Keeping Old Grinding Tools to Teach Children About Allah’s Blessing
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Question:
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, is keeping things like the nujar (saw), the millstone, the sieve, and other items that fathers used to inform children of Allah’s blessing upon them, since their fathers were in toil and hardship, considered a matter of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance? I ask for clarification, may Allah preserve you.
Answer:
This is a matter that does not cause harm. Keeping old industrial tools, grinding tools, and such items is permissible; acquiring them and showing them to people is permissible. What is to be feared, what one should be wary of, is keeping relics that serve as a means to shirk (associating partners with Allah).
Testing with relics that are a means to shirk, testing with images and statues, and the homes of the great and the eminent—these lead to disbelief, and in the end, they result in shirk. They are exalted, and generations come who exaggerate in their regard, and Satan beautifies their worship of them, so they worship them, as happened to the people of Noah. As for the matter of the mill, the rooms, the bucket, and the like, there is no fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) in them.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, is keeping things like the nujar (saw), the millstone, the sieve, and other items that fathers used to inform children of Allah’s blessing upon them, since their fathers were in toil and hardship, considered a matter of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance? I ask for clarification, may Allah preserve you.
Answer:
This is a matter that does not cause harm. Keeping old industrial tools, grinding tools, and such items is permissible; acquiring them and showing them to people is permissible. What is to be feared, what one should be wary of, is keeping relics that serve as a means to shirk (associating partners with Allah).
Testing with relics that are a means to shirk, testing with images and statues, and the homes of the great and the eminent—these lead to disbelief, and in the end, they result in shirk. They are exalted, and generations come who exaggerate in their regard, and Satan beautifies their worship of them, so they worship them, as happened to the people of Noah. As for the matter of the mill, the rooms, the bucket, and the like, there is no fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) in them.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
شرح الكافية الشافية في الانتصار للفرقة الناجية [ القصيدة النونية ] [ صالح الفوزان ]، بداية من قوله : والرب ليس يضيع ما يتحمل المتحملون لأجله من شان — islamhouse.com (1:07:16)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.