What is the ruling on designating the day of the festival specifically for visiting relatives and friends, both the living and the deceased?
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The questioner : May Allah bless you. He is also asking about the issue of visits on the day of the festival, as many people do, and their designation of it. Some have refrained from visiting on the grounds that this is something not found in the Sunnah, or something similar. What is the statement on this?
The Shaykh: We say, may Allah bless this group, and we ask Allah to make us part of that group, because we always say, and forever, and today we were with some of our brothers in this discussion. I said to him, it seems to you, so-and-so, that you have not heard the new call that used to remind people from long ago, saying that one of the widespread innovations in this time is visiting the living for the sake of the deceased. Have you not heard the new call, which is originally an old call, that visiting the living for the living on the day of the festival is an innovation? And for that reason, I said to Abu Awfah at the beginning of the sitting, but I noticed that he did not pay attention. Yes, I said, I did not come to you as a visitor returning a visit, but I came to you as a visitor.
The questioner : My master, "aada" (to return) means "to visit."
The Shaykh : Ah, why don't you go back to the language?
The questioner : Visiting the sick is from "aada" (to return).
The Shaykh : And this language now, who knows it? Let's celebrate for so-and-so.
The questioner : Meaning, we visit him on the festival.
Another questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, that is it. So, visiting the living for the deceased on the festival is an innovation; it is from the innovations.
The questioner : This is an analogy with a difference.
Another questioner : ...
The Shaykh : This is not an analogy.
The questioner : There, the deceased does not feel it and does not benefit from this visit, but here, the living visiting the living is maintaining ties, affection, and love.
The Shaykh : Meaning, when you visit the deceased, it is so that they feel your visit.
The questioner : There, it is for the sake of supplication, but here, this is a day of festival and joy, not a funeral.
The Shaykh : No, my question is brief, Abu Awfah. When you visit the deceased on the day of the festival.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : You visit them so that they feel you.
The questioner: No.
The Shaykh : And on days other than the festival.
The questioner : Supplication for them.
The Shaykh : And on days other than the festival, when you visit, it is not so that they feel you.
The questioner : For the sake of supplication and taking a lesson.
The Shaykh : I am just asking you.
The Shaykh: We say, may Allah bless this group, and we ask Allah to make us part of that group, because we always say, and forever, and today we were with some of our brothers in this discussion. I said to him, it seems to you, so-and-so, that you have not heard the new call that used to remind people from long ago, saying that one of the widespread innovations in this time is visiting the living for the sake of the deceased. Have you not heard the new call, which is originally an old call, that visiting the living for the living on the day of the festival is an innovation? And for that reason, I said to Abu Awfah at the beginning of the sitting, but I noticed that he did not pay attention. Yes, I said, I did not come to you as a visitor returning a visit, but I came to you as a visitor.
The questioner : My master, "aada" (to return) means "to visit."
The Shaykh : Ah, why don't you go back to the language?
The questioner : Visiting the sick is from "aada" (to return).
The Shaykh : And this language now, who knows it? Let's celebrate for so-and-so.
The questioner : Meaning, we visit him on the festival.
Another questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, that is it. So, visiting the living for the deceased on the festival is an innovation; it is from the innovations.
The questioner : This is an analogy with a difference.
Another questioner : ...
The Shaykh : This is not an analogy.
The questioner : There, the deceased does not feel it and does not benefit from this visit, but here, the living visiting the living is maintaining ties, affection, and love.
The Shaykh : Meaning, when you visit the deceased, it is so that they feel your visit.
The questioner : There, it is for the sake of supplication, but here, this is a day of festival and joy, not a funeral.
The Shaykh : No, my question is brief, Abu Awfah. When you visit the deceased on the day of the festival.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : You visit them so that they feel you.
The questioner: No.
The Shaykh : And on days other than the festival.
The questioner : Supplication for them.
The Shaykh : And on days other than the festival, when you visit, it is not so that they feel you.
The questioner : For the sake of supplication and taking a lesson.
The Shaykh : I am just asking you.
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