of touching or kissing it, together with his denunciation of the common folk and their like … 142
The shaykhs’ silence toward the masses’ acts of polytheism, with one of them even permitting the cry, “O Bāz, you who can neither harm nor benefit, help me!”—a debate that took place between him and the author … 144
Orientalists recording this idolatry and attributing it to the Muslims! … 146
How the colonial powers exploited this idolatry for their own ends! … 148
A valuable study by the renowned historian Rafiq al-ʿAẓam on the wisdom behind the Lawgiver’s prohibition of building over graves, in which he explains why the graves of many Companions—such as Abu ʿUbayda—have vanished … 150
“The best graves are those that are effaced” is not a hadith … 153
A rebuttal to members of the intelligentsia and others who imagine that polytheism has vanished for good and will never return … 156
Hadiths affirming that polytheism will indeed occur within this ummah … 157
Hadiths foretelling that Islam will encompass the entire globe, and what Muslims must do to realize that dominance … 159