Abdullah Hakim Quick – New Muslim Corner – Fasting On Ashura
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Nabiina Muhammadan Wala'alihi
Wasafihi wa Barakosallam.
All praise are due to Allah, Lord of
the worlds
And peace and blessings be upon our beloved
prophet Muhammad,
the master of the first and the last,
his family, his companions and all those who
call to his way
and establish his Sunnah to the Day of
Judgment.
As to what follows, Assalamu Alaikum Urahmatullah.
Alhamdulillah.
This is our continuation,
of the new Muslim Corner and
it is our intention to continue this
as much as we possibly can throughout the
year.
Although some people
consider,
July to be summer vacation,
as though everything stops, but life does not
stop.
And,
even though it's
the so called summer in the solar calendar,
we have to be following the Islamic calendar
to understand
the events that are happening.
And despite what is happening in the world,
the different distractions that we are seeing,
there is something very important happening
right now in the Islamic calendar.
And so as,
new Muslims,
as those reviving our Islam,
those who want to set a strong foundation
in their faith,
we need to
take a pause,
you know, from
our sidda looking at the prophetic biography,
but then also to look at an aspect
of this
concerning
this time
of year
And, we recognized
that,
the 5 pillars of Islam,
the foundations of Islam
are basically the Shahada,
that's your testimony in the oneness of Allah
and the prophethood
of Muhammad peace be upon him,
performance of your prayers,
paying your poor du your zakat,
fasting in Ramadan,
and performing
Hajj or the pilgrimage.
These different,
pillars or foundations
open up the door
for important
aspects of Islamic personality,
important aspects of the Islamic year.
And even though,
it is not,
specifically
connected
to,
the pillar. For instance, the issue of paying
Zakat,
that is 2 and a half percent of
our wealth
given to the poor and the needy every
year,
paying of Zakat
creates a type of mentality,
and that is a mentality of
giving.
So the mentality of giving
of yourself, of your time, of your wealth,
is what distinguishes a Muslim,
from other people of other religions
in that,
it is
an institutional part
of our faith right alongside of our Shahada.
It's right within
the 5 great foundations,
of faith.
The fasting in Ramadan, although it's specific
to Ramadan, it also opens up the door
to the issue of fasting
and fasting is part of the personality,
of a Muslim.
And so we want to look at,
the lunar
calendar
and
remember the Islamic months in the lunar calendar,
Muharram Safar, Rabi'il Awal,
Rabiathani, Jamada Ullah, Jamada Taniyah,
Rajab, Sha'aban, Ramadan Shawwaldu, Qadr, and Uh-huh,
So this month that we are we are
in now
is Muharram.
So this is the beginning of the New
Year,
1,446
years after the Hijra,
and it is an extremely
important,
time of the year,
for Muslims.
Although, in the solar calendar,
it's not the beginning of the year,
Supposedly, January,
is the beginning of the solar calendar, but
even that is not right
relative to the solar calendar.
So we are in the month of
Muharram
and there's a lot of
different
understandings,
superstitions,
and practices,
that have come about
in relationship to this sacred month.
And our basis,
you know, as
new Muslims,
those reviving our faith, it goes right back
to Allah and his messenger.
So whenever you have difficulty misunderstandings,
go back to the source.
Go back to the source and see what
was the source of the religion.
What is the base of the religion? Once
you have established the base
of the faith then you can look at
other practices
because Islam spread all over the world.
You see it's
you know, 1,446
years after the migration.
Okay. There is 13 years even before that.
So that's a long period of time. There's
a lot of people,
a lot of understandings.
But to understand
in terms
of religious outlook,
religious practices,
the basis of our religious practices
goes back to the foundations.
In terms of culture,
we might vary
based upon where we live,
ethnic group.
But what unites us,
is
sticking to the way
of of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
and what happened during his time as a
base
of our understanding.
Now when we talk about,
this month of Muharram,
the name Ashura
comes up.
And,
Ashura
is from the Arabic word Ashura,
which is which means 10.
So Ashura is the 10th
and what is surrounding the 10th
of Muharram.
So this comes in our literature that Abdullah
ibn Abbas,
he said that the Prophet
when he came to Medina,
so that means after 13 years in Mecca
and we have been studying,
those 13 years were about in the middle
of the third of the first period.
So this jumps us a little bit.
But after the 13 years that he migrated
to, Yathrib,
later known as Al Madinah till Manawarah,
the lighted city. Okay. So,
Abdul Lawyer reports
that,
when
the Prophet
came to Medina
and saw that the Jews,
Benu
Israel, they were fasting on the day of
Ashura.
