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I have made a correction to the previous post. I wrote initially:
This equates exclusive ibadah/service of Allah(15/40-41) with walking the path of the Quran(36-60-61, 6/126), meaning that those who obey sources OTHER THAN the Quran are not among the ‘ibaad al-mukhliseen’.
What I should have written is : those who obey sources CONTRADICTORY TO the Quran are not among the ‘ibaad al-mukhliseen’. Because the Quran informs us that the nabiyeen/”prophets” and the momineen also have/had ‘ibaad'(male) and ‘aabidaat'(female):
24/32: And marry such of you as are solitary and the pious of IBAADIKUM/YOUR MALE SERVANTS and female slaves. If they be poor, Allah will enrich them of His bounty. Allah is of ample means, Aware.
66/5: It may be that his Lord, if he divorced you (all), will substitute for him wives better than you (all),- muslimaat, mominaat, qanitaat, taaibaat, AABIDAAT/FEMALE SERVANTS, saaihaatin sayyibaat and abkaar.
But the important thing to note is that these ibaad serve and obey them only in matters other than those dealt with in the book of Allah:
3/79: It is not (possible) for any human being unto whom Allah had given the Scripture and wisdom and the prophethood that he should afterwards have said unto mankind: Be IBAAD/SERVANTS of me INSTEAD OF ALLAH; but (what he said was): Be ye faithful servants of the Lord by virtue of your constant teaching of the Scripture and of your constant study thereof.
Therefore it is OK to obey and serve someone as long as it is not done in Allah’s stead i.e. as long as his orders are not contradictory to Allah’s.
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Fahad.
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