The jurist of our era, the noble scholar Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn (1347–1421 AH), (May Allah have mercy on him) said:
سَمَاحَةُ الشَّيْخ العَلاَّمة مُحمَّد بن صالح العُثَيمِين
وَلُبْسُ هٰذِهِ الْأَشْيَاءِ قَدْ يَكُونُ أَصْغَرَ وَقَدْ يَكُونُ أَكْبَرَ بِحَسَبِ اعْتِقَادِ لَابِسِهَا. وَكَانَ لُبْسُ هٰذِهِ الْأَشْيَاءِ مِنَ الشِّرْكِ، لِأَنَّ كُلَّ مَنْ أَثْبَتَ سَبَبًا لَمْ يَجْعَلْهُ اللَّهُ سَبَبًا شَرْعِيًّا وَلَا قَدَرِيًّا، فَقَدْ جَعَلَ نَفْسَهُ شَرِيكًا مَعَ اللَّهِ.
[القول المفيد على كتاب التوحيد]
“Wearing these things (Tā’weez) may constitute minor shirk, and it may constitute major shirk, depending on the belief of the one who wears them. And wearing these things is from shirk, because whoever affirms a cause which Allah has not made a cause—neither legislatively nor by decree—has indeed made himself a partner alongside Allah.”
📓 [al-Qawl al-Mufīd ʿalā Kitāb al-Tawḥīd]
