Reading from the author's text with commentary and collation of manuscripts
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The reader: Our Prophet Muhammad and his family and all his Companions.
As for what follows: The Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) said in *Iqtida' al-Sirat al-Mustaqim*: "The means (wasilah) that Allah commanded to be sought toward Him encompasses the means in His worship and in asking Him, so seeking nearness to Him (tawassul) through the righteous deeds He commanded, and through the supplication of the prophets and the righteous and their intercession, is not from the category of swearing by His creations.
And from this category is: people seeking intercession from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) on the Day of Resurrection, for they ask him to intercede for them with Allah, just as they used to ask him in this world to supplicate for them in the prayer for rain and other matters. And the statement of 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him):Sahih al-Bukhari 1010 its meaning is: we seek nearness to You through his supplication and his intercession and his asking, and we seek nearness to You through the supplication of his uncle and his asking and his intercession, it is not intended by this that we swear "
The Shaykh : I
The reader: "It is not intended that we swear upon You by him, or what is of this nature that is done after his death and in his absence, as some people say"
The Shaykh : In my copy: what is done without a pronoun.
The reader: In the printed edition, it says: what the innovators do.
The Shaykh : No, in my copy, "what is done after his death"
The reader: "what is done after his death and in his absence, as some people say: 'I ask You by the status of so-and-so with You,' and they say: 'We seek nearness to Allah through His prophets and His awliya (close friends of Allah),' and they narrate a fabricated hadith:. If this had been the tawassul that the Companions used to do, as 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) mentioned, they would have done it with him after his death, and they would not have turned away from it to al-'Abbas, while knowing that asking by him and swearing by him is greater than al-'Abbas, so it is known that that tawassul they mentioned is what is done by the living, not the dead"
The Shaykh : In my copy, it says: what is done with the living.
The reader: What he indicated.
The Shaykh : No, a manuscript.
The reader: "And it is what is done with the living, not the dead, and it is tawassul through their supplication and their intercession, for the living one is asked for that, and the dead one is not asked for anything, not supplication, nor anything else".
As for what follows: The Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) said in *Iqtida' al-Sirat al-Mustaqim*: "The means (wasilah) that Allah commanded to be sought toward Him encompasses the means in His worship and in asking Him, so seeking nearness to Him (tawassul) through the righteous deeds He commanded, and through the supplication of the prophets and the righteous and their intercession, is not from the category of swearing by His creations.
And from this category is: people seeking intercession from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) on the Day of Resurrection, for they ask him to intercede for them with Allah, just as they used to ask him in this world to supplicate for them in the prayer for rain and other matters. And the statement of 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him):
We used to ask our Prophet to invoke You for rain, and You would bless us with rain, and now we ask his uncle to invoke You for rain
إنا كنا إذا أجدبنا توسلنا إليك بنبينا فتسقينا، وإنا نتوسل إليك بعم نبيناThe Shaykh : I
The reader: "It is not intended that we swear upon You by him, or what is of this nature that is done after his death and in his absence, as some people say"
The Shaykh : In my copy: what is done without a pronoun.
The reader: In the printed edition, it says: what the innovators do.
The Shaykh : No, in my copy, "what is done after his death"
The reader: "what is done after his death and in his absence, as some people say: 'I ask You by the status of so-and-so with You,' and they say: 'We seek nearness to Allah through His prophets and His awliya (close friends of Allah),' and they narrate a fabricated hadith:
When you ask Allah, ask Him by my status, for my status with Allah is broad
إذا سألتم الله فاسألوه بجاهي، فإن جاهي عند الله عريضThe Shaykh : In my copy, it says: what is done with the living.
The reader: What he indicated.
The Shaykh : No, a manuscript.
The reader: "And it is what is done with the living, not the dead, and it is tawassul through their supplication and their intercession, for the living one is asked for that, and the dead one is not asked for anything, not supplication, nor anything else".