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IN THE NAME OF ALLAH THE MOST GRACIOUS THE MOST
MERCIFUL
Do you or your relations visit graves, and seek help
of saints or awliyaallah for any matter you face?
IF YES Read this document and Judge Yourself>IF NO Spread this message to those are in Error
Let us first analyze what The Holy Quran says about the foremost Major Sin
- Shirk (Associating partners with God)
Before we get in to the subject we should know Islam" means - One who
submits to the will of Allah (SWT), and follow his
Messenger Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), whom Allah (SWT) has bestowed for
the Guidance of Mankind.
And any other speech apart from this, which goes against the Principle of
The Quran and Sayings of Prophet i.e. (Sunnah) is not Islam.
Prophet (PBUH) says:
Allah's Apostle said, "If somebody innovate something which is not in
harmony with the principles of our religion, that thing is rejected."
(Sahih Al-Bukari) V-3 H-861.
Abu Hurrairah (MPBUH) Prophet (PBUH) observed:
My Ummah would adhere to the Quran and Sunnah till a
particular point of time, then it would (regrettable) take to acting upon
views (of the members >of the ummah) and when it dos so, it would land into
misguidance (Ibn Khathir)
Associating partners with Allah (SWT) is the foremost
Sin in Islam
The foremost major sin in the sight of Allah (SWT) is
"Shirk" - One who associates partner with God. Thus he becomes
musrikeen, or polytheist. It is said in the Quran, the polytheist is going to dwell in Hell forever,
Allah will never cleansed their sin, nor will He forgive them.
In the worship of his Lord, admit no one as partner.
HQ-18: 110.
Whoever joins other gods with Allah, - Allah will
forbid him the garden, and the Fire will be his abode. There will for the wrong-doers be no one
to help. HQ-5: 72.Joint not in worship (others) with Allah: for false
worship is indeed the highest wrong-doings. HQ-31:13.
Allah forgiveth not (the sin of) joining other gods,
with Him; He forgiveth whom He pleaseth other sins than this: One who joins
other gods with Allah, hath strayed far, far away. HQ-4:116.
Allah say: To Allah belong all things in heaven and
earth: verily Allah is
He Free of all wants, worthy of all praise.
HQ-31:26.
Further He says: It was He Who has created man, and
We know what >suggestions his soul makes to him: for We are nearer
to him than his >jugular vein. HQ-50:16.
Also He says: When My servants ask thee concerning
Me, I am indeed close (to them): I respond to the prayer of every Supplicants when he calleth on
Me: Let them also, with a will, listen to My call,and believe in Me: That >they may walk in the right way. HQ-2:186
'The Lord of the East and the West, none deserves to
be worshipped but Him, so take Him as the Disposer of your affairs' HQ-73:9.
A Comparative Study of Polytheist and those who
believe in Oneness of God
A Hindu happen to visit Ajmeer Sherif in Rajastan
(INDIA), says I wondered that if there are any differences in Hindu and Muslim
is only by names. (below grave worshipper "muslim" is referred).
He analysis why? "Darghas" (saint graves)
Hindus worship idols / muslim worship graves.Hindus worship call Rama, Krishna to seek help /
muslims call Khawja, Data, Muskil Kusha, Dastagir to seek help.Hindus bring coconuts, incense stick, bananas,
flowers to mandir (temples) / muslim takes sweets (jilabees), incense sticks,
coconuts, flowers to darghas (saint graves).The people who sit at mandir is called pundit / The
people who sit at graves call mujawar.
Hindus held once in a year grand yatras / muslim also held Julus yearly in
the name of baba's.Hindus sings, praise bajjans to the lords / muslim also conduct Kawali's in
praising their graves.Women and men mingle in mandirs / Women and men mingles in darghas.
They prostrate and circumbulate in mandirs / muslim
too prostrate and circumbulate in darghas.They sacrifice, humans, animals to their Lords / muslim too sacrifice animals to their saints.They decorate mandirs with gold plating, and make brighter in lights
/Muslim also decorates their graves, with good chador wrappings, bright lights, and golden grills.
They have peacock feathers to ride devils / muslim too have the same.
They collect funds in raising and building / muslim too does the same.
Now if you ask any learned "Hindu" why do you worship idols?
He will promptly say you, they are not gods, they are kept as identity to
get concentration, and they will take nearness to God.
