What is the response to those who say that souls attend the mawlid, citing the verse (And when your Lord took from the children of Adam...)?
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May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, a questioner says: What is the response to those among the Sufis who argue using the saying of Allah the Exalted,[Al-A'raf 7:172], where they cite this verse as proof for the existence of the world of spirits and that it attends the mawlid celebrations?
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Attend what? The mawlid. The mawlid. Who established the mawlid? Was it the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), or did Allah legislate the mawlid, or did these misguided people invent it? The mawlid is an innovation with no basis in Islam and no existence in the evidence. It is a newly invented innovation and misguidance. So how do they attend it? Do the dead attend it, as they claim, or does the Messenger attend and they stand for him when he comes, as they allege? All of this is false speech. They want to promote these innovations with these lies. This is a form of abandonment, and I seek refuge in Allah, that Allah has occupied them with falsehood instead of the truth. If they had sought the Sunnah and acted upon the Sunnah, Allah the Glorious and Exalted would have guided them. But they turned to falsehood, so Allah punished them, and I seek refuge in Allah, by occupying them with innovations and promoting them. Look at the difference between the one who spreads the Sunnah and revives it, and the one who spreads innovations and revives and promotes them. This one Allah has guided and granted success, and this one Allah has abandoned because he turned away, turned away from Allah, so Allah turned away from him, and I seek refuge in Allah. He loves evil, so Allah prepared him for evil.
[Al-Layl 92:5-10]. And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Work, for everyone is facilitated." Everyone is facilitated for what was decreed for him, or for what he was created for. Yes.
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, a questioner says: What is the response to those among the Sufis who argue using the saying of Allah the Exalted,
And [mention] when your Lord took from the children of Adam - from their loins - their descendants
وَإِذْ أَخَذَ رَبُّكَ مِن بَنِي آدَمَ مِن ظُهُورِهِمْ ذُرِّيَّتَهُمْAnswer:
Attend what? The mawlid. The mawlid. Who established the mawlid? Was it the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), or did Allah legislate the mawlid, or did these misguided people invent it? The mawlid is an innovation with no basis in Islam and no existence in the evidence. It is a newly invented innovation and misguidance. So how do they attend it? Do the dead attend it, as they claim, or does the Messenger attend and they stand for him when he comes, as they allege? All of this is false speech. They want to promote these innovations with these lies. This is a form of abandonment, and I seek refuge in Allah, that Allah has occupied them with falsehood instead of the truth. If they had sought the Sunnah and acted upon the Sunnah, Allah the Glorious and Exalted would have guided them. But they turned to falsehood, so Allah punished them, and I seek refuge in Allah, by occupying them with innovations and promoting them. Look at the difference between the one who spreads the Sunnah and revives it, and the one who spreads innovations and revives and promotes them. This one Allah has guided and granted success, and this one Allah has abandoned because he turned away, turned away from Allah, so Allah turned away from him, and I seek refuge in Allah. He loves evil, so Allah prepared him for evil.
(5) As for he who gives and fears Allah (6) And believes in the best [reward], (7) We will ease him toward ease. (8) But as for he who withholds and considers himself free of need (9) And denies the best [reward], (10) We will ease him toward difficulty.
فَأَمَّا مَنْ أَعْطَىٰ وَاتَّقَىٰ وَصَدَّقَ بِالْحُسْنَىٰ فَسَنُيَسِّرُهُ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ وَأَمَّا مَن بَخِلَ وَاسْتَغْنَىٰ وَكَذَّبَ بِالْحُسْنَىٰ فَسَنُيَسِّرُهُ لِلْعُسْرَىٰ
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قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [229 -560] ما الرد على من قال: إن الأرواح تحضر الموالد مستدلا بالآية (وإذ أخذ ربك من من بني آدم ..) — youtube.com
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