The Ruling on Seeking Intercession Through the Righteous and the Prophets
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Question:
The questioner asks: What is the ruling on seeking intercession (tawassul) through the righteous, the prophets, and the angels, asking them to intercede for them with Allah? Is this major shirk (associating partners with Allah) that expels one from the religion, or is it minor shirk?
Answer:
There is a distinction here. If one seeks intercession through the righteous while drawing near to them with some form of worship, as the polytheists and grave-worshippers do today—slaughtering animals for the graves, looking at them, and circumambulating them—[Yunus 10:18] this is shirk. However, if it is merely seeking intercession without any accompanying worship, but only seeking a means of connection and asking for intercession alone, then this is not shirk. Rather, it is a means; it is one of the means leading to shirk, and it is not shirk in itself. But it is a bid'ah (religious innovation), and a means leading to shirk.
The questioner asks: What is the ruling on seeking intercession (tawassul) through the righteous, the prophets, and the angels, asking them to intercede for them with Allah? Is this major shirk (associating partners with Allah) that expels one from the religion, or is it minor shirk?
Answer:
There is a distinction here. If one seeks intercession through the righteous while drawing near to them with some form of worship, as the polytheists and grave-worshippers do today—slaughtering animals for the graves, looking at them, and circumambulating them—
and they say, "These are our intercessors with Allah
وَيَقُولُونَ هَٰؤُلَاءِ شُفَعَاؤُنَا عِندَ اللَّهِ
Source
التوسل بالصالحين والأنبياء والملائكة — alfawzan.live
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