As we can see the same answer was given by the
polytheist (muskrikeen) of
And if indeed thou ask them who it is that sends down
rain from sky, and gives life therewith to the earth after its death,
they will certainly reply "Allah" Say "Praise be to Allah" but most of them understand not.
HQ-29:63.
Is it not to Allah that sincere devotion is due? But those who take for
protectors other than Allah (say): "We only serve them in order that they
may bring us nearer to Allah." Truly Allah will judge
between them in that >wherein they differ. But Allah guides not such as
are false and ungrateful. HQ-39:3
Now if you ask the same question why do you worship
graves to the grave >worshipper?
He will reply, the saint or not dead they are living,
we consider them not as god, but we rather call them to get nearness to God.
what is the reply from The Holy Quran about their
claim?
Those whom they invoke besides Allah cerate nothing,
and are themselves created. (They are things) dead, lifeless: nor do
they know when they will be raised up. HQ-16:20-21.
Allah (SWT) is not talking about the idols in the
above verses, He is >saying to grave worshippers, the dead doesn't know
when he will be raised >back, for there is no chance of idols to be raised
back.>On the day shall We gather them all together; We
shall say to those who >ascribed partners (to Us) "Where are the partners
whom ye invented and >talked about. HQ-6:22.
But those who take for protectors other than Allah
(say): "We only serve >them in order that they may bring us nearer to
Allah." Truly Allah will >judge between them in that wherein they differ. But
Allah guides not such >as are false and ungrateful. HQ-39:3.
Lesson 1. Does Allah (SWT) is not enough for us?
Further Study of The Quran, What is The Power of
Allah (SWT) and His
Attributes!
Allah (SWT) One Who Listens and See All Things
Or, who listens to the distressed when he calls On
Him, and Who relieves >His suffering, and makes you inheritors of the earth?
(can there be >another) god beside Allah? Little is that ye heed!
HQ-27:62.
No vision can grasp Him, but His grasp is over all
visions; He is subtle well-aware. HQ-6:103.
Here in the above verse Allah (SWT) says He the one who listens to all - We
doesn't need Ghousa Azam for it. Now if you attribute the same to any
other beings or saint in graves he listens all, it is as equal we associate >partners with Allah.
Allah (SWT) He Who Gives All
To Allah belongs the dominion of the heaven and the
earth. He creates what
He wills. He bestows male or female according to His Will. Or He bestows >both males and females, and He leaves barren whom He will: For He is full >of Knowledge and power. HQ-42: 49-50.
We doesn't have to go to DATA now to ask him children because Allah (SWT) leaves barren whom He wills.
Allah> (SWT) is Free of All Wants
O ye men! It is Ye that have need of Allah: but Allah is the one free of
all wants, worthy of praise HQ- 35:15.>We doesn't have to go to Garib-e-nawaz to ask what we
want, Allah (SWT) you call Him for your needs.
Allah (SWT) is The One Who can remove the afflictions
If Allah touch thee with affliction, none can remove it but He; If He touch
thee with happiness, He hath power over all things.
HQ-6:17.
We doesn't need to call Mushkil Kusha, as Ya Ali, Ya
Khawaja to remove our
afflictions it is Shirk.
Allah (SWT) is The One Who gives bounties of this
World and Hereafter.
For Allah provides sustenance to whom He pleases
without measures HQ-3:37
And do they not see that We do drive rain to parched
soil and produce therewith crops, providing food for their cattle and
themselves? Have they not the vision? HQ-32:27
Who provides them with food against hunger, and security against fear
HQ-106:4
We doesn't have to go to Kanjbaksh - to see treasures.
Allah (SWT) is The Protector when afflictions touch us.>When trouble touches a man, He crieth unto Us lying
down on his side, or sitting, or standing. But when We remove his
affliction, He passeth on his way as if he had never cried to Us for the affliction that touched him!
Thus do the deeds of transgressors seem fair in their eyes! HQ-10:12.
We doesn't have to go to Dastagir - to remove our afflictions - it is a Shirk (SIN).
Important Note:
(Ghousa Azam, Data, Garib-e-nawaz, Mushkil Kusha,
Kanjbaksh, Dastagir) All
these are popular saints mention above whom people
invoke beside Allah
(SWT), deviate from true teachings of ISLAM.
Making Matters Further Clear for Better Understanding
Now it is very clear from the above page that Allah
(SWT) is The One who knows the Ghaib-Unseen, He is The One Who listens to
us, He is closer to >our jugular vein, He is The One who gives sustenance
without measures, He is The One who gives children, He is the one who
remove our afflictions.
