This Is My Faith - Al-fatlawi, Ali - الصفحة ٣٧٢ - Words on Visiting Graves
the truth and they know him)٤٣;٨٦, and many more.
Anwar: However, they say those supplicating for forgiveness through certain people are similar to disbelievers and polytheists getting close to god through their idols!
Hasan: Again, this proves what ignorant people they are.
First of all, we do not see the Prophets and the Imams (PBUT) as gods or in the same way pagans and disbelievers see their idols.
Second of all, we do not claim that the Prophets and the Imams (PBUT) do what the Almighty Allah does unlike the disbelievers.
Third of all, supplication the Prophet and the Imams (PBUT) is allowable according to the Almighty Allah:
(O you who believe! be careful of your duty to Allah and seek means of nearness to Him and strive hard in His way that you may be successful)٥;٣٥.
(He said: I will ask for you forgiveness from my Lord; surely He is the Forgiving, the Merciful۞Then when