Asking One’s Needs from a Saint or Deceased Person

Some other acts of kufr and shir’k are:

1. To believe that when one calls a certain person (who is not present, such as a Buzrug in another country, or some deceased person) then that person hears one’s call.
2. To believe that some person (a Buzrug and saintly person) has control over benefit and harm. (In other words, the person can benefit and harm whomever and whenever he wishes.)
3. To ask someone for one’s needs (instead of asking Allah Ta’ala, thinking that that person can fulfil whatever wish and need one has).
4. To ask someone (some peer or guru or dead saint) for sustenance and children.

(Behshti Zewar)