For example, the writer says on p. 25: “As for supplication, it does not invariably constitute worship, but only when we call upon someone whom we believe to possess the attributes of Lordship, or even one of them.”
He says on p. 26: “Supplication constitutes worship only when directed to Allah or to someone whom the supplicant believes to possess an attribute of Lordship.”
He says on p. 27: “Thus it is clear that merely calling out, seeking rescue, seeking assistance, fearing, hoping, seeking a means of drawing near, or humbling oneself is not considered worship.”
He says on p. 28: “To summarize what has preceded: worship in its linguistic sense means obedience and submission of any kind to anyone whatsoever. By contrast, worship as defined in divine law means the utmost humility and submission to someone whom the person submitting believes to possess some attributes of Lordship. Once you understand this, you will know with certainty that someone who obeys and submits to another, but not out of a belief that the latter possesses some attributes of Lordship, is not considered a worshipper of that person according to divine law…”
He makes many other statements along these lines.
Anyone who compares these statements of the writer with the words of Khomeini, the propagandist for Rāfidism, in his book Kashf al-Asrār (Unveiling the Secrets) (p. 49)—“Now that it has become clear that polytheism means asking someone other than the Lord of all worlds for something on the grounds that the one asked is a deity, anything short of that is not polytheism. There is no difference in this respect between the living and the dead: asking a stone or a rock for something one needs is not polytheism…”—will find that the two views are as the poet said:
Two who suckled at one mother’s breast, and swore
By deepest darkness: “We shall never part.”
I say: How astonishing! So directing worship to someone other than Allah would not constitute polytheism unless the worshipper believed that the object of his worship possessed some attribute of Lordship! As for someone who calls upon something other than Allah, seeks rescue from something other than Allah, seeks help from something other than Allah, places his hope in something other than Allah, or fears something other than Allah—whether a grave or