Re: Ya Ali madad
Brother Salaam.
Don’t you think, instead of ‘should’ right and appropriate word should be ‘could’?
Asking help directly is fine, but I hope you should have put some thoughts to my last post. In my last post I quoted an Ayah 4:64. Can you read the ayah again and tell me, what Allah is telling people to do?
Surah 4, ayah 64: We sent not a messenger, but to be obeyed, in accordance with the will of Allah. If they had only, when they were unjust to themselves, come unto thee **and asked Allah’s forgiveness, and the **Messenger had asked forgiveness for them, they would have found Allah indeed Oft-returning, Most Merciful.
From above ayah, what I can understand is that, Allah is telling Muslims … actually Sahabas of Prophet (SAW) … that it is better for Muslims who wronged themselves (did sin), when repenting (doing Istagfar) they go to Prophet (SAW) and ask Allah’s forgiveness from Prophet (SAW) … and then Prophet (SAW) ask forgiveness for them from Allah … and if it was done this way … using Prophet (SAW) as intermediary … then sinners would have indeed found Allah most merciful … and that means, they would have got forgiven.
So, in this ayah it is clear that Allah is advising people to make Prophet (SAW) an intermediary between them and Allah, even when asking forgiveness from Allah for their sins … or instead of asking forgiveness directly from Allah it is better that they go to Prophet (SAW) and ask forgiveness from Allah through him (SAW) as intermediary.
Now, people advised in ayah are Sahabas and certainly if Allah is close to our jugular vein, Allah must be close to their jugular vein too … still, Allah is not saying that to ask forgiveness directly from Allah, rather go through Prophet (SAW) and make him intermediary.
Actually, it is clear from ‘ayah 4:64’ that Allah prefer that people approach Allah (even when asking forgiveness) through intermediaries who Allah likes (or who are close to Allah), and if those intermediaries ask Allah on behalf of those (people) who approached them, Allah look at dua of intermediaries mercifully … more mercifully than dua made directly to Allah by people.
It seems, today we have a new breed of people (aka Wahabis and kharjees) who think they are much better placed in front of Allah then even Sahabas, and thus it hurts their ego to reach Allah through intermediaries, so they prefer direct hot-line contact with Allah for their dua. I know that trying to reach Allah directly is fine, but their denial of reaching Allah through intermediaries shows their ignorance of Islam, their belief of self-importance, and their ego as big as Iblees.