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The supplication that is done in our time is of three different types:
1. supplication to God alone, without a partner; this is what the prophet ﷺ was sent for.
2. that he supplicates to Allah, and supplicates with him a prophet, or a saint, and says: I want his intercession, otherwise I know only Allah brings benefits and harms. But I am guilty, and I ask this righteous person in the hope that he may intercede for me{ (believing his intercession is always accepted or he has a right on Allah}. This is what the polytheists did, and the Messenger of God, ﷺ, fought for them until they left it, and didn't call upon anything other than Allah, not for intercession, nor benefit.
3. The third type is to say; O Allah I seek nearness (Tawassul) towards you by the status of your Prophet ﷺ or the Prophets or the Righteous, then this is not shirk nor do we forbid the people from; But what is mentioned from Abu Hanifah and Abi Yusuf and other than them is that they disliked it, but it is not what we and others differ in.
1. supplication to God alone, without a partner; this is what the prophet ﷺ was sent for.
2. that he supplicates to Allah, and supplicates with him a prophet, or a saint, and says: I want his intercession, otherwise I know only Allah brings benefits and harms. But I am guilty, and I ask this righteous person in the hope that he may intercede for me{ (believing his intercession is always accepted or he has a right on Allah}. This is what the polytheists did, and the Messenger of God, ﷺ, fought for them until they left it, and didn't call upon anything other than Allah, not for intercession, nor benefit.
3. The third type is to say; O Allah I seek nearness (Tawassul) towards you by the status of your Prophet ﷺ or the Prophets or the Righteous, then this is not shirk nor do we forbid the people from; But what is mentioned from Abu Hanifah and Abi Yusuf and other than them is that they disliked it, but it is not what we and others differ in.