Okay. So that's the 10th
of this month and he said what is
this?
They responded this is a righteous day.
It is a day when Allah saved
the children of Israel from their enemies.
So it's on this day
in the lunar calendar.
So the Jews said, so Musa fasted on
this day.
So the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
we have more right to Musa than you.
Nakhnu ahaqu bi Musa min kum.
And what he meant by that is that
because he is a prophet,
so this this goes above the fact that
you're from the same tribe,
This is Prophet Hutna.
So those who would follow him
are actually closer to,
Prophet Musa alaihis salam.
So he said that we have more right
to Musa than you so he fasted
on that day
and he commanded the Muslims
to fast on that day.
Okay. So this is now when they first
came to Medina
and at that point there was no Ramadan.
So there was no specific
fasting and he commanded the Muslims to fast.
So the command at that point means obligation.
That they were obliged
to fast on 10th.
So
when we look at this day,
we wanna go back in history to look
at Ashura itself,
in history.
And
this I've taken just some sections of some
traditions,
to to to make it easy to understand
this.
But
according to one tradition,
of course, this is a righteous day. Now
remember
these descriptions
now because we're going to have some
interaction at the end.
You have to sort of
deconstruct
what is happening in the Muslim world
during this month. Okay. But in the Prophet's
time, this is a righteous day.
Okay.
This is a great day. That's what the
yahood said on which Allah saved
Musa and his people. Remember, they were fleeing
Egypt
and they reached the Red Sea. Musa raised
his staff and the water was opened,
so they were saved.
So this is a major event
to take place.
And then they said also and Allah drowned
pharaoh
and his people.
Another tradition that said Musa fasted on this
day
in thanksgiving
to Allah, so we fast on this day.
So that's another term. Okay? You got a
righteous day,
You have thanks
Thanksgiving.
Another tradition,
in Bukhari, this is a set of
hadith traditions.
So they said, so we fast on this
day to venerate
it.
In other words, to to to raise its
status religiously
on this particular day.
And another hadith tradition that says this is
the day on which the ark
settled on Mount Judi.
So the Prophet Nuh fasted
this day in Thanksgiving.
So you remember the story of Prophet Nuh
alaihis salam who
who who gave,
dawah to his people 950 years?
They didn't, respond.
Water came, the flood of Noah.
He built the ark,
and this ark moved water,
destroyed the different
aspects of the earth
and it landed on Mount Judi.
Some say this is in
Turkiye,
Allah knows best. There's there's a site that's
up there that looks like it could
possibly be.
The key point is
that,
it was Thanksgiving,
okay, thanking Allah. Okay. So this is the
purpose of Ashura.
Okay? Keep this in your mind.
This is no sect of Islam.
This is for us purely. We just want
to know
what did the law say, what did the
Prophet
do? That's all we want to know
as the basis of our faith.
Okay? It's celebration,
thanksgiving,
veneration.
Okay. It's remembrance,
recognition.
All of
these aspects,
this is what Ashura is.
So Ashura,
this is a positive time.
This is not a sad time.
This is not,
a self flagellation. All kind you're gonna hear
all types of stories.
This is a positive
time of year.
Right? That's the sunnah.
So that's the basis of what,
Islam
says. Now, again, to to see the importance
of Ashura,
that this practice of fasting on Ashura,
this is such an auspicious occasion,
right, it was even known according to some
scholars in the time of Jahiliyyah
that means the ignorance,
the time before prophets Mohammed
before his prophethood,
that's the days of ignorance, they call it
Jahiliyyah,
before his mission.
So Aisha reported
the people of Jahiliyah used to fast on
that day.
So some sort of tradition
came to Imam al Khore Sabi and looking
at this he said perhaps the Quraysh used
to fast on that day on the basis
of some past law,
such as that of Ibrahim alaihis salam.
Okay. So they're not exactly sure why
the Quraysh would fast on this day but
you remember
Mecca set up by Prophet Ibrahim,
Our Prophet Ismail
and Hajjah, may Allah be pleased with them.
That's the basis of the Kaaba.
Okay. So the tradition is coming through there.
Now after some 100 of years, idol worship
started coming in but there were still some
traditions left.
So they're not sure exactly what the tradition
is
but somehow, the leading people in Mecca, they
were fasting on this
day. So it was auspicious
time even
before the Prophet would begin.
So the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam himself,
he used to fast
in Ashura in Mecca
before he migrated.
So before he went to Medina,
he used to fast on, Ashurah.
Okay? When he migrated to Medina, as we
heard, he found the Jews celebrating this day.
So he asked them why they they they
describe that they replied as described in the
hadith quoted above. Right. He commanