Quran 1:5 – Seeking Only Allah's Help
Haris sahab Quran verse 2:153 is asking to seek help from salat and steadfastness (sabr) when the opposition creates hurdles in your way. It has nothing to do with “others”.
In اياك نستعين there is a مفعول به مقدم. This means that it should be translated with تخصيص which is what most translators have done. Seeking help through salah is in fact seeking help from God. And seeking help from sabr is the same since it is a God ordained action- so we asked God how to get help and he told us this way. The question remains though, the ayah in fatiha seems to indicate that we shouldn’t ask help from anyone other than God. But if course this would be absurd since the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم would’ve asked help from sahabah. So what in the wording eliminates the physical realm?