("Every Moslem knows that Allahu ta'ala alone is the One who...

("Every Moslem knows that Allahu ta'ala alone is the One who gives life and takes life, for He declares, 'He alone gives and takes life; in the 56th ayat of the surat Yusuf and 'Allah is the One who makes man dead at the time of his death,' in the 42nd ayat of the surat az-zumar.

In the 12th ayat of the surat as-Sajda, He said as a majaz, 'The angel who is appointed as the deputy to take life takes your life.’ "Allahu ta'ala alone is the One who gives health to the sick, for the 80th ayat of the surat ash-shu'ara' says, 'When I become sick, only He gives me recovery.' He quotes Hadrat 'Isa in the 49th ayat of the surat al-Imran as saying, 'I heal him who is blind and the abrasa (A skin-diseased person, albino or vitiligo, with complete or partial whiteness of the skin.), and I bring the dead back to life by Allah's permission.' The one who gives child to man is actually He; He declares in the 18th ayat of the surat Mariam that [the Archangel], Hadrat Jabra'il's words, 'I will give you a pure son, was majazi.

"The real protector of man is Allahu ta'ala. The 257th ayat of the surat al-Baqara states this openly; 'Allah is the Wali (Protector, Guardian) of those who believe.' And by saying, 'Your wali is Allah and His Prophet,' and 'The Prophet protects the believers more than they protect themselves, in the 56th and 6th ayats of the suras al-Ma'ida and al-Ahzab respectively, He means that man, too, though symbolically, is a wali.

Similarly, the real helper is Allahu ta'ala, and He also said 'mu'in' (helper) for men metaphorically.

📌He said in the third ayat of the surat al-Ma'ida, 'Help you one another in goodness and piety (taqwa).' The Wahhabis use the word 'mushrik' (polytheist) for those Moslems who call somebody an abd (servant, slave) of someone other than Allah, for example, ‘Abd an-Nabi' or ‘Abd ar-Rasul'; however, in the 32nd ayat of the surat an-Nur, it is declared : 'Give in marriage your unmarried women and those pious ones among your male and female slaves.' The Real Rabb (Trainer) is Allahu ta' ala, but someone other than Allah can also be called 'rabb' metaphorically; in the 41st ayat of the surat Yusuf it is said, 'Remember me in the presence of your rabb.’ " 'Istighatha' is.

what the Wahhabis oppose most: 'to ask help or protection of someone other than Allah,' which they call polytheism. It is true that, as all Moslems know, istighatha is only for Allahu ta'ala.

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