The Ruling on Erecting Shrines, Building Mosques on Them, and Calling People to Worship at Them
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Question:
The questioner: What is the ruling on one who erects idols, shrines, and graves, and builds mosques and shrines over them, endows men and money for them, establishes committees to oversee them, and enables people to worship them, circumambulate around them, make supplication to them, and slaughter for them?
Answer:
The Shaykh: The ruling on him is that he commits disbelief (kufr) with this action. Because his action is a call to disbelief: his establishment of the shrine and building of it, and his calling people to worship it, and his appointing a committee for it. This indicates his approval of this action, and that he is calling to disbelief and to misguidance, may Allah protect us from that.
The presenter:
May Allah bless you.
The questioner: What is the ruling on one who erects idols, shrines, and graves, and builds mosques and shrines over them, endows men and money for them, establishes committees to oversee them, and enables people to worship them, circumambulate around them, make supplication to them, and slaughter for them?
Answer:
The Shaykh: The ruling on him is that he commits disbelief (kufr) with this action. Because his action is a call to disbelief: his establishment of the shrine and building of it, and his calling people to worship it, and his appointing a committee for it. This indicates his approval of this action, and that he is calling to disbelief and to misguidance, may Allah protect us from that.
The presenter:
May Allah bless you.
Source
الفوزان -أشرطة- أسئلة وأجوبة من دروس التوحيد - أسئلة وأجوبة في العقيدة - مسائل الإيمان - الفوزان — archive.org (17:07)
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