Re: Is It Right !!!
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*Originally posted by arshadalii23: *
FRNDS THERE HAS BEEN SOME QUESTIONS IN MY MIND REAGRDING GOING TO PLACES OF THE SAINTS.
SOME OF OUR MUSLIM BROS AND SISS GO TO PLACES WHERE OUR SUFI SAINTS R BURRIED AND THEY PRAY THERE FOR THE DAED AND ASK THOSE DEAD TO PRAY FOR THEM, AS THEY BELEIVE THAT THOSE SAINTS R NEAR TO ALLAH . HENCE THERE PRAYERS CAN BE HEARED WITH MORE AUTHORITY.
IS IT RIGHT TO GO TO THESE PLACES AND PRAY FOR THE DEAD. AS I HAVE HEARED ALOT OF PPL SAYING ITS KUFR OR SHIRK ?
I HOPE U MAY PUT LITES ON THIS QUESTION ........
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assalamuallykum:
As we see the Shari’ah focuses on Tawheed. Any opening for seeking help through any medium will lead into shirks. We mean by that when people pray to Allah, saying, "By the dignity of x or y," but not asking those people if they are alive to make du'a for them. All those supplications through dead or graves are of the haram innovations. Allah says in sura 2, verse 186, "When My servants ask thee concerning Me, I am indeed close (to them): I listen to the prayer of every suppliant when he calleth on Me: Let them also, with a will, Listen to My call, and believe in Me: That they may walk in the right way." Also, there is a verse in the Qur'an that relates to this in surah 5, verse 35, "O ye who believe! Do your duty to Allah, seek the means of approach unto Him, and strive with might and main in his cause: that ye may prosper."
Ibn Taymiyyah (RA) wrote a book entitled "Qa'idah Jaleelah Fit-Tawassuli wal Waseelah". To brief what he states referring to evidences from Qur'an and Sunnah, he explains that when you seek Allah's help, you need no medium of any person. If you believe that there is a pious person, you can ask that person to supplicate for you. The companions of the Prophet (SAAWS) were taught not to make a du'a using the Prophet's name in their du'a at all. On the contrary, the Prophet (SAAWS) taught ibn Abbas, saying to him, "When you ask for a need, the only one you ask is Allah." After the Prophet's (SAAWS) death, 'Umar ibn al-Khattab was leading people for an istisqah salat. He didn't ask Allah through his deceased Prophet (SAAWS). 'Omar said, "Oh Allah! We used to pray for istisqah during the Prophet's life by making him lead the prayer and supplication, but now we ask you through the supplication of Al-Abbas." Al-Abbas was then very old and pious in the eyes of 'Omar.
It seems useful to sum up the following points from the book “Dustoor Al-Wahdah Ath-Thaqafiyyah” (The Constitution of Cultural Unity) with regard to this issue of Intermediary between a Person and Allah (Tawassul) :
First: The Tawassul, or the act of intermediating between a person and Allah, the Most High, through His Entity (Dhaat) and Most Beautiful Names made in such way is mentioned in the following Hadiths:
The Hadith: “O Allah! I implore You by virtue of Your being Allah, the One, Who has no partner, the Eternal, Absolute, Who begetteth not, nor is He begotten, and like unto Whom there is none.”
The Prophetic supplication for memorizing the Qur’an, “O Allah! I beseech You by virtue of Your Glory and by the Light of Your Face to let me keep Your Book by heart as You have taught me.”
The supplication, “O Allah! I seek refuge with Your pleasure from Your wrath and with Your pardon from Your punishment.”
Undoubtedly, there is no harm in such forms of Tawassul.
Second: The Tawassul of a person to Allah, the Most High through showing obedience to Him as well as through his own good deeds which are done only for His sake. This meaning is involved in the verse that reads, “O ye who believe! Do your duty to Allah, seek the means of approach unto Him, and strive (with might and main) in His cause: that ye may prosper.” (Al-Ma’idah: 35)
There is also a long Hadith speaking about three men who were trapped in a cave by a great stone, and nothing saved them but their supplications to Allah, each using a means through his best deed. This comes in accordance with the Hadith,
“Get to know Allah in prosperity and He will know you in adversity.”
