“Bismillahir Rahmannir Raheem”Al-Hamdu Lillaahi Rabbil ‘Aalameen was Salaatu was- Salaamu ‘Alaa Sayidinaa Muhammadin wa Aalihi wa Asabihi Ajma ‘een (tauheed- risalat- ahkirat and islam-iman-ihsan)

It is permissible to ask the pious to help you with something that is beyond human capability?

27/38 -40 The help Sayyidina Sulayman (as)asked for from his followers, was something that was beyond human capability. However his followers did help with the help of Allah. If asking help from other than Allah Almighty is polytheism then why did Sayyidina Sulaiman (as)ask help from his followers?

A question may arise that why did Sayyidina Sulaiman (as)not bring the throne himself? Why did he ask his followers to do so? The answer to this is that he asked for their help to emphasize that if his followers were capable of such acts, then as a Prophet he would be capable of even greater acts! We also learn from these verses that the Jinn also have the capability to help, though the pious have more power and capability to help than the Jinn.

7/160 –When the nation of Sayyidina Musa (as)was thirsty for water and they requested to him to provide them with water, he did not argue by saying, by asking him this was committing shirk, no! Though Allah Azawajal inspired Moses to hit his staff against the rock and twelve springs gushed forth! Allahuakbar!

In the following verse Sayyidina Gabriel says that he bestowed Sayyida Maryam with a son 19/19–.To ask someone to provide them with a son is nothing compared to actually saying ?I bestow to you a son?. Though either one cannot be called polytheism (Shirk) as then Sayyidina Gabriel (Jibraeel) could not have said this!

To ask the Prophets and pious for help with the intention that they are not the providers of the help, and are only a means through which the help is provided is permissible and this is not worship.

To worship and to ask for help are two different things, as Allah clearly differentiates between them in the Quran:1/5 Thee we worship; Thee we ask for help -Allah is clearly differentiating between worship and help in this verse. If worshipping and asking help are the same then why has Allah discussed them separately? This explains to us that worship and help are two different things!

IBLIS EVEN HELPS HIS FOLLOWERS

The verses explain to us how even Iblis helps his followers

6/112  and 7/27 These verses inform us how that even Iblis inspires and helps his friends in doing wrong. If he has the power to help those who do wrong, surely with the will of Allah the Prophets and pious can be of help to us!

Further proof that the Jinn can help:

27/39-This verse proves that the jinn have great power, if the jinn have such power why then cant the pious?

46/4-7–These verses are not talking of the pious.They are talking about the idols who were worshipped by the polytheists of Makkah.

Asking for help from other than Allah is permissible.

Where does it say in the Quran that to ask help from the living is permissible and to ask from the deceased is polytheism? If you are claiming that asking help is worship then that means you are saying that you can worship a living person but not the deceased! 

Asking help from the deceased pious is just asking the deceased pious to make supplication (dua) for you.

Supplication (dua) is not directed towards the pious but to Allah alone, and the pious are selected to be the means (wasila) in which the prayer is offered.

PROOF THAT THE PIOUS ARE ENJOYING THE LIFE OF THEIR GRAVES :

16/97–Here Allah Most Gracious promises the believers, a new life good and pure. This life is the Afterlife. If we are completely lifeless once we have died, then how will we enjoy the pleasures our Lord has promised us Surely we will be alive in the hereafter.

The places where the Prophets and pious are buried are holy

5/21 , 7/137 , 17/1 , 21/71  These verses are talking about the blessed land of Palestine , because of the Prophet’s who lived there and who are buried there. Makkah and Madina are also said to be holy, as Madina is the place where Rasulullah (saws) is buried.

3/37 -38 These verses tell us that whenever Saayyidina Zakariya (as)went to Sayida Maryam’s house, she was always blessed with food. This was because she was a blessed woman and her house was a blessed place. So Sayyidina Zakariya (as)made supplication .

THE MOUNTAINS AS-SAFA AND AL-MARWAH—2/158 —In these verses, Allah has called the mountains Safa and Marwah His signs: places that are holy and special because the feet of Sayida Hajra (may Allah be pleased with her) touched the ground between the mountains, it is said to be holy.

Where has it been made permissible to even go to graves?

9/84 – This verse forbids us from going to the graves of the disbelievers or to pray for them. However Allah Azawajal could not make this command apply to Muslims visiting other Muslims who have passed away as we have been told time and time again to pray for other Muslims. If visiting the graves of Muslims was prohibited all together then why did Allah not mention so in the verse just recited?

60/13 –In this verse, Allah informs us that He is angry with the disbelievers for two reasons: firstly that they do not believe in the hereafter.  Secondly, Allah Azawajal is angry with the disbelievers because they despair of those who are in the graves. Meaning that they believe that the people of grave are dead, lifeless and hopeless. If Muslims are to believe in either of these then we share the same belief as those who disbelieve in Allah, and just as Allah is angry with them He will be angry with us. This is why as Muslims we cannot believe that the people of the graves are dead, lifeless and hopeless. So, when Muslims go to the graves of the Prophets and pious we will go with the intention that they are alive in their graves and they are not lifeless. We will not go with the intention that the Prophets and pious are dead and lifeless just as idols are.

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