A question about specific candles and imitating the disbelievers.
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The questioner : Shaykh, before you begin speaking, is there anything regarding the keeping of candles?
The Shaykh : I do not see anything wrong with them, because the ruling or the text from which this ruling is derived is the prohibition against imitating the disbelievers. Here, specifically, the worship of fire is not represented by their turning toward such an image or the image itself... rather, it is the burning fire. So the imitation does not appear here, but it appears in that fire. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with it, and Allah knows best.
The Shaykh : I do not see anything wrong with them, because the ruling or the text from which this ruling is derived is the prohibition against imitating the disbelievers. Here, specifically, the worship of fire is not represented by their turning toward such an image or the image itself... rather, it is the burning fire. So the imitation does not appear here, but it appears in that fire. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with it, and Allah knows best.
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