Crux Of Shirk
4) Shirk – Associating partner(s) with Allah. Polytheism, praying to a human being, a deceased person or any other creation of Allah etc. would come under this category. 5) Wa an taqulu a’lallahi ma la ta’lamoon – To say about Allah of which we have no knowledge. Bid’ah (innovation in religion) , declaring halaal as haraam and haraam as halaal without any evidence etc. would come under this category. This makes it seem as though Shirk is inherently haraam because of the attribution of a partner- I get that this is a lie. Why is the fifth point restrained to simply bidah? Surely the fourth point is under the umbrella of the fifth point