@El Nino @jemappelle and anyone else interested i suggest that you have a listen to this lecture by YQ about the najdi theology and what the problems are with the dawah. It's 3hr long laakin it's worth it
I actually spent the last 3 hours listening to him but damn I cannot accept what he is saying.
I'll come back to the quraysh issue later but from what I understand he's saying that if you go to a grave and call to a dead person...it doesn't mean you're associating partners with Allah unless you do that call intending worship and believing that the object of your call is a diety.
Ma fahmi kari sheekahaas. So if I go to a grave of a deceased righteous person and say "yaa sheikh please help me have a child" it doesn't equate to making dua of worship and in turn becoming shirk?
But prophet s.a.w said
عن النعمان بن بشير، رضي الله عنه ، أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم، قال: إن الدعاء هو العبادة ، ثم قرأ: " ادعوني أستجب لكم، إن الذين يستكبرون عن عبادتي [غافر: 60] " ، رواه "أحمد" في "المسند" (18352)، و"البخاري" في "الأدب المفرد" (714
The Prophet said: “
The supplication, is worship.” Then he recited: And Your Lord said: “
Call upon me, I will respond to you. Verily, those who scorn
My worship, they will surely enter Hell humiliated."(surah ghaafir ayat 60)
In this hadeeth the prophet s.a.w said "dua is worship" and used the ayat from the quran to further strengthen his statement showing that calling upon Allah equals worship.
And in surah ahqaaf Allah azzawajal says
5. وَمَنْ أَضَلُّ مِمَّنْ
يَدْعُو مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ مَنْ لَا يَسْتَجِيبُ لَهُ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ وَهُمْ عَنْ دُعَائِهِمْ غَافِلُونَ
6. وَإِذَا حُشِرَ النَّاسُ كَانُوا لَهُمْ أَعْدَاءً وَكَانُوا
بِعِبَادَتِهِمْ كَافِرِينَ
And who is more astray than one who
invokes besides Allah, such as will not answer him to the Day of Judgment, and who (in fact) are unconscious of their call (to them)?.
And when mankind are gathered together (at the Resurrection), they will be hostile to them and reject their
worship (altogether)!
And here the mushrikeens calling of other than Allah is classed as worship by Allah. Why did Allah tie together that calling/invoking..making dua is worship?
So from what I've learnt and understand is that of course if someone calls on to a deceased in the grave that is a form of worship. Why would someone call upon someone in the grave if they didn't believe that person could hear and answer their call? Isn't that worship that should be directed to only Allah?
So if I'm in trouble one day and shout out " yaa sheikh jeylaani please help me"...isn't that dua? Am I not asking for his help? Isnt that callings upon other than Allah? Isn't that associating partners with Allah?
Or is it fine as long as I don't intend that call to be worship(which it is) and I don't believe that the object of my call is a god/partner besides Allah(which I do otherwise i would've asked Allah directly) ? Does that even make sense? Or is it fine if i believe that they are only intercessors to Allah? How is it any different to those Allah mentions in the ayat below?
3. أَلَا لِلَّهِ الدِّينُ الْخَالِصُ ۚ وَالَّذِينَ اتَّخَذُوا مِنْ دُونِهِ أَوْلِيَاءَ مَا نَعْبُدُهُمْ إِلَّا لِيُقَرِّبُونَا إِلَى اللَّهِ زُلْفَىٰ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَحْكُمُ بَيْنَهُمْ فِي مَا هُمْ فِيهِ يَخْتَلِفُونَ ۗ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَهْدِي مَنْ هُوَ كَاذِبٌ كَفَّارٌ
Surely, the religion (i.e. the worship and the obedience) is for Allah only. And those who take
Auliya’ (protectors and helpers) besides Him (say): “
We worship them only that they may bring us near to Allah.” Verily, Allah will judge between them concerning that wherein they differ. Truly, Allah guides not him who is a liar, and a disbeliever.(surah zumar ayat 6)
I can understand the issues against ibnu abdul wahaab or if a person has qualms about dacwa salafiya laakin how can we say that calling upon people in the graves is not a form of worship? And not shirk?
Wallahi that video is going to confuse a lot of people imo and opens the door for a lot of evil.