What is the ruling on the wedding feast that people hold for pilgrims in celebration of their return, which involves wastefulness?
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The questioner : It is a phenomenon that spreads in the villages, especially after the return of the pilgrims.
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : A phenomenon.
The Shaykh : A phenomenon.
The questioner : It spreads in the villages after the pilgrims return from Makkah.
The Shaykh : Is this the Sunnah?
The questioner : No, it can happen every year, approximately.
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : They hold feasts, which they call a sacrifice for the pilgrims, or a celebration for the pilgrims, or a celebration of the pilgrims' safety, meaning. And these meats may be from the sacrificial animals or from newly slaughtered animals. This is accompanied by some wastefulness and such matters.
The Shaykh : What is accompanied by it?
The questioner : A kind of wastefulness, perhaps, or a kind of
The Shaykh : Who
The questioner : Wastefulness.
The Shaykh : Wastefulness.
The questioner : Yes, a sacrifice or two for the pilgrims, meaning. What is your opinion, Your Eminence, from the legal perspective and from the social perspective?
The Shaykh : This person asks, saying: It is customary that when the pilgrims arrive, the people of the town celebrate with them, honor them, and slaughter animals for them. He asks about the ruling on that. We say: There is nothing wrong with it. There is nothing wrong with honoring the pilgrims upon their arrival, because this indicates celebration for them and also encourages them to perform Hajj. But the wastefulness and extravagance you referred to is what is forbidden, because extravagance is forbidden whether on this occasion or any other. Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, said:[Al-An'am 6:141], and He, the Exalted, said: [Al-Isra 17:27].
But if the feast is appropriate for the number of attendees, or slightly more, then there is nothing wrong with it, neither from the legal perspective nor from the social perspective. And this is likely to be found in the villages, because it is absent in the cities. We see, meaning, many people come from Hajj and no feasts are held for them, but in small, confined villages, this exists, and there is nothing wrong with it.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : By Allah, this is the custom of the villages. The people of the villages have generosity, and none of them likes to fall short of the other.
O my brother 'Eid.
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : If you have a question, give it to me.
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : A phenomenon.
The Shaykh : A phenomenon.
The questioner : It spreads in the villages after the pilgrims return from Makkah.
The Shaykh : Is this the Sunnah?
The questioner : No, it can happen every year, approximately.
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : They hold feasts, which they call a sacrifice for the pilgrims, or a celebration for the pilgrims, or a celebration of the pilgrims' safety, meaning. And these meats may be from the sacrificial animals or from newly slaughtered animals. This is accompanied by some wastefulness and such matters.
The Shaykh : What is accompanied by it?
The questioner : A kind of wastefulness, perhaps, or a kind of
The Shaykh : Who
The questioner : Wastefulness.
The Shaykh : Wastefulness.
The questioner : Yes, a sacrifice or two for the pilgrims, meaning. What is your opinion, Your Eminence, from the legal perspective and from the social perspective?
The Shaykh : This person asks, saying: It is customary that when the pilgrims arrive, the people of the town celebrate with them, honor them, and slaughter animals for them. He asks about the ruling on that. We say: There is nothing wrong with it. There is nothing wrong with honoring the pilgrims upon their arrival, because this indicates celebration for them and also encourages them to perform Hajj. But the wastefulness and extravagance you referred to is what is forbidden, because extravagance is forbidden whether on this occasion or any other. Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, said:
And be not excessive. Indeed, He does not like those who commit excess.
وَلا تُسْرِفُوا إِنَّهُ لا يُحِبُّ الْمُسْرِفِينَIndeed, the wasteful are brothers of the devils
إِنَّ الْمُبَذِّرِينَ كَانُوا إِخْوَانَ الشَّيَاطِينِBut if the feast is appropriate for the number of attendees, or slightly more, then there is nothing wrong with it, neither from the legal perspective nor from the social perspective. And this is likely to be found in the villages, because it is absent in the cities. We see, meaning, many people come from Hajj and no feasts are held for them, but in small, confined villages, this exists, and there is nothing wrong with it.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : By Allah, this is the custom of the villages. The people of the villages have generosity, and none of them likes to fall short of the other.
O my brother 'Eid.
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : If you have a question, give it to me.