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And when the Messenger of Allah asked the father of Imran
Ibn Husayn: “How many gods do you worship today, Husayn?”
His father replied, “Seven, six in the earth and one in Heaven.”
He asked, “Which of them do you take account of regarding
your hopes and your fears?” Husayn replied the one in the
Heaven. 340
The Shirk of the Mushrikeen (the Pagan Arabs) was that they called
upon their dead righteous people and Angels to intercede for
them with Allah. And Allah said regarding their actions: “They
worship besides Allah things that hurt them not, nor profit
them, and they say: “These are only our intercessors with
Allah.” 341 And thus their practice was declared as Shirk and
worship to other than Allah.
Calling upon other than Allah is Shirk:
As the Deobandi’s Kitabul Janaiz mentions, “The Islamic meaning
of Waseelah does not consist of praying or making Du’aa to
Rasoolullah or any other created being. Islam teaches that the only
Being to whom prayers and Du’aa have to be directed is Allah.
Directing one’s prayer and Du’aa to any being other than Allah is
Shirk or polytheism, and Shirk is the worst of sins committed
against Allah” 342
Though the Deobandis consider direct invocation of other than
Allah to be Shirk, the Fazaail-e-Aamaal has several incidents in
‘Virtues of Charity and Hajj’ that involve direct invocation to the
Messenger of Allah . Mentioned below are some of them:
1. In one story, a man named Abu Muhammad had to repay 80
gold coins that were kept as a trust with him. He spent the money
and had no one who could help him repay back the 80 gold coins.
no. 2671.
340 Sunan at-Tirmidhee, no. 2465.
341 Soorah Yunus (10): 18.
342 Kitabul Janaiz (Hanafee), p.21-24.
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