The Ruling on Seeking Blessing from Graves and Rubbing Against Them

Question:
May Allah bless you. This one is also asking about graves, may Allah preserve you. He says: I see some people going to graves and rubbing against them, and sometimes they place some things there. What is the ruling on this action?

Answer:
This is an action that is not permissible; this is an action that is not permissible, and this is a forbidden visit, not prescribed. If he intends to seek blessing from the graves and ask for needs from the graves, then this is shirk (associating partners with Allah); this is major shirk, because it is asking from other than Allah (Mighty and Majestic) for matters in which the dead person has no power. The dead person has no power over anything. Rather, the dead person is in need of supplication, so he is visited for the sake of greeting him and making supplication for him, and for the sake of taking a lesson from the state of the dead. As for the visit intended for seeking blessing from the graves, rubbing against them, and asking for needs from the dead, this is a visit of shirk and religious innovation, and it is not permissible. Yes.