Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

slaves of Allâhu ta’âlâ, we get barakat through them. Wahhâbîs
believe that the living have effectiveness but the dead do not have
effectiveness. It is written in the 70th, the 77th, the 98th, the
104th, the 239th, the 248th, the 223rd, the 503rd and the 504th
pages of the Wahhabite book Fath-ul-majîd: “A person who asks
for something from a dead person or from a living person who is
absent will become a polytheist. Man can be asked to do things
that are within his power. It is not permissible to ask him to do
things which only Allah can do.” It is written in its 70th page:
“The living person will pray for the thing asked of him. Allah will
accept the prayer and create that thing. But to ask for it from a
dead or absent person means to ask for something which is not
within his power, and this, in its turn, is polytheism.” It is written
in its 136th page: “To try to get barakat through the graves of
pious people is polytheism, identical with worshipping the idols
called Lât and Manât.” It is written in its 208th page: “It is
polytheism to ask for your needs from the dead or to do istighâsa
through the dead. It is ignorance to ask the dead to intercede for
you. Without Allah’s permission, he cannot intercede for anyone.
Doing istighâsa through him or asking him to intercede has not
been created as the cause for his being permitted to intercede.
The cause for intercession is îmân. He who does istighâsa is a
polytheist. He prevents permission.” The book contradicts itself.
For, it is written in its 200th page: “The Heavens fear Allah. Allah
has created sense in the heavens. They perceive. It is intimated in
the Qur’ân that the earth and heavens make tasbîh. The Sahâba
heard the pieces of stone which Rasûlullah took in his hand make
tasbîh; a pole called Hannâna in the mosque moaned, and food
made tasbîh.” [Their asserting that Prophets and Awliyâ do not
have any sense while saying that mountains, stones and poles
have sense and perception exposes that they are drivelling idiots.]
Wahhâbîs become polytheists by saying that ‘you can pray
through the living but not through the dead.’ For, this statement
means to say that the living hear and effect but the dead do not
hear or effect. It means to believe that beings other than Allah
effect. They themselves say that those who believe so are
polytheists. In fact, both the dead and the living are causes.
Allâhu ta’âlâ, alone, effects and creates. The statement in Tafsîr-i
’Âlûsî which states that Imâm-i a’zam prohibited praying through
the intermediation of Rasûlullah is not true. For, not a single
savant has conveyed such a report from Imâm-i a’zam. They have
said that it is permissible (to pray through Rasûlullah’s
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