How to Identify Religious Innovation and Its Categories

Question:
He says: How do we know religious innovation, and what are its categories, O Shaykh?

Answer:
Religious innovation is what people introduce into the Shari'ah that contradicts the Shari'ah; this is called bid'ah (religious innovation). What is introduced into the religion is called bid'ah. For example, as we have given as an example: the innovation of celebrating the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) birthday, or other birthdays, and such as: building mosques over graves, and placing domes over them. These are innovations, all of them are blameworthy innovations. And such as: the innovation of the Jahmiyyah: denying the attributes and names, and such as: the innovation of the Mu'tazilah regarding the attributes, and the statement of the Mu'tazilah: that the sinner is in the intermediate position between the two positions. These are among the innovations introduced by the innovators. Yes.

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