The ruling on exalting a shaykh through circumambulation and prostration to him
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Question:
Now, Shaykh, some people say, "There is no god but Allah," but there are people who exalt their shaykh in the tariqah or such. We find that, for example, when they come to him, they crawl toward him, and some of them prostrate to him while he is alive before them, prostrating to him or crawling to him as a sign of exalting him.
Answer:
This is an excess, and may Allah protect us from it, and it leads to shirk (associating partners with Allah), to making this exalted person a partner with Allah the Exalted and Majestic, and that he benefits and harms, and that he punishes. Yes, "worship them besides Allah." They worshipped their scholars besides Allah the Exalted and Majestic.
Now, Shaykh, some people say, "There is no god but Allah," but there are people who exalt their shaykh in the tariqah or such. We find that, for example, when they come to him, they crawl toward him, and some of them prostrate to him while he is alive before them, prostrating to him or crawling to him as a sign of exalting him.
Answer:
This is an excess, and may Allah protect us from it, and it leads to shirk (associating partners with Allah), to making this exalted person a partner with Allah the Exalted and Majestic, and that he benefits and harms, and that he punishes. Yes, "worship them besides Allah." They worshipped their scholars besides Allah the Exalted and Majestic.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 9 - الرسائل الشخصية للشيخ الإمام محمد بن عبدالوهاب فيديو الحلقة ( 9 ) - رسائل منتقاة - الشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com (13:33)
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