Discussion of the prayer beads.
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The Shaykh : That is why, when we went to Irbid, we saw something like this, right?
The questioner : It became more frightening.
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : I thought you would say: more frightening; you frighten people more.
The questioner : I ... found it to be nine.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : It confused me, so I said: Okay, why nine?
The Shaykh: No.
The questioner : There are thirty-three, there are so many, there are a hundred, ninety-nine; what does nine mean, Abu Khalid, nine in ...?
The Shaykh : So I want to say that this is a remnant of the past; that is, our fathers and grandfathers were apparently Sufis, so the prayer beads started to move, move, and become lighter, become lighter; because originally their number was a hundred beads. The Sufi dervise would stand up in the middle of the night, in his claim, to glorify Allah, praise Him, and magnify Him, and he would have something like ... beads hanging on a spindle in the middle, so you would find that each bead would fall onto the second one with a sound, a "tap" sound; this was the dhikr they were upon. So now it remains, in my understanding, a symbol, a symbol; that is why we do not like symbols for our brothers who are with us upon the Sunnah.
The questioner : Yes, by Allah, may Allah reward you with good.
The questioner : It became more frightening.
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : I thought you would say: more frightening; you frighten people more.
The questioner : I ... found it to be nine.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : It confused me, so I said: Okay, why nine?
The Shaykh: No.
The questioner : There are thirty-three, there are so many, there are a hundred, ninety-nine; what does nine mean, Abu Khalid, nine in ...?
The Shaykh : So I want to say that this is a remnant of the past; that is, our fathers and grandfathers were apparently Sufis, so the prayer beads started to move, move, and become lighter, become lighter; because originally their number was a hundred beads. The Sufi dervise would stand up in the middle of the night, in his claim, to glorify Allah, praise Him, and magnify Him, and he would have something like ... beads hanging on a spindle in the middle, so you would find that each bead would fall onto the second one with a sound, a "tap" sound; this was the dhikr they were upon. So now it remains, in my understanding, a symbol, a symbol; that is why we do not like symbols for our brothers who are with us upon the Sunnah.
The questioner : Yes, by Allah, may Allah reward you with good.
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