Erasing the Accusation of Shirk

for help is also polytheism! If asking help is polytheism it should not matter
whether those who you ask for help are living or are deceased. Why are you
differentiating between them? Where does it say in the Qur’an that to ask
help from the living is permissible and to ask from the deceased is
polytheism? If you are claiming that asking help is worship then that means
you are saying that you can worship a living person but not the deceased!
We have already acknowledged that asking help from other than Allah is not
worship anyway and that the deceased pious are alive in their graves!
Asking help from the deceased pious is just asking the deceased pious to
make supplication (dua) for you. Muslims believe that if they go to the grave
of a pious person, they can hear (as we have proven earlier) and so ask them
to make supplication (dua) on their behalf. The scholars of the Ahl al-Sunna
Wa al-Jama’a have clarified that supplication (dua) is made to Allah alone,
as supplication (dua) is a form of worship. However the Supplication (dua)
is not directed towards the pious but to Allah alone, and the pious are
selected to be the means (wasila) in which the prayer is offered. I clarified
some time ago that the pious are alive in their graves, but just as a reminder I
shall present a verse proving this:
PROOF THAT THE PIOUS ARE ENJOYING
THE LIFE OF THEIR GRAVES:
016.097 Whoever works righteousness, man or woman, and has Faith,
verily, to him will We give a new Life, a life that is good and pure and We
will bestow on such their reward according to the best of their actions
Here Allah Most Gracious promises the believers, a new life good and pure.
This life is the Afterlife. If we are completely lifeless once we have died,
then how will we enjoy the pleasures our Lord has promised us? Surely we
will be alive in the hereafter?
Ali: Allah Most Merciful is able to hear supplication (dua) wherever you
may be, so why is there a need to go to the graves of the Prophets and
pious and making supplication there?
Qadhi: The answer to this is simple. The places where the Prophets and
pious are buried are holy, as Allah Almighty says in the Qur’an
005.021 O my people! Go into the holy land which Allah hath ordained for
you. Turn not in flight, for surely ye turn back as losers:
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