Some grave worshippers argue for the permissibility of seeking help from created beings, such as seeking help from a doctor, and analogize this to supplicating to the dead?

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Some of the opponents among the grave worshippers argue for the permissibility of seeking help from created beings, such as seeking help from a doctor or a physician for treatment, and they analogize this to supplicating to the dead.

Answer:
No, he will not look at it. Seeking the help of a created being in what it is capable of is permissible. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said:

And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression.

وَتَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْبِرِّ وَالتَّقْوَىٰ وَلَا تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْإِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِ

[Al-Ma'idah 5:2]

And Allah is a helper to the servant. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

(ﷺ) said: "Whoever relieves a Muslim of a burden from the burdens of the world, Allah will relieve him of a burden from the burdens of the Hereafter. And whoever covers (the faults of) a Muslim, Allah will cover (his faults) for him in the world and the Hereafter. And Allah is engaged in helping the worshipper as long as the worshipper is engaged in helping his brother."

الله عليه وسلم والله في عون العبد ما كان العبد في عون أخيه

Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1425Sahih (Darussalam)

Cooperation among people in what they are capable of is good. As for what a created being is not capable of, it is not permissible to seek its help in that; that is shirk (associating partners with Allah).

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