Does it make me Wahabi?

Question

Does it make me Wahabi when I say:

1. I follow Quran and authentic Hadiths.

2. I worship Allah alone.

3. I pray to Allah alone.

4. I do all kinds of worships to Allah alone.

As far as I am a revert to Islam, a former Christian, I rejected all godly attributes given to Jesus PBUH in Christianity. But when I see some people giving the Godly attributes to Prophet Mohammad PBUIH, his family members and some saints and I tell these people not to do it as far as it comes in the category of Shirk i.e. associating partners with Allah, they call me Wahabi.

I am not Wahabi but a Muslim who is trying to follow Allah and His messenger.

3:132 And pay heed unto God and the Apostle, so that you might be graced with mercy.

These people are confusing me, if Jesus PBUH could not be called for prayer/help even though he is still alive and did some extraordinary miracles, how could be saints, sufis or Imams have such powers?

Answer 1

If you feel that you are Wahhabi

They think that they are the best and only  they know how to deal with problems which are now Islam is facing.

If you feel like that then you are a wahabi  

Answer 2

Dear Sister,

you are on Tuth and following the true sense of Islam.There is nothing like wahabi or any sects,this is also Shirk.

we are only muslims ,and the people who give Godly attributes to Prophet Mohammad PBUIH, his family members and some saints  are definately doing Shirk.

Unfortunately this is a culture in some parts of Pakistan and India and people do not teach their kids not to do this and duse to less knowledge of Islam some people do it which is completely wrong.

DO NOT WORRY,YOU ARE RIGHT,just ignore others :)

Answer 3

Based on what you have said I would just say you are Muslim and leave it at that.  All praise and glory is to Allah!  Allah knows best!

Answer 4

people love to label others different from themselves. religion is a very personal subjective thing, you do whatever you feel is right and ignore how others perceive you...

Answer 5

You are not a wahabi.. that is a made up name by westerners..

You are a true Muslim..

Jesus is a true muslim.. he prayed to one God and only one God.. he didnt pray to saints, imams, or any middle man.. He certainly didnt pray to himself or ask anyone to pray to him.. When he went to that garden, he prayed to only ONE God.. our God!....

Answer 6

You are a Muslim. Don't be worried much about what people say. It is a quality of a believer that he is not afraid of accusers for his stance on truth. All Prophets (pbut) did not come just to teach the existence of a supreme being. But to teach mankind to worship Him alone without ANY partners  and to Call Him alone and no one else beside for prayer.. Abraham taught the same. Moses, Jesus, Muhammad and all the Prophets (peace be upon them all)   All the supplications we are taught through Holy Quran and Hadeeth are 'Allahumma' or Rabbana' meaning O Allah, or O my Lord.

At all times, people go into extreme to honor pious people. Yes, we must honor whom Allah has honored.but not through showing any forms of worship to them. We must respect them by following their ways.

For example some one calls Ali (r.a) for help beside Allah. We must see what for has Ali (r.a) striven all his life.  They all strived to preserve that oneness of Islam which is not in any other faith. So is one who calls them honoring their teaching or going against them.

So we must all keep striving in the path of Allah to imprint the greatness of Allah in our hearts. Then we won't seek anyone beside Him once Thauheed enters our hearts.  

Recently I heard Yusuf Estes, a revert to Islam like you. He was asked what type of Muslim are you..meaning, wahhabi, sunni, salafi etc. He finally replied ' I am a Christian Muslim'. So let's be Muslims upon the Thauheed of Allah (.s.w.t) in the way of our beloved Messenger (pbuh).

Answer 7

you are a true sunni muslim! like me! and you are right, people are not meant to worship or pray to Muhammad as that is shirk, its seen as idolatry, if this was the face then Islam would not be called Islam, it would be called Muhammadism, I hope this makes things a bit more clearer to you, you see Im a Religious Studies student and I've studied this lol

Hope this helps!

Much love x*x

Answer 8

no sis it doesn't make u a wahabi..its just ignorant people who call u this..it makes u a true muslim and mu'min and u have also become a stranger, and the prophet PBUH said to give glad tidings to the strangers so alhamdulillah.

Answer 9

That is very nice to hear.

Some people think Islam is what your parents teach you and parents and culture can never be wrong.

