The obligation toward those who invoke the awliya (close friends of Allah) and the righteous at the Sacred Mosque
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Question:
Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: I went to the Sacred Mosque in Makkah and found people invoking the awliya and the righteous other than Allah, and they say, “We seek intercession through them.” What is my obligation toward them?
Answer:
You must teach them that this is not permissible. Invoking the awliya and the righteous is shirk (associating partners with Allah); it is not a matter of seeking intercession. This is shirk, shirk with Allah the Exalted.[Al-Jinn 72:18] So invoking other than Allah is shirk, and it is not from the category of seeking intercession; rather, it is genuine shirk. So you teach them and inform them that their action is shirk, and it is not mere spreading of news. Yes.
Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: I went to the Sacred Mosque in Makkah and found people invoking the awliya and the righteous other than Allah, and they say, “We seek intercession through them.” What is my obligation toward them?
Answer:
You must teach them that this is not permissible. Invoking the awliya and the righteous is shirk (associating partners with Allah); it is not a matter of seeking intercession. This is shirk, shirk with Allah the Exalted.
And [He revealed] that the masjids are for Allah, so do not invoke with Allah anyone.
وَأَنَّ الْمَسَاجِدَ لِلَّهِ فَلَا تَدْعُوا مَعَ اللَّهِ أَحَدًا
Source
تفسير حزب المفصل، تفسير سورة القلم [ الآية 41 إلى آخر السورة ] — islamhouse.com (35:31)
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