[Messengers Do Not Bestow Benefit]

If, by “intermediary,” one means that there must be a mediator who brings about benefits and wards off harms—such as serving as a channel for people’s provision, victory, or guidance, so that they call upon him for these matters and place their hopes in him—then this is among the gravest forms of shirk, the very polytheism for which Allah condemned the idolaters when they took protectors and intercessors besides Him, seeking through them to gain benefit and avoid harm.

Intercession, however, is granted only to those to whom Allah gives permission, for He said: “It is Allah who created…"