Erasing the Accusation of Shirk

good things wherewith we have provided you. They wronged Us not, but
they were wont to wrong themselves.
When the nation of Sayyidina Musa ( peace be upon him) was thirsty for
water and they requested to him to provide them with water, he did not argue
by saying, by asking him this was committing shirk, no! Though Allah
Azawajal inspired Moses to hit his staff against the rock and twelve springs
gushed forth! Allahuakbar! In the following verse Sayyidina Gabriel says
that he bestowed Sayyida Maryam with a son
019.019 He said: I am only a messenger of thy Lord, that I may bestow on
thee a faultless son.
To ask someone to provide them with a son is nothing compared to actually
saying ‘I bestow to you a son’. Though either one cannot be called
polytheism (Shirk) as then Sayyidina Gabriel (Jibra’eel) could not have said
this! To ask the Prophets and pious for help with the intention that they are
not the providers of the help, and are only a means through which the help is
provided is permissible and this is not worship. To worship and to ask for
help are two different things, as Allah clearly differentiates between them in
the Qur’an:
001.005 Thee we worship; Thee we ask for help
Allah is clearly differentiating between worship and help in this verse. If
worshipping and asking help are the same then why has Allah discussed
them separately? This explains to us that worship and help are two different
things!
IBLIS EVEN HELPS HIS FOLLOWERS
The verses that I am about to recite to you explain to us how even Iblis helps
his followers
006.112 Thus have We appointed unto every prophet an adversary - devils
of humankind and jinn who inspire in one another plausible discourse
through guile. If thy Lord willed, they would not do so;
007.027 O Children of Adam! Let not Iblis seduce you as he caused your
(first) parents to go forth from the Garden and tore off from them their robe
(of innocence) that he might manifest their shame to them. Lo! he seeth you,
he and his tribe, from whence ye see him not. Lo! We have made the devils
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