الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَجَعَلَ الظُّلُمَاتِ وَالنُّورَ ۖ ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِرَبِّهِمْ يَعْدِلُونَ

Bismillah! Al Hamdulillah!
Wa AsSalatu AsSalamu A’ala Rasulillah!

:|: ‘Muslims’ in Kuffar’s Mindset :|:

My Observation:

Think of it, how in every least opportunity, kuffars try to make Allah, Al-Khaliq, the creator oblivious from the minds of the people to make them unaware of the Creator in their plot of making a ‘God-less’ world and then Muslims also influenced by those philosophies. Did you notice this when those ‘intellectual’, ‘enlightened’ philosophers talk to make people enlightened? In different examples, in meditations, they put this logic that “Darkness is nothing but the absence of light”. Therefore, they clearly deny the fact that Allah is the one who MADE it. Now we will discuss how saying this philosophy is shirk of ‘word of mouth’ and believing this philosophy is kufr (for denial). And Allah knows best.

CRITICAL REASONING:

Does the Ayah mention that light made by Allah?
yes

Then, isn’t the same ayah, even before Allah says Light, He actually placed darkness before light, did you notice that?

yes.

Then, after that, Is there any doubt that darkness was not made?

No!

Then, where does this philosophy come from that “Darkness is nothing but the absence of Light?”

That’s denying the fact that darkness is something made by Allah. That’s a denial of Allah’s Act.

What is a denial of Allah’s act called?

Kufr. But this is not actually denying; this is not even, in fact, discussing who made these things. See, even this philosophy is not talking about that light is made by Allah and denying that darkness is not made by Allah. They actually do not say it to recognise one and deny the other. Rather, they describe a phenomenon of nature in relation to another of the opposite nature.

Brilliant observation! Excellent! Fabulous! But who are actually those people who say this? 

Usually the intellectuals, thoughtful and philosophical minded people, mostly kuffars, secular-minded ones.

Did you notice that even though it is not a statement that recognises or denies the fact about who made it, but the statement in itself carries a denial of giving importance to darkness or denying to recognise the darkness as a particular entity?  

That’s right. Darkness is not given particular recognition as an entity itself. It is described as a state of absence of something else, which is light. Yes, you’re right!

Giving CREDIT to something else which deserves by Allah is KUFR:

What does that suggest? Can a Muslim say this? When a Muslim says and when a Muslim believes that, what would happen? What could be the result?

He would speak against Allah’s statement. He would describe something on which Allah says the opposite.

But let’s now go into the next part of the Ayah! See what Allah Subahanahu Ta’ala says next?

He describes something of His actions (making those sky, earth, light, darkness) and immediately He added that “the Kuffars yet set EQUALS with Him”.

What do you think, why does Allah say this?

It is clearly understood that not giving credit to Allah, but to something else, such as to ‘nature’ or ‘energy’ or ‘spirit’ (that’s what they do) and not recognising Allah as the creator of those things is the action of KUFR.

And this notion is clearly mentioned in the following Hadith:

📖 Sahih al-Bukhari (846) & Sahih Muslim (71)
Narrated by Zayd ibn Khalid al-Juhani (رضي الله عنه):

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ صَلَّى بِهِمْ صَلَاةَ الصُّبْحِ بِالْحُدَيْبِيَةِ فِي إِثْرِ سَمَاءٍ كَانَتْ مِنْ اللَّيْلَةِ، فَلَمَّا انْصَرَفَ أَقْبَلَ عَلَى النَّاسِ فَقَالَ: “هَلْ تَدْرُونَ مَاذَا قَالَ رَبُّكُمْ؟” قَالُوا: اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ. قَالَ: “قَالَ: أَصْبَحَ مِنْ عِبَادِي مُؤْمِنٌ بِي وَكَافِرٌ، فَأَمَّا مَنْ قَالَ: مُطِرْنَا بِفَضْلِ اللَّهِ وَرَحْمَتِهِ، فَذَلِكَ مُؤْمِنٌ بِي كَافِرٌ بِالْكَوْكَبِ، وَأَمَّا مَنْ قَالَ: مُطِرْنَا بِنَوْءِ كَذَا وَكَذَا، فَذَلِكَ كَافِرٌ بِي مُؤْمِنٌ بِالْكَوْكَبِ.”

Translation:

Rasulullah Sallallahu A’laihi Wa Sallam led the Fajr prayer at Hudaybiyah after it had rained the previous night. After finishing, he turned to the people and said:

“Do you know what your Lord has said?”
They replied: “Allah and His Messenger know best.”
He said: “Allah said: ‘This morning, some of My servants became believers in Me and some became disbelievers. As for the one who said, “We were given rain by the grace and mercy of Allah,” he is a believer in Me and a disbeliever in the stars. But as for the one who said, “We were given rain by such-and-such a star,” he is a disbeliever in Me and a believer in the stars.'”

And Allah knows best.
I ask Allah to make Muslims aware of it and save them from kufr.
Ameen.