And if tawassul with fellow humans is considered shirk...

And if tawassul with fellow humans is considered shirk, then how could the difference between tawassul to the living and tawassul to the dead, be ascertained? Here Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab has contradicted his own opinion, since as we saw earlier in this article he believed that (S.A.W.A.) is alive in his tomb and said that this state of life of the Prophet (S.A.W.A.) is superior than the life of the martyrs.

Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab also said that the Prophet (S.A.W.A.) hears the voice of those who send blessings on him.[^37] Farid Wajdi mentions in his encyclopaedia: In our era God has opened two of the windows of knowledge for us and the proof of this two windows confirms beyond an iota of doubt that man has a soul, which without the need of the physical body can lead its own independent life.[^38] From the 19th century onwards the science of spiritism or contacts with the souls of the departed has been discovered and developed upon by the world's researchers after precise study and experiments in this regard.

In the US and Europe, the summoning of the souls of the departed is part of the world of science.[^39] The information which modern scientists have discovered after witnessing the summoning of souls, is yet another instance of the fact that the human being has an independent soul outside the physical body that does not perish with death.

The connection of the souls of the departed with the living is the finest proof of the independence and immortality of the soul, and most of its capability concerning many works is with the permission of Almighty God.[^40] The souls of the righteous and pious persons, which have been released from the mortal world, have acquired superior perception and consciousness and in their ascendant journey are free of the limits of time and space.

They penetrate with ease the skies and the depths of the oceans to observe the grandeur of God's creation. Previous…