Clarification that acts of worship are based on the Shari'ah, not on juristic preference
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Question:
The questioner: Your Eminence! One of the questions from this questioner is: Is a good thing an innovation? For example, the Mawlid gatherings in which Allah is remembered, and holding a Mawlid every year for one whose father or relative has died, and also sitting in the cemetery for three days, remembering Allah there for the soul of the deceased?
Answer:
Acts of worship are based on the Shari'ah, not on opinion or juristic preference. Acts of worship are based on the legislation of Allah; what Allah and His Messenger said, and what Allah and His Messenger legislated. As for what people have newly introduced, it is a religious innovation, due to his saying (peace and blessings be upon him):Sahih Muslim 1718b and his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): Sahih Muslim 1718a And Allah the Exalted says: [Surat al-Shura: 21]. So gathering for Mawlid celebrations is a religious innovation, whether for the Mawlid of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) or anyone else. Gathering for Mawlids and celebrating Mawlids is among the religious innovations that people have introduced. Likewise, reviving an innovation for one's father, a Mawlid for one's father or mother, is a religious innovation that is not permissible.
Likewise, sitting at the graves for supplication or recitation is a religious innovation that is not permissible; rather, it is one of the means to associating partners with Allah.
And the rule is: that worship is what Allah has legislated; it is based on divine authority. Nothing is worship unless Allah has legislated it, or His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) has legislated it. As for what people introduce, no. He said (peace and blessings be upon him):Sahih Muslim 1718a meaning: in our religion Sahih Muslim 1718a meaning: so it is rejected. And he said (peace and blessings be upon him): Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you.
The questioner: Your Eminence! One of the questions from this questioner is: Is a good thing an innovation? For example, the Mawlid gatherings in which Allah is remembered, and holding a Mawlid every year for one whose father or relative has died, and also sitting in the cemetery for three days, remembering Allah there for the soul of the deceased?
Answer:
Acts of worship are based on the Shari'ah, not on opinion or juristic preference. Acts of worship are based on the legislation of Allah; what Allah and His Messenger said, and what Allah and His Messenger legislated. As for what people have newly introduced, it is a religious innovation, due to his saying (peace and blessings be upon him):
He who did any act for which there is no sanction from our behalf, that is to be rejected.
من عمل عملًا ليس عليه أمرنا فهو رد'A'isha reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: He who innovates things in our affairs for which there is no valid (reason) (commits sin) and these are to be rejected.
من أحدث في أمرنا هذا ما ليس منه فهو ردOr have they other deities who have ordained for them a religion to which Allah has not consented?
أَمْ لَهُمْ شُرَكَاءُ شَرَعُوا لَهُمْ مِنَ الدِّينِ مَا لَمْ يَأْذَنْ بِهِ اللَّهُLikewise, sitting at the graves for supplication or recitation is a religious innovation that is not permissible; rather, it is one of the means to associating partners with Allah.
And the rule is: that worship is what Allah has legislated; it is based on divine authority. Nothing is worship unless Allah has legislated it, or His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) has legislated it. As for what people introduce, no. He said (peace and blessings be upon him):
He who innovates things in our affairs
من أحدث في أمرناin our affairs for which there is no valid (reason) (commits sin) and these are to be rejected
هذا ما ليس منه فهو ردBeware of newly invented matters
إياكم ومحدثات الأمورThe presenter: May Allah reward you.
Source
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