Even Salafis have accepted this kind of Tawassul...

Even Salafis have accepted this kind of Tawassul, for instance, Ibn Taymiyya has affirmed this kind of Tawassul in his different books, especially in “Al-Qā’idat al-Jalīlat fī al-Tawassul wa al-Wasīlah” (Venerable Rule in Tawassul and Wasīla). The area of contradiction is in seeking recourse through other than good acts, such as an intercessory recourse to the saints of Allah, such that a person says: “O Allah!

I recourse you and seek closeness to You through Your .” (Mafaheem Yajeb an Tasahhuh, pages 116-117) It has been pointed to this kind of Tawassul in several verses of the holy Qur’an. Polytheism is when we believe that a thing is independent in efficacy and against Allah. The mistake of Wahhabis is that they have confused “worship” and “intercession” together in the holy verse “We do not worship them in a reason other than they make us closer to Allah” (Qur’an 39: 3) and…