The Arabic sh-r-k
-- ش ر ك-- connotes to share, to participate in,
to become partner (Wehr, 1960, p. 468). A “musharaka” is thus a partnership, a cooperation, a collaboration, a complicity (ibid., p. 469).
Applied to God this concept is blasphemous: a “mushrik” is a polytheist (and Christianity’s core fault for many Muslims is its tendency to partner Jesus with God). “ishtirakiya,” OTOH, is socialism …
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