The ruling on the caller who invites people to supplicate to the occupants of graves and seek blessing from grave soil
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner from outside this country says: We have a da'iyah (caller to Islam) in our country who permits supplicating to the occupants of graves and swearing by other than Allah. He believes that the soil of a wali's (close friend of Allah) grave cures diseases, and that Allah is not in the sky, among other things. He says: Then a Salafi da'iyah stood up and said that this is a call to shirk (associating partners with Allah). His question is: Is this description consistent with what was mentioned?
Answer:
Yes, as long as he calls people to tawassul (seeking nearness to Allah through a means) through the dead, or asking them for shafa'ah (intercession) or aid, he is a mushrik (one who associates partners with Allah). It is obligatory to warn people against him.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner from outside this country says: We have a da'iyah (caller to Islam) in our country who permits supplicating to the occupants of graves and swearing by other than Allah. He believes that the soil of a wali's (close friend of Allah) grave cures diseases, and that Allah is not in the sky, among other things. He says: Then a Salafi da'iyah stood up and said that this is a call to shirk (associating partners with Allah). His question is: Is this description consistent with what was mentioned?
Answer:
Yes, as long as he calls people to tawassul (seeking nearness to Allah through a means) through the dead, or asking them for shafa'ah (intercession) or aid, he is a mushrik (one who associates partners with Allah). It is obligatory to warn people against him.
Source
شرح العقيدة الواسطية [ صالح الفوزان ] [ 1438هـ ]، الإيمان بأنه قريب مجيب — islamhouse.com (58:19)
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