that you can call on him in prayer and
they're saying well this is not the
worship of the Prophet wasallam this is
just calling on him in prayer
no
no if you call on
anyone who cannot answer your call you
are worshiping
him what I mean is we call on each other
to get help you know I need to start my
car come and give me a hand please no
problem this is not considered to be
worship you're calling on somebody who
can come to your Aid although the higher
level is not to call on
anyone Prophet Muhammad wasallam
said if you can guarantee me you will
not ask anyone for
anything I will guarantee you
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Paradise there's a Hadith narrated by
Abu
alari if you can
guarantee that you will not ask anyone
for anything the prophet s wasallam said
I will guarantee you
paradise and Abu said when the prophet
sallam said that I never asked anyone
for anything and that's what he was
known for he would not ask anyone for
anything
but this is not something required of
everybody this is just this is the
higher
level back to the rest of
us we ask people to help us in this and
that and the other these people who can
help us no
problem but now if we call on somebody
who isn't
here right they're living
right you have groups that promote this
you can call on the
sheh right you have a problem you need
his help just call on him he's a living
Sheikh the fact that you call on him
he's not present he's not available to
help you that's
worship if he's dead it's also worship
so whether you call on Abdul
Kad Al gilani who is popular in the
Indian subcontinent and elsewhere we
given the
title right
Al meaning the greatest source of
help
right whether you do that and he's dead
or you call
on she uh
nazim you know because you are from the
nakabandi order and nazim is the man so
you call on him when you're in need he's
a living he's living person but he's not
here this is
worship and when you call on
wasallam again you have a line of
argument that people try to raise but
he's
living he's
living Prophet wasallam said that when
the prophets die the Earth doesn't eat
their
body
okay because the Earth doesn't eat their
body does it mean they're living or this
is just a miracle from Allah Point
number one point number two if R
sallam was not
dead then the sahabah committed a grave
crime by burying a man
alive isn't it
if he wasn't dead then what did they
doing burying
him this is
nonsense this is error clear
error the point is that wasallam is
dead and this we know this happened when
he first died Omar came in and he was
upset people were saying that he was
dead and he threatened people he stood
up there with his sword and say anybody
who says that the prophet
is dead going to lose your
head people backed off Abu Bakr came he
went in checked the prophet wasam lifted
up the Garment saw he was dead kissed
his forehead put it back and came aside
pushed Omar aside he said whoever was
worshiping
Muhammad sallu alhi wasallam know that
Muhammad is dead but whoever was
worshipping the Lord of Muhammad then
know that the Lord of Muhammad is ever
living
right
so the point is that to call on anyone
who cannot answer your prayers is
worship and the prophet Sall wasallam
said
Dua
calling a Dua to make Dua to call on
from da dawa means to call it is worship
in its essence that is the essence of
worship
calling we say Ya
Allah if you say y Allah you're involved
in worshiping the prophet Muhammad Ali
wasallam that's why in the masjids where
you see people like to put up these
plates ornate plates it says Ya
Allah y this is wrong it's
wrong now some people say
well don't we say in our
T don't we say
this peace be on you
oh
messenger don't we say this this is not
in our
T yes it is in the one that the prophet
wasallam taught us but Abdullah
inah
alkari he
informed that when the prophet Salli
wasallam was
living among them they used to say
that but when he died instead they
said Peace be on the messenger and
Allah's mercy and blessings they didn't
say ala anymore
they
said now Scholars have differed as to
whether you should follow what Abdullah
Mas said or whether we should just go
with what the prophet s initially taught
the proper methodology is to go with
what Abdullah Mas said why because he
said we used to not just I I used to
that may be a personal thing on his part
but he said we we the companions of the
Prophet M and there are a number of
other narrations of other companions
saying the same
thing so if we now are going to
understand what prophet Muhammad Salli
wasallam taught us do we understand it
as our own minds tells us or do we
understand it the way that the me the
companions of the Prophet Sall wasallam
understood it
this is the Crux of the
matter our understanding of
Islam should depend on how the
companions of the Prophet Muhammad
wasallam understood Islam otherwise you
will end up with all kinds of
interpretations the way of the
companions of the the prophet wasallam
that way about which prophet M wasallam
said my nation
will divide up into 73 different sects
72 in hell and one in paradise and when
the companions asked the prophet Sall
wasallam what is that one he said the
one that I am on and you are
on the one which I am following and my
companions
follow so this is the correct
understanding
so when we come back
to worshiping
Allah by maintaining his unity in that
worship we do so in the way that the
companions of the Prophet M wasallam did
we do not invent or introduce new ways
of
worship e