Wahhabism

CONTENTS
Editor’s Note	1
Preface by the Author	3
Familiarity with the Life of the Founder of Wahhabism	19
Wahhabis and the Renovation of Graves of Awliya Allah	31
Construction of Mosque near the Graves of Pious People	67
Visitation (Ziyarat) of Graves of Believers from the View-Point of the Holy Qur’an and Sunnah	79
Valuable Effects of Ziyarat of the Graves of Religious Personalities	89
Performance of Prayer and Supplication near Graves of the Holy Personalities	101
Tawassul (Recourse) to the Awliya Allah	107
Is it an Innovation to Commemorate the Birth and Death Anniversaries of Awliya Allah?	127
Seeking Benediction and Cure from the Signs and Traces of Awliya	135
Tawhid in \'Ibadah and Worship (or Pretext of Wahhabis)	141
Seeking Help from Awliya Allah during Their Lifetime	159
Seeking Help from the Spirits of Awliya Allah	169
Seeking Shafa’a (Intercession) from Awliya Allah	185
Examining the Reasoning of Wahhabis about the Prohibition of Seeking Shafa\'a	193
Is Belief in Invisible Power the Basis of Shirk (Polytheism)?	203
Pleading Allah by the Right and Position of Awliya	215
Nadhr (Vow) to the People in Grave	233
‘Calling’ the Divine Personalities	239
Political and Social Dimensions of Hajj	247
Conclusion	265
Glossary of Important Terms	267
APPENDIX
APPENDIX I	271
List of Ayahs of Holy Qur’an used by Wahhabi Scholars to prove their deviant ideology and the rebuttal of their argument	271
APPENDIX II	273
Najd and Wahhabi fitna as mentioned in the hadithes of Prophet Muhammad (s)	273
APPENDIX III	279
List and brief description of few books written by leading Muslim scholars in rebuttal of Wahhabism	279
APPENDIX IV	285
A description of Ibn Taymiyyah by the famous Muslim scholar and explorer Ibn Battuta	285
APPENDIX V	287
Wahhabism in Contemporary Western Literature	287
A.	Books on Wahhabism and its various forms and aspects published by international publishers	287
B. Scholarly articles on Wahhabism and its various aspects published in peer reviewed international journals	293
Selected Bibliography	305
INDEX	309