Tauheed-Pious Help

“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)

Tawheed and Shirk(Monotheism or Polytheism)18

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!

Sayyidina Gabriel says that he bestowed Sayyida Maryam with a son 19/19 He said: I am only a messenger of thy Lord, that I may bestow on thee a faultless son. 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!

Asking for help from other than Allah is permissible.

If asking the dead for help is polytheism (shirk) then this must mean that asking the living for help is also polytheism!

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! 

We have already acknowledged that asking help from other than Allah is not worship anyway and that the deceased pious are alive in their graves! Asking help from the deceased pious is just asking the deceased pious to make supplication (dua) for you.

Muslims believe that if they go to the grave of a pious person, they can hear (as we have proven earlier) and so ask them to make supplication (dua) on their behalf. The scholars have clarified that supplication (dua) is made to Allah alone, as supplication (dua) is a form of worship. However the 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

When I want to talk to allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)

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