Since we are discussing worship
Please find an interesting article i found on net. I don't agree with this. You can see the fallacy of argument of 'A' which i find similar to what you are doing to DB's with respect to dai worship.
Apart from the Verbatims from Quran, we shall discuss some common points in the present context. There are many questions/disagreements which we come across on this issue quite often. Here we provide the answers to those in the form of conversation b/w “M” and “A” representing Islam and Vedic view respectively
M: Whatever you have written is all rubbish. We Muslims never worship Muhammad (PBUH). How can you say that Muhammad is equivalent to God in Islam?
A: It has been proven above that not only Muslims but even Allah sends Salah on Muhammad like poor angels and humans. So, this not only proves Muhammad worthy to be worshipped by humans but by Allah too! Moreover, it seems to be a fundamental problem with most of our Muslim friends that they get stuck to the terms without knowing the meanings of those. How does it matter if your relation with Muhammad is not as that of worshipper and worshipped when your worship is useless without reciting his name? You claim to worship Allah alone! Then why Muhammad comes in between always? Can any of your Salah be accepted by Allah if you don’t recite “Muhammad ur Rasool Allah” along with “La illah illallah”? If not, you have some relation “X” with Muhammad which is greater than your relation of worshipping with Allah, because without “X”, your worship of Allah is invalid. Thus if worshipping Muhammad is a Shirk, “Xing” is a greater Shirk because “X” has more importance than “worshipping” for a Muslim and since “X” is related with a human (Muhammad), doing it is a bigger sin than Shirk.
M: No, we don’t worship Muhammad (PBUH). Allah has ordered us to recite his name and we have to obey His commands. So we are obeying Allah, it has nothing to do with the worship of Muhammad (PBUH).
A: Explained above. How do you know that Allah ordered you to do so?
M: Through Muhammad in Quran.
A: So you got to know from Muhammad himself that you have to remember Muhammad in prayers!
M: Yes because Muhammad (PBUH) was final messenger of Allah.
A: What proofs do you have that Quran is the word of God and Muhammad is the messenger?
M: Allah revealed it on Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago. It has not changed till date and is scientifically proven book. This is the proof that Quran is the word of God.
A: Why do you believe in those words blindly? How do you know that Muhammad did not lie? How do you know that Muhammad was actual prophet and not someone cheating and lying to the ignorant Arabs? What if I stand up today and say that I am a messenger of God? What logic you will have against my claim other than your own blind belief in which you are already engaged in? Regarding Quran, it is as illogical to claim Quran to be from God on the bases of unchanged verses and science as if I claim that all the articles on Satyagni are unchanged till date and the books of optics, classical mechanics etc are all scientifically proven books and thus all science books and Satyagni articles are from Allah!
M: Quran had science 1400 years ago. Who could have written it 1400 years ago other than Allah if it is full of the concepts of modern science?
A: OK. What if I prove some verses of Quran to be unscientific?
M: You can not do that!
A: Please tell me about the science behind breaking of moon, flying donkey of Muhammad, stones talking with Moses, Jesus born without father, she camel born from stone, separation of sea water to give path to Muhammad, etc.
M: Science cannot explain these because they are miracles and only Allah can perform them. Allah is above science. And since Quran is word of God, it can overrule science.
A: You have taken U turn now! You claimed science to be the basis of truthfulness and divinity of Quran previously and when Quran was proven unscientific, you claim that Allah is above science! Could you understand the fallacy in your logic? What you had to prove here (divinity of Quran) was already in your assumption (that Allah sent Quran)! Thus Quran is not the word of God logically.
M: Allah Himself reveals in Quran that Muhammad (PBUH) is His final messenger. This is the biggest proof.
A: When it is proven that Quran is not the word of God, how can it be from Allah?
M: We have full faith in Muhammad (PBUH) and thus we trust his words.
A: Why you don’t have trust in me? When you can blindly believe anyone, why not in me?
M: Don’t have the answer.
A: OK. Please tell me, what do you mean by worship?
M: Remembering God and thanking him for His support and love.
A: Don’t you think then that inclusion of Muhammad in prayers is a kind of human worship?
M: No because we don’t consider Muhammad to be God, but the final messenger of God. And look, Muhammad was so kind that he preferred to call himself as slave of Allah, this alone proves that he did not want himself to be worshipped.
A: Associating self with someone bigger brings fame and if you show some humbleness, it catalyzes the effect. This is what Muhammad did. This is what Mumtaz Qadri (killer of Punjab governor in Pakistan) did! He is now famous as Aashiq e Rasool (lover of Muhammad or slave of Muhammad) and now crores of slaves are holding this slave of Muhammad on their shoulders in Pakistan shouting the slogans- “Aashiq e Rasool pe jaan bhi kurbaan hai”, meaning we can die for the slave of Muhammad (Qadri). So calling yourself slave brings you fame many times! And Muhammad was well aware of it.
M: Remembrance of Muhammad in prayers does not mean worship, how many times I have to tell you this?
A: So will it be fine if I add my parents’ names after Allah and Muhammad in Kalma? As I can remember a slave of Allah, the messenger, I can also remember my parents who acted as cause for my existence and thus of course recitation of the very Kalma! And why not include the name of first prophet also?
M: No you can’t, it is not mentioned in Islam.
A: So why are you arguing? You should accept that “Tauheed” or “Oneness of God” is considered good by you not because it is logical but because your book/self proclaimed prophet says so. Same applies with the Kaba idol you worship! You oppose idol worship not because you know the short comings of it, but because your book opposes it! And since Islam allows you to worship idol and humans in some different forms and names (bowing to Kaba as direction of prayers and worshipping Muhammad by reciting “Muhammad is last messenger”) you are as idol/human worshippers as any polytheist whom you consider worst of creatures as per Quran 98:6.
A: Can I ask, is Allah complete and self sufficient?
M: Yes.
A: I already believe in One God, am I a Muslim?
M: No because you don’t believe in Muhammad.
A: Is believing in Muhammad as important as believing in Allah that the punishment for disbelief in both is same, the eternal hell?
M: Yes.
A: How can then Allah be self sufficient to provide me bliss, and how is he above all? Is it not Shirk to give anyone equal importance in belief as in Allah?
M: You have to obey what He has said in Quran.
A: I don’t have faith in Muhammad and thus Quran, what can I do?
M: Get your faith in him otherwise hell.
A: Should I believe blindly in him?
M:
Case (i) M leaves the blind belief and restarts the journey to find the truth (if M is logical and humanitarian)
Case (ii) No answer (if M is not much versed with Hadith and verses of Jihad)
Case (iii) abuses and threats of hell to “A”as a response to the act of this blasphemy (if M is a Jihadi follower of the terrorists like Zakir Naik).
So we conclude that illogical faiths start at blind belief and terminate at silence or violence. Remembering Muhammad in prayers, believing in all those verses which Sharik (involve) Muhammad with Laasharik (with whom no one should be involved) Allah are nothing but the acts of worshipping Muhammad and thus Shirk.
Now we present few examples of Tauheed (Oneness of God) from Vedas and ask all the Muslim and non Muslim friends to judge themselves which kind of “Oneness” they want.
You can find the full article :
http://satyagni.com/4270/islam-tauheed/