Beware of those who call there forefathers mushrikiin

[Kowneyn]

[beware of those] who accuse the ummah of worshipping graves only because we insist on the Sunna of visiting the graves just as our Prophet insisted on it due to their reminder of the Hereafter and [in accordance with the sound understanding of our pious salaf who visited the graves of the prophets and the saints of Allah to seek intercession]. It is an honor, therefore, to be taken to task for doing something which the Prophet loved to do and insisted upon and [to follow the foot steps of our pious forefathers]. Here we wish to ask our critics a question: When King Sa`ud ibn `Abd al-`Aziz intervened with the Syrian government in the fifties to preserve the tombs of Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Kathir from obliteration at the time the University of Damascus was being built, why did no-one call him a qubûrî grave-lover?

 

Another consequence of the dismantlement of the Sunni Schools is the execration of fathers by sons as apostates (takfîr al-âbâ') and its hideous consequence on the fabric of traditional societies. Africans tell the story of a young man sent to study Shari`a at great expense by his Sunni Muslim parents. Upon his return a few years later he refused to eat a chicken slaughtered in his honor by his father on the grounds that "my father is a mushrik."

 

What perverse trick or brain-washing is this, that turns a traditional Sunni Muslim sent by his pious parents to the fountainhead of Islam and the abode of the Last Prophet only for him to return as one who hates and despises his own parents - the greatest sin after polytheism? Hardly anything can be uglier than a Muslim sondeclaring his Muslim father apostate after spending two or three years supposedly studying the Qur'an and the Sunna, which are Light upon Light brought to humanity by the Mercy to the worlds !