Types

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The texts of the Quran and Sunnah indicate that shirk and the ascribing of rivals to Allah sometimes puts a person beyond the pale of Islam and sometimes does not. Hence the scholars divided shirk into two types which they call shirk akbar (major shirk) and shirk asghar (minor shirk).

There follows a brief description of each type:

Shirk Akbar (Major Shirk)

Shirk Asghar (Minor Shirk)