What is the advice for those who hold festivals at the graves of the righteous in the Maghreb?
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what do you say to the people of the Maghreb, our brothers, who hold festivals and annual occasions at the graves of some of those they consider righteous, whether they invoke them or seek nearness to Allah through them? What is your guidance for them?
Answer:
Our advice to them is that we ask Allah to guide them, and they do this out of taqlid (following a scholar without knowing his evidence) or out of ignorance. So your duty, when you go to them, is to clarify things for them and guide them, such as by giving them this book and explaining to them what knowledge it contains[At-Tawbah 9:122]. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what do you say to the people of the Maghreb, our brothers, who hold festivals and annual occasions at the graves of some of those they consider righteous, whether they invoke them or seek nearness to Allah through them? What is your guidance for them?
Answer:
Our advice to them is that we ask Allah to guide them, and they do this out of taqlid (following a scholar without knowing his evidence) or out of ignorance. So your duty, when you go to them, is to clarify things for them and guide them, such as by giving them this book and explaining to them what knowledge it contains
and warn their people when they return to them that they might be cautious.
وَلِيُنذِرُوا قَوْمَهُمْ إِذَا رَجَعُوا إِلَيْهِمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَحْذَرُونَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1016 /1350] ما النصيحة لمن يقيم مهرجانات عند قبور الصالحين من أهل المغرب؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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