This is a letter from `Abdul `Aziz Bin `Abdullah Ibn Baz to the honored Sheikhs and the highly revered persons of AlQarzat family; Sheikh `Abbud ibn Sa`id, Sheikh Salim Ibn Sa`id, Sheikh Salim Bahumayd and Sheikh `Abbud Ibn Muhammad AlDalakh. May Allah help them attain His pleasure and set right this life and the Hereafter for us all!
May Allah's Peace, Mercy, and Blessings be upon you! I was informed that Sa`id ibn Mubarak AlQurzy was put in jail by you due to his call to Islam and warning against worshipping Awliya' (pious people), seeking help from them, and making vows for their sake. Also, due to his call to destroy domes built on tombs lest they should result in false beliefs in the dead or extreme veneration of them.
And your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him.
And they were commanded not, but that they should worship Allâh, and worship none but Him Alone (abstaining from ascribing partners to Him)
Such is Allâh, your Lord; His is the kingdom. And those, whom you invoke or call upon instead of Him, own not even a Qitmîr (the thin membrane over the datestone).
And who is more astray than one who calls on (invokes) besides Allâh, such as will not answer him till the Day of Resurrection, and who are (even) unaware of their calls (invocations) to them? And when mankind are gathered (on the Day of Resurrection), they (false deities) will become their enemies and will deny their worshipping.
Say (O Muhammad ﺻﻠﻰ ﺍﷲ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻭﺳـﻠﻢ): "Verily, my Salât (prayer), my sacrifice, my living, and my dying are for Allâh, the Lord of the 'Alamîn (mankind, jinn and all that exists). He has no partner. And of this I have been commanded, and I am the first of the Muslims."
The right of Allah on His servants is that they worship Him and not associate anything with Him, and the servant's right on Allah is that He shall never torture one who does not associate others with Him.
Allah curses the Jews and the Christians for they took the graves of their Prophets as places for worship.
Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) forbade plastering graves, sitting on them, and building on them.
Verily, Allâh will help those who help His (Cause). Truly, Allâh is AllStrong, AllMighty. Those (Muslim rulers) who, if We give them power in the land, (they) enjoin IqamatasSalât [i.e. to perform the five compulsory congregational Salât (prayers) (the males in mosques)], to pay the Zakât and they enjoin AlMa'rûf (i.e. Islâmic Monotheism and all that Islâm orders one to do), and forbid Al Munkar (i.e. disbelief, polytheism and all that Islâm has forbidden) [i.e. they make the Qur'ân as the law of their country in all the spheres of life]. And with Allâh rests the end of (all) matters (of creatures).
Whosoever of you sees an evil action, let him change it with his hand. If he does not have strength enough for that, then with his tongue. But if he is not able to do so, then with his heart and that is the least of faith.