A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Brother Naushad Omar posted, on The Sharing Group, on the 26 th September 2015: “Some lady on Facebook said that there will be a lunar eclipse on the 28 th September, and the Prophet ( s.a.w. ) said, according to Swahih al-Bukhari , that we must hasten to make two raka’at of swalah .   My response was: It is not necessary to make swalah now for an eclipse, since we are not superstitious anymore.   The Jahilliyah Arabs were superstitious because they had all kinds of weird beliefs about comets, eclipses and other heavenly aberrations.   Prophet Muhammad ( s.a.w. ) advocated swalah to wean the Arabs off this superstition.   It is totally unnecessary and weird that we make swalah now for eclipses.   Rather make swalah for the wars, poverty, corruption and mass migrations afflicting the ummah .”   Brother Terence Helikaon Nunis : That is not true.   Are you saying that for 1,400 years, we have performed a s...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following is extracted from “Validity of Weak Ahadits ” by Dr. Jibril Fu’ad Haddad.   Imam Abu Zakariya Yahya ibn Sharaf an-Nawawi ( r.a. ) wrote, in his al-Adzkar , “The ‘ulama among the experts in ahadits and the experts in law and others, have said, it is permissible and recommended that the religious practice concerning good deeds and good character, and the encouragement to good and discouragement from evil, be based even on weak ahadits as long as it is not forged.   As for legal rulings, such as what is permitted and what is forbidden, or the modalities of trade, marriage, divorce and other than that, one’s practice is not based upon anything other than sound or fair ahadits , except as a precaution in some matter related to one of the above, for example, if a weak hadits was cited about the reprehensibility of certain kinds of sales or marriages.  In such cases, what is recommended is to avoid such sales and ma...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The Prophet ( s.a.w. ) said, “What I fear most from my ummah are misguiding leaders.  If they obey them, they are a fitnah by them, and if they disobey them, they are killed by them.”  This is recorded by Imam Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hanbal ( r.a. ), in his Musnad ; by Imam Abu Muhammad ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Abd ar-Rahman ad-Darimi ( r.a. ); by Imam Abu Dawud Sulayman ibn Dawud ath-Thayalisi ( r.a. ); by Qadhi Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Salamah al-Qudha’i ( r.a. ); by Imam Abu al-Qasim Sulayman ibn Ayyub ath-Thabarani ( r.a. ), in his Mu’jam al-Kabir ; and Qadhi Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn ‘Amr adh-Dhahhak ibn Abu ‘Aaswim ash-Shaybani ( r.a. ).  Similar versions were also recorded by Imam Abu ‘Isa Muhammad ibn ‘Isa as-Sulami at-Tirmidzi ( r.a. ), Imam Abu Dawud Sulayman ibn al-Ash’ats as-Sijistani ( r.a. ), Imam Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Husayn al-Bayhaqi ( r.a. ), Imam Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Yazid ibn Majah ( r.a. ), Qadhi Abu Ya’la Muhammad ibn al-...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Brother James Harris posted the following quote, on The Sharing Group, on the 5 th March 2015: “Ustadz Sa’id Ukur Nursi (r.a.) wrote, in his 28 th Letter, on the dangers of ahadits interpretation attempts by the layman., ;It is not permissible to discuss ambiguous ahadits among the ordinary people, and to show off and justify oneself like a lawyer, and to rely on egotism to support one ’ s arguments rather than on truth and right.   The question being broached and argued about is having an adverse effect on the minds of the poor ordinary people.   They cannot comprehend obscure allegorical ahadits like these, and if they deny them, it opens the terrifying door to their also denying definite, unambiguous ahadits that they cannot understand with their limited intelligences.   If they take the hadits on face value and accept the literal meaning and they spread it around, it paves the way for the people of misguidance to object t...