Originally posted by Abu 'Abdullaah
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- The Islamic texts - Ayat, Ahadith and Athar - contain proofs that support asking for the intercession of our beloved Prophet - sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam - unto his Lord, which is the same as asking for his supplication. From among those proofs is the statement of Allah ta'ala:
{ وَلَوْ أَنَّهُمْ إِذ ظَّلَمُوۤاْ أَنْفُسَهُمْ جَآءُوكَ فَٱسْتَغْفَرُواْ ٱللَّهَ وَٱسْتَغْفَرَ لَهُمُ ٱلرَّسُولُ لَوَجَدُواْ ٱللَّهَ تَوَّاباً رَّحِيماً }
{ If they had only, when they were unjust to themselves, come unto thee and asked Allah’s forgiveness, and the Messenger had asked forgiveness for them, they would have found Allah indeed Oft-returning, Most Merciful }
[4:64]
Note that the wording of the Aya is general, so it's not allowed to specify it to the time before the death of our beloved Prophet, sallallahu 'alayi wa sallam.
The scholars of Tafsir and Fiqh regarded this Aya to be general in meaning and this should be enough to know its ruling!
- The classical books of Fiqh even recommend seeking the intercession of al-Mustafa - sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam - when visiting his blessed grave!
- Asking someone to supplicate for you indicates quite obviously that one believes that this person is a creation of Allah ta'ala and has no divine attributes. So how is it after this allowed to ignore this and act as if one is worshipping the one that one asks for supplication?
- It's proven that the Messenger of Allah - sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam - is alive in his grave and is informed of the state and deeds of his Umma and that he hears the greeting of the one who greets him and that he supplicates for his Umma. To deny this and to act as if this is somehow "impossible" is atheism in itself!
- No one from among the classical scholars - including Ibn Taymiyya - has regarded this as polytheism. The Shaykh Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728 AH) disallowed it and claimed it to be an innovation and something that may lead to polytheism and was criticized for this by the scholars of his time and those after.
The Najdis were the first to make Takfir based upon this issue and Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (d. 1206 AH) - the spiritual leader of the Najdis - even accused the scholars of his time of "praising polytheism" (Madh al-Shirk!) because of this issue. The Najdis killed muslims (!) because of this issue - which is not even a sin! - and this is from the way of the worst of the Khawarij,
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