The Four Foundations of Shirk - QSEP

The author
Shaikh Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab writes,
The proof of the Prophets is, "when Allah will
say (on the Day of Resurrection), 'O Eesa son of
Maryam! Did you say unto men, 'Worship me
and my mother as two gods besides Allah?' He
will say, 'Glory be to You! It was not for me to
say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such
a thing, You would surely have known it. You
know what is in my inner-self though I do not
know what is in Yours...’" [Soorah al-
Maidah (5): 116]
EXPLANATION
by Shaikh Salih ibn Fawzan al-Fawzan
In this (verse) is a proof that worshiping the Prophets is Shirk, just
like worshiping the idols is Shirk.
In it is a refutation of those grave-worshipers who differentiate in this
matter, and say that Shirk is only the worship of the idols. According
to them, he who worships the Awliya and righteous men is not the
same as the one who worships the idols, and they deny any similarity
between them, and they claim that Shirk is limited to the worship of
the idols only. This is clearly a misconception from two aspects;
i) Allah has condemned all (including those who worship the Awliya
and righteous) in the Quran and he commanded fighting them.
ii) The Prophet did not differentiate between the worshiper of idol
and a worshiper of Angel or a worshiper of a righteous man.
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