  Shaykh Ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked:
Is it  Shirk if someone says in any place on earth, Ya Muhammad Ya
Rasool-Allaah (Peace be upon him), calling him?
He replied:
Allaah has stated in His Holy Book and on the lips of His Messenger (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) that worship is the right of Allaah alone and
no one else has any share of it, and that du’aa’ is a kind of worship, so if a
person says in any place on earth, Ya Rasool-Allaah, Ya Nabi Allaah or Ya
Muhammad (Peace be upon him), help me, or save me, or support me, or heal me, or
support your Ummah, or heal the sick Muslims, and guide their misguided ones and
so on, then he is making him a partner with Allaah in worship. The same applies
to those who do the same thing with regard to other Prophets, angels, awliya’
(”saints), Jinn, idols or any other created beings, because Allaah says
(interpretation of the meaning):
“And I (Allaah) created not the jinn and mankind except that they should worship
Me (Alone)” (al-Dhaariyaat
51:56)
“O mankind! Worship your Lord (Allaah), Who created you and those who were
before you so that you may become Al-Muttaqoon (the pious)” (al-Baqarah
2:21)
End quote from Majmoo’ Fataawa
al-Shaykh Ibn Baaz (2/453).
Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) was
asked:
Some people at times of hardship say Ya Muhammad or Ya ‘Ali or Ya Jilaani.
What is the ruling on that?
He replied:
If the intention is to call upon them and seek their help, then the person is a
Mushrik in the sense of major shirk that puts one beyond the pale of Islam, and
he must repent to Allaah and call upon Allaah alone, as Allaah says
(interpretation of the meaning):
“Is not He (better than your gods) Who responds to the distressed one, when he
calls on Him, and Who removes the evil, and makes you inheritors of the earth,
generations after generations? Is there any ilaah (god) with Allaah? Little is
that you remember!” (al-Naml
27:62)
As well as being a mushrik, he is also fooling himself. Allaah says
(interpretation of the meaning):
“And who turns away from the religion of Ibraaheem (Abraham) (i.e. Islamic
Monotheism) except him who befools himself?” (al-Baqarah
2:130)
“And who is more astray than one who calls on (invokes) besides Allaah, such as
will not answer him till the Day of Resurrection, and who are (even) unaware of
their calls (invocations) to them?” (al-Ahqaaf
46:5)
End quote from Fataawa
al-Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (2/133).
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