If one say's these could be done by the saint in the
graves then he/she really associate partners with Allah (SWT). For
Allah (SWT) is Free of all
wants, and He doesn't need any one to interfere in
his affairs.
The excuse that we are not upright, or straight to
reach Allah (SWT) is a stupid and dogmatic statements uttered by grave
worshippers, people of weak faith (Iman), and by polytheist.
They invoke intercessors with God as the pagans of
Now Let us see what Allah (SWT) in The Quran has to say about his messenger
Muhammad (PBUH).Say: "I tell you not that with me are the treasures
of Allah, nor do I know what is hidden. Nor do I tell you I am an angel.
I but follow what is revealed to me." Say: "Can the blind be held to the seeing?" Will ye
then not consider not? HQ-6:50.
Muhammad is no more than a messenger: many were the
messengers that passed >away before Him. If he died or were slain, will ye
then turn back on your heels? If any did turn back on his heels, not the
least harm will he do to Allah; But Allah will swiftly reward those who (serve
him) with gratitude.
HQ-3:144.
'Aa'ishah (R.A) and 'Abd-Allaah ibn 'Abbaas (R.A.)
said:"When (death) approached the Messenger of Allaah
(PBUH) he started to cover his face with a cloak of his. When he became distressed he lifted it from
his face Prophet (PBUH) said:"May Allaah curse the Jews and the Christians, for
they have taken the graves of their Prophets as places of worship." Sahih
Al-Bukari 414, Muslim.
Prophet (PBUH) said:"Do not sit on graves and do not pray facing them."
Muslim H-972,
Narrator Abu Marthad Al-Ghanawi.
Jundub Ibn 'Abdullaah al-Bajalee said that he heard
Prophet (PBUH) said:
five days before he died: "Verily those before you took the graves of
their Prophets and righteous people as places of worship, so do not take
the graves as places of worship. Indeed I forbid you from this!" Muslim
2/67-68
Abu Hurayrah ./sahabah/abu_hurayrah.htm (R.A)
says that the Messenger of Allaah (PBUH) said: "O Allah, do not turn my grave
into an idol. May the curse of Allah be upon those who take the graves of
their Prophets as places of worship." Ahmad H-7352
When our Prophet (PBUH) claims that he doesn't know
the unseen, he doesn't >have the treasures of Allah, Don't take my grave as idol worship. Then how
could we attribute such things to saints in graves and believe in these
listed below:
They listen (dead) to us inside the earth 7 feet depth.
They understand the language what ever you speak, English, Urdu,
Hindi, Gujrati, Maharathi, etc, when one invoke to them to seek help,
They see us from the grave and reply us.
They help us in our afflictions, and solve our problems.
They grant us treasures, and bounties. etc.
These are the false claim made by "grave
worshippers", they deceive the >innocent Ummah of Islam, fill their stomach with fire
of what they earn by.
They erect huge structures (Mazars), with
decorations and fancies, that >none could remember death when one who goes there,
only we loose our Iman >(believe) in Allah (SWT).
You could never see these practices in any part of
Islamic world where they are millions of Muslims. Where they are lots of
Prophets and Companions of Prophets lived and died. These are newly
innovation in Islam, for every innovation in Islam is a curse, and it
ultimately lead to Hell fire.
Thus Islam is not spreading in the Indian and its subcontinents, rather it
is mixing its believe with pagan cultures, rituals, and methods.
:175.
Transliteration
'INNA-MAA DHAALIKUM ASH- SHAYT.AAN YUKHAWWIF AWLIYAA'
-HU FA- LAA TAKHAAFO
-HUM WA- KHAAFO -NI 'IN KUNTUM MU'MINEN HQ- 3:175.
Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah and those who reject faith
fight in the cause of evil: so fight ye against the awliyaa of Satan:
feeble indeed is the cunning of Satan. HQ- 4:76.
Transliteration
'ALLADHENA 'AAMANO YUQAATILON FE SABEL 'ALLAAH WA-
'ALLADHENA KAFARO
YUQAATILON FE SABEL AT.- T.AAGHOT FA- QAATILO
AWLIYAA' ASH- SHAYT.AAN 'INNA
KAYD ASH- SHAYT.AAN KAANA D.AcEF(AN) HQ- 4:76.
Yea to those who take for awliyaa (friends) unbelievers rather than
believers: is it honor they seek among them? Nay all honor is with Allah.
HQ- 4:139.
