To Seek Help of Other than Allaah is Shirk

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To Seek Help of Other than Allaah is Shirk

By Sheikh Muhammad Bin Sulaiman At-Tamimi

From ‘Kitaab at-Tawheed’

Allaah subhanahu wa ta’ala said:

“Do not call onto any beings other than Allaah. These are capable of neither benefiti nor harm. To do so is therefore guilty of wrongdoing. When Allaah inverts you with an affliction, none can remove it except Him.” (Qur’aan 10:106-107)

“Seek your livelihood from Him and worship Him alone.” (Qur’aan 29:17)

“Who I smore foolish than he who prays to other beings than Allaah, to beings who are ever impotent to answer his prayer?” (Qur’aan 46:5)

“Is He not Allaah Who answers the appeal of the needy when he calls upon Him and removes the deed?” (Qur’aan 27:62)

At-Tabarani reported, with respective isnad: At the time of the Prophet there was a hypocrite who rendered so much harm to the believers that some of them summoned the others to seek the help of the Prophet against him. When the Prophet sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam heard of it, he said, ‘No man may seek my help. Only the help of Allaah is worthy of being sought.’

Issues addresses in this chapter:

1. Adding prayers for the specific purposes to the general prayer of recoursing for help is like adding the particular to the general

2. Explanation of the verse, “Do not call onto any beings other than Allaah. These are capable of neither benefit nor harm.” (Qur’aan 10:106)

3. To do this is the greatest shirk

4. To this by even the most righteous and for totally altruistic purposes is nonetheless an act of wrong-doing

5. Explanation of the verse that follows [viz. "When Allaah invests you with an affliction." (Qur'aan 10:107)]

6. That, in addition to being blasphemous, recoursing to other than Allaah will not avail in this world

7. Explanation of the third verse [viz. "Seek your livelihood from Him." (Qur'aan 29:17)]

8. Prayer for livelihood may never be addressed to anyone besides Allaah. Similarly prayer for paradise

9. Explanation of the fourth verse [viz. "Who is more foolish." (Qur'aan 46:5)]

10. That nobody is more astray than he who recourses to other than Allaah

11. That the called is ignorant of the prayer of the caller

12. Such prayer even causes hatred to develop between the caller and the called

13. Calling to anyone is a kind of worship of the person called

14. Blasphemy of such worship

15. All these matters make the calling person the most foolish of all

16. Explanation of the fifth verse [viz. "Who answers the appeal of the needy." (Qur'aan 27:62)]

17. The really amazing fact is that idolaters do admit that none responds to the needy except Allaah; and for this reason; they too call on Him sincerely when they are in distress

18. The Prophet’s protection of tawhid and discipline before Allaah.

[Sadly in this day and age there are many who call upon those other than Allaah. For anyone living in the Indian sub continent it becomes apparent that there is much grave worshipping - supposedly under the name of Islam. When a person goes to visit a dead person, often someone who is considered more pious than they are, and ask them for something or to approach Allaah on their behalf, they commit some degree of shirk, for it is Allaah subhanahu wa ta'ala alone who has the ability to listen and respond to prayers - and He subhanahu wa ta'ala does as He subhanahu wa ta'ala wills, and may He subhanahu wa ta'ala make things easy for all, ameen.

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