Re: You alone we worship and from You alone we seek help (and may we always)
Peace brother vroom
Please try to understand me ... because this is a serious matter ...
We cannot say loosely:
a) Iyyaka na'budu wa iyyaka nast'een means = It is only You we worship and only You we ask for help
while at the same time say
b) We can ask help from others because it is in many places in the Qur'an ...
Because by saying it that way we are saying that the Qur'an is not internally consistent ... where in one place it says one thing and in another place the opposite.
I have given you the way out of this problem ...
It is in translation where we find the problem ... the help we ask from others is not the same help ... and the proof of this is in the Qur'an ...
Verb Form X (10) is not used for anyone other than for Allah (SWT) ... help(1) = awn .... but help(2) = isti'aana (form X) both of these are similar but not the same ... which now means that we can only ask the type of help we ask from Allah (SWT) from Allah (SWT) ... and to ask it from anyone else will throw us out of the fold.
If you were reading the Arabic you would see how my explanation does get out of the problem. It is the only way out of the problem. The Haqiqi and Majazi explanation does not do it ... because that is saying while we may ask for help from someone the real help comes from Allah (SWT) ... But the wording is specific in the Fatihah ...
We only ask You for help ... this means We ask help from Allah (SWT) and no one else ... the only way around this is to separate the meanings by the forms they are used ... and we see that whenever form 10 is used in the Qur'an it is only for Allah (SWT) ... all other references of help are either using other words or other forms ... I think in the case of Dhul Qarnain - it was form iv (4).
Your position can be summed as follows:
Peer Sahib has it wrong. Since we recite the verse, we can not loosely say we can also ask for help from others. Saying such a thing would entail the Quran losing its internal consistency
However you can ask for help from others providing it is a help in little things (subject dependent)
**We can only ask the type of help we ask from Allah (SWT) from Allah (SWT)
The above is my understanding of your position. I will think over it, but at this stage I must admit I have it down as stated before - Its a contradiction
Obviously the methods you have used to arrive at your conclusion are specific to yourself, Mash Allah, but do not concern me at this stage whilst i am concentrating on the positions.
I'll get back to you In Sha Allah