{"_id":"684b3fa2bf86220751ba9de5","title":"{\"ops\":[{\"insert\":\"How can we know that we aren't accidentally upon shirk?\\n\"}]}","question":"{\"ops\":[{\"insert\":\"How do we know we aren’t on shirk by accident? What if we have a conception of Allah that simply isn’t Allah? Or what if we think of Allah simply as a word, or 99 names or something? He isn’t His names, right? His names are just something we use to grasp onto the ineffable transcendent Being, right?\\n\"}]}","answer":"{\"ops\":[{\"insert\":\"I strongly encourage you to take a basic course in Islamic theology, preferably one grounded in the Ashʿarī or Māturīdī tradition. It will clarify many of your questions and give you a sound foundation for understanding belief.\\n\"}]}","tags":[{"_id":"668da0580b76658b4c2334b2","tag":"Knowledge: Aqeedah","count":38},{"_id":"668d9fec0b76658b4c232939","tag":"Shirk","count":8}],"createdOn":"2025-06-12T20:59:14.872Z"}