Performing Hajj on Behalf of a Deceased Person ???

Making the Hajj for a deceased person is the subject of great confusion and lack of understanding on the part of many Muslims, including many Imaams. There is widespread faulty understanding that we can perform the Hajj on behalf of any Muslim who has died without fulfilling the great I'badaah of Hajj, which is one of the five pillars of Islam. Allah says:
"And Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah) to the House (Ka’bah) is a duty that mankind owes to Allah, those who can afford the expenses (for one’s conveyance, provision and residence)…." [3:97]

Furthermore, when the Prophet (saws) was asked by the angel Jibreel to explain Islam, he answered: “Islam is that you should testify that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad is His Messenger, that you should perform Salaah, pay the Zakaah, fast during Ramadaan, and perform Hajj to the House (the Ka`bah at Makkah), if you can find a way to it (or find the means for making the journey to it)." [Bukhari and Muslim]

The above verse and hadith clearly state that the Hajj is an obligation upon those who are able to perform it, in terms of possessing the necessary health and wealth to do so. Therefore, it is not an obligation upon those who do not have the means to perform it.

Ijma on kuffr of insulting the Prophet (saws) !!!

 

This scholar praises the early Ottomans whilst mentioning a personal incident, and cites an Ottoman scholar who narrates Ijmā’ on kuffr of insulting the Rasūl (saws), and how they reconciled between the two opinions on accepting his tawbah. 

The Muftī of Shām, Shaykh al-‘Allāmah ‘Alī Ibn Muhammad al-Murādī (Died 1184AH) mentioned in his short treatise “Aqwāl al-A’immah al-‘Ālinah Fī Ahkām ad-Durūz wat-Tayāminah” (pp. 45-48): 

❝During the year 1159AH, when the governor of Shām at the time who was As’ad Pāsha went to face them (i.e. the Drūze), I went out with him with the niyyah (intention) of Jihād.

And his army pillaged one of their villages, and grabbed one of their books on creed, so As’ad Pāsha gave it to me, and I found everything mentioned about their filthy ‘Aqīdah which we have stated from what’s noted down in it.

And perhaps the one who mercy has befallen, al-Khayr ar-Ramlī didn’t stumble upon their books, and that’s why he said, “If what is mentioned about them (i.e. the Drūze) is authentically confirmed.”

What’s correct is that they insult the Prophet (saws). As for the ruling on insulting the Prophet (saws), the extremely skillful scholar famously known as Hassām Jalabī from the great scholars of the State of Sultān Salīm Khān, the son of Sultān Bāyazīd Khān the Ottoman, may Allāh aid their State until judgement day, has stated in a concise risālah which he authored in response to the “Bazzāziyyah” concerning the ruling on this matter:
“What you must know is that insulting the Prophet (saws) is kuffr and apostasy, since it negates glorifying him and believing in him, and this is authentically confirmed with Qat’ī (clear-cut) evidences whereby there’s no misconception pertaining it. 

Umar ibn Abd-al-Aziz got a letter from leader of the Romans...

I want to make a peace treaty on the borders and I pay you jiziyah !

The leader, the empire of the Romans: I will make a treaty to ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd-al-’Azīz and he is saying: “I pay you jiziya”. Jiziyah is the taxes the non-Muslims pay. ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd-al-’Azīz said: “great, that’s great. We don’t got an army and we got income coming from them, and we protect them if they need our protection cause they’re getting weaker.” And he sends a messenger and that contained some letters and documentation that they need to agree upon, and that messenger went into the land of the Romans and as they were all greeting that messenger, his eyes [the eyes of the messenger] fell on something astonishing; and it was a man walking around in circles like a donkey. His eyes popped out, and he got up close to him. When he got close to him, he heard him – in the land of the Romans it’s rare, cause Muslims didn’t live among the kuffār back then – he says: ‘lā ilāha ilā Allāh, SubhānAllāh’ and he is walking like a donkey! And every time he rests, someone with a whip, whips him. So, he left all these people waiting “who is the messenger of ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd-al-’Azīz” who want to greet him and welcome him, he left all that aside and he headed towards the man, who was like a donkey in a stew on his hands and knees and every time he slows down, they whip him. So, he says, you know, he walked up and he said: ‘lā ilāha ilā Allāh, Alhamdulillāh, SubhanAllāh’. He said: “Assalāmu ‘alaykūm, a Muslim in the land of the Romans?” The one who’s on his hands and knees said: “a Muslim in the land of the Romans?” “Wa ‘alaykumu salām warahmatu Allāh wabarakātuh” he said: “yes, I’m the messenger of ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd-al-’Azīz, what are you doing like this?” He said: “I have a story. The story is; I’m related to the Empire of the Romans. And I heard about Islām and when I heard about Islām I said: أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وأشهد أن محمد رسول الله. The empire told me: ‘I give you my daughter to marry her and you have half of my wealth. And it goes back to your descendants – he’s a relative, cousin or something of the empire – you take my daughter to marry her and half of my wealth, but I can’t have someone in my family embracing Islām! It’s a big thing.’” He said: “no. That’s choice A”. Choice B: “we’re going to pop your eyes out, and we’re going to make you like a donkey and stew you your entire life until you die” and I said: “I take B.”

