Can I pray for my dead father who used to ask for help from dead people and offer sacrifices to them?
Question:
“A questioner asks: Can I pray for my dead father who used to ask for help from dead people and offer sacrifices to them?”
Answer:
“One who died on Shirk (associating others with Allah in His Divinity or worship) is not to be supplicated for. Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) says:
{It is not (proper) for the Prophet and those who believe to ask Allâh’s Forgiveness for the Mushrikûn (polytheists, idolaters, pagans, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allâh), even though they be of kin, after it has become clear to them that they are the dwellers of the Fire (because they died in a state of disbelief).} [Surah at-Tawbah 9:113]
One is forbidden to supplicate to Allah for one's parents if they died on Shirk. When the Prophet's (peace be upon him) paternal uncle Abu Talib died on Shirk, the Prophet (peace be upon him) wanted to ask forgiveness for him but Allah prohibited him from doing so. O Servant of Allah! You should neither ask forgiveness for him nor supplicate for or against him. His affair is to Allah as long as he died worshiping graves and asking, seeking help from, and vowing for the dead. This is major Shirk (associating others with Allah in His Divinity or worship that takes the Muslim out of Islam), such as the one worshiping idols, we seek refuge with Allah from this.”
Shaykh 'Abdul-'Azeez bin 'Abdullah bin Baaz
Source: www.alifta.net - Fatwas of Ibn Baz, Volume 28, Book on subject related to `Aqidah. One of the questions of Hajj for the year 1408 A.H., Tape no. 2.
“A questioner asks: Can I pray for my dead father who used to ask for help from dead people and offer sacrifices to them?”
Answer:
“One who died on Shirk (associating others with Allah in His Divinity or worship) is not to be supplicated for. Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) says:
{It is not (proper) for the Prophet and those who believe to ask Allâh’s Forgiveness for the Mushrikûn (polytheists, idolaters, pagans, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allâh), even though they be of kin, after it has become clear to them that they are the dwellers of the Fire (because they died in a state of disbelief).} [Surah at-Tawbah 9:113]
One is forbidden to supplicate to Allah for one's parents if they died on Shirk. When the Prophet's (peace be upon him) paternal uncle Abu Talib died on Shirk, the Prophet (peace be upon him) wanted to ask forgiveness for him but Allah prohibited him from doing so. O Servant of Allah! You should neither ask forgiveness for him nor supplicate for or against him. His affair is to Allah as long as he died worshiping graves and asking, seeking help from, and vowing for the dead. This is major Shirk (associating others with Allah in His Divinity or worship that takes the Muslim out of Islam), such as the one worshiping idols, we seek refuge with Allah from this.”
Shaykh 'Abdul-'Azeez bin 'Abdullah bin Baaz
Source: www.alifta.net - Fatwas of Ibn Baz, Volume 28, Book on subject related to `Aqidah. One of the questions of Hajj for the year 1408 A.H., Tape no. 2.