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'''ʾIltimās-i duʿā''' is a request for [[Dua|prayer]] from others.<ref>Dehkhoda, ''Dehkhoda Dictionary'', under the word Iltimas-i du'a</ref> Usually, those who go to pilgrimage sites or do an act of worship are asked for prayer.<ref>Anwarī, ''Farhang-i buzurg-i sukhan'', vol. 1, p. 528-529.</ref> | '''ʾIltimās-i duʿā''' is a request for [[Dua|prayer]] from others.<ref>Dehkhoda, ''Dehkhoda Dictionary'', under the word Iltimas-i du'a</ref> Usually, those who go to pilgrimage sites or do an act of worship are asked for prayer.<ref>Anwarī, ''Farhang-i buzurg-i sukhan'', vol. 1, p. 528-529.</ref> | ||
According to a [[hadith]],<ref>Kulaynī, ''Al-Kāfī'', vol. 5, p. 316.</ref> [[Mujtahid|Shi'a jurists]] issued that it is [[mustahabb]] for a visitor of a sick person to ask the sick person for prayer.<ref>Najafī, ''Jawāhir al-kalām'', vol. 4, p. 5: ʿAlawī Gurgānī, ''ʾAl-Manāẓir al-nāḍira'', vol. 6, p. 62.</ref> In addition, the one helping a poor person is advised to ask the poor person for prayer, as his prayer for the one who has helped him is granted.<ref>Ḥurr al-ʿĀmilī, ''Hidāyat al-umma'', vol. 4, p. 123.</ref> | According to a [[hadith]],<ref>Kulaynī, ''Al-Kāfī'', vol. 5, p. 316.</ref> [[Mujtahid|Shi'a jurists]] issued that it is [[mustahabb]] for a visitor of a sick person to ask the sick person for prayer.<ref>Najafī, ''Jawāhir al-kalām'', vol. 4, p. 5: ʿAlawī Gurgānī, ''ʾAl-Manāẓir al-nāḍira'', vol. 6, p. 62.</ref> In addition, the one helping a poor person is advised to ask the poor person for prayer, as his prayer for the one who has helped him is granted.<ref>Ḥurr al-ʿĀmilī, ''Hidāyat al-umma'', vol. 4, p. 123.</ref> | ||
Some Shi'a jurists believe that asking for prayer from the believers is also mustahab. According to some hadiths, [[God]] advised [[Moses]] to ask Him with a tongue that he has not sinned with. After Moses asked for more explanation, God told him to ask Him through others' tongues. | Some Shi'a jurists believe that asking for prayer from the believers is also mustahab.<ref>Kāshif al-Ghitāʾ, Hudā l-muttaqīn, p. 85; Ṣadadī, ''Majmūʿ l-rasāʾil al--fiqhīyya, p. 595.</ref> According to some hadiths, [[God]] advised [[Moses]] to ask Him with a tongue that he has not sinned with. After Moses asked for more explanation, God told him to ask Him through others' tongues.<ref>Ḥillī, Ibn Fahd, ʿUddat al-dāʿī, p. 131.</ref> | ||
It is not obligatory to pray for some who has asked for prayer. | It is not obligatory to pray for some who has asked for prayer.<ref>Ṣadadī, ''Majmūʿ l-rasāʾil al--fiqhīyya, p. 595.</ref> | ||
Based on the [[ | Based on the [[Qur'an 12]]: 97, some [[jurists]] said that asking for prayer also includes asking for [[Istighfar|forgiveness]] from God. According to this verse, when everything was revealed about the story of [[Yusuf]], his brothers asked their father, [[Jacob (a)|Ya'qub]] to ask God to forgive them.<ref>Ṣadadī, ''Majmūʿ l-rasāʾil al--fiqhīyya, p. 595.</ref> | ||
Shi'a Muslims maintain that there is no difference in asking for prayer between the dead and the alive. Thus, they allow asking deceased figures for prayer. On the contrary, [[Wahhabis]] do not allow asking the deceased, even the [[Prophet (s)]], and consider it heretical. They believe that the dead cannot hear the alive and that none of the [[Sahaba of the Prophet (s)]] did this. Shi'a scholars, however, argue that by the will of God, the dead hear the alive, and there are accounts that Sahaba asked Prophet (s) to pray for them after his demise. | Shi'a Muslims maintain that there is no difference in asking for prayer between the dead and the alive. Thus, they allow asking deceased figures for prayer.<ref>Kāshif al-Ghitāʾ, ''Manhaj al-rashād'', p. 46.</ref> On the contrary, [[Wahhabis]] do not allow asking the deceased, even the [[Prophet (s)]], and consider it heretical.<ref>ʾIbn ʿUthaymayn, ''Fiqh al-ʿibādāt'', p. 90; ʾAbā Baṭīn, ''al-Radd ʿala l-burda'', p. 48.</ref> They believe that [[Sama' al-Mawta (dead ones' hearing)|the dead cannot hear the alive]]<ref>ʾIbn ʿUthaymayn, ''Fiqh al-ʿibādāt'', p. 90; ʾAbā Baṭīn, ''Al-radd ʿala l-burda'', p. 48.</ref> and that none of the [[Sahaba of the Prophet (s)]] did this.<ref>ʾIbn ʿUthaymayn, ''Majmūʿ fatāwā wa rasāʾil'', vol. 2, p. 339; Zaynū, Majmūʿa rasāʾil al-tawjīhāt al-ʾislamīyya'', vol. 3, p. 75.</ref> Shi'a scholars, however, argue that by the will of God, the dead hear the alive,<ref>Subḥānī, ''al-Wahhābīyya'', p. 305-307; Kāshif al-ghitāʾ, ''Manhaj al-rashād'', p. 46 and 55.</ref> and there are accounts that Sahaba asked Prophet (s) to pray for them after his demise.<ref>Subḥānī, ''al-Wahhābīyya'', p. 305-307.</ref> | ||
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