First of all, see this thread Insha'Allaah:
http://www.islamicboard.com/tawheed...tures-over-graves-obligation-remove-them.html
And then:
i just wanted to know is it allowed in islam 2 go 2 durbaars and ask peers for things. cus my aunties etc do it alot. bt i dnt fink u can go 2 a dead persons grave n ask dem 4 sumfing as u shudnt ask ani1 apart from allah. n dey probli were veri good religious people bt once their dead dey cnt help us bt infact need our duas.plz correct me if im rong.
Ibn Qayyim says in Madarij al-Salikin (1/332):
“From the forms (of Shirk): Requesting the dead for needs, seeking their aid and turning to them.
This is the basis for Shirk in the world. This is because the actions of the dead have ceased. He is not able to harm or benefit himself, let alone the one who seeks his aid, or asks him to fulfil his need, or asks him to intercede for him with Allah, for this is from his ignorance with respect to the intercessor and the one interceded for, as has preceded. This is because he (the intercessor) is not able to intercede for him with Allah, except with His permission. Allah did not make his ‘seeking aid’ and petitioning, a cause for Allah’s permission to be granted. The only cause that grants Allah’s permission (for intercession) is the perfection of Tawheed. Yet, this Mushrik comes along, with a cause that only prevents Allah’s permission (for intercession)!”
Also see this thread:
http://www.islamicboard.com/tawheed-shirk/39348-all-about-istighatha-istishfa-tawassul-etc.html
http://www.islamicboard.com/770245-post6.html
thanks 4da replies.i dnt understand y lots of people in pakistan do it den??? im bit confused is der anything written in da quran so i can present it to them and tell them that its wrong???
Yes:
Allah said in His book about the associationist people of Nuh:
[They said: Do not forsake your gods, do not forsake Wadd, Suwaa', Yaghooth, Ya'ooq, and Nasr.] Qur'an 71/23
Ibn Abbas and others of the first generations reported about this verse:
"These "gods" (mentioned in the verse) were a righteous people among the people of Nuh. When they died, the people were devoted to their graves. This was the beginning of idol worship." Later, they made images of them and worshipped them.
Quoted by Ibn Taymiyyah in his '
Criterion Between the Allies of the Merciful and the Allies of the Devil'.