Erasing the Accusation of Shirk

PART 1
THE DECEASED PIOUS HAVE NEVER BEEN WORSHIPPED BECAUSE OF THEIR PIETY
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Qadhi: Brother Ali! How are you doing? I haven’t seen you for a while.
Where have you been hiding?
Ali: I have just returned from my trip to Pakistan. Alhamdulillah the journey
went well. I spent time with my family, visited many famous sites and met
some very interesting people.
Qadhi: Ma-sha’Allah!
Ali: I was most impressed by a shaykh I met there. His name is Shaykh
Yasin. Ma-sha’Allah he has a great amount of knowledge and uses the
Qur’an as his only source of guidance and proof. I have never met anyone
quite like him. He taught me many new things. In particular, he stressed the
topic of grave worshipping. Brother Qadhi! I was shocked to learn that in
Pakistan and other Muslim countries there is major shrik going on.
Qadhi: AstagfirAllah! This is a very tragic mistake to do, but what exactly
did he explain?
Ali: The great Shaykh Yasin explained to me how people are going to the
graves of pious Muslims and doing exactly what the polytheists of Makkah
used to do. He further explained to me how previous nations would venerate
Muslim saints and when they died, people would continue to invoke them
for help. I was not even aware that this happened until Shaykh Yasin told
me. He explained to me in considerable detail the manner in which the
polytheists of Makkah used to invoke their deceased and how this practice is
still continuing at the hands of some misguided Muslims. May Allah guide
them!
Ma-sha’Allah he truly is a great Shaykh. He would prove everything from
the Qur’an and said there was no need of hadith unless the issues mentioned
in the hadith had a link to the Qur’an. One must acknowledge that the hadith
do not have any guarantee of authenticity as they were only written by men,
whereas the Qur’an is from Allah revealed to His Messenger.
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