and making Hajj and 'Umrah, and standing in 'Arafah and
Muzdalifah, and making sacrifices, and other acts of devotion to Allaah.
Likewise the message of Moosaa and 'Eesaa was a message of Tawheed and a
revealed system of laws. But when they lost their basis of Tawheed due to the
saying of the Jews: ' 'Uzayr is the son of Allaah', then the saying of the
Christians: 'The Messiah is the son of Allaah', then they became religions of
Unbelievers, which it is not permissible to attribute to Allaah, nor to those
noble Prophets,
Allah the Most-High, says
Meaning, Fight those who do not believe in
Allaah, and do not believe in the Hereafter, nor make unlawful that which Allaah and His
Messenger declare unlawful, nor obey the Allaah truly by following Islaam, from the People
of the Book (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah tax in a state of being
subdued and debased. Far the Jews said that 'Uzayr is the son of Allaah and the Christians
said that the Messiah is the son of Allaah. That is merely the false saying of their
tongues, like the saying of the idolaters before them. Allaah's curse is upon them, how
can they deviate form the truth which is manifest.