dear brother
asalamu alaikum.

You have to understand ONE THING in particular. That there were some from among this ummah who wished to implore the practices of jahiliyyah. Thus they used the quraan for their shubuhaat (satanic douubts). This setting gained much momentum under the guise of "the path to ihsaan and zuhd i.e. tassawuf.

And here are the quranic references "used' for the promotion of the jahiliyyah arguements.

The two main proofs, or actually the only two is

1. the quranic ayaah with the wording that goes like, well I can't find the ayaah so ill say by memory

"And that they seek the means of approach to Allah"


2. I forget this refence ayaah as well but it goes along he lines of

"Had they come to you (oh muhammad) when they were in the wrong, and sought your foregiveness"

Might I add to this ayaah the fact that there is a report that a lesser companion after the prophet died actully came to he grave of the prophet.

So you see, akhee their arguement is based on the assumption that the quraan condones the act, as i said, the key word here is "assumption"

However when these texts are analysed along with contexytual poof form other ibaarah an-nass, as well as underlying statements of the sahaba and the salaf, one willeasily land on a totally clearer, orthodox, approach to the matter as opposed to the unorthodox, doubtful approach.


so no matter how grossly misinterpreted these versus are in the support of bi'i or unfounded type tawassul, the founation for their dispute is still the quraan.

I had brought somehting in this regard long ago and I think it would be befiting to post it here.

asalamu alaikum