Rasa – Hujjat al-Islam Vaez-Shahidi‎ spoke about tawassul and said, “We don’t consider the ‎intercession of Imam as a act which is independent of his domain but ‎rather, we’re aware ‎that the permission of the Lord to intercede and heal was given as a ‎result of their to the ‎Lord.”‎‏"

Rasa – The former Grand Mufti of Egypt has stressed that appealing to God is worship and appealing to the Prophet Muhammad and Ahlul-Bayt is not a form of shirk or an innovation.