A Critique of Mostafa Bayani’s Exegetical Arguments against Making Recourse to the Prayers of Prophets and Saints

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1 PhD student, Quran and Hadith Sciences, Islamic Azad University, College of Sciences and Research, Tabriz, Iran

2 Assistant professor, Department of Theology, Faculty of Law, Theology, and Political Science, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

3 professor, Department of Theology, Faculty of Law, Theology, and Political Science, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

Abstract

The Salafist Quranist movement draws upon certain theological perspectives of Salafism to challenge some doctrinal foundations of Shiism. Many members, including Mostafa Hosseini Tabatabai, the author of the Quranic exegesis Bayān-i maʿānī dar kalām-i rabbānī, reject the doctrine of intercession (shifāʿa), despite Quranic verses indicating the practice of seeking the prayers of prophets. They argue that prophets cannot hear our prayers after death, suggesting these verses are limited to their lifetime. This argument is analyzed through the lens of Quranic evidence and hadiths using a descriptive-analytic method. Contrary to these claims, it is concluded that the verses on intercession are not restricted to the prophets' lifetimes. Both Quranic verses and reliable hadiths affirm the efficacy of seeking saints' prayers for forgiveness and indicate that the deceased can hear our prayers.

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