LET'S START TONIGHT'S EDUCATION. OUR TOPIC IS 👇. *AQEEDAH AT-TAWHEED (Episode 7)

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AS AS SALAAMU ALAYKUM WARAHMATULLAH WABARAKAATUHU. LET'S START TONIGHT'S EDUCATION. OUR TOPIC IS 👇.                                                                                *AQEEDAH AT-TAWHEED (Episode 7)*                                                               


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▪️ *Making offerings, vows, gifts, mazar, and graves with reverence.*
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The Prophet (salallahu alaihe wa-sallam) warned against all means that are conducive to Shirk, and cautioned against them vehemently. Of such means is visiting graves for which he set protective regulations against worshipping them or revering exceedingly the people buried in them. Of such regulations:
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*▫️.* Excessive love of the pious and righteous people, for this, may lead to worshipping them. He said: _*"Beware of excess for excess destroyed the people before you."*_ [Musnad Ahmad and others] And he said: _*"Do not praise me excessively as the Christians praised the son of Maryam excessively. I am only a human slave, therefore, call me, the Slave of Allah and His Messenger."*_ [Saheeh al-Bukharee].
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. *▫️.* He also cautioned against erecting structures on graves. Ali Ibn Abi Talib said to Abul Hayyaj al-Asadi: _"Shall I charge you with a duty which the Prophet (salallahu alaihe wa-sallam) charged me with?_ _*Destroy every idol or statue and level down every raised grave."*_ [Saheeh Muslim]
_*The Prophet (salallahu alaihe wa-sallam) forbade plastering graves, sitting on them, or erecting structures on them, or to include it in a structure.*_ [Saheeh Muslim].
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And he said: _*"Lo! Beware those who were before you used to take the graves of their prophets as places of worship. Beware, never take graves for mosques. I forbid you doing so."*_ [Saheeh Muslim]

Taking graves for mosques means praying by them (graves) even if no Masjid is built around them, for every place which is used for praying is a Masjid, or a mosque.
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*Scholar Ibn al-Qayyim (rahimahullah) said:* _"He who compares the practice of the Messenger (salallahu alaihe wa-sallam) and his commands and prohibitions with regards to graves, and the practice of his Companions with the rituals that people practice today, he can see the two sides of comparison are too contradictory and opposed to one another that they can never be reconciled. The Messenger of Allah (salallahu alaihe wa-sallam) forbade performing Salaat while facing graves, but people today do so.
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And he forbade including graves in mosques, and people today construct mosques around them and call them places for ritual visitation in opposition to the houses of Allah. And he forbade lighting candles on graves, and people today do so and assign properties as an endowment for this particular purpose. And he forbade making tombs as places for ritual celebrations, and people do so just as they celebrate Eid or even more. He ordered leveling graves according to the following Hadeeth in which Ali said to Abul-Hayyaj al-Asadi:
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“Shall I charge you with a duty which the Prophet (salallahu alaihe wa-sallam) charged me with? *Destroy every idol or statue and level down every raised grave.*"_ [Saheeh Muslim]

Ibn al-Qayyim then enumerated those wrongdoings saying: _"What the Prophet (salallahu alaihe wa-sallam) allowed while visiting graves is to remember the Hereafter, supplicate Allah in favor of the dead people, and ask Allah to forgive them, and be merciful to them, and save them from punishment.
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In that case, the visitor would do a favor for himself and for the dead. But the polytheists of today, do the opposite thing, that is; supplicating the dead instead of supplicating Allah, asking them to fulfill their needs, grant them blessings, and aid them against their enemies. By doing so, they, in fact, wrong themselves and the dead too, by depriving him of what Allah has made legal of supplication in favor of the dead and asking Allah's mercy for them."_ *[Ibn al-Qayyim, Ighathat al-Lahfan, vol.1, p.214, 215 and 217]*.
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▪️ *The Ruling on revering commemorative statues, monuments and idols*
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A statue, a figure representing a person or animal, while the Nusub, pl. Ansab, a sign or a mark set up to show the way. Or certain stones that were set up around Kabah over which it was customary for the name of some deity to be pronounced in the killing of animals upon which sacrificial animals were slain to other than Allah.
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The Prophet (salallahu alaihe wa-sallam) warned against sketching or making pictures of living creatures (humans or animals) particularly prominent people, such as scholars, kings, leaders, heads of states or pious people, whether it was taken by a camera, or any other similar machine that are available today, or by sculpturing. The Prophet (salallahu alaihe wa-sallam) also forbade posting such pictures on walls, and setting up statues or idols, or commemorative monuments for they are conducive to Shirk.

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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