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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What is the ruling on the fatwas of the people of innovation that permit their shirk (associating partners with Allah) and misguidance?

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Question:
A questioner says: Recently, scholars of misguidance and innovation have been issuing fatwas permitting their innovations and acts of shirk, such as the Sufis and the Rafidah. It would be desirable if they were stopped at their limit.

Answer:
This is the most heinous thing. Issuing fatwas on shirk and bid'ah (religious innovation) is the most heinous and erroneous act. It is obligatory for the people of knowledge, if they find someone issuing fatwas on shirk or bid'ah, to clarify to the people his error and mistake. For the religion is sincere advice. It is necessary that if an ignorant person or an innovator errs, his error and misguidance be made clear. So the one who says there is no harm in calling upon the dead or seeking aid from the dead, this is major shirk. Or making vows to them, or prostrating to their graves, or this is major shirk. Or he considers it permissible.
The innovations that Allah has forbidden and warned against, and said are from Him, these are a reprehensible bid'ah. For example, if someone says celebrating the Mawlid is legally permissible, it is said to him: This is a mistake. If someone says celebrating the Isra and Mi'raj is a sunnah (recommended practice), it is said: Mistake, it is a bid'ah, it is not a sunnah. If the people of the deceased, when their relative dies, prepare food for people and invite people, this is a mistake, it is a bid'ah. And so on. If it is known to be a bid'ah, it is defined as such. If it is known that this thing is reprehensible, but it must be done with insight, with knowledge. Likewise, the council of the Shi'ah. If a person is known to be calling to the worship of the Ahl al-Bayt, if he calls upon Ali, or if he is occupied with Ali, or al-Hasan, or al-Husayn, or Fatimah, or says that they know the unseen, it is refuted against him. This is reprehensible, this is shirk, whether he is a Shi'i or not. The point is, whoever says this statement, this is the statement of the Rafidah. And so on, whoever says the Messenger is called upon, or aid is sought from the Messenger after his death, a year after, other than Allah, this is major shirk. It is refuted against the one who said it. And so on, whoever says it is fine to build on graves. If he says a dome is built on the grave, or a mosque is built on it, this is reprehensible. It is refuted against the one who said this.
And the statement that nothing is built on them, and mosques are not entered into them, this is not permissible. It is one of the means of shirk. So if one finds someone saying that it is built on graves, or that it is left behind, it is refuted against him. And if it is not permissible, do not act upon this statement. Beware of this. And so on, whoever calls to an apparent evil or an apparent bid'ah, it is refuted against him. Teach the people and warn them against it, so that the people are upon clarity and insight, and so that they do not fall into the snares of Satan and the trials of Satan.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 095 ما العمل في فتاوى أهل البدع التي تجيز شركهم وضلالهم؟ للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com

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