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Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah on Asking Intermediaries to Ask Allaah on Their Behalf Friday, July 26 2013 - by Abu.Iyaad Read more articles at TawhidFirst.Com
Shaykh al-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullaah) said in Majmu' al-Fatawa (1/126):
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There are numerous concepts at work when a person solicits du'a from the dead, and there are also underlying assumptions and beliefs associated with making these requests from the dead for them to supplicate to Allaah on behalf of the one asking them - and all of this falls within what Allaah described as shirk and kufr in the Qur'an which is making du'a to other than Allaah (asking the dead to make du'a is du'a in itself and is asking for their intercession), treating them as intermediaries, assuming that Allaah's relationship to the creation is like that of the kings with their subjects through the intermediation of ministers and their likes, soliciting their intercession (which actually means to ask another to make supplication - see this article). This matter will be elaborated upon in other articles.
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