What is the guidance regarding mobile phone messages calling for a campaign of seeking forgiveness to bring rain, specifying a number of one hundred?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: In these days, mobile phone messages have become widespread calling for a campaign of seeking forgiveness, and they specify this campaign as one hundred times seeking forgiveness due to the withholding of rain. They say that this is from the Sunnah of advising one another to truth. The question is: Is this action prescribed? And is it permissible for us to approve of this action and send it to people?
Answer:
Seeking forgiveness is among the causes for the descent of rain. He says:[Nuh 71:10-11] So, correct seeking forgiveness is a cause for the descent of rain. [Hud 11:52] rain. So there is no doubt that correct seeking forgiveness is a cause for the descent of rain.
As for specifying it as one hundred times seeking forgiveness until the rain descends, or a thousand, or five, or ten, this requires evidence. The specification requires a correct proof from the Sunnah regarding the specification. But seeking forgiveness in general is a cause for the descent of rain. And I have said, how many times, beware of these mobile phones, because behind them are people who are either ignorant or crazy, wanting to spread superstition and religious innovation. So beware of them. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: In these days, mobile phone messages have become widespread calling for a campaign of seeking forgiveness, and they specify this campaign as one hundred times seeking forgiveness due to the withholding of rain. They say that this is from the Sunnah of advising one another to truth. The question is: Is this action prescribed? And is it permissible for us to approve of this action and send it to people?
Answer:
Seeking forgiveness is among the causes for the descent of rain. He says:
(10) And said, 'Ask forgiveness of your Lord. Indeed, He is ever a Perpetual Forgiver. (11) He will send [rain from] the sky upon you in [continuing] showers
اسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُ كَانَ غَفَّارًا يُرْسِلِ السَّمَاءَ عَلَيْكُم مِّدْرَارًاAnd O my people, ask forgiveness of your Lord and then repent to Him. He will send [rain from] the sky upon you in showers and increase you in strength [added] to your strength.
وَيَا قَوْمِ اسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّكُمْ ثُمَّ تُوبُوا إِلَيْهِ يُرْسِلِ السَّمَاءَ عَلَيْكُم مِّدْرَارًا وَيَزِدْكُمْ قُوَّةً إِلَىٰ قُوَّتِكُمْAs for specifying it as one hundred times seeking forgiveness until the rain descends, or a thousand, or five, or ten, this requires evidence. The specification requires a correct proof from the Sunnah regarding the specification. But seeking forgiveness in general is a cause for the descent of rain. And I have said, how many times, beware of these mobile phones, because behind them are people who are either ignorant or crazy, wanting to spread superstition and religious innovation. So beware of them. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [435 -858] ما التوجيه حول رسائل الجوال التي تدعو إلى حملة استغفار لأجل حبس المطر وتحديدها بعدد مائة؟ — youtube.com
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