Demolishing the Wahhabi Rejection of Tawaswswul
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following is extracted from Imam Jamil Swiddiqi ibn Muhammad Faydhi az-Zahawi al-Kurdi’s ( r.a. ), al-Fajr as-Swadiq fi ar-Radd ‘ala Munkiri at-Tawaswswul wa al-Khawariq , “The True Dawn: A Refutation of Those Denying Miracles and Intercession in Islam”. The Wahhabis declare any Muslim a disbeliever for contradicting their unwarranted innovations in our religion, and the way they ascribe to that person idolatry. They take, as a pretext for their declaration of disbelief, the seeking of help from the prophets and awliya’ and their use of the latter as a means to Allah ( s.w.t. ) and the visiting of their graves. The Wahhabis have rejected these practices, and claimed they are haram . The Wahhabis have made their rejection of the mustaghitsin , those seeking aid; the mutawaswswilin , those using persons as means of access to Allah ( s.w.t. ); and the za’irin , those visiting graves; especially intense. Th...