Bismillah hir Rehman nir Rahim
Assalamu Alaikum Warehmutallah
Dear Muslim,
Hope this email will find you in the best of imaan, health & peace of mind, insha Allaah.
Today i am here just to remind you the fasting on 9th & 10th Moharrum.
Which correspond to 8th & 9th Febraury 2006 [ Wednesday &
Thursday] according to Hijri Calendar of Makkah.
For people in Pakistan, the 9th & 10th Moharram will correspond to 9th & 10th Febraury 2006 [ Thursday & Friday].
So, Check your Hijri Calendar & Mark 9th & 10th Moharrum.
Also remind your friends & relatives the Dates of 9th & 10th Moharrum.
You can also arrange iftaar dinner to motivate other to fast on these days.
Best of fasting days
for Aashoora are :
1. Fast the 9th and the 10th. or
2. Fast the 10th and the 11th. or
3. Fast the 10th of Moharram
So don`t miss it. Do Fast and open others Fast. wish you alot of hasanaat.
And dont forget to prepare your Sahoor tonight..
Please do special duas for my Family & my late mother. Jazakallaah khairen.
Fi Amaan Allaah
Muhammad Salman Faheem
P.S. Remember following lines while fasting...
Not relying too much on the reward for fasting
Some people who are deceived rely too much on things like fasting on Aashooraa or the day of Arafaah, to the extent that some of them say, Fasting on Aashooraa will expiate for the sins of the whole year, and fasting on the day of Arafaah will bring extra rewards.
Ibn al-Qayyim said: This misguided person does not know that fasting in Ramadaan and praying five times a day are much more important than fasting on the day of Arafaah and Aashooraa, and that they expiate for the sins between one Ramadaan and the next, or between one Friday and the next, so long as one avoids major sins. But they cannot expiate for minor sins unless one also avoids major sins; when the two things are put together, they have the strength to expiate for minor sins.
Among those deceived people may be one who thinks that his good deeds are more than his sins, because he does not pay attention to his bad deeds or check on his sins, but if he does a good deed he remembers it and relies on it.
This is like the one who seeks Allaahs forgiveness with his tongue (i.e., by words only), and glorifies Allaah by saying Subhaan Allaah one hundred times a day, then he backbites about the Muslims and slanders their honour, and speaks all day long about things that are not pleasing to Allaah.
This person is always thinking about the virtues of his tasbeehaat (saying Subhaan Allaah) and tahleelaat (saying Laa ilaaha ill-Allaah) but he pays no attention to what has been reported concerning those who backbite, tell lies and slander others, or commit other sins of the tongue. They are completely deceived. (al-Mawsooah al-Fiqhiyyah, part 31, Ghuroor).
Common Bidahs on Aashooraa
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked about the things that people do on Aashooraa,
such as wearing kohl, taking a bath (ghusl), wearing henna, shaking hands with one another, cooking grains (huboob), showing happiness and so on.
Was any of this reported from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) in a saheeh hadeeth, or not?
If nothing to that effect was reported in a saheeh hadeeth, is doing these things bidah, or not?
Is there any basis for what the other group do, such as grieving and mourning, going without anything to drink, eulogizing and wailing, reciting in a crazy manner, and rending their garments?
His reply was:
Praise be to Allaah, the Lord of the Worlds.
Nothing to that effect has been reported in any saheeh hadeeth from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) or from his Companions.
None of the imaams of the Muslims encouraged or recommended such things, neither the four imaams, nor any others.
No reliable scholars have narrated anything like this, neither from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him),
nor from the Sahaabah, nor from the Taabieen; neither in any saheeh report or in a daeef (weak) report; neither in the books of Saheeh, nor in al-Sunan, nor in the Musnads.
No hadeeth of this nature was known during the best centuries, but some of the later narrators reported ahaadeeth like the one which says, Whoever puts kohl in his eyes on the day of Aashooraa will not suffer from eye disease in that year, and whoever takes a bath (does ghusl) on the day
of Aashooraa will not get sick in that year, and so on.
