Accusing the Salafis of declaring anyone who seeks an intermediary through the occupant of a grave to be a polytheist whose blood is lawful to shed!
One of the failings into which such people fall is that, whenever they see someone touching a grave or seeking the intercession of the person buried there, they immediately brand him a polytheist and unbeliever whose blood may be spilled. In their eyes he is unfit to be buried in Muslim cemeteries, no funeral prayer is performed for him, he neither inherits nor is inherited from, and marriage to or from him is prohibited—simply because they regard him as a mushrik.
Allowing intercession through the dead!
This is a grave injustice and blatant ignorance. We do not condone a person’s appeal to a grave or his caressing of stone; we merely say that he is an ignorant man, mistaken and astray. Yet there is a vast difference between misguidance, ignorance, and deviation, and passing judgment of disbelief that renders a person’s blood lawful, forbids his burial in Muslim graveyards, and consigns him to be discarded like the carcass of a dog or some vicious animal. The gulf between the two rulings is immense.
Leading people to think that shirk exists only in lordship, re-interpreting the intentions of those who call upon the dead, and openly declaring that seeking intercession with the deceased before Allah Most High is a valid, permissible act!
From an erring individual such as the one we have described, we do not sense that he believes this Prophet or that saint can untie and bind, give and withhold, abase and exalt, or control Allah’s decrees. He simply holds that the person through whom he seeks intercession enjoys a certain standing and honored rank with Allah; therefore he asks Allah—by virtue of that person’s dignity and precedence with Him—to answer his request