Tawassul: Supplicating Allah(swt) through an Intermediary CALLING UPON THE RIGHTEOUS The Hanafi scholar, Muhammad Hamid says: As for calling upon (nida) the righteous (when they are physically absent, as in the words O Muhammad in the above hadiths), tawassul to Allah Most High through them is permissible, the supplication (dua) being to Allah Most Glorious, and there is much evidence for its permissibility. TAWASSUL (definition) Supplicating Allah by means of an intermediary, whether it be a living person, dead person, a good deed, or a name or Attribute of Allah Most High. The scholar, YUSUF RIFAI, says: I here want to convey the position, attested to by compelling legal evidence, of the orthodox majority of Sunni Muslims on the subject of supplicating Allah through an intermediary (tawassul), and so I say (and Allah alone gives success) that since there is no disagreement among scholars that supplicating Allah through an intermediary is in principle legally valid, the discussion of its details merely concerns derived rulings that involve interschool differences, unrelated to questions of belief or unbelief, monotheism or associating partners with Allah (shirk); the sphere of the question being limited to permissibility or impermissibility, and its ruling being that it is either lawful or unlawful. There is no difference among groups of Muslims in their consensus on the permissibility of three types of supplicating Allah through an intermediary (tawassul) sunnipath/Library/Articles/AR00000010.aspx
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