Srebrenica Massacre - Remembering KEY Lessons !

Srebrenica Massacre slaying of 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) boys and men, perpetrated by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica, a town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, 30,00 Muslim women were raped by the Bisnisn Serb army under the watch of the United Nations.

Key Lessons for Muslims From Remembering Srebrenica !

Prelude to the Genocide:

Bosnia had been part of the Uthmani Khilafah until 1878, when it was occupied by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After the First World War, it was united with other Slavic territories to form Yugoslavia. In 1980, after the death of Yugoslavia’s President Tito, the country quickly plunged into political and economic turmoil. Slobodan Milosevic, a former Communist used nationalism and religious hatred as a political tool to gather support and became President in 1989.

In the spring of 1992, Bosnian Serb troops launched a hurricane of violence in pursuit of Milosevic’s vision of a “Greater Serbia”, after Bosnia voted for independence from the disintegrating Yugoslavia. An arms embargo which was imposed earlier on all of former Yugoslavia (i.e.: Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia) by the United Nations, due to the violence in the Croatian territory, provided a military advantage to the Serbs as they were not disarmed by the UN.

The War in Bosnia:

Throughout 1993, confident that the UN, the United States and the European Community would not take militarily action, Serbs in Bosnia freely massacred the Muslims. Emboldened by Milosevic’s campaign of terror against the Muslims and the Western powers’ consistent denial that “genocide” had taken place. They adopted the term “ethnic cleansing” instead of “genocide”, to hide the reality of the horrors that were being perpetrated in Bosnia.

Al-Khansaa - Poetess and Mother of Martyrs !

According to the connoisseurs of Arabic poetry, there has never been a woman whose poetry was as replete with knowledge, or who was more knowledgeable  than Al-Khansaa' (ra). The Prophet (saws) used to ask her to recite her poetry, which he admired, in front of him.  She composed a great deal of poetry, and the most eloquent of her poetry were odes in lamentation of her two brothers, Sakhr and Mu‘awiyah, who were killed during the pre-Islamic era.

She spent the greatest part of her lifetime during the pre-Islamic days, and when Islam appeared, she embraced it and went to the Messenger of Allah (saws) as a member of the delegate of her tribe, Banu Sulaym.

She was recognized for her deep faith in Allah and His Messenger (saws) and her zeal for Jihad in the cause of supporting the truth. She attended the Battle of Qadisiyyah in 16 AH, in the company of her four sons. During the first part of the night, she said to them:

"O my sons! You have embraced Islam willingly and emigrated freely. By Allah, other than Whom there is none worthy of worship, you are the sons of one man and one woman. I have never betrayed your father nor have I disgraced your maternal uncle, nor have I dishonored your noble lineage, nor have I tampered with your parentage. You indeed know the abundant reward prepared by Allah for the Muslims. It should be known to you that the everlasting abode is better than the perishable abode. Allah says: "O you who have believed, persevere and endure and remain stationed and fear Allah that you may be successful." [3:200]

Should tomorrow morning come upon you while you are safe, Allah willing, go early to fight your enemy with courage, and seek the support of Allah against His enemies. When the battle becomes fierce, betake yourselves amidst it and be eager to fight bravely when the army is engaged in combat, perchance you receive gain and honor in the abode of eternity.”

Kashf ash-Shubuhat fit-Tawhid, PART-18

So, today we’ll finish the third part of the book and there’s four parts of the book as we said. So, this third part as we talked about last time, as we said is the specific evidences that the mushrikin use to try to justify performing shirk with Allah.

So, the next thing that the author says, he says,
“And those who justify shirk have yet another evidence. Which is the fact that the Prophet (saws) mentioned that on the Day of Resurrection, people will come and seek help from Adam and then from Nuh, then Ibrahim, then Musa, then ‘Isa (as) and all of them will give some type of excuse, until they finally reach the Prophet (saws).”

So, here, he’s referring to the hadith of the Shafa’a on the Day of Resurrection in which the people will go to the Prophets, seeking for them or seeking from them to ask Allah to begin the judgement, so that they can be relieved from waiting and standing in the hardships of that day. So, he mentions this hadith, then he says, or he refers to the hadith and he says,
“And they say, “That this is clear evidence that seeking help from other than Allah is not considered shirk.”

So, meaning that the fact that they go to these people and ask for their help, this shows that it wouldn’t be shirk, because how could I be approved of and how could the Prophet (saws) tell us that this would take place, and there’s no mention of it being shirk or anything like that. So, the author continues, and he says,
“The response to this is to say, “Subhan’Allah, the One who has sealed the heart of His enemies. For we ourselves don’t deny the legality of seeking help from a created object, in matter that it is capable of.”

Allah says in the verse in Surat Qasas that Allah spoke about Musa and,
“So, the one who was from his tribe [meaning the tribe of Musa] sought help from him against his enemy.” [28:15]

So, this goes to the story where Musa came to the city and saw two people fighting with each other, one was from his tribe, and one wasn’t, then Musa helped the one that was from his tribe. So, the author here is showing that, Allah mentioned Isthigatha from Musa from this person. And then says,
“And the person in battle, or any other situation seeks help from another, in matters that he could do and are not supernatural and beyond the normal capabilities of man. But, we do object to the supernatural help that is sought. The religion seeking of help that is done at the graves of the righteous, or in their absence concerning matters that none except Allah has the power to do. Once this is understood, then realise that the help that is sought from the Prophets on the Day Judgement, is that they want from them to pray to Allah to hasten the reckoning, so that the people of Paradise can be relieved from agonies of that Day. This type of asking is allowed in this world and in the Hereafter.”

Obligation of Shari'ah Compliance !

We are living in a time in which a large percentage of Muslims perhaps a majority are unaware of the actual existence of an Islamic law, the Shari'ah, that goes beyond the established worship of Islam, the five pillars. When such Muslims are presented with even the idea that Islamic law that goes beyond the established worships, they display an unwillingness to accept such an idea, in various forms. Many go as far as thinking of Islamic law beyond the five pillars as strange, and even un-Islamic. To them, it is as though Islamic law beyond the five pillars is a new religion. This is what The Prophet Muhammad (saws) prophesized when he (saws) said:
“Islam started as a strange religion, and it will one day (in the future) return to be a strange religion, as when it first started…” [Sahih Muslim]

One of the most prevalent or popular forms of rejection of Islamic law which deals with all aspects of human life is to label it something other than Islam, or “their version of Islam.”  Some call it "Wahhabism", while others call it "Fundamentalism", or "Salafism" or "Extremism" as opposed to a “Moderate” or “Liberal” version of Islam. Interestingly enough, most of these labels are made in the West, and especially the Western media. They are not terms found in Islamic terminology, although many Muslims have translated such terms into Arabic, or adopted by the secular Arab media as part of the Arabic language.

The “Wahhabism” label is especially interesting, in that Muslims themselves readily adopted it from the British colonialists, and frequently use it to label other Muslims who have a more comprehensive understanding and application of Islam and Islamic law. By the way, it is important to mention that there are no Muslims who actually call or label themselves Wahhabis! However, there are Muslims who call themselves other names before they actually use the term “Muslim” to identify themselves with Islam. For example, some call themselves Hanafi Muslims, and others call themselves Shia’a without even referring to the word Islam or Muslim. Infact in the United Arab Emirates people are using the term Imarati Muslim (Muslim from the Emirates). Given this current state of the Muslims, one cannot help but think about one particular tradition, in which the Prophet (saws) said:
"I swear by the One Whose Hand is the soul of Muhammad, my nation will split into seventy-three sects, one of which will be in Paradise and seventy-two in Hell.” It was said: “O Messenger of Allah, who are they?” He said: “The main body.” [Sunan Ibn Majah - Sahih]
 

Context for the unrestricted Takfeer on 3rd Nullifier !

What was the context for the unrestricted Takfeer on 3rd Nullifier? Here’s another example;

Imām Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdil-Wahhāb (Died 1208AH) mentioned in “Ad-Durar as-Saniyyah” (8/117-119):
❝The 6th situation: The apostasy incident after the Prophet’s (saws) death. Whoever has heard about it, yet an atom weight of doubt remains with him from the Shayātīn who are called ‘Ulamā’, which is their statement that this is “shirk”, however they say Lā ilāha ilā Allāh, and whoever says this isn’t to be made Takfeer upon for whatever he does.

And even greater than this and more tremendous, is their acknowledgement that the bedouins don’t act upon any of the symbols of Islām, however they say Lā ilāha ilā Allāh, and due to this statement, they are part of Islām, and Islām has declared their wealth and blood unlawful (to take), despite them admitting they abandoned everything of Islām, while these (devils) know that they deny the Ba’th (resurrection), and mocking whoever affirms it, and making fun of the legal rulings, and giving precedence to the Dīn of their fathers which contradicts the Dīn of the Prophet (saws).

Despite all this, these ignorant most wicked Shayātīn claim that the bediouns are upon Islām, even if all these (nullifiers) occurred with them, since they say Lā ilāha ilā Allāh.

Islamophobia or Punishment ???

Islamophobia is a punishment from Allah on the hypocrites who want to show the kuffaar they are no different from anyone else, and Allah has commanded us (Muslims) to be different.

وَلَا تَكُونُوا كَالَّذِينَ تَفَرَّقُوا وَاخْتَلَفُوا مِن بَعْدِ مَا جَاءَهُمُ الْبَيِّنَاتُ ۚ وَأُولَٰئِكَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ
"And do not be like the ones who became divided and differed after the clear proofs had come to them. And those will have a great punishment." [3:105]

وَلَا تَكُونُوا كَالَّذِينَ نَسُوا اللَّهَ فَأَنسَاهُمْ أَنفُسَهُمْ ۚ أُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ
"And be not like those who forgot Allah (i.e. became disobedient to Allah) and He caused them to forget their ownselves, (let them to forget to do righteous deeds). Those are the Fasiqun (rebellious, disobedient to Allah)." [59:19]

The Prophet Muhammad (saws) said:
خَالِفُوا الْمُشْرِكِينَ
"Be different from the mushrikeen (those who associate other deities with Allah, like the Christians, the Jews, etc.)" [Bukhari and Muslim]

مَنْ تَشَبَّهَ بِقَوْمٍ, فَهُوَ مِنْهُمْ
"He who imitates any people (in their actions) is considered to be one of them." [Abu Dawood - Sahih]

Beware of Mocking the Matters of the Deen !

Background of the story: 

In the famous book Asbāb An-Nuzūl by Wāhidi, let me give you the background of the story. The Prophet (saws) was heading to Tabūk to fight and on the way there they camped. So there was the close knit with the Prophet (saws) who camped with the Prophet and another group who were further away who camped by themselves. Here is how the story unfolds. Ibn Umar (ra) narrates what happened. He said: during the Battle of Tabūk, a man in the other camp [the second camp] said: "We have not seen like these reciters of the Qur’ān, you see those guys who recite the Qur’ān." 

ما رأينا مثل قرائنا هؤلاء، أرغب بطونا
They like to fill their bellies with food, greedy bellies:

أرغب بطونا
ولا أكذب ألسنا
Their tongues are lying tongues. Big bellies and untruthful tongues, they are mocking reciters of the Qur’ān.

ولا أجبن عند اللقاء
And they are the most cowardly when the combat happens. Basically they eat a lot, they lie and they are cowards. They are talking about reciters of the Qur’ān, mocking them and joking around.

فقال رجل في المجلس : كذبت، ولكنك منافق
A man sitting with them said: "you are a liar, you are a hypocrite". Based on what he heard from him, he said: "you are a hypocrite", and the Prophet (saws) never denounced this man for calling him a hypocrite.

لأخبرن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
I am going to go tell the Prophet Muhammad (saws).

Discussing the topic of Muhammad Mursi !!!

Since apparently almost everyone seems to be calling Muhammad Mursi a Shaheed (Martyr) ! We request all to Insha'Allah read thoroughly !

Shaykh Sulayman al-‘Alwan (may Allah hasten his release) and some brothers discussing the topic of Muhammad Mursi and Egypt.

This took place during the time that Mursi was the president of Egypt and some parts of it may also be from before he was elected. Because from what I understood, is that this discussion about Mursi and Egypt is actually recorded from different occasions and somebody put them together later on.

And Allah knows best.
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Shaykh al-'Alwan: Do you make Takfir upon whomever judges by the Taghut? I’m asking you right now...

Brother 1: [Unclear Audio] .

Shaykh al-'Alwan: Okay, if he disbelieves in the Taghut, does Mursi disbelieve in the Taghut. Does Mursi disbelieve in the Taghut or not?

The brother: He doesn’t disbelieve [in the Taghut] my Shaykh, he doesn’t disbelieve [in the Taghut]...

Story of Haroot and Maroot...

One of the stories in the Quraan, is the story of Haroot and Maroot. Allah says: “And they (i.e., the Children of Israel) followed (instead) what the devils had recited during the reign of Sulayman (Solomon). It was not Sulayman who disbelieved, but the devils disbelieved, teaching people magic and that which was revealed to the two angels at Babylon, Haroot and Maroot. But they (i.e., the two angels) do not teach anyone unless they say: 'We are a trial, so do not disbelieve (by practicing magic).' And (yet) they learn from them that by which they cause separation between a man and his wife. But they do not harm anyone through it except by permission of Allah. And they (i.e., people) learn what harms them and does not benefit them. But they (i.e., the Children of Israel) certainly knew that whoever purchased it (i.e., magic) would not have in the Hereafter any share. And wretched is that for which they sold themselves, if they only knew.” [2:102]

The Children of Israel received a Great Book from Allah, namely the Quraan, which confirmed what they had been told in the Tawrah (i.e. Torah); they were claiming to adhere to their scripture, yet they disbelieved in the Messenger (saws) and a group of them also threw the Scripture of Allah (i.e., the Tawrah) behind their backs and shunned it, despite them knowing that it was the truth, as Allah tells us: “…A party of those who had been given the Scripture threw the Scripture of Allah (i.e., the Tawrah) behind their backs as if they did not know (what it contained).” [2:101]

It is the way of Allah that He punishes those who shun that which benefits them; He therefore busies them with things that are of no benefit to them, or makes them indulge in what harms them. Whoever shuns the worship of the Most Merciful will be afflicted with the worship of idols.

Whoever shuns Islamic monotheism will be afflicted with association with Allah. Whoever shuns the Sunnah will be afflicted with religious innovation. Whoever shuns adhering to the Islamic texts will be afflicted with blind imitation of others who have no evidence to back up their actions.

Kashf ash-Shubuhat fit-Tawhid, PART-17

So, what’s left from this book we’re going through, is the third and fourth part. The third part of this book is the author mentioning the evidences that the mushrikin use to try to prove their shirk, or try to prove that the shirk that they perform is permissible.

So, he says,
“The people who commit shirk in our times employ another argument similar to the one that has gone before, which they use to refute the opponents.”
So, here when he says opponents, this is talking about Ahlus-Sunnah wa’l-Jama’ah, or the Muslimin in general. So, it’s talking about when the Muslimin try to prevent shirk, the kuffar or the mushrikin try to use these evidences to say that it’s allowed or that calling them non-Muslims isn’t allowed.

So, he says that,
“They say the Prophet (saws) reprimanded ‘Usama ibn Zayd when he killed the person who said La ilaha ila Allah, and he told him, “Did you kill him after he said La ilaha ila Allah?”

And the author says,
“They’ve also used the hadith in which the Prophet (saws) said, “I was commanded to fight the people until they say La ilaha ila Allah.” And similar hadith that prohibit harming someone who says La ilaha ila Allah. The point is that these ignorant people, they try to prove all of these ahadith that, someone cannot be a disbeliever, can’t leave Islam, or they can’t be killed no matter what they do. It is said to these ignorant people, it is well-known that the Prophet (saws) fought the Jews and he took them as Kafirs, even though they say La ilaha ila Allah. And also the Companions fought Banu’ Hanifah…”