The Ruling on Denying the Lawful Intercession and the Difference Between It and the Intercessions of the Pre-Islamic Age of Ignorance
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The questioner:
And he asks: Is it true that there are remnants of a teacher who are spreading intercession and praising it?
The Shaykh:
Yes, one must be cautious of this. Look, if by intercession they mean the intercession of the dead and the people of the graves, this is denied and it must be denied, as must the writing of it in the classroom. But if the intended meaning is the intercession that is the lawful intercession which came in the Book and the Sunnah, then denying it is shirk (associating partners with Allah) in the religion of Allah, and it is not permissible to deny it. One must refute those who deny it.
There is a distinction here, because intercession in the understanding of people today has become, for most people, referring to the intercession of the dead and the shrines, and so on. So the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance who[Yunus 10:18] if we do not want this intercession from them, then whoever earns it and establishes it must be refuted, and it must be denied.
The questioner:
He asks: Is there a specific amount?
The Shaykh:
And whoever denies the established intercession must be refuted and denied. Yes.
And he asks: Is it true that there are remnants of a teacher who are spreading intercession and praising it?
The Shaykh:
Yes, one must be cautious of this. Look, if by intercession they mean the intercession of the dead and the people of the graves, this is denied and it must be denied, as must the writing of it in the classroom. But if the intended meaning is the intercession that is the lawful intercession which came in the Book and the Sunnah, then denying it is shirk (associating partners with Allah) in the religion of Allah, and it is not permissible to deny it. One must refute those who deny it.
There is a distinction here, because intercession in the understanding of people today has become, for most people, referring to the intercession of the dead and the shrines, and so on. So the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance who
And they worship other than Allah that which neither harms them nor benefits them, and they say, "These are our intercessors
وَيَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ مَا لَا يَضُرُّهُمْ وَلَا يَنفَعُهُمْ وَيَقُولُونَ هَٰؤُلَاءِ شُفَعَاؤُنَاThe questioner:
He asks: Is there a specific amount?
The Shaykh:
And whoever denies the established intercession must be refuted and denied. Yes.
Source
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