Tawheed : Fatwa – Part 03

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Exceeding the proper limits regarding the Messenger

• The Prophet is a light in terms of the light of his message and guidance
• The presence of the Prophet or any other dead person at the deathbed of another
• Claiming the Messenger is not human like us and that he knows the Ghayb and is omnipotent
• Allah is the only Self-Existing Being
• Allah showing in the Qur’an that Muhammad is human
• Claiming the Prophet is unified with Allah
• The one who approached and came closer was Jibril until the Prophet saw him
• The first human being Allah created was Adam
• The Prophet as a light that provides the right guidance
• The Prophet is human and has a shadow like all humans 
• The Hadith “Had it not been for you, the orbit of celestial bodies would not have been created”
• The claim that the Prophet is created from the Light of Allah 
• The Messenger is born to a human father and mother
• The claim that the Messenger is created from the Light of Allah
• The heavens and the earth were not created for his sake (peace be upon him)
• Our Prophet is alive in his grave in the sense of the life of Al-Barzakh
• The dead do not hear the calls or supplications of living people
• Invoking the Prophet after his death to fulfill needs or seeking his help in removing distress
• The formula of sending blessings on the Messenger when visiting his grave
• Allah is over His Throne
• The heaven and earth were not created for the sake of Muhammad
• Allah revealed to the Prophet what He revealed to no other
• The dead hearing the Prophet’s call
• The Prophet is alive in his grave in the sense of the life of Al-Barzakh

Tawassul

• The guidance of the Messenger in visiting the graves
• Tawassul through the Awliya’
• Tawassul to Allah by the honor, sanctity or blessings of the Prophet or another
• Tawassul through prophets and the Awliya’
• Visiting the graves to supplicate to the dead or ask for their help or intercession
• Believing the Awliya’ as means of healing from illnesses and holding annual Mawlids for them
• Tawassul through the entities, honor, or right of creatures
• Calling on “the Prophet’s honor” or “being dutiful to parents” upon leaving a gathering
• Tawassul by the Messenger and Awliya’
• Tawassul through creatures
• Tawassul through the Qur’an and certain days
• Tawassul by the honor, person or status of the Messenger
• Tawassul through the blessing of the Qur’an or some creatures
• Reading a book that includes Tawassul through the Prophet and asking for his intercession
• Tawassul through prophets and righteous men
• Swearing by other than Allah
• Tawassul by the rights of prophets and Awliya’ and through their honor
• Tawassul through the Prophet as in the weak Hadith

Magic

• Definition and meaning of magic
• The difference between magic and evil eye
• Death and life are predestined by Allah
• Learning magic
• The fabricated Hadith of “Learn magic, but do not practice it”
• A sorcerer using something against Islam
• A woman going to see a male doctor
• Causing harm to others
• Visiting a sorcerer to break a spell
• “Whoever goes to a soothsayer and believes what he says, has disbelieved”
• The Shari`ah allowed treatment for a spell
• Seeking treatment in unlawful means and consulting sorcerers and soothsayers
• Visiting sorcerers and enchanters to treat diseases
• Treating magic with Ruqyah and Shari`ah supplications
• Breaking the spell of a sorcerer by using a counter spell 
• Breaking a spell by a counter spell
• Believing that knot tying cures diseases
• The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) was afflicted with Sihr

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood

• Miracles of the Prophets

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood  > Karamat-ul- Awliya’

• The truth of Karamat-ul-Awliya’
• The Awliya’ are faithful and pious people 
• Allah has created the people with different minds and knowledge

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood  > Soothsaying

• Praying behind an Imam who denies the Sunnah and commits Bid`ahs
• Going to soothsayers to be pregnant
• Claiming knowledge of the Ghayb by drawing lines on the sand or the like is an act of soothsaying 
• “Whoever visits a diviner and asks them about anything, their Salah will not be accepted for forty nights” 
• Consulting a practitioner of Arab medicine is soothsaying
• Fortunetelling
• Seeking help from the jinn to know the Ghayb and the ruling on hypnosis
• Dealing with soothsayers and diviners
• Offering Salah behind an immoral soothsayer who claims knowledge of Ghayb 
• Funeral Prayer offered for soothsayers
• Seeking the help of jinn and turning to them to fulfill one’s needs 
• Going to those who seek the help of jinn to cure diseases
• Going to soothsayers, diviners, and the like, and seeking their help 
• Going to soothsayers, diviners, and sorcerers, and asking them about the Ghayb 
• Going to soothsayers to soothsayers to know the thief
• Going to someone who claims to know where lost items are just by reading the Qur’an and Hadith 
• Seeking healing from soothsayers
• Going to soothsayers for the sake of treatment and the like
• Going to soothsayers and believing them
• No one can harm or benefit anybody except by the Will of Allah 
• Giving soothsayers money to avoid their harm
• Consulting diviners and soothsayers and wearing amulets
• Breaks spells using the method of numbers 
• Consulting those who claim knowledge of the Ghayb
• Consulting a doctor who treats patients with Arabic medicines 
• Going to a person who claims knowledge of the book
• Reconciling between the two Hadiths of “Whoever visits a diviner and asks them…” and “Whoever visits a soothsayer and believes them…”

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood  > Astrology

• Prediction of natural occurrences according to the positions of celestial bodies 
• Astrologers do not know the Ghayb
• Speaking, supplicating, or whispering to a stone is an act of Shirk

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood  >The science of arithmetic and astronomy

• Reconciling between science and religion in issues that appear to be contradictory 
• Relying on calendar to determine the beginning of Ramadan 
• Knowing the time of solar and lunar eclipses through calculation of planets movements 
• Predicting the weather conditions is based on awareness of the universal laws of Allah

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood  > Charlatanry

• The Awliya’ of Allah and the Awliya’ of Satan
• Consulting charlatans and wearing amulets
• Sufi Tariqahs and charlatanism
• Going to charlatans for treatment
• Using Jinn and conjuring them by means of supplications and charms
• Talking to the dead

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood  > Modern inventions

• Testing the earth with modern equipment and instruments to discover what is inside it
• Chemistry taught to students in schools is different from alchemy regarded as unlawful by scholar