In the name of Allah
Eurasian: in Southern Philippines is a shrine called Fort Pillar and Muslims and Catholics have been visiting the Shrine, lighting candles, paying their respect to Maryam for some 400 years now!!!. Can you imagine that? 400 years!!! There wasn’t even a United States yet!!!
**Jermin Savory: **Eurasian, Muslims don’t do idol worship. If the specific group of people are worshiping this shrine and doing all that you’ve said, they are not Muslims. I’m a muslim and trust me, I know what we can and cannot do. Therefore I can’t imagine that.
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Eurasian:** He said Blessed Virgin Mary, please forgive me. I am just a poor spanish sentinel trying to do my duty.
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Jermin Savory:** I’m affraid the person you are describing to be a “Muslim” is not a Muslim. Muslims recognize that there is no other gods besides the One true Creator in which he would turn to for forgivness. Muslims don’t ask anyone besides Allah for forgivness, therefore this “fisherman” is not a Muslim.
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Eurasian:** Muslim fishermen say that in tidalwaves, they sometimes see a woman on top of the waves carrying a child. Then they know that she is protecting them.
Jermin Savory: Perhaps you can give me a link to this story, then we can go more into details. But to the point, There is no other being in which muslims should turn to for protection other that Allah.
Allah says in the Qur’an, in Surah Baqarah 2:255
“Allah is He besides Whom there is no god, the Everliving, the Self-subsisting by Whom all subsist; slumber does not overtake Him nor sleep; whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is His; who is he that can intercede with Him but by His permission? He knows what is before them and what is behind them, and they cannot comprehend anything out of His knowledge except what He pleases, His knowledge extends over the heavens and the earth, and the preservation of them both tires Him not, and He is the Most High, the Great.”