LET'S START TONIGHT'S EDUCATION. OUR TOPIC IS 👇. *AQEEDAH AT-TAWHEED (Episode 26)

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AS AS SALAAMU ALAYKUM WARAHMATULLAH WABARAKAATUHU. LET'S START TONIGHT'S EDUCATION. OUR TOPIC IS 👇.                                                                                *AQEEDAH AT-TAWHEED (Episode 26)*                                                               



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Besides the fact, it is an innovation resembling the Christians, such celebration also includes some polytheistic practices and objectionable things such as reciting litanies that include excessive praising of the Messenger of Allah. They also include supplicating the Prophet to the exclusion of Allah and seeking help and relief from him. The Prophet forbade revering him excessively saying: _*"Do not adulate me as the Christians adulated the son of Maryam, I am only a human, therefore, call me the slave of Allah and His Messenger."*_ (Bukhari and Muslim).
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Those who celebrate the birthday of the Prophet probably believe that the Prophet attends their functions. Among the objectionable things that take place in such celebrations is reciting litanies in congregations accompanied by drum beating, and the rest of the innovated Sufi litanies. Such celebrations allow the mixing of men with women, which is a cause of Fitnah and leads to committing fornication. Even if such functions are free from these objectionable things, and were restricted to gatherings, eating and expressing joy as they claim, it is still a Bid'ah which is innovated, and according to the Hadith: _*Every innovated practice is Bid'ah, and every Bid'ah is a means of deviation*._
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Such celebration was innovated and devised by the Shi'ite Fatimid.
*Imam Abu Hafs Taj ad-Din al-Fakihani (May Allah grant him His mercy) said:* _""I have no knowledge of a base for such functions, neither in the Book nor in the Sunnah, nor any of the Scholars who adhere to the traditions of the predecessors, who are the examples for the Ummah to follow in matters of deen, was reported to have celebrated it. Rather, it is a Bid'ah, innovated by the forgers, and a desire through which greedy people became rich."_ *(Risalat al-Mawrid fi amal al Mawlid)*.
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*Shaikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah grant him His mercy, said:* _"Similar to this is what some people do, they celebrate the birthday of the Prophet either to resemble the Christians' celebration of the birthday of Jesus, whom Allah saved from evil, or out of their love and adulation to the Prophet . Although people are at variance with regard to the actual date of the Prophet's birthday. Such functions were not held by the Pious Predecessors. Were such functions to be a good thing, the Pious Predecessors, may Allah be pleased with them, would have been more deserving than us in holding it.
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They loved and revered the Prophet more than we love and revere him, and they were keener than ourselves in seeking goodness. His true love and reverence can be materialized in following and obeying him, and adhering to his commands, and reviving his Sunnah internally and externally. It can also be materialized by propagating the message with which he was sent and struggling by heart, hand, and tongue for that purpose. This is the way of the Pious Predecessors and the Muhajireen and Ansar, and those who followed them with piety."_ *[Iqtida As-Sirat 2/165.]*.
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*▪️. Seeking blessings from places, and relics of dead or living people, or the like.*

Among the innovated practices too is seeking blessings from creatures which is one of the paganistic rituals, and a trap set by religious mercenaries in order to extort money from simple minded people. Whereas Tabarruk means seeking the Barakah which is the abundance of good things and its continuity.

Requesting the good things and augmenting it is in the hand of the One Who possesses it and Who is capable of augmenting it alone. i.e. Allah, Who is far removed from every imperfection.
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It is He Who sends down Barakah and makes it to remain. As for the creature, he is incapable of granting Barakah, let alone bringing it into existence, or making it to remain. Seeking Barakah from places, relics, or dead or alive persons is not permissible because it is either Shirk, if one believes that thing grants Barakah, or a means which is conducive to Shirk if he believes that visiting such a place or person, or touching it, or rubbing his body against it is a cause for attaining it from Allah.
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As for seeking Barakah by the hair of the Prophet, his saliva or whatever is taken from his person by his Companions, that was an exclusive privilege of the Prophet in his lifetime, while he was among them, as was mentioned in Chapter one, Section3. And this is proven by the fact that the Companions never sought Barakah from his room or grave after his death, nor did they make a point in going to places in which he performed Salat or sat seeking blessing from them.
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Similarly, the graves of pious people, they did not seek Barakah from them such as; Abu Bakr, Umar, and the other prominent Companions, neither during their life nor after their death. They never went to cave Hira' to perform prayer in it and supplicate, nor did they go to mount Toor where Allah spoke to Musa, to perform prayer or supplicate. Neither did they go to any other similar places or mountains that are alleged to contain the graves of Prophets, or other people. Neither did they go to places in which buildings were erected over the remains of a Prophet.
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Furthermore, the Companions never went to the places were the Prophet used to pray in Madinah on a regular basis to touch or kiss, nor did they go to places in Makkah where he used to perform his prayer. If the places or spots where he used to tread with his honorable feet, and in which he performed prayer, he did not legalize for his Ummah to rub themselves against them, nor kiss them, then by right the places in which other people prayed or slept in should be avoided, for kissing any of such places or rubbing against them is known to scholars, by necessity, that such practices do not belong to the Shari'ah of Muhammad. *[Itidaa As-Siraat 2/195]*.

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End of Today's Education. Subhanakallahuma wabihamdik ash-Hadu an llaaila Ilan Anta wastagfiruka wa atuuubu ilayhi.*We shall continue on this topic tomorrow in sha Allah*. May Allah Azza wajjala strengthen and make us steadfast in faith. May HE accept our ibaadat and grant us the Good in this World and the Hereafter. May Allah Azza wa jalla forgive and grant us Jannah...Aa MIN