INTERCESSION(WASEELA) ROOT OF SHIRK

Waseela(Intercession) Of Mushriks:

Base and Root of all kind of shirk on earth is Waseela and was Waseela.
Hindus,mushrikeen-e-makah , jews and christians all shirk of this world is standing on intercession. Intercession is the root cause of shirk that is to seek intercession from one of Allah's creatures .

Quran 39 : 3
Is it not to Allah that sincere devotion is due? But those who take for protectors other than Allah (say): "We only serve them in order that they may bring us nearer to Allah." Truly Allah will judge between them in that wherein they differ. But Allah guides not such as are false and ungrateful.

Surah Kahf 102
Do the Unbelievers think that they can take My servants as protectors besides Me? Verily We have prepared Hell for the Unbelievers for (their) entertainment.

Quran 43
86.And those whom they invoke besides Allah have no power of intercession;― only he who bears witness to the Truth and they know (him).
87. And if you asked them who created them, they would surely say, "Allah." So how are they deluded?
88. And [Allah acknowledges] his saying, "O my Lord, indeed these are a people who do not believe.

Quran 17 56 (roman urdu)
Un say kaaho pukaroo tum Un ko Jinheen Samajhtay Ho tum ALLAH kay Siwa hajat rawa jo nahi rakhtay Ikhtiyaar kuch bhe tum say Duur karnay ke takleef ya Halat badalnay ki
56
Say (O Muhammad SAW): "Call upon those - besides Him - whom you pretend [to be gods like angels, Isâ (Jesus), 'Uzair (Ezra) and others]. They have neither the power to remove the adversity from you nor even to shift it from you to another person

Next ayat is explaining their Aqeeda and explaining that what actually their shirk Aqeeda behind calling those idols was intercession and was that belief that they bring us near to Allah.

Quran 17 57
Jin ko Pukartay hain yeh Loog woh Khud talaash kartay hain apnay rabb tak puhanchay ka zairyeh kay kaun un main say Khuda ka zaida Muqarab ho aur umeed rakhtay hain uss ke Rehmat ki aur dartay hain uss kay azaad say .beshak ghazab terey RABB ka ha he darnay kay LAIQ

Those whom they call upon [like 'Īsā (Jesus) son of Maryam (Mary), 'Uzair (Ezra), angel] desire (for themselves) means of access to their Lord (Allâh), as to which of them should be the nearest and they ['Īsā (Jesus), 'Uzair (Ezra), angels and others] hope for His Mercy and fear His Torment. Verily, the Torment of your Lord is (something) to be afraid of!


Mushrikeens were not caling them directly instead they were seeking Waseela of pious people and were making intercession of those pious people.

So their SHIRK was basically WASEELA.They were seeking intercession of ESSA(a.s) and UZAAIR(a.s).This is something VERY VERY CLEAR and UNAMBIGUOS.
This can be compared with what muslims are doing today they r doing EXACTLY same but difference is only that of personalities.

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Quran Yunus 17-18

17. So who is more unjust than he who invents a lie about Allah or denies His signs? Indeed, the criminals will not succeed.

and the lie which they invent was this:

18-. And they worship other than Allah that which neither harms them nor benefits them, and they say, These are our intercessors with Allah." Say, "Do you inform Allah of something He does not know in the heavens or on the earth?" Exalted is He and high above what they associate with Him.

It means when you will ask mushrikeen why do you worship these idols beside Allah they will say These are our intercessors with Allah.
And Allah is saying in response
"Do you inform Allah of something He does not know in the heavens or on the earth?" Exalted is He and high above what they associate with Him

You are telling Allah that they are our intercessors with Allah while Allah didn’t suggest any such waseela. You are informing Allah of something which he doesn’t know?

Exalted is He and high above what they associate with Him

It also means asking something from ALLAH with SADKAY of something or someone and then saying that this will make ALLAH happy and Allah will accept my dua more easily when I will ask him from intercession of his such and such mukarabss..
Plus this is also inventing a lie about ALLAH . When Allah doesn’t suggest any such intercessor.
"Do you inform Allah of something" ALLAH haven’t made anything or anyone his means of Access and there are number of AYATS which tell about the Shirk of Mushrikeen of MAKAH and their whole philosophy was this that " they may bring us nearer to Allah”

Like if I start saying that Allah has made KAABA his means of access and intercession and I would start praying through intercession of Kaaba and start saying that it will bring me closer to Allah then this would be Shirk e Akbar.