Transliteration
>'ALLADHENA YATTAKHIDHON AL- KAAFIREN AWLIYAA' MIN
DONI AL- MU'MINEN 'A-
YABTAGHON cINDA -
LI- 'ALLAAH JAMEc(AN
HQ- 4:139.
This term also means "close relative" as in the following verse:
O ye who believe! Choose not your fathers nor your
brethren for awliyaa (friends) if they take pleasure in disbelief rather than faith. Whoso of
you taketh them for friends, such are wrong doers.
HQ-9:23.
Transliteration
AA 'AYYUHAA 'ALLADHENA 'AAMANO LAA TATTAKHIDHO
'AABAA' -KUM WA- 'IKHWAAN
-KUM AWLIYAA' 'IN ISTAH.ABBO AL- KUFR cALAA AL-
'EMAAN WA- MAN YATAWALLA
-HUM MIN -KUM FA- 'OLAA'IKA HUM AZ.- Z.AALIMON.
HQ-9:23.
It is also used in Qur'aan to indicate closeness between men, for example:
"The believers should not take the disbelievers as
Awliyaa (friends) rather >than believers."..... HQ- 3:28.
Transliteration
LAA YATTAKHIDH AL- MU'MINON AL- KAAFIREN AWLIYAA' MIN
DONI AL- MU'MINEN WA-
MAN YAFcAL DHAALIKA FA- LAYSA MIN 'ALLAAH FE SHAY'
'ILLAA 'AN TATTAQO MIN
>-HUM TUQAAH WA- YUH.ADHDHIR -KUM 'ALLAAH NAFS -HU WA-
'ILAA 'ALLAAH AL-
MAS.ER. HQ- 3:28.
But the usage which concerns us most is
"Awliyaa-ullaah" close friends of >Allaah. In the Qur'aan Allaah has designated among
mankind certain types of >individuals whom He considers especially close to
Himself. AIlaah's >description of His Walees can be found in The Quran:
"Behold! Certainly no fear nor grief shall overcome
the awliyaa of Allaah, those who believe and have Taqwaa." HQ:10-62-63.
Transliteration
'A-LAA 'INNA AWLIYAA' 'ALLAAH LAA KHAWF cALAY -HIM
WA- LAA HUM YAH.ZANON
'ALLADHENA 'AAMANO WA- KAANO YATTAQON HQ:10-62-63.
And incline not to those who do wrong or the Fire will seize you; and ye
have no awliyaa (protectors) other than Allah nor shall ye be
helped. HQ- 11:113.
Transliteration
WA- LAA TARKANO 'ILAA 'ALLADHENA Z.ALAMO FA- TAMASS
-KUM AN- NAAR WA- MAA
LA- -KUM MIN DONI 'ALLAAH MIN AWLIYAA' THUMMA LAA
TUNS.ARON HQ- 11:113.
Allaah explains for us that the criterion for "Walaayah" (divine
friendship) is Eemaan (faith) and Taqwaa (piety) and
these qualities are >shared by all true believers.
Among the ignorant masses, the main criterion for Walaayah ("Sainthood") is
the performance of miracles, which are commonly called Karaamaat to
distinguish them from the miracles Mu'jizaat of the prophets. To most who
hold this belief, the faith and practice of the"miracle" worker are of no >consequence.
Hence, some who have been designated "saints" held
heretical beliefs and >practices, while others were known to have abandoned
the religious rituals, >and, yet others were even involved in licentious and
vulgar behavior.
However, nowhere has Allaah made the working of
miracles a stipulation for >being His Walee. Therefore, as earlier stated, all
believers who have >Eemaan and Taqwaa are Walees of Allaah and He is
their Walee, as Allaah >Himself said,
Knowest thou not that to Allah belongeth the dominion of the heavens and
the earth! And besides Him ye have neither waley (patron) nor helper. HQ-
2:107.
Transliteration
'A- LAM TAcLAM 'ANNA 'ALLAAH LA- -HU MULK AS-
SAMAAWAAT WA- AL- 'ARD. WA-
MAA LA- -KUM MIN DONI 'ALLAAH MIN WALEY WA- LAA
NAS.ER HQ- 2:107.
Allah is the Waley (Protector) of those who have
faith: from the depths of >darkness He will lead them forth into light. Of
those who reject faith the >patrons are the Evil Ones: from light they will lead
them forth into the >depths of darkness. They will be companions of the fire to dwell therein
(for ever). HQ- 2:257. Also refer 3:68, 3:122, 4:45,4:75.
