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Seeking Divine Blessing – Al-Shia https://en.al-shia.org The al-Shia Scientific, Cultural, and Doctrinal Website Fri, 05 Jan 2024 17:59:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://en.al-shia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/cropped-cropped-FIcon-32x32.png Seeking Divine Blessing – Al-Shia https://en.al-shia.org 32 32 Seeking Blessings (Tabarruk) In Islam https://en.al-shia.org/seeking-blessings-tabarruk-in-islam/ https://en.al-shia.org/seeking-blessings-tabarruk-in-islam/#respond Tue, 09 Jan 2024 06:30:14 +0000 https://en.al-shia.org/?p=10248 The Arabic term ‘Tabarruk’ is the religious practice of seeking blessing and favor from God, Almighty and sacred beings or things.

In other words, In the terminology of religious texts, Tabarruk means seeking divine blessing and grace from a person or thing God has given privilege; whether a worldly blessing such as the increase of income or a blessing for the Hereafter such as the spiritual promotion.

From this, it is obvious that the object of Tabarruk might be God Himself, the angels and some chosen servants of God [Awliyah] such as Prophets (PBUHH) and Imams (PBUH) or sacred things such as the Qur’an or sacred places such as Ka’aba. It is pertinent to mention that there are some similarities in the concepts and features of Tabarruk and Tawassul, particularly in those cases when through Tabarruk people seek to achieve a spiritual blessing.

However, these two concepts have differences in that, the term ‘Tawassul’ is to seek the chosen servants of God to intercede on one’s behalf in order to beseech God for something but the term ‘Tabarruk’ is asking for a worldly or spiritual blessing which God has trusted some people or things with [1] .

Evidence for the Permissibility of Tabarruk To establish the permissibility of Tabarruk, the proofs could be sought from the glorious Qur’an, the conduct or silent approval of the Prophet; the conduct of the pure Prophet household [], and the conduct of the companions. 1) The Holy Qur’an In the glorious Qur’an, several verses have referred to Tabarruk and we shall refer to a few of them here.