The Ruling on Making Supplication at Graves and Offering Vows to the Dead
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Question:
Another questioner says: What about those who visit graveyards, make supplication at the graves of the deceased, offer them vows and sacrifices, and ask them to bring benefit and ward off harm? Is this a defect in one's creed?
Answer:
This invalidates the creed; it is not merely a defect. It invalidates the creed because it is major shirk (associating partners with Allah), shirk with Allah the Exalted. Bringing vows and slaughtered animals to the graves of the dead is shirk with Allah the Exalted, because this is directing a type of worship to other than Allah: slaughtering for other than Allah, making vows for other than Allah, and so on. Any act of obedience that is prescribed, if one intends it for a created being, is shirk with Allah the Exalted, because worship is for Allah alone, and no one among His creation shares in it with Him, neither the angels, nor the prophets and messengers, nor the righteous. Worship is pure for the right of Allah[Adh-Dhariyat 51:56] Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Another questioner says: What about those who visit graveyards, make supplication at the graves of the deceased, offer them vows and sacrifices, and ask them to bring benefit and ward off harm? Is this a defect in one's creed?
Answer:
This invalidates the creed; it is not merely a defect. It invalidates the creed because it is major shirk (associating partners with Allah), shirk with Allah the Exalted. Bringing vows and slaughtered animals to the graves of the dead is shirk with Allah the Exalted, because this is directing a type of worship to other than Allah: slaughtering for other than Allah, making vows for other than Allah, and so on. Any act of obedience that is prescribed, if one intends it for a created being, is shirk with Allah the Exalted, because worship is for Allah alone, and no one among His creation shares in it with Him, neither the angels, nor the prophets and messengers, nor the righteous. Worship is pure for the right of Allah
And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.
وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِThe presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (158) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1438-03-22] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (14:43)
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