The Attribution of Heat and Cold to the Seasons

Question:
Especially in the desert, and they attribute severe heat to some of the prophets, 'Abd al-Malik ibn Suhayl, and they invoke him for this.

Answer:
There is a distinction here. If his intention is that the time is a time of heat, there is nothing wrong with it. We say, for example, that summer is a time for heat and winter is a time for cold. Allah made it so; Allah placed cold in winter and heat in summer, and He placed heat in fire and coolness in the day. These are specific attributes that Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, has established. There is nothing wrong with saying that summer is a time of heat and winter is a time of cold. However, to believe that summer is what brings the heat, or that winter is what brings the cold, is shirk (associating partners with Allah), because it is only Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, the Creator, who brings the heat and the cold. Or to believe that the star is what brings the rain. A chapter on this will come in this book. You are not reading the book. This is a great book; it means it contains a chapter on seeking rain by colors, a chapter on what was narrated regarding direction, and a chapter on what was narrated regarding sorcery. It contains great chapters, meaning, if you were to read them.