A Criterion for Identifying Religious Innovation
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Your Eminence! Last week we submitted a question, and I was one of the people behind me, and we asked about the signs in the streets,and she: Glory be to Allah, and praise be to Allah,So one of us said: is it not a bid'ah (religious innovation)? Did the Companions do it? So what is the criterion for bid'ah (religious innovation), may Allah forgive you?
Bid'ah (religious innovation) is for a person to worship Allah with what Allah the Mighty and Majestic has not prescribed. This is bid'ah (religious innovation).
As for the means of worship, they are not bid'ah (religious innovation). There is a difference between the objectives and the means. If someone were to say, for example, that the loudspeaker in prayer, the sermon, and the sermons was not present in the time of the Messenger,It is bid'ah (religious innovation)! We said: that is a mistake; because that is a means to convey good to the people.
And these signs that are found on the roads are a means to remind people of the remembrance of Allah the Mighty and Majestic.
Bid'ah (religious innovation) is for a person to worship Allah with what Allah the Mighty and Majestic has not prescribed. This is bid'ah (religious innovation).
As for the means of worship, they are not bid'ah (religious innovation). There is a difference between the objectives and the means. If someone were to say, for example, that the loudspeaker in prayer, the sermon, and the sermons was not present in the time of the Messenger,It is bid'ah (religious innovation)! We said: that is a mistake; because that is a means to convey good to the people.
And these signs that are found on the roads are a means to remind people of the remembrance of Allah the Mighty and Majestic.