The Difference Between Intercession and Seeking Aid
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is there a difference between intercession and seeking aid?
Answer:
Seeking aid is broader. Seeking aid is broader than intercession. Yes, intercession is a type of seeking aid from the one interceded to. It is a type of seeking aid from the one interceded to, and it is permissible seeking aid in what he is capable of. It is permissible to seek aid from a person in what he is capable of. Yes, people cooperate in righteousness and piety, and do not cooperate in sin and aggression. Seeking aid from a created being in what he is capable of is permissible. And the living created being is capable of supplication, because intercession is supplication. So he is capable of supplication. You seek his aid in what he is capable of, which is that he supplicates to Allah for you and intercedes for you. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is there a difference between intercession and seeking aid?
Answer:
Seeking aid is broader. Seeking aid is broader than intercession. Yes, intercession is a type of seeking aid from the one interceded to. It is a type of seeking aid from the one interceded to, and it is permissible seeking aid in what he is capable of. It is permissible to seek aid from a person in what he is capable of. Yes, people cooperate in righteousness and piety, and do not cooperate in sin and aggression. Seeking aid from a created being in what he is capable of is permissible. And the living created being is capable of supplication, because intercession is supplication. So he is capable of supplication. You seek his aid in what he is capable of, which is that he supplicates to Allah for you and intercedes for you. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 27 من 36/شرح العقيدة الواسطية (مع الأسئلة)/ثلاث شفاعات/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (53:18)
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