"We are Muslims! We believe in One God, we don't need to study shirk! There are other problems that the Ummah has!"
Right? Hmmmmm. My mum just came back from Kashmir, wanting to experience the legendary beauty of that land. She came across a Dargah and went to see what happened there. She found that inside a man asked her for money to 'benefit' from the shrine of the dead Sufi Sheikh (who may have been a truly pious man) who was buried in the building. She refused and he kept insisting. Somehow she managed to avoid him and went further in. She saw that at a wall of the shrine people had tied hundreds of strings/cloths into knots. We don't know what that was supposed to be for. People travelled far and wide to visit this place. She saw a woman clinging to the shrine, her arms all over it. My mum tapped her shoulder and told her..."Ask Allah, face this way and ask Allah for help" she pointed towards the Qibla.
The woman, with a distressed look on her face replied pointing towards the grave: "I have no one except him. Only he can help me!"
Subhan Allah. How sad that that woman has not been able to taste the sweetness of calling on Allah alone...Is that Islam? Is that the True Religion? Is that what the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) taught us and came for? Far, far away is that which so many people are doing in the name of Islam, to the way of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
This dargah is one of thousands around the world and what happens at these so called 'Muslim shrines' is diametrically opposite to what Islam is.
The Prophet sallallahu alahi wa sallam taught us to destroy domes and structures over graves and level them...So many Muslims are doing the opposite.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam taught us not to go to extremes about him after his death in terms of his status. Muslims are doing that about him and other pious men.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told us not to make a religious journey except to 3 places: The Masjidul Haraam, the Prophet's Masjid and Masjidul Aqsa. Yet people are travelling across the earth to visit the grave of a specific sheikh they have heard of in the hope that their needs will be met.
The Sahabah never called on the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam for help after his death. Yet people are doing just that, calling on people in graves, who cannot help themselves any more, for help!
Allah tells us in the Qur'an that He will not forgive anyone associating partners with Him, or calling on other than Him for help in something only He can help with. Yet people are breaking that very tenet of Islam.
So how can our Ummah expect to be pulled out of its sunken state, when the First Pillar of Islam is being broken by millions on a daily basis.
You get the picture. That is why we are studying the short treatise: The Four Principle of Shirk on Sunday, so that we can understand it, call to the truth, and lift people out of the darkness they are in and show them what Islam really is. I hope you can join us:
Right? Hmmmmm. My mum just came back from Kashmir, wanting to experience the legendary beauty of that land. She came across a Dargah and went to see what happened there. She found that inside a man asked her for money to 'benefit' from the shrine of the dead Sufi Sheikh (who may have been a truly pious man) who was buried in the building. She refused and he kept insisting. Somehow she managed to avoid him and went further in. She saw that at a wall of the shrine people had tied hundreds of strings/cloths into knots. We don't know what that was supposed to be for. People travelled far and wide to visit this place. She saw a woman clinging to the shrine, her arms all over it. My mum tapped her shoulder and told her..."Ask Allah, face this way and ask Allah for help" she pointed towards the Qibla.
The woman, with a distressed look on her face replied pointing towards the grave: "I have no one except him. Only he can help me!"
Subhan Allah. How sad that that woman has not been able to taste the sweetness of calling on Allah alone...Is that Islam? Is that the True Religion? Is that what the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) taught us and came for? Far, far away is that which so many people are doing in the name of Islam, to the way of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
This dargah is one of thousands around the world and what happens at these so called 'Muslim shrines' is diametrically opposite to what Islam is.
The Prophet sallallahu alahi wa sallam taught us to destroy domes and structures over graves and level them...So many Muslims are doing the opposite.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam taught us not to go to extremes about him after his death in terms of his status. Muslims are doing that about him and other pious men.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told us not to make a religious journey except to 3 places: The Masjidul Haraam, the Prophet's Masjid and Masjidul Aqsa. Yet people are travelling across the earth to visit the grave of a specific sheikh they have heard of in the hope that their needs will be met.
The Sahabah never called on the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam for help after his death. Yet people are doing just that, calling on people in graves, who cannot help themselves any more, for help!
Allah tells us in the Qur'an that He will not forgive anyone associating partners with Him, or calling on other than Him for help in something only He can help with. Yet people are breaking that very tenet of Islam.
So how can our Ummah expect to be pulled out of its sunken state, when the First Pillar of Islam is being broken by millions on a daily basis.
You get the picture. That is why we are studying the short treatise: The Four Principle of Shirk on Sunday, so that we can understand it, call to the truth, and lift people out of the darkness they are in and show them what Islam really is. I hope you can join us:
HALAQAH NETWORK 2010 TARBIYYAH PROGRAMME
Al-Qawaid Al-Arba'aah-
The 4 fundamental principles
by the great reformer,
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhab
Sunday 6th June 2010, 10am-5pm
Micro Community Hall
46-50 Greatorex Street
Whitechapel, London E1 5NP
Delivered by Sr Fatimah Barakatullah
This is an unique opportunity to study this famous Islamic primer. We will be using the arabic text and English translation of the text as well as delving into the biography of this great scholar of Islam.
Contact: 07977010382
Email:info@shajarahtayyibah.com
3 comments:
Peace,
Allhumdulilah, shirk is definitely a topic which needs to be explained to the masses. It is greatly misunderstood and very complicated.
Peace,
Are there any resources/sites where one can find out about other talks, classes, halaqas, duroos etc for sisters?
JazakAllahkheir.
Asalamu Alaikum wrwb,
It really is sad, I wonder how people fine asking someone dead helpful, May ALLAH ta'ala guide them to the straight path! ameen thumma ameen
btw, love your blog, mashaALLAH ta'ala.check out mines: www.3ashiqatullah.blogspot.com
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