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The Life, Teachings and Influence of Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhaab
Nasr’ 1” (Nooh 23). It is explained in the books of Quranic
commentary that these were the names of pious individuals during the
time of Noah. After they died, Satan inspired some people to erect
monuments where they used to sit and to name those monuments by
their names. They did so. However, the practice of worshipping them
did not actually start until those people who built those altars died and
the reason why those were built was forgotten. After that time, the
people started to worship these as idols. 2 Note that those deceased
people were pious people but later folk came along and did not realize
the real reasons that those monuments were put there. They thus fell
into shirk. When the ignorant Muslims of today go to the tombs of al-
Badawi in Egypt or al-Husain and see the masses praying, weeping
and pleading there, it is not a stretch of the imagination to expect that
they will fall into this same type of shirk. It is the role of the Muslim
scholars and rulers, like ibn Abdul-Wahhaab and Muhammad ibn
Saud, to prevent this from occurring.
It is not uncommon to find mosques built upon graves in the
Muslim world, which obviously also directly leads to the same type of
shirk. This is in complete disobedience to the Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allah be upon him) who said,
ﻼـﹶﻓ ﻻﹶﺃ �ﺪﹺﺟﺎ�ﺴ�ﻣ �ﻢﹺﻬﻴ�ﺤ�ﻟﺎ�ﺻ�ﻭ �ﻢﹺﻬ�ﺋﺎ�ﻴﹺﺒ�ﻧﹶﺃ �ﺭﻮ�ﺒﹸﻗ ﹶﻥﻭﹸﺬ�ﺨ�ﺘ�ﻳ ﺍﻮ�ﻧﺎﹶﻛ �ﻢﹸﻜﹶﻠ�ﺒﹶﻗ ﹶﻥﺎﹶﻛ �ﻦ�ﻣ ﱠﻥﹺﺇ�ﻭ ﻻﹶﺃ
�ﻚ�ﻟﹶﺫ �ﻦ�ﻋ �ﻢﹸﻛﺎ�ﻬ�ﻧﹶﺃ ﻲ�ﻧﹺﺇ �ﺪﹺﺟﺎ�ﺴ�ﻣ �ﺭﻮ�ﺒﹸﻘﹾﻟﺍ ﺍﻭﹸﺬ�ﺨ�ﺘ�ﺗ
“Certainly those before you took the gravesites of their prophets and
righteous folk as mosques. Certainly you should not take gravesites as
mosques. I forbid you from that.” (Recorded by Muslim.) This same
type of instruction is actually found in numerous hadith of the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). For example, Aishah
narrated that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)
stated during his illness from which he died,
ﺍ�ﺪﹺﺠ�ﺴ�ﻣ �ﻢﹺﻬ�ﺋﺎ�ﻴﹺﺒ�ﻧﹶﺃ �ﺭﻮ�ﺒﹸﻗ ﺍﻭﹸﺬ�ﺨ�ﺗﺍ ﻯ�ﺭﺎ�ﺼ�ﻨﻟﺍ�ﻭ �ﺩﻮ�ﻬ�ﻴﹾﻟﺍ �ﻪﱠﻠﻟﺍ �ﻦ�ﻌﹶﻟ
1 These are names of different idols that they used to worship.
2 Cf., ibn Katheer, vol. 8, pp. 234-235.
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