Is celebrating in Rajab a form of imitating the pre-Islamic age of ignorance?
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Question:
Those who hold celebrations in Rajab and Sha'ban are imitating the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance?
Answer:
No, if they have reasons that do not fall under this, they are imitating them if they do what they do.
Q: Some of them go to some of the graveyards?
The Shaykh: This is reprehensible at any time. Going to the graves is reprehensible at all times, not just in Rajab.
Q: The same celebration on the fifteenth of Sha'ban and the twenty-seventh of Rajab?
The Shaykh: This is a religious innovation, there is no slaughtering.
Q: Do some people still believe in this?
The Shaykh: The principle is that they should be forbidden from it.
Q: He does not consider it pre-Islamic age of ignorance, but considers it ordinary?
The Shaykh: He is not restricted to Rajab, he slaughters at any time, if his intention is to draw near to Allah and give charity, he is not restricted to Rajab.
Q: Meaning, is it clarified to him that it is disliked or forbidden?
The Shaykh: Its apparent state is that... the least of its states is dislike, but...Sunan Abi Dawud 2831Sahih (Al-Albani) It is clarified that this is from the deeds of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, and then Allah abrogated it in Islam.
Those who hold celebrations in Rajab and Sha'ban are imitating the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance?
Answer:
No, if they have reasons that do not fall under this, they are imitating them if they do what they do.
Q: Some of them go to some of the graveyards?
The Shaykh: This is reprehensible at any time. Going to the graves is reprehensible at all times, not just in Rajab.
Q: The same celebration on the fifteenth of Sha'ban and the twenty-seventh of Rajab?
The Shaykh: This is a religious innovation, there is no slaughtering.
Q: Do some people still believe in this?
The Shaykh: The principle is that they should be forbidden from it.
Q: He does not consider it pre-Islamic age of ignorance, but considers it ordinary?
The Shaykh: He is not restricted to Rajab, he slaughters at any time, if his intention is to draw near to Allah and give charity, he is not restricted to Rajab.
Q: Meaning, is it clarified to him that it is disliked or forbidden?
The Shaykh: Its apparent state is that... the least of its states is dislike, but...
There is no fara' and 'atirah.
لا فرع ولا عتيرة
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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