Transliteration
'ALLAAH WALEY 'ALLADHENA 'AAMANO YUKHRIJ -HUM MIN
AZ.- Z.ULUMAAT 'ILAA AN- >NOR WA- 'ALLADHENA KAFARO AWLIYAA' -HUM AT.-T.AAGHOT YUKHRIJON -HUM MIN >AN- NOR 'ILAA AZ.- Z.ULUMAAT 'OLAA'IKA AS.H.AAB AN-
NAAR HUM FE -HAA >KHAALIDON HQ-2:257.
Consequently, Muslims are not allowed to designate certain believers as
being Awliyaa of Allaah and not others. In spite of
this clear Islamic >position, a hierarchy of so-called Muslim saints has become a prominent
feature in Sufi circles and among the masses, who
blindly follow them.
In ascending order of merit they are: the Akhyaar (chosen) who number 300;
the Abdaal (substitutes) numbering 40; the 7 Abraar (pious); the 4 Awtaad
(pegs); the 3 Nuqabaa (watchmen), the Qutb (pole) who
is considered the >greatest saint of his time, and at the top of the
list is the Ghawth >(Succor), the greatest of Saints, who is believed, in
some circles, to be >capable of taking on his shoulders a portion of the
sins of the believers.>According to the belief of "mystics", the saints of
the top three classes >are present invisibly in Makkah at the hours of
prayer. When the Ghawth >dies, the Qutb replaces him and there is a moving up all through the
series, the purest soul of each class rising to the next degree. This body
of mythology has been borrowed from Christianity, just as Dhikr beads were
adopted from the Christian rosary, and Mawlid from
the Christian >celebration of Christmas.
Grave-worship, the belief that dead awliyaa'
("saints") can fulfill one's >needs or help at times of distress, and calling upon them for aid.
Where else Allaah says in The Holy Quran:>"And your Lord has decreed that you worship none but
Him . . ." HQ-17:23 Similarly, they call upon dead Prophets, righteous people and others to
intercede for them or to rescue them from some
calamity, but Allaah says:>"Is not He (better than your gods) Who responds to the distressed one, when
he calls Him, and Who removes the evil, and makes you inheritors of the
earth, generations after generations? Is there any
ilaah (god) with Allaah? >. . ." HQ-27:62>Some of them have adopted the habit of mentioning the
name of a shaykh or >wali ("saint") when they stand up, or sit down, or
stumble, or encounter >problems or distress, so they might say "O Muhammad!"
or "O 'Ali!" or "O >Husayn!" or "O Badawi!" or "O Jeelaani!" or "O
Shaadhili!" or "O Rifaa'i!" >or "O Shahul Hameed Badhusha!" or "O Noor Muhammad
Walliyullah!" or "O >Abdul Muhammad Walliyullah!"- or they may call upon
al-'Aydaroos or >Sayyidah Zaynab or Ibn 'Alwaan. Allaah says:
"Verily those whom you call upon besides Allaah are slaves like you . . ."
HQ-7:194>Some of those who worship graves walk around them as
if in Tawaaf, and >acknowledge their corners, or touch them, kiss them,
wipe their faces with >their dust, prostrate towards them when they see
them, or stand before them >in fear and humility, praying for whatever they need
of healing from some >disease, or for a child, or for help with some
difficulty. Sometimes they >call upon the occupant of the grave, saying "O my
master, I have come to >you from far away, so do not let me down." But Allaah
says:>"And who is more astray than one who calls (invokes)
besides Allaah such as >will not answer him till the Day of Resurrection, and who are (even)
unaware of their calls (invocations) to them?"
HQ-46:5The Prophet (PBUH) said:
"Whoever dies calling on someone else as a rival to
Allaah, will enter >Hell." (Bukhaari, Al-Fath, 8/176).
Some of them shave their heads at the graves, and
some have books with titles like Manaasik Hajj al-Mashaahid ("The Rituals
of Pilgrimage to Shrines"), mashaahid or shrines referring to graves
or tombs of awliyaa'. Some of them believe that the awliyaa' are running
the affairs of the >universe and that they have the power to benefit or
harm. Allaah says:"And if Allah touches you with hurt, there is none
who can remove it but He; and if He intends any good for you, there is no
one who can repel His Favour . . ." HQ-10:107
It is also "Shirk" to make a vow to any other than
Allaah (SWT), as is done by those who vow to bring candles or lights for the occupants of the graves.
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