I agree with Abu Haartih.

Answer 10

The answer is YES and No.

that is you are a sunni, but not a madhabi. A sunni -madhabi- is the one who is following one of the four sunni school of thought.If you are not strict to one particular madhab then that school of thought then that is From ibn taymiyyah and his students including muhammed ibn abdul wahhab.

I will say you are a sunni muslim.

when most madhabite sunnis doing tawassul istighaza etc and considering it is not shirk, many those following madhabs also not agreed to these acts. So called wahhabi/salafi not following a particular madhab they claim they follow authentic hadeethes.

shiites and other tareeqats following ahlubait.Shiites 12er/jaafriyya saying all 12 imams appointed and guided by Allah.

Answer 11

No, not what you've mentioned. It makes you correct.

Answer 12

But so do all Muslims. When you tell us about something specifically wahabi then we shall say you are following some of the beliefs of the wahabi cult.

Your understanding of "Godly attributes" may be flawed. Wahabis attribute very human attributes to God like saying he becomes limited when he has a hand or can shrink himself to fly on the back of a fly (Ibn Taymiyyah (LA)) wal 'iyadhu billah!

You might just be brainwashed with a slightly more radical understanding of Islam... stay on the middle path, the conservative reasonable path and stay away from extremism and judgementalism.

Answer 13

Nope this makes you a true Muslim. One who submits himself to Allaah(swt) This the manhaj of the Anbiya the methodology of the Prophets. InshaAllaah stick to it and do not waver. Do not worry of what others think of you they can never harm you by Allaah's will.

This path requires a lot of patience and forgiveness. Forgive those who call you names they are only harming themselves.

May God be with you my dear sister.

Answer 14

In the Hadith of Kisa, transmitted from Fatima Zahra (sa) through a chain involving Jabir bin Abdullah Ansari, Allah swears that He created the erected Sky, the expanse of the Earth, the illuminated Moon (illuminated by the brightness of the Sun), the bright Sun, the rotating Universe, the flowing seas and the sailing ships (the winds and the tides) for the love of the Mine of Prophethood and his household - his daughter Fatima (sa), her husband Ali (as) and her sons Hasan (as) and Husain (as).

This Hadith was transmitted on the occasion of the revelation of the Verse of Purity, 33:33, which grammatically excludes the wives of the Holy Prophet,

"Verily Allah desires to remove all impurity (rijs) from you (O people of the Household), and purify you with a perfect purification."

What Allah desires surely happens. The great Sunni commentator Al-Suyuti, quoting Sahih Al Tirmidhi, in Tafsir Al-Durr Al-Manthur, Vol.5 pages 605-606, under the commentary of this Verse, writes that then the Messenger of Allah said "Thus me and my Ahl-ul-Bait are clear from sins." This purity makes Ahl-ul-Bait fit for the honour of Imamat, to be Allah's Khalifas on Earth, promised only to those who, being pure, believe and do good actions as stated in Sura Noor, verse 55.

It is of Ahl-ul-Bait that Allah says in 4:59,

"O ye who believe! Obey Allah and obey the Apostle and those vested with authority from among you."

The renowned Sunni commentator Fakhr-ud-Din Razi concludes in Tafsiru'l Kabir, Vol. 10, page 144, that those in authority in this verse must be ma'sum or infallible. The verse of purity makes Ahl-ul-Bait infallible. They are the Khalifas of Allah, as testified by the Holy Prophet (saws)

" I am leaving among you two khalifas, the Qur'an and my Ahl-ul-bait, they will never become separate until they meet me at the pool."

Hadith-e-Thaqalayn, the Two Weighty Things, as recorded by Al Suyuti in Tafsir Durre Manthur, Vol. 2, page 60.

Even the distorting magnifying glass of the most bigoted Sunni traditionists have deemed that the reference to the Qur'an and Ahl-ul-Bait as the sources of guidance after the Holy Prophet (saws) and proclaimed as such by him is mutawattir or undeniable by the Sunni schools, as is the Hadith of Ghadhir wherein Ali (as) was declared the Mawla of the believers by the Holy Prophet. Thus even by the rules of the toughest muhadhithin, amongst the stingy number of just over 30 Hadith that they classify as mutawattir, two refer to Ahl-ul-Bait in a capacity of extreme love and as sources of guidance, despite the fact that these muhadhithin are not those who take their traditions from Ahl-ul-Bait to any great extent and follow instead the khalifas appointed by man.

