What is your opinion on the interpretation of the "smoke" in the hadith of Hudhayfah?
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The questioner : O Shaykh, the hadith of Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman O Shaykh, what is your opinion if we interpret this smoke as the call to drama, songs, and people imitating the West?
The Shaykh : Without a doubt, this is a compounded smoke, because it entered upon the Muslims in the later eras. Then, what I understand by the smoke here is the negligence in applying some of the rulings of the Shari'ah. But it is even more so, and even more so, that it becomes smoke when they innovate many religious innovations and draw near to Allah the Exalted and Majestic through them. And the most severe this religious innovation becomes in misguidance is when it takes the place of reciting the Noble Qur'an.
And this is as it was in the past among the Sufis, where they would sing their Sufi songs and be content with them instead of singing with the Qur'an. So this will cause history to repeat itself, and the youth will turn away from reciting the Qur'an and singing with it, to singing the songs they call religious or Islamic songs.
We were in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance and evil, then Allah came with this good. He was asked: Is there any evil after this good? He said: Yes. Then he was asked: Is there any good after this evil? He said: Yes, and in it is smoke. He was asked: What is its smoke? He said: A people who guide by other than my guidance and follow a way other than my way.
كنا في جاهلية وشر فأتى الله بهذا الخير فهل بعد هذا الخير من شر قال نعم ثم قال وهل بعد هذا الشر من خير قال نعم وفيه دخن قال وما دخنه قال قوم يهدون بغير هديي ويستنون بغير سنتيThe Shaykh : Without a doubt, this is a compounded smoke, because it entered upon the Muslims in the later eras. Then, what I understand by the smoke here is the negligence in applying some of the rulings of the Shari'ah. But it is even more so, and even more so, that it becomes smoke when they innovate many religious innovations and draw near to Allah the Exalted and Majestic through them. And the most severe this religious innovation becomes in misguidance is when it takes the place of reciting the Noble Qur'an.
And this is as it was in the past among the Sufis, where they would sing their Sufi songs and be content with them instead of singing with the Qur'an. So this will cause history to repeat itself, and the youth will turn away from reciting the Qur'an and singing with it, to singing the songs they call religious or Islamic songs.