Question:
Assalamu Alaikum Dear Sayyidi,
Thank you so greatly for making the book “Mafaheem yajib an tusahah” by as-Sayyid Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki available. I have read most of it and learned a lot. It certainly opened my eyes.
Sayyidi, forgive me for my ignorance, and my lack of Adab, for I have understood that the book mostly talks about tawwasul, and the Ulama are in consensus of it. Especially tawwasul through the Prophet.
Would it be possible to point me in a direction with regards to reading material related to Istighatha and its Adab, preferrably in Arabic?
Is Istighatha the same as saying “Ya Muhammad (SAW), Ya Abu Bakr, Ya Umar, Ya Uthman, Ya Hasan, Ya Hussein”? Or is this tawassul?
Many thanks, and appologies again for my many questions and lack of Adab.
Sincerely
Answer:
wa `alaykum salam,
According to our teachers and all the scholars we know and trust, istighatha and tawassul are one and the same thing.
Here are some reliable books on that topic by our teachers:
– al-Wasila ila fahm haqiqat al-tawassul by Dr. Samer al-Nass
– al-Is`ad fi jawaz al-tawassul wal-istimdad by Shaykh Abd al-Hadi Kharsa
– al-Ajwibat al-ghaliya fi `aqidat al-fiqat al-najiya by Habib Zayn b. Sumayt
– al-Tawassul bil-Anbiya’ wal-Salihin by Shaykh Hasan Qaribullah
– al-Ifham wal-ifHam fi qadaya al-wasila wal-qubur by Shaykh Muhammad Zaki Ibrahim
Among the reliable books of the teachers of our teachers:
– Shawahid al-Haqq by Shaykh Yusuf al-Nabhani
– Bara’at al-Ash`ariyyin by Abu Hamid b. Marzuq [pen name for Shaykh Muhammad al-`Arabi al-Tubbani, Sayyid Muhammad b. `Alawi’s teacher]
– Mahq al-taqawwul fi mas’alat al-tawassul by Shaykh Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari
Among the realibale books of the earlier scholars:
– Hawl al-tawassul wal-istighatha by Muhammad `Abid al-Sindi
– Misbah al-zalam fil-mustaghithin bi-Khayr al-anam by al-Mazali al-Marrakishi
– Misbah al-anam fi radd shubuhat al-najdi al-bid`i by Habib `Alawi b. Ahmad al-Haddad
Hajj Gibril Haddad
