What is your guidance regarding the person who says, "I am amazed at the one who recites the morning and evening adhkar while eating onions and garlic"?
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The questioner : May Allah reward you with good, O Shaykh. One of the Shaykhs says: "I am amazed at people who recite the morning and evening adhkar while they are eating garlic and onions?"
The Shaykh : Amazed at what?
The questioner : Amazed at people who recite the morning and evening adhkar while they are eating garlic and onions.
The Shaykh : What is the reason for the amazement?
The questioner : Meaning: the angels depart from them, and the angels are offended by them.
The Shaykh : This is a mistake on their part. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not say that the angels are offended by the one who eats onions, or that they flee from him. Rather, he forbade the one who has eaten onions or garlic from entering the mosque, and he said:Sahih Muslim 564c The intended meaning is: the angels who are in the mosques and who enliven them. If the Messenger had said that every person who eats onions or garlic is fled from by the angels and they are offended by him, then this would imply that it is forbidden.
Just as we said: keeping images is forbidden, because if a person keeps images, the angels do not enter a house in which there is an image.
Therefore, when the people conquered Khaybar and they began to eat onions, and it seemed that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) disliked them, they said: "It is forbidden, it is forbidden." So he (may the prayer and peace of Allah be upon him) said:Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 3:186 So he permitted it for them.
Therefore, we say: eating onions, garlic, leeks, and the like of plants that have a smell is not forbidden. But the one who eats them should not approach the mosque, because the angels are offended by him.
Yes, if it were stipulated that a person eats them in order to make it a means to abandon the congregation that is obligatory upon him, then it becomes, what? Forbidden. Because he has resorted to a stratagem to drop the obligation. And this is as the scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) said: if a person travels in Ramadan in order to break his fast, then the travel becomes forbidden and breaking the fast becomes forbidden. Meaning, he is required to fast even while traveling, because he traveled, what? As a stratagem to drop the obligation. And a stratagem to drop obligations does not drop them, just as a stratagem to make forbidden things lawful does not make them lawful.
The Shaykh : Amazed at what?
The questioner : Amazed at people who recite the morning and evening adhkar while they are eating garlic and onions.
The Shaykh : What is the reason for the amazement?
The questioner : Meaning: the angels depart from them, and the angels are offended by them.
The Shaykh : This is a mistake on their part. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not say that the angels are offended by the one who eats onions, or that they flee from him. Rather, he forbade the one who has eaten onions or garlic from entering the mosque, and he said:
for the angels are harmed by the same things as the children of Adam.
إن الملائكة تتأذى مما يتأذى منه بنو آدمJust as we said: keeping images is forbidden, because if a person keeps images, the angels do not enter a house in which there is an image.
Therefore, when the people conquered Khaybar and they began to eat onions, and it seemed that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) disliked them, they said: "It is forbidden, it is forbidden." So he (may the prayer and peace of Allah be upon him) said:
Indeed, it is not for me to forbid what Allah has made lawful.
إنه ليس لي تحريم ما أحل اللهTherefore, we say: eating onions, garlic, leeks, and the like of plants that have a smell is not forbidden. But the one who eats them should not approach the mosque, because the angels are offended by him.
Yes, if it were stipulated that a person eats them in order to make it a means to abandon the congregation that is obligatory upon him, then it becomes, what? Forbidden. Because he has resorted to a stratagem to drop the obligation. And this is as the scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) said: if a person travels in Ramadan in order to break his fast, then the travel becomes forbidden and breaking the fast becomes forbidden. Meaning, he is required to fast even while traveling, because he traveled, what? As a stratagem to drop the obligation. And a stratagem to drop obligations does not drop them, just as a stratagem to make forbidden things lawful does not make them lawful.