Mainly because of these reasons
1) Inventing lie about Allah
2) It would also mean that my Emaan is on Intercession not on Allah
3) My emaan is on intercession and on Allah as well.

Intercession(waseela) Of Muslim:

Quran 36
22. And why should I not worship He who created me and to whom you will be returned?
23. Should I take other than Him [false] deities [while], if the Most Merciful intends for me some adversity, their intercession will not avail me at all, nor can they save me?
24. Indeed, I would then be in manifest error.


Qur'an 6:51
And warn by it, those who fear to be gathered to their Lord: Besides Him they will have no protector nor intercessor: That they may become pious, God-fearing"

Means a believer don’t seek any kind of intercession which has been explained above those mushrik seek. They only believe in Allah and their emaan is on Allah. Believer should know that only mercy of Allah and following his orders can only save him rest all other waseelas can do nothing

Surah Maida 5:
35 .O believers! Fear Allah, and seek means of access to Him and do Jehad in His way so that you may succeed36. Indeed, those who disbelieve - if they should have all that is in the earth and the like of it with it by which to ransom themselves from the punishment of the Day of Resurrection, it will not be accepted from them, and for them is a painful punishment

This AYAT 35 is talking about intercession of Muslims which is Jihad, Charity, Good Deeds which are prescribed by Allah and Allah is also telling disbelievers that if they will give their whole wealth in charity that would be useless for them it won’t save them from hell fire but if a believer will use this kind of waseela like Charity it will bring him near to Allah .

Quran:2.Al-Baqarah: 254
O you who have believed, spend from that which We have provided for you before there comes a Day in which there is no exchange and no friendship and no intercession. And the disbelievers - they are the wrongdoers.


Note: Some people misinterpret this AYAT in such away which is SHIRK according to many other ayats and try to give the same LOGIC which MUSHRIKEEN used to give that WE MAKE THE WASEELA OF ESSA(a.s) and UZAIR (a.s) because they were pious people .
This interpretation also gives people HOPLESNESS which is also KUFFAR that your deeds are worst so don’t ask directly but ask through WASEELA of someone pious like ask through waseela of Muhammad(s.a.w), Essa(a.s) or Uzair(a.s).

In fact here Wasilah means closeness that can be achieved with belief in Allah, His fear, piety and Jehad in His way because this very inference is attested by the Prophet (s.a.w.). But through false and fabricated traditions mediating the Prophet (s.a.w.) is not only made lawful but has been made encouraged and mustahab. Otherwise there is nothing about such intercession in authentic ahadith books like Sahih muslim, Sahih bukhari, mauta imam malik, abu dawud.

Others Intercession which muslims seeks are follows
(1) Intercession through the Names and Attributes of Allah
(2) intercession through one's good deed, and
(3) intercession through requesting the righteous people who are alive for dua.


Believers Way Of Prayer:

Quran:8.Al-Anfal: 2
The believers are only those who, when Allah is mentioned, their hearts become fearful, and when His verses are recited to them, it increases them in faith; and upon their Lord they rely -



Quran 7 23

23. They said, "Our Lord, we have wronged ourselves, and if You do not forgive us and have mercy upon us, we will surely be among the losers."


Quran:27.An-Naml: 44.
She said, "My Lord, indeed I have wronged myself, and I submit with Solomon to Allah, Lord of the worlds.


Quran:28.Al-Qasas: 16.
He said, "My Lord, indeed I have wronged myself, so forgive me," and He forgave him. Indeed, He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.

Believers never pray through intercession they ask directly to ALLAH who is nearer to our jugular vain

Quran:50.Qaf: 16
And We have already created man and know what his soul whispers to him, and We are closer to him than [his] jugular vein

Note: Intercession that will take place in the Hereafter, on the Day of Resurrection. has not been discussed here that Nabi(s.a.w) would intercede for his ummah. on the day of resurrection and his intercession will benefit us on the Day of Resurrection
Further that on the day of Judgement, Muhammad(s.a.w) and everyone else will be alive and therefore, their intercession can be sought just like in this world, we ask each other to make dua for the other

Some fabricated traditions used to prove intercession