that their hearts harbor no love for the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, adducing as evidence their rejection of seeking tawassul through him after his passing.
This is a groundless fabrication and a grievous calumny for which, unless he repents with sincere repentance, Allah Most High will assuredly hold him to the severest reckoning.
For it amounts to declaring thousands of Muslims outside the fold of faith without the slightest proof—relying solely on conjecture and illusion, neither of which carries any weight in the sight of truth.

2 – In his previous remarks he has mixed truth with falsehood in an astonishing manner, using the former to support the latter and thereby arriving at a conclusion to which no one in the world has ever preceded him.
If we wish to separate the two strands of his discourse, we may say:

The truths it contains are:
(a) that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, enjoys nearness to Allah—glorified be He—and that he was a mercy from Allah to all creation;
(b) that no one, not even the Prophet himself, possesses any inherent power to influence events, for all influence belongs solely to Allah, the One, the Unique;
(c) that it is permissible to seek blessing from the Prophet’s relics, and that the Companions did so during his lifetime with his explicit approval.
These three points are correct and undisputed; had the author stopped there, no further comment would have been necessary.

As for the falsehood contained in his statement—over which there is vast disagreement—it is: