Advice for the Muslim

created genies and men so that they should perform ’ibâda [for
Me].” And ’ibâdât, in its turn, will cause qurb and ma’rifa. This
means to say that men are commanded to become awliyâ’, which
is possible by observing the nâfila (supererogatory) ’ibâdât
together with the fard ones and keeping away from the holders of
bid’a. The duties practised on the way of tasawwuf are the ’ibâdât
which are nâfila. Ikhlâs, which is a condition for the acceptance of
the fards, is attainable by doing these duties. The above-given
information clearly shows that the Wahhâbîs’ statement,
“Tasawwuf has been adapted from Jews and ancient Greeks,” is an
atrocious lie and slander.]
8 - The Wahhâbite book writes on its 168th and 353rd pages:
“It is unanimous that taking anyone as a mediator between
Allah and His creatures or asking him for something is kufr. Ibn
Qayyim said that it was great polytheism to ask a dead person
for something or for his intercession with Allah. The Hanafî book
Fatâwâ al-Bazzâziyya states that anyone who says that souls
of mashâyikh are present becomes a disbeliever. It is
understood from âyats and hadîths that there is no sense or
motion in the dead.”
While it says on page 70:
“ ’Ukâsha asked Rasûlullâh to pray so that he could go to
Paradise without reckoning (undergoing judgement in the next
world). This shows that it is permitted to ask a living person to
pray. But it is polytheism to ask absentees and the dead for
prayer.”
The prayers of those who faithfully follow Rasûlulâh’s (sall-
Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam) path are accepted like his prayers.
The Wahhâbite book itself, on page 281, quotes the hadîth ashsharîf
reported by Imâm Ahmad and Muslim (rahimahumallâhu
ta’âlâ) from Abu Huraira (radî-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh): “There are
such men whose hair is unkempt and who have been dismissed
from doors, but if they take an oath Allâhu ta’âlâ creates what they
wish to prove them right.” Allâhu ta’âlâ, Who creates even what
His human servants swear upon so that they would not be reduced
to liars, will no doubt accept their prayers. Allâhu ta’âlâ declares
in the sixtieth âyat of the Surat al-Mu’min, “Pray to Me! I will
accept your prayers.” There are conditions which govern the
acceptance of prayers. If those conditions are fulfilled, prayers will
no doubt be accepted. Because one cannot gather together all
these conditions, prayers fall short of acceptance. Why should it be
polytheism to beg prayers from the ’ulamâ’ and awliyâ’, who
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