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Seeking Help From Ghair Ullah
Assalamualaikum!
If I’m doing some heavy lifting work and I require some help in that, and I seek it from one of my friends who was passing by (all while believing that if he helps, then it will be from Allah’s will), then will it be considered Shirk? I know this must have sounded weird.
Allah swt has taught in the very first surah that it is Him from Whom we ask help from.
Based on this analogy, people of Tasawwuf ask help from the deceased ones whom they consider pious. They defend it by saying that they firmly believe that this power to the pious person is given by Allah swt Himself and that they don’t have it on their own.
Can that be called shirk?
I think it can, at maximum, be called as Biddah (bec they’re attributing something that Allah has not said), but not Shirk.
What’s you take on this matter?
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Seeking Help From Ghair Ullah
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It is the divine domain in which the seeking of help other than Allah is called shirk. God has the power to control the circumstances, we ask His help to turn the conditions in our favour. On the other hand, seeking humans’ help in our mundane affairs is a human domain, not the domain of God.
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People used to come to Hazrat Isa (AS) and he used to cure their blindness and another lethal disease as well.
To give complete Shifaa is the domain of Allah swt but as Muslims we believe that Hazrat Isa (AS) was given this power by Him. We don’t believe that Hazrat Isa (AS) had it from himself.
If this is not Shirk, then why say it about ahle Tasawwuf? (They also defend it by saying that they firmly believe that this power to the pious person is given by Allah swt Himself and that they don’t have it on their own).
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Isa was not given any power. It is explicitly told that this divine action was performed through him. No one ever had divine powers in any capacity. God never shared his power. The repeated words of Isa at such occasions “Biiznillah”, “with the command or permission of God”, indicates the same.
God performed his actions through natural forces, through angels and at times through his prophets, when necessary. It is God who tells that he performed his actions through a prophet, no one can claim on his own that God performs His actions through him. If one claims that God told him that he performs His actions through Him, it is the claim of receiving revelation from God which is a lie or self-deception because God has declared that he stopped communication with human beings with the end of Prophethood. it is only the true dreams, which is the only source left to receive some true news from the metaphysical world.
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