May Allah preserve you, His Excellency the Shaykh. . You said in the course of your talk: “It is as if they are rituals”
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The questioner : His Excellency the Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, said in the course of your talk: “It is as if they are rituals.” I say: this word is used by the people of the church, and this term has become attached to the Christians. I ask that you point this out.
The Shaykh : Yes. Rituals mean: actions devoid of meaning. That is their meaning. If a person performs worship as if it were a habit, or as if he were a mechanical device, then that is among the rituals. This does not mean that he has innovated in the religion. No, they have not innovated. They brought the Hajj as it is, but they became as if they were on a leisure trip, with laughter, joking, and a lack of seriousness in the matter. So it became as if it were rituals, meaning: actions that are done or said without meaning and without spirit. Yes.
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The Shaykh : Yes. Rituals mean: actions devoid of meaning. That is their meaning. If a person performs worship as if it were a habit, or as if he were a mechanical device, then that is among the rituals. This does not mean that he has innovated in the religion. No, they have not innovated. They brought the Hajj as it is, but they became as if they were on a leisure trip, with laughter, joking, and a lack of seriousness in the matter. So it became as if it were rituals, meaning: actions that are done or said without meaning and without spirit. Yes.
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