Yet it was a repeating tragedy in the lives of many Khalifas of Allah, and even the Holy Prophet and his wasi Imam Ali (as), that they were betrayed and persecuted. Their patience in the face of injustice is marvelled at, and it is patience with which Allah tests the best of his slaves with, and makes them His Khalifas on Earth, His Imams and His Guides. As quoted earlier on, in 32:20 Allah states that patience is a requirement for the covenant of Imamat. And here in Al Baqara, verses 155-156 we learn that those who show great patience are the Guides,

"I will certainly test you with fear of enemies, deprivation of food and water, loss of possessions, loss of your life, and loss of your children. O prophet give good tidings to those who have (such) patience. They are those who say (when afflicted as such) from Allah we come and to Allah we return. And they have blessings from their Lord, and His Mercy upon them, and these are the guides."

There is no doubt that these criteria for the testing of a man's patience were met on the battlefield of Karbala when Imam Husain (as), starved of water and material possessions, offered his sons in sacrifice before Allah. Thus there are some who reject the Khalifas of Allah who will therefore translate the last sentence of this ayat to make it appear that Allah is saying those who have been tested thus will then be guided to the right path, when of course the fact is that the ayat makes it clear they were on the right path already for they turned to Allah in their patience, and were thus rewarded by being made the guides, the Imams, the Khalifas of Allah, to guide others.

This was the sacrifice of Ibrahim (as) in offering his son Ishmael (as) and whereby according to whence he became the Imam of his Time according to Al Baqara, verse 124, and the Khalifatullah and ruler of mankind. This was the patience of Imam Ali (as), and of Fatima (sa) in their suffering from the usurpation of their rights by the early khalifas of men.

Answer 15

Leave people alone mate!!

You're a Muslim, nothing more!!!

Listen, my grandmother claims to be a 'peer' (people come to her and ask her to pray for them because Allah will listen to her prayer more. No Prophet should have godly attributes. Allah mentions that in the Qur'an too.

Yeah right! Allah listens if you're a good Muslim. We shouldn't worship saints.

Yeah, Allah says that martyrs are still alive, BUT he doesn't say we should worship them!! Sufi's and saints actually have pantheistic beliefs (I have this on really good authority) and believe they are part of the creator and that the creator is part of them. NAUDHBILLAH.

And to be clear, I follow exactly what you do. I'm not into this mumbo jumbo my uncle and grandmother spout. We follow sunnah, and that makes us SUNNI. And lastly, we're nothing but Muslim

Answer 16

No, that makes u a Muslim.

Answer 17

You are a true muslim sister, what they do , they are called Brelvies and shia's.

Answer 18

NOOOO! WElcome Sister, Alhamdulillah you seem to be on the right path, so not let what others say to you effect you, time to time we all get comments as such! Continue striving.  

Answer 19

Al Humdulillah. It makes you Muslim. and that is all you should be.

Shaytan will try to call you and do many other things in sneaky ways to confuse you and try to change your way of thinking. Humdulillah all our answers are in our Holy Quran. If you stick with that you will never be anything else but Muslim.

Al Humdulillah

Answer 20

you are Muslim!

congratulations! lol

Answer 21

No, but loving Muawiya or Yazid, does make you a hypocrite.

Answer 22

Amazingly some of the answerers here are trying to promote shirk and justify it. Some of the Rawaafidh Shee'ah quoted Fakhur ud deen ar-Raazee and stated he was sunni whilst he was from the Falaasifa and the Da'eef narratives recorded by as-Suyootee. This is what happens when you blindly take from the internet sites without researching and verifying.

Then they say to go THROUGH Muhammad Salallaahu alaihi wa salam to reach Allaah. What difference is that from the Mushrikeen who worshiped the idols to get through to Allaah? Did not the Mushrikeen of the Quraysh say that? O Rawaafidh, read Surah Yunus!  

Answer 23

No it does not make you a Wahhabi sister.  It makes you an intelligent human being who sees logic and reason and refuses to attach labels to themselves other than 'Muslim', one who submits.

It is all the others who need to question their beleifs and themselves.

Peace sister.