Does one who prostrates to a grave be called a mushrik (one who associates partners with Allah), or is it necessary to establish the proof against him?
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if I see a person prostrating to a grave, is he called a mushrik (one who associates partners with Allah), or is it necessary for me to establish the proof against him? And what is meant by establishing the proof?
Answer:
If this person who prostrates to the grave is cut off from the Muslim community and neither the Qur'an nor the Sunnah has reached him, then he is considered ignorant; he is taught and clarified to him, and the proof is established against him. But if he lives among Muslims, in Muslim lands, hears the Qur'an, and perhaps even memorizes the Qur'an with the ten recitations, and yet prostrates to the grave, he has no excuse. He has no excuse; the Qur'an has reached him. And Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says to His Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):[Al-An'am 6:19]
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if I see a person prostrating to a grave, is he called a mushrik (one who associates partners with Allah), or is it necessary for me to establish the proof against him? And what is meant by establishing the proof?
Answer:
If this person who prostrates to the grave is cut off from the Muslim community and neither the Qur'an nor the Sunnah has reached him, then he is considered ignorant; he is taught and clarified to him, and the proof is established against him. But if he lives among Muslims, in Muslim lands, hears the Qur'an, and perhaps even memorizes the Qur'an with the ten recitations, and yet prostrates to the grave, he has no excuse. He has no excuse; the Qur'an has reached him. And Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says to His Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):
And this Qur'an was revealed to me that I may warn you thereby and whomever it reaches.
وَأُوحِيَ إِلَيَّ هَٰذَا الْقُرْآنُ لِأُنذِرَكُم بِهِ وَمَن بَلَغَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [571 /1350] من سجد للقبر هل يطلق عليه بأنه مشرك، أم لابد من أن نقيم الحجة عليه؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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