Reciting the Burdah and praying behind an imam who recites it

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner from outside this country says: We have an imam who recites the Burdah, and he knows that it contains words of shirk (associating partners with Allah). When we sent him the words of the scholars and the great scholars of this blessed land, he said, “We are in a country other than Saudi Arabia.” His question is: Is it permissible to pray?

The Shaykh:
He does not fear Allah except in Saudi Arabia; he does not fear Allah in other countries. The Burdah contains shirk (associating partners with Allah), and it is not permissible to recite it.

The questioner:
Then he says, may Allah preserve you: Is it permissible for us to pray behind this imam?

The Shaykh:
No. If he recites the Burdah and considers it permissible, his prayer is not valid; it is not valid. How can the prayer of one who prays behind him be valid? Because it contains shirk (associating partners with Allah). “O most noble of creation, who is there to whom I can take refuge besides You when the calamity befalls?” This means he forgot Allah the Exalted, and there is no one but the Messenger on the Day of Resurrection. We ask Allah for safety. Yes.

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.

The Shaykh:
He said, “From your knowledge is the knowledge of the Preserved Tablet and the Pen, that he knows everything, even the knowledge of the Preserved Tablet and the Pen with which the divine decree and destiny were written.” This is exaggeration, and may Allah protect us from it, and it is shirk (associating partners with Allah). Yes.