{
 "id": "concept/tawassul",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "tawassul",
 "label": {
  "ar": "التوسل",
  "en": "Tawassul",
  "ur": "توسل"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "التوسل جعل الوسيلة في الدعاء؛ تفصّل الموسوعة الفقهية الكويتية أنواعه: التوسل بأسماء الله وصفاته، وبالإيمان والأعمال الصالحة، وبالنبي في الحياة ويوم القيامة، وخلاف العلماء في التوسل به بعد وفاته {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3}.",
  "en": "Tawassul is making a means in supplication; the Kuwaiti Fiqh Encyclopedia details its kinds — through God's names and attributes, through faith and righteous works, and through the Prophet in life and on Judgment Day — and the scholars' disagreement over tawassul through him after his death {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "worship-and-the-pillars"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "term",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q1278308"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
  ],
  "perspectives": [
   {
    "tradition": "sunni",
    "id": "sunni-view",
    "stance": {
     "ar": "يجيز الفقه التوسل بأسماء الله وصفاته وبالأعمال الصالحة، ويختلف العلماء في التوسل بالنبي بعد وفاته على أقوال ثلاثة"
    },
    "summary": {
     "ar": "تفصّل الموسوعة أنواع التوسل الجائزة وتسجّل الأقوال الثلاثة في التوسل بالنبي بعد وفاته {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3}"
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
    ]
   },
   {
    "tradition": "academic",
    "id": "academic-view",
    "stance": {
     "en": "Tawassul sits between supplication practice and intercession doctrine"
    },
    "summary": {
     "en": "The dispute over posthumous tawassul is medieval and continuing, recorded by the encyclopedia as three qawl {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3}"
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "wikidata-import deferred Q1278308; Kuwaiti enc tawassul sections verified in OCR (lines 24987-24999, three qawl on posthumous tawassul)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)",
   "run": "wd-deferred-14"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "التوسل جعل الوسيلة في الدعاء. تفصّل الموسوعة الفقهية الكويتية أنواعه: التوسل بأسماء الله وصفاته، وبالإيمان والأعمال الصالحة، وبالنبي في الحياة الدنيا ويوم القيامة؛ وتسجّل ثلاثة أقوال للعلماء في التوسل به بعد وفاته {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/tawassul",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Tawassul is making a means in supplication. The Kuwaiti Fiqh Encyclopedia details its kinds — through God's names and attributes, through faith and righteous works, and through the Prophet in this life and on Judgment Day — and records three scholarly opinions on tawassul through him after his death {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/tawassul",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "توسل دعا میں وسیلہ بنانے کا نام ہے۔ کویتی فقہی انسائیکلوپیڈیا اس کی اقسام بیان کرتی ہے: اسماء و صفات سے توسل، ایمان و اعمال صالحہ سے، اور نبی سے دنیا کی زندگی اور روز قیامت میں؛ اور وفات کے بعد توسل میں علما کے تین اقوال محفوظ ہیں {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/tawassul",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-22",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/abandoning-prayer-takfir",
  "concept/ada",
  "concept/adhan-fiqh",
  "concept/adhm",
  "concept/adornment-of-desires",
  "concept/ahl-al-suffa",
  "concept/al-ard-masjid-wa-tahur",
  "concept/al-infaq-fi-sabil-allah"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}