The Beginning of the Shirk of the Grave-Worshippers and Who Initiated It
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, when did the shirk (associating partners with Allah) of the grave-worshippers begin, or in other words, who initiated it and called people to it, may Allah preserve you?
Answer:
Shirk in the worship of graves began after the preferred centuries, after the three preferred centuries, when the sects of the Batiniyyah, the Shi'ah, the Fatimiyyah, and the Qaramitah came. They built over the graves, and thus shirk regarding the graves occurred at the hands of the Fatimid Shi'ah and others.
And the Sufis also, who exaggerate regarding the awliya (close friends of Allah), who exaggerate regarding their masters, believing in them the power to benefit and harm, and who build over their graves. So this matter occurred in this Ummah (the Muslim community) due to two groups: the first group is the Shi'ah who venerate the People of the House and build over their graves, and the second group is the Sufis who venerate the sheikhs of the tariqahs (Sufi orders), who exalted the sheikhs in the tariqahs, and when they died, they built over their graves. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, when did the shirk (associating partners with Allah) of the grave-worshippers begin, or in other words, who initiated it and called people to it, may Allah preserve you?
Answer:
Shirk in the worship of graves began after the preferred centuries, after the three preferred centuries, when the sects of the Batiniyyah, the Shi'ah, the Fatimiyyah, and the Qaramitah came. They built over the graves, and thus shirk regarding the graves occurred at the hands of the Fatimid Shi'ah and others.
And the Sufis also, who exaggerate regarding the awliya (close friends of Allah), who exaggerate regarding their masters, believing in them the power to benefit and harm, and who build over their graves. So this matter occurred in this Ummah (the Muslim community) due to two groups: the first group is the Shi'ah who venerate the People of the House and build over their graves, and the second group is the Sufis who venerate the sheikhs of the tariqahs (Sufi orders), who exalted the sheikhs in the tariqahs, and when they died, they built over their graves. Yes.
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين في تحقيق دعوة الأنبياء والمرسلين، باب تفسير التوحيد وشهادة أن لا إله إلا الله — islamhouse.com (1:10:12)
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