The Ruling on Traveling to Visit Graves and the Awliya
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Question:
What is the ruling on traveling to visit the prophets and the righteous dead? And what is your advice to those who do that?
Answer:
This is a bid'ah (religious innovation), and it is not permissible to travel to visit graves or to visit the awliya (close friends of Allah) and the righteous. Rather, visiting graves without traveling is recommended; visiting the graves of Muslims is recommended without traveling, with the intention of making du'a' (supplication) for the dead, and the intention of making du'a' for the dead, and gaining reward in visiting them. As for one who intends by that to seek blessing from the graves or from the awliya and the righteous, this is shirk (associating partners with Allah) with Allah the Exalted. Yes.
What is the ruling on traveling to visit the prophets and the righteous dead? And what is your advice to those who do that?
Answer:
This is a bid'ah (religious innovation), and it is not permissible to travel to visit graves or to visit the awliya (close friends of Allah) and the righteous. Rather, visiting graves without traveling is recommended; visiting the graves of Muslims is recommended without traveling, with the intention of making du'a' (supplication) for the dead, and the intention of making du'a' for the dead, and gaining reward in visiting them. As for one who intends by that to seek blessing from the graves or from the awliya and the righteous, this is shirk (associating partners with Allah) with Allah the Exalted. Yes.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/058 — archive.org (3:24)
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