Third: Tawassul through the righteous people’s supplications and the supplications of Muslims, one for the other, has been established since the time of Prophet Nuh, peace and blessings be upon him, who supplicated to Allah saying, “O Lord! Forgive me, my parents, all who enter my house in Faith, and (all) believing men and believing women: and to the wrong–doers grant Thou no increase but in Perdition!” (Nuh: 28)
Such supplication is recommended and rewarded by Allah, whether it is said in the presence of the one on whose behalf it is made or in his absence. The angels and the bearers of the Throne continuously supplicate, “Our Lord! Thou embraced all things in Mercy and Knowledge, forgive, then, those who turn in repentance, and follow Thy Path; and preserve them from the Chastisement of the Blazing Fire!” (Ghafir: 7)
Late Muslims supplicate for the sake of the early Muslims as a token of the unity of believers in their being all servants of Allah regardless of difference in time and place: “And those who came after them say, ‘Our Lord! Forgive us, and our brethren who came before us into the Faith, and leave not, in our hearts, rancour (or sense of injury) against those who have believed.” (Al-Hashr: 10)
The Muslim Ummah supplicates for the sake of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, after Prayer and Adhan out of their love and reverence to him.
The Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) used to ask the Messenger of Allah to supplicate to Allah to bring them rain. After the death of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, they asked Al-`Abbas, the Prophet’s uncle, to supplicate to Allah to give them rain due to his relation to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.
In Islam, there is nothing wrong in asking your righteous Muslim brother to supplicate to Allah on your behalf.
Fourth: Tawassul through the person of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and Allah’s love to him. Concerning the ruling of this form of Tawassul, I have found two opinions:
i) There is nothing related in this concern and the supplications mentioned in the Glorious Qur’an and the Sunnah involve direct invocation to Allah. Therefore, it is more proper that we follow this direct style.
ii) Supplication to Allah through the person of Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was related in the narration which states that a blind man sought intercession of the Prophet with his Lord on his behalf in a supplication that he had learned from the Prophet, or from others, and when he said that supplication his sight was restored. Those who state that opinion add that this form of Tawassul was reported in more than ten ways (of transmission), and this is a testimony on its behalf, although it was not narrated in the two Sahihs of Al-Bukhari and Muslim.
However, the two parties disputed to the extent that they were about to fall into a prolonged rupture of relations. Both parties committed faults. For example, one of them accused the other of polytheism, and the latter described the former as hating the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. This resulted in more division among them. The issue became worse when the second sect drew analogy between the person of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and others whom they thought to be righteous and Awliyaa’ (saints). They, moreover, neglected the authenticated supplications and indulged in formulas of supplications about which there is more than one opinion.
These people committed a mistake when they drew analogy between the person of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and others. Analogy should not be applied to acts of worship. They should have mainly used what is proven as authentic in the Qur’an and the Sunnah.
As for those who depict Muslims with polytheism, they should refrain from this and stop judging people depending only on mere ill thinking.
Fifth: Tawassul through asking those who are close to Allah, as to ask a dead prophet or a Wali at his grave to fulfill one’s request. This form of Tawassul is unanimously rejected in Islam, for it is a form of polytheism. What prevents those who commit this heinous act from asking Allah, Who is nearer to them than their jugular veins, and Who is the only One Who can fulfill all their requests?
May Allah guide us all!
fe aman Allah
your brother in Islam
praised and prayed to Allah only, and we see examples how some people come to Prophet :saw: and he offered them that he can pray for them. So waseela is proven there. It is not that Prophet :saw: naudobillah asked them to pray to him. But the path is clear that ‘I will pray to Allah for you’. This is no shirk, according to the hadith that’s quoted. On the similar account, if we pray to Allah using Prophet’ :saw: name or if we are visiting any shrine and pray to Allah using that saint’s waseela…this is no shirk. Because your asking to Allah SWT, not that saint. That saint cannot fullfill our wishes, only Allah can do it, but since that saint is Allah’s wali or loved one, the prayers could get more importance. Check the Quranic reference in above post for waseela.