What is the ruling on climbing onto the roofs of houses and raising torches with the takbir that some of the brothers call for?

The questioner : This is a question that reflects the reality of the situation, as they say. This appears to be the first time I have heard of this matter. However, so that the brothers may be fully informed, there is no harm in hearing the question: What is the ruling on climbing onto the roofs of houses and raising torches with the takbir that some of the brothers call for? This is something new.

Another questioner : I saw this in the newspaper.

Another questioner : The sermon on fasting on Monday, climbing onto the houses, and calling for torches and supplication to Allah to grant victory, along with the takbir.
The student : Very well, torches for what purpose?

The Shaykh : In my opinion, this combines contradictions. In my opinion, it combines contradictions. As for it being a bid'ah (religious innovation), it is undoubtedly a modern bid'ah, and there are many bid'ahs that multiply among Muslims as time passes due to their ignorance of the Sunnah of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). As for it being a bid'ah, no one who knows the biography of the righteous Salaf (the earliest generations) doubts it. Many trials, wars, problems, and difficulties befall them, yet they did not do what these Khalaf (the later generations) do. So I say, as for it being a bid'ah, there is no debate about it. But there are contradictions in it. They are Muslims, without doubt, but they combine Islam with the rituals of the crosses. What is the lighting of candles but a Christian ritual? How can it be permissible for a Muslim to imitate the Christians while they want to fight the Christians? Do they fight the Christians and their customs, their disbelief, and their misguidance, or do they turn to their Lord and to the rulings of their religion? The third of the paradoxes is that they climb onto the roofs of houses, and this contradicts the belief of the majority of these people that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has not risen above the Throne. Because this climbing means proximity, so they do not believe in it. But all these paradoxes and contradictions indicate to us that these groups are pitiable, and we should have mercy on them for their distance from knowing their religion. And thus the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) spoke the truth when he said: . And the Muslims and those who claim to lead them to establishing the Islamic society will not stand firm while they contradict the rulings of the religion. "He who lacks a thing cannot give it." I am pleased, on this occasion, with a word said by one of the preachers in the modern era, who passed away to the mercy of Allah, but his followers do not act upon it or stop at it, and it is a profound wisdom, namely his saying: "Establish the state of Islam in your hearts, and it will be established for you on your land." This is a statement that gathers much in little, in truth, because a Muslim cannot establish the state of Islam in his heart except by his knowledge of Islam, and the first of that is tawhid (the oneness of Allah). You know some of its details from what you have read, and I referred to some of them earlier. "It will be established for you on your land" means that establishing the rule of Allah on earth requires the rectification of hearts, and the rectification of hearts does not come through ignorance, but through knowledge. And all Islamic parties, unfortunately, in all lands of Islam, except those who belong to the Book and the Sunnah and follow the methodology of the righteous Salaf, are far, far away from applying this beautiful phrase: "Establish the state of Islam in your hearts, and it will be established for you on your land." This phrase is taken from verses of the Qur'an and Prophetic hadiths; there is no need to remind you of them now, lest the time become long for us.