The ruling on one who says: The wali (close friend of Allah) is able to create the child in the womb of its mother?

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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: We hear and read that the wali (close friend of Allah) is able to create a child, and to give life and to cause death.

Answer:
Yes, what is astonishing about them is that they have reached this level, and that they claim a wali (close friend of Allah) creates. Do you believe this? This is not even the case with the insane; creation belongs to Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He).

Or have they attributed to Allah partners who created like His creation so that the creation [of each] seemed similar to them?

أَمْ جَعَلُوا لِلَّهِ شُرَكَاءَ خَلَقُوا كَخَلْقِهِ فَتَشَابَهَ الْخَلْقُ عَلَيْهِمْ

[Ar-Ra'd 13:16]

Show me what they have created of the heavens?

Show me what they have created from the earth, or have they partnership [with Him] in the heavens?

أَرُونِي مَاذَا خَلَقُوا مِنَ الْأَرْضِ أَمْ لَهُمْ شِرْكٌ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ

[Fatir 35:40]

? They have not created anything, nor do they create anything.

create nothing, and they [themselves] are created.

لَا يَخْلُقُونَ شَيْئًا وَهُمْ يُخْلَقُونَ

[An-Nahl 16:20]

So the one who believes this is a disbeliever, may Allah protect us from that. The one who believes that a wali creates the fetus is a disbeliever, a disbeliever in Allah (Mighty and Majestic). Yes.

Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [634 -858] حكم من قال: إن الولي يستطيع أن يخلق الولد في بطن أمه؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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