Sharh Kashf al-Shubuhat by Ibn Uthaymeen (شرح كشف الشبهات) — Page 97

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إِذَا ثَبَتَ ذَلِكَ فَاسْتِغَاثَتُهُمْ بِالْأَنْبِيَاءِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يُرِيدُونَ مِنْهُمْ أَنْ يَدْعُوا اللَّهَ أَنْ يُحَاسِبَ النَّاسَ حَتَّى يَسْتَرِيحَ أَهْلُ الْجَنَّةِ مِنْ كَرْبِ الْمَوْقِفِ وَهَذَا جَائِزٌ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ، وَذَلِكَ أَنْ تَأْتِيَ عِنْدَ رَجُلٍ صَالِحٍ حَيٍّ وَيَسْمَعَ كَلَامَكَ وَتَقُولَ لَهُ: ادْعُ اللَّهَ لِي، كَمَا كَانَ أَصْحَابُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَسْأَلُونَهُ ذَلِكَ فِي حَيَاتِهِ، وَأَمَّا بَعْدَ مَوْتِهِ فَحَاشَا وَكَلَّا أَنَّهُمْ سَأَلُوهُ ذَلِكَ عِنْدَ قَبْرِهِ، بَلْ أَنْكَرَ السَّلَفُ الصَّالِحُ عَلَى مَنْ قَصَدَ دُعَاءَ اللَّهِ عِنْدَ قَبْرِهِ فَكَيْفَ بِدُعَائِهِ نَفْسِهِ؟

If that is established, then their seeking aid from the prophets on the Day of Resurrection is because they want them to supplicate to Allah to judge the people so that the people of Paradise may find relief from the distress of the standing place, and this is permissible in this world and the Hereafter; this is like when you come to a living, righteous man who can hear your speech and you say to him: 'Supplicate to Allah for me,' just as the companions of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to ask him that during his lifetime, but after his death, God forbid that they would ask him that at his grave; rather, the righteous predecessors disapproved of anyone who intended to supplicate to Allah at his grave, so how then about supplicating to him himself?

الْأَوَّلُ: أَنَّ هَذِهِ اسْتِغَاثَةٌ بِمَخْلُوقٍ فِيمَا يَقْدِرُ عَلَيْهِ وَهَذَا لَا يُنْكَرُ لِقَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى فِي قِصَّةِ مُوسَى: فَاسْتَغَاثَهُ الَّذِي مِنْ شِيعَتِهِ عَلَى الَّذِي مِنْ عَدُوِّهِ فَوَكَزَهُ مُوسَى فَقَضَى عَلَيْهِ.

The first: That this is seeking aid from a created being in something he is capable of, and this is not denied, due to His saying, the Exalted, in the story of Moses: 'And the one from his faction called for his help against the one from his enemy, so Moses struck him and killed him.'

الْجَوَابُ الثَّانِي: أَنَّ النَّاسَ لَمْ يَسْتَغِيثُوا بِهَؤُلَاءِ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ الْكِرَامِ لِيُزِيلُوا الشِّدَّةَ، وَلَكِنَّهُمْ يَسْتَشْفِعُونَ بِهِمْ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ - عَزَّ وَجَلَّ - لِيُزِيلَ هَذِهِ الشِّدَّةَ، وَهُنَاكَ فَرْقٌ بَيْنَ مَنْ يَسْتَغِيثُ بِالْمَخْلُوقِ لِيَكْشِفَ عَنْهُ الضُّرَّ وَالسُّوءَ، وَمَنْ يَسْتَشْفِعُ بِالْمَخْلُوقِ إِلَى اللَّهِ لِيُزِيلَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ ذَلِكَ.

The second answer: That the people did not seek aid from these noble prophets to remove the distress, but rather they seek their intercession with Allah, the Almighty and Majestic, so that He may remove this distress, and there is a difference between one who seeks aid from a created being to remove harm and evil from him, and one who seeks the intercession of a created being with Allah so that Allah may remove that from him.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (25 verbs · 44 nouns)

• ثَبَتَ — to be established
• أَرَادَ — to want
• دَعَا — to supplicate
• اسْتِغَاثَة — seeking aid
• نَبِيّ — prophet
• يَوْم — day