Dont Add Anything Into The Religion!

**chacha_jalebi** · 04-04-2008

salaam ma alaykam peoplings

adding things into the religion is baaaaad! because our religion is butifull, we dont need to add anything into it, its purrfecto

and when something is perfect, it dont need anythin added or taken away, because that will ruin it and spoil it!

also there are loads of topics about bidah, but that just shows how important it is, we should always question whatever we do, is it from the Quran or Sunnah? is there evidence for something we are doing? because just because our parents or imam or mosque does something, does it mean its right? NO! we should know what we are doin and where is the evidence for it!

alsoo if someone is doin a bidaah, we cant like switch on the person just explain to the person, as Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimullah) said "people do bidah either based on a false or weak hadiths, or because of a misunderstanding" maybe they are doing because they dont know, so so we should always be nice to people when telling them stuff, because put it like this, imagine you been wearing the same clothes for 4 years and then someone says to you, them clothes are ugly blud, your likely to be offended, so same with people that are involved in a bidah, they will need time to change, and only Allah (swt) changes the hearts. nowadays we see people goin around refuting muslims lol, over bidahs they do, and they think their "imams"... worreva, like say something to someone once, twice, thrice! after that leave them, if they dont wana accept, let Allah (swt) deal with them innaaay, no need to make their errors part of your life!

so the moral of the story is, follow the way of the Prophet (saw), Allah (Swt) says in surah al Yunus v 32:

"So after the truth, what else can there be, save error?''

also surah al anaam v 38

"We have neglected nothing in the Book"

this also refutes the concept of "bidah hasanah" lol, as the hadiths says "kullu bidaatin dhala3lah ...." EVERY BIDAAH IS A MISGUIDANCE! and if there was anythin good, in somethin it would have been done or mentioned by Allah (Swt). and as the ayah clearly says nothin has been left out of the kitaab of Allah (swt) he has shown us all good and all bad!

and again v 153

"And verily, this is My straight path, so follow it, and follow not (other) paths, for they will separate you away from His path"

sooo follow the way of the Prophet (saw) the ayah is clear!!!

and again the same message is given in surah al imraan v31

"Say (O Muhammad (PBUH) to mankind): 'If you (really) love Allah then follow me (i.e., accept Islamic Monotheism, follow the Qur'an and the Sunnah), Allah will love you and forgive you your sins".

the Prophet (Saw) is bein told to say to mankind, if they really love Allah (Swt) then they should follow his way!!

and what i been sayin all along, is said in surah al nisa v59

"(And) if you differ in anything amongst yourselves, refer it to Allah and His Messenger (PBUH)".

so if someone says to you, what your doin is bidah, dont bite their head off! go yourself and look for evidence for it, if you cant find solid pure authentic evidence then leave it, you will be rewarded for leaving, as another hadiths says "leave what you doubt"

and some hadiths which should nail the point down!!

Ummul Momineen!!! Hadhrat Aisha (ra) narrates a hadiths saying: Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, "If anyone introduces in our matter something which does not belong to it, will be rejected".
[Al-Bukhari and Muslim]

now the question bidah.. whaat is it ....

IF IT WERENT DONE DURING THE TIME OF THE PROPHET (sal Allah hu aleyhi wasalam) ITS A BIDAH! taa daa

now some clever cloggs is gona turn around and say "cars werent invented during the RasoolAllah's (sal Allah hu aleyhi wasalam) time are they a bidah?

well as the hadiths says anythin introduced into this matter of ours i.e. the religion!!!

another hadiths "If anybody introduces a practice which is not authenticated by me, it is to be rejected". (Sahih Muslim)

if the Prophet (saw) never told us to do anythin, then we shouldnt do it, he has shown us all the good ways!!!

and we all before any khutbah say, what RasoolAllah (saw) used to say ...

"To proceed, the best speech is the Book of Allah and the best guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (PBUH), the worst practice is the introduction of new practices in Islam and every Bid`ah is a misguidance". [Muslim]

so to finish off!! follow the way of Prophet (saw) if he didnt do somethin, that means there is no religious good in that thin, otherwise he would have didded it

capicheee

**Umar001** · 04-09-2008

Originally Posted by snakelegs

thanks. whew - this is confusing. interesting discussion, though.

There are different types of following, I think this is why its confusing, and not just for you.

For example, a Muslim who does not have the skill to derive the rulings from the sources has to ask someone who can, right? Eg. A layman has to ask a doctor for medicine, why? Becuse the layman has not studied and is not likely to know how to conduct tests to produce good medicine.

Another type of blind following is that which people do to extremes. They follow a person no matter what happens, so much as that some people, extreme, do acts of worsip dictated to them by their 'teachers' which their teachers have made up over time.

I hope that kinda clears the difference between the two and Allah knows best.

**snakelegs** · 04-09-2008

a couple of things i remember reading here:
"taqleed" refers to scholars - regular people don't have all the knowledge so they have to follow the scholars.
there are no significant/important differences in the 4 madhabs - the reason for sticking to one is to guard against picking and choosing based on your convenience or preference.

**FatimaAsSideqah** · 04-09-2008

As Salaam Alaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu

The work of the mujtahid Imams of Sacred Law, those who deduce shari‘ah rulings from Qur’an and hadith, has been the object of my research for some years now, during which I have sometimes heard the question: "Who needs the Imams of Sacred Law when we have the Qur’an and hadith? Why can’t we take our Islam from the word of Allah and His Messenger (Allah bless him and give him peace), which are divinely protected from error, instead of taking it from the madhhabs or "schools of jurisprudence" of the mujtahid Imams such as Abu Hanifa, Malik, Shafi‘i, and Ahmad, which are not?"

It cannot be hidden from any of you how urgent this issue is, or that many of the disagreements we see and hear in our mosques these days are due to lack of knowledge of fiqh or "Islamic jurisprudence" and its relation to Islam as a whole. Now, perhaps more than ever before, it is time for us to get back to basics and ask ourselves how we understand and carry out the commands of Allah.

We will first discuss the knowledge of Islam that all of us possess, and then show where fiqh enters into it. We will look at the qualifications mentioned in the Qur’an and sunna for those who do fiqh, the mujtahid scholars. We will focus first on the extent of the mujtahid scholar’s knowledge—how many hadiths he has to know, and so on—and then we will look at the depth of his knowledge, through actual examples of dalils or "legal proofs" that demonstrate how scholars join between different and even contradictory hadiths to produce a unified and consistent legal ruling.

We will close by discussing the mujtahid’s relation to the science of hadith authentication, and the conditions by which a scholar knows that a given hadith is sahih or "rigorously authenticated," so that he can accept and follow it.

Qur’an and Hadith. The knowledge that you and I take from the Qur’an and the hadith is of several types: the first and most important concerns our faith, and is the knowledge of Allah and His attributes, and the other basic tenets of Islamic belief such as the messengerhood of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), the Last Day, and so on. Every Muslim can and must acquire this knowledge from the Book of Allah and the sunna.

This is also the case with a second type of general knowledge, which does not concern faith, however, but rather works: the general laws of Islam to do good, to avoid evil, to perform the prayer, pay zakat, fast Ramadan, to cooperate with others in good works, and so forth. Anyone can learn and understand these general rules, which summarize the sirat al-mustaqim or "straight path" of our religion.

Fiqh. A third type of knowledge is of the specific details of Islamic practice. Whereas anyone can understand the first two types of knowledge from the Qur’an and hadith, the understanding of this third type has a special name, fiqh, meaning literally "understanding." And people differ in their capacity to do it.

I had a visitor one day in Jordan, for example, who, when we talked about why he hadn’t yet gone on hajj, mentioned the hadith of Anas ibn Malik that

the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, "Whoever prays the dawn prayer (fajr) in a group and then sits and does dhikr until the sun rises, then prays two rak‘as, shall have the like of the reward of a hajj and an ‘umra." Anas said, "The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said: ‘Completely, completely, completely’" (Tirmidhi, 2.481).