Pretty much as the title, if you are a Muslim what is the worst thing you can do according to the tenets of the faith? What’s the worst thing a nonbeliever can do?
Though about asking in GQ but given the varieties of Islam out there I’m pretty sure opinions will have to enter into it. I don’t know enough about it to give a concrete answer on either, I’m guessing that one of the worst things if not the worst would be to claim you are a new Prophet and try and add/edit to the Koran, which would contradict a core belief, but I’m not sure, thoughts?
Shirk would appear to be a subset of apostasy, that is, converting to idolatry or paganism. Would conversion to Christianity, Buddhism, or atheism be seen as somewhat less severe than that?
I doubt if there is a clear answer to an analogous question about Christianity, either. What blasphemous act in Christian dogma is most likely to consign your soul to everlasting torment?
OK, then, I stand corrected. And irreversibly doomed, which I guess is something I can use as incontestable proof that proselytizers might as well just go away and leave me alone.
Don’t be so sure, there’s ways around it, namely that thinking about this sin and whether you’ve committed it is proof that you’ve not, since the sin is really about rejecting the spirit so that you don’t give a moment’s thought about it.
Ah, thanks AK84. Would polytheism rank worse even than, say atheism? Or claiming you’re the successor to Muhammad?