Is there any virtue in the graves of the awliya (close friends of Allah), and is supplication at them prescribed?
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The Shaykh : If someone were to say: the grave of the awliya (close friends of Allah). The graves of the awliya (close friends of Allah). The graves of the awliya (close friends of Allah). Do they have any virtue? I mean, the answer seems very lenient.
The student: No. No.
The Shaykh : Not with a full mouth, or with a corner of the mouth? With a full mouth. They have no virtue. If there is any virtue, it is specific to the person in the grave. He is not a messenger, my brother. So it is specific to the person in the grave: his grave is expanded for the believer to the width of his sight. And he is given from Paradise of its fragrance and its bliss. But the place itself has nothing. For this reason, whoever goes to what he claims is the grave of a wali (close friend of Allah) in order to supplicate to Allah at it is an innovator who is astray. If you want to supplicate in a place beloved to Allah, then supplicate in the mosques. This is if we assume that this man is one of the awliya (close friends of Allah). As for those who claim to be among the awliya (close friends of Allah) from the people of the graves, that requires two things: — Pay attention, my brother, and keep this principle with you to refute those who venerate graves —
The student: No. No.
The Shaykh : Not with a full mouth, or with a corner of the mouth? With a full mouth. They have no virtue. If there is any virtue, it is specific to the person in the grave. He is not a messenger, my brother. So it is specific to the person in the grave: his grave is expanded for the believer to the width of his sight. And he is given from Paradise of its fragrance and its bliss. But the place itself has nothing. For this reason, whoever goes to what he claims is the grave of a wali (close friend of Allah) in order to supplicate to Allah at it is an innovator who is astray. If you want to supplicate in a place beloved to Allah, then supplicate in the mosques. This is if we assume that this man is one of the awliya (close friends of Allah). As for those who claim to be among the awliya (close friends of Allah) from the people of the graves, that requires two things: — Pay attention, my brother, and keep this principle with you to refute those who venerate graves —