They also reported a fabricated hadeeth that is falsely attributed to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), which says, Whoever is generous to his family on the day of Aashooraa, Allaah will be generous to him for the rest of the year.
Reporting all of this from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) is tantamount to lying.
Then he [Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah have mercy on him)] discussed in brief the tribulations that had occurred in the early days of this ummah and the killing of al-Husayn (may Allaah be pleased with him), and what the various sects had done because of this.
Then he said:
An ignorant, wrongful group who were either heretics and hypocrites, or misguided and misled made a show of allegiance to him and the members of his household, so they took the day of Aashooraa as a day of mourning and wailing, in which they openly displayed the rituals of jaahiliyyah such as slapping their cheeks and rending their garments, grieving in the manner of the jaahiliyyah
The Shaytaan made this attractive to those who are misled, so they took the day of Aashooraa as an occasion of mourning, when they grieve and wail, recite poems of grief and tell stories filled with lies.
Whatever truth there may be in these stories serves no purpose other than the renewal of their grief and sectarian feeling, and the stirring up of hatred and hostility among the Muslims, which they do by cursing those who came before them
The evil and harm that they do to the Muslims cannot be
enumerated by any man, no matter how eloquent he is.
Some others either Naasibis who oppose and have enmity towards al-Husayn and his family or ignorant people who try to fight evil with evil, corruption with corruption, lies with lies and bidah with bidah opposed them by fabricating reports in favour of making the day of Aashooraa a day of celebration, by wearing kohl and henna, spending money on one's children, cooking special dishes and other things that are done on Eids and special occasions.
These people took the day of Aashooraa as a festival like Eid, whereas the others took it as a day of mourning.
Both are wrong, and both go against the Sunnah, even though the other group (those who take it as a day of mourning) are worse in intention and more ignorant and more plainly wrong
Neither the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) nor his successors (the khulafa al-raashidoon) did any of these things on the day of Aashooraa, they neither made it a day of mourning nor a day of celebration
As for the other things, such as cooking special dishes with or without grains, or wearing new clothes, or spending money on ones family, or buying the years supplies on that day, or doing special acts of worship such as special prayers or deliberately slaughtering an animal on that day, or saving some of the meat of the sacrifice to cook with grains, or wearing kohl and henna, or taking a bath (ghusl), or shaking hands with one another, or visiting one another, or visiting the mosques and mashhads (shrines) and so on
all of this is reprehensible bidah and is wrong.
None of it has anything to do with the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) or the way of the Khulafa al-Raashidoon.
It was also not approved of by any of the imaams of the Muslims, not Maalik, not al-Thawri, not al-Layth ibn Sad, not Abu Haneefah, not al-Oozaai, not al-Shaafa'i, not Ahmad ibn Hanbal, not Ishaaq ibn Raahwayh,
not any of the imaams and scholars of the Muslims.(al-Fataawa al-Kubra by Ibn Taymiyah)
Ibn al-Haaj (may Allaah have mercy on him) mentioned that one of the bidahs on Aashooraa was deliberately paying zakaat on this day, late or early, or slaughtering a chicken just for this occasion, or in the case of women using henna. (al-Madkhal, part 1, Yawm Aashooraa)
We ask Allaah to make us followers of the Sunnah of His Noble Prophet, to make us live in Islam and die in a state of faith. May He help us to do that which He loves and which pleases Him. We ask Him to help us to remember Him and be thankful to Him, to worship Him properly and to accept our good deeds. May He make us of those who are pious and fear Him. May Allaah bless our Prophet Muhammad and all his family and companions.
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(Holy Quran-16:125)
{And who is better in speech than he who [says: "My Lord is Allah (believes in His Oneness)," and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites (men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: "I am one of the Muslims."} (Holy Quran-41:33)
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "By Allah, if Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of camels." [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim]
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also said, "Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all."
[Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah]
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