My question is in holy quran it is written we should take wasila i dont remember ayaah .some people say we should take wasila of our beloved prophet pbuh
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my question is in holy quran it is written
we should take wasila i dont remember ayaah .some people say we should take
wasila of our beloved prophet pbuh , some says we should take wasila of our
good deeds and all holy names of Allah Tallah and others says that we should
wasila of all auliya allah. pls guide me.we should just follow what holy quran
and sunnah say alhamdulillah i do.
jazakallah khair
assalaam alekum
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Answer:
Take wasila
In the name of Allah, We
praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah
guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide
them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam,
no dai, nobody!) worthy of
worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His
slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Allah Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 5 Surah Maidah verse 35: O ye who
believe! Fear Allah and seek the ‘wasila’
(means of approach) unto Him; and strive
with might and main in His Cause: that ye may prosper.
In context of the
absolutely clear guidance of the Quran and the Sunnah, ‘wasila’ is a means to
approach Allah Subhanah by doing righteous good deeds like Jihad (striving in
His Cause), Prayer, Fasts, Charity, etc.
Sincere belief, trust, fear and hope, and the striving and doing
righteous good deeds are the only means whereby one may approach the Pleasure
and Good Will of the Merciful Lord and Creator.
Under absolutely no
circumstances or context can the above Aayah of the Glorious Quran even
remotely imply that ‘wasila’ means to take the graves of the pious righteous
deceased slaves of Allah Subhanah and start invoking the ‘awliyaa-Allah’ in
their graves as a means of approaching Allah Subhanah! Allah is our witness brother, such type or
means of ‘wasila’ or approach are manifest acts of the abomination of ‘shirk’
in the Sight of Allah Subhanah!
Allah Says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 39 Surah Zumar verse 3: Is it not to
Allah that sincere devotion is due? But
those who take ‘awliyaas’ other than Allah (say): "We
only serve them (the awliyaas) in order that they may bring us nearer to
Allah." Truly Allah will judge between them in that wherein they
differ. But Allah guides not such as are
false and ungrateful.
It has indeed always
happened that when some true and pious servant of Allah Subhanah died, some
people declared him after his death as a ‘Wali’ (plural Awliya) from themselves, and shared some of Allah Rights and
Attributes with this departed person!
Some made images and worshipped them, some made idols and invoked them, and
some turned their graves into places of worship and invocations!
Allah Alone is
All-Hearing; but some ignorant people shared
this Noble Attribute of Allah with their Awliyaas and declared them to be
all-hearing too!
Similarly, Allah Alone is All-Seeing; but some ignorant people shared this Noble
Attribute of Allah with their Awliyaas and declared them to be all-seeing
too!
This is precisely what
has been termed ‘shirk’ in the Glorious Quran!
One who we think is a
righteous and pious man and declare him a ‘wali’, may or may not be a ‘wali’;
for Allah Subhanah Alone knows the condition of his heart and his intentions. But there is absolutely no doubt that all the
Messengers of Allah Subhanah are His ‘Walis’!
And the Messenger of Allah (saws) invoked the curse of Allah Subhanah on
those who made and used the graves of the Noble Prophets of Allah as shrines,
tombs, or places of worship!
Abu Hurairah narrated:
"The Prophet (saws) said: 'May Allah curse the Jews and the Christians for
they turned the graves of their Prophets into places of worship'
(dargahs).''
Related by
Bukhari and Muslim.
Aishah
reported: "Umm Habibah and Umm Salamah mentioned to Allah's Messenger
(saws) a church in which they saw drawings while in Abyssinia, whereupon he
(saws) said: 'Those people used to build a place of worship (dargah) over the
grave of a righteous man among them when he died, and make such drawings in it.
These will be the worst of people in the sight of Allah on the Day of
Resurrection.''
Related by
Bukhari and Muslim
Sahih
Al-Bukhari Hadith 7.706 Narrated
by Aisha and Abdullah bin Abbas
When the
disease of the Messenger of Allah (saws) got aggravated, he covered his face
with a Khamisa, but when he became short of breath, he would remove it from his
face and say, "It is like that! May Allah curse the Jews and Christians
because they took the graves of their prophets as places of worship.
(dargah)" By that he warned his followers of imitating them, by
doing that which they did.
It is indeed unfortunate
and absolute and utter ignorance, that after being specifically warned by the
Messenger of Allah (saws); some people who profess their belief in him and his
message start making and using the graves of the deceased pious slaves of Allah
Subhanah as places of worship and invocation!
If one invokes anything
or anyone other than Allah Subhanah, or if one invokes or call upon anything or
anyone with Allah Subhanah… there is absolutely no doubt that such a person
will be committing the heinous and abomination act of ‘shirk’!!!
It is the strict command
and sole Right of Allah Subhanah, as the Creator and Sustainer of the World,
that He and He Alone should be invoked for anything one desires and needs; for
there is none in the Universe who can give anything if Allah does not will to
give, and there is none in the Universe who can stop Allah if He wills to show
mercy on His slaves!
If one so much so as
even tries to invoke someone or something other than Allah Subhanah Alone, he
will be committing the most heinous of crimes in the sight of Allah Subhanah;
that is, ‘shirk’!!!
Allah says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 10 Surah Yunus verse 18: These people serve beside Allah
those which can neither harm nor benefit them, and say, “These are our
‘shofa’a’ (intercessors) with Allah!” (O
Mohammed), tell them, “Do you wish to inform Allah of that thing which He knows
not in the heavens, or in the earth?” He
is absolutely free from, and exalted
above the shirk that they commit.
Allah says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 18 Surah Kahf verse 102: What? Do these people, who have disbelieved, presume that they would make My servants
their ‘auliyaas’ besides Me? We have
prepared Hell for the hospitality of such people.
Allah says in
the Holy Quran Chapter 5 Surah Maidah verse 72: Whoever commits ‘shirk’
(invoking anything with Allah), Allah
shall forbid for him
Beloved brother in
Islam, the Glorious Quran is overflowing with the warnings of Allah Subhanah
regarding every manifestation of the heinous sin of ‘shirk’. Every nation who was destroyed before, be it
the nation of Prophet Nooh (a.s.), the nation of Aad, the nation of Thamud, the
nation of Prophet Lut (a.s.), the nation of Prophet Shoaib (a.s.), etc. Every nation was destroyed by Allah Subhanah
because they did exactly what they were warned against by the Prophets who came
to them: they invariably invoked others with Allah Subhanah and were guilty of
the heinous crime of ‘shirk’!
Some invoked the sun,
the moon, the stars; some invoked animals; some invented their own gods; and
some made images and graves of the deceased righteous pious people (awliyaas)
and invoked them with Allah Subhanah….and thus became guilty of the abomination
and the most hated crime in the sight of The All-Mighty Lord, ‘shirk’!!!
May Allah have mercy on
the Ummah of Mohamed (saws), and save them from ever committing this
abomination and heinous crime of ‘shirk’!
Whatever written of
Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever
of error is of me. Allah Alone Knows
Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.
Your Brother in Islam,