The dead supplicating to Allah on behalf of the living
Imaam Sayyid Nadheer Hussayn ad-Dahlawee
Reference: Fatãwaa Nadheeriyah, Book of Iman and Beliefs - Volume 1 page 29
Category: Creed
There is a person who visits a grave believing that the person in this grave was pious. Because of this belief, he beseeches Allah through the deceased saying ‘O pious man! Please supplicate to Allah on my behalf so that He blesses me with children.’ Is such an act permissible?
To visit any one’s grave, beseeching the dead person to supplicate to Allah on his or her behalf, with the mistaken belief that the deceased is acting as an intermediary is baseless and forbidden; as such an act has not been established in the Shariah. This act is based upon the false belief that the dead can listen to the beseeching of the living, that they have the ability to supplicate to Allah on their behalf, and that the supplication of the deceased is accepted because of their piety & holiness. Not a single one of the above aforementioned reasons have been established from authentic evidence as has been determined in the Qur’an & Sunnah[1], so how can such an act ever be permissible?
Footnotes:
[1] Rather it goes against the correct Islamic Aqeedah as mentioned by Allah, the Most High in His noble book; The Qur’an. Refer to Surah 46 Al-Ahqaf Ayah No 5-6:
{And who is more astray then one who calls on (invokes) besides Allah, such as will not answer him till the Day of Resurrection, and who are (even) unaware of their calls (invocations) to them. And when mankind are gathered (on the Day of Resurrection), they (false deities) will become their enemies and will deny their worshipping}.
Refer to Surah 16 An-Nahl Ayah no: 20-21:
{Those whom they (those who set up rivals with Allah, and those who worship others along Allah) invoke besides Allah have not created anything, but are themselves created. (They are) dead, not alive, and they know not when they will be raised up}.
Translator: Zulfiker Ibrahim al-Memoni al-Athari
Date Published: Thursday, 01 March 2007
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2 comments:
Salamz,
pls refer to this following verses:
1) surah An-nisa:64
2)Surah AlBaqarah :154
3)surah Al-Imran: 169
Tadabbur the ayats carefully...
Thx!
Wa 'alaykum as-Salamu wa rahmatullah.
If you have quoted those Qur'anic verses to oppose the content of the articles, then I'd suggest that you open the books of Tafseer by the Mufassireen such as Imaam Ibn Katheer and Imaam al-Qurtoobee.
One cannot just tadabbur on the Qur'anic verses on his own, using his own understanding and logic.
One should refer back to the scholars, to the books of Tafseer, etc.
Those verses that you have quoted do not in any way indicate that one can supplicate to the dead in the manner of tawassul.
A believer should only supplicate to Allah; his tawakkal belongs to Allah alone.
Insha-Allah, in my next entry, I'll post the Tafseer of the verse 2:154.
Wallahu a'lam.
PS. I hope you would practise more adaab by typing out the whole of the salaam (greeting). Surely, you do not meet a fellow Muslim and merely says "Salamz" to him or her, for that is not the manner of greeting a fellow Muslim as taught by our beloved Prophet sallAllahu 'alayhi wa sallam.
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