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Hello,This is monica Happy new year happy to meet you here kindly get back to me Please for a special reason I am Waiting for you ( [email protected] )

Hello,This is monica Happy new year happy to meet you here kindly get back to me Please for a special reason I am Waiting for you ( [email protected] )

اللہ پاک آپ کا لوگوں بلخصوص اسلامی محفل کی پوری ٹیم کو خوش رکھے جب بھی کوئی عقیدہ کا مسائلہ درپیش ہوا ہے اس فارم سے رہنمائی ملی ہے اللہ پاک دین دنیا کی برکتیں عطا فرمائے جہانگیر عطاری ترابی کراچی پاکستان

Salafi 13th Mail As-Salaamu Alaykum: I have not read your response from start to end so I may not be precise but I will hit the target near enough. The core of your counter argument against teaching of Salaf-us-Saliheen has been -; we do not associate anyone with Allah as an Ilah and you don’t intend to worship anyone other than Allah, including those whom you invoke for help, hence practitioners of Istighathah are not guilty of Shirk. Your argument rests on erroneous assumption that seeking help of anyone other than Allah without committing Shirk al-Uluhiyyah and without Niyyah to worship other than Allah does not result in Shirk. IF it can be proven that seeking HELP is part of worship than seeking help creation automatically would result in worship and Shirk al-Uluhiyyah. (i) Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa aalihi was’sallam) took pledge and commanded his companions to practice what was revealed in the Ayah: “… we have already pledged allegiance to you. He again said: Why don't you pledge allegiance to the Messenger of Allah? We stretched our hands and said: Messenger of Allah we have already pledged allegiance to you. Now tell (on what things) should we pledge allegiance to you. He said I (You must pledge allegiance) that you would worship Allah only and would not associate with Him anything, (and observe) five prayers, and obey- (and he said one thing in an undertone) - that you would not beg people of anything. (And as a consequence of that) I saw that some of these people did not ask anyone to pick up the whip for them if it fell down.” [Ref: Muslim, Book 5, Hadith 2270, here.] On another occasion Messenger (sallallahu alayhi wa aalihi was’sallam) commanded following to Abdullah Ibn Abbas (radiallah ta’ala anhu) -: “Ibn 'Abbas narrated: "I was behind the Prophet (s.a.w) one day when he said: 'O boy! I will teach you a statement: Be mindful of Allah and He will protect you. Be mindful of Allah and you will find Him before you. When you ask, ask Allah, and when you seek aid, seek Allah's aid. Know that if the entire creation were to gather together to do something to benefit you- you would never get any benefit except that Allah had written for you. And if they were to gather to do something to harm you- you would never be harmed except that Allah had written for you. The pens are lifted and the pages are dried.'" [Ref: Tirmadhi, Book 11, Hadith 2516, here.] This extra emphasis on seeking aid from only Allah (subhanahu wa ta’ala) is not without reason. It is because Allah connected worship with seeking help to indicate both are same - to seek help is worship: “(All) praise is (due) to Allah, Lord of the worlds - The Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful, Sovereign of the Day of Recompense. It is You we worship and You we ask for help. Guide us to the straight path.” [Ref: Q1:1/6] (ii) This usage of wa (and) between verse: You we worship, and, You we ask for help, is Waw Atifah Tafsiliyah and not Waw al-Atifah. Usage of wa is to add a new dimension/detail to what has preceded the wa/and. This details is that what comes after the wa/and also constitutes worship – in this case seeking help part of worship. Your argument rested on erroneous assumption that seeking help without committing Shirk al-Uluhiyyah and Niyyah to worship other than Allah does not result in Shirk. With help of above evidence it has been demonstrated that seeking HELP is worship part of worship hence seeking help any creature automatically would result in worship and Shirk al-Uluhiyyah. This proves Istighathah which is seeking aid from dead saints and prophets is Shirk. Sunni 13th Mail Wa Alaykum Salam: I appreciate your prompt response. There are number of issues which I need to investigate in your response and part of that investigation is this short response. Your reaction to contents of this article will determine comprehensiveness of my official rebuttal to your 13th Mail. You wrote in two places seeking help is part of worship: (i) “If it can be proven that seeking HELP is part of worship than seeking help creation automatically would result in worship and Shirk al-Uluhiyyah.” (ii) “With help of above evidence it has been demonstrated that seeking HELP is worship part of worship hence seeking help any creature automatically would result in worship and Shirk al-Uluhiyyah.” In one place you wrote – seeking help is worship: (iii) “It is because Allah connected worship with seeking help to indicate both are same - to seek help is worship: “(All) praise is (due) to …” There is a contradiction in this. Two mean – seeking help is a component of worship. The last one means, seeking help by its very nature is worship. I this context I am seeking clarification: (i) Is seeking help part of worship and not worship itself, (ii) or is seeking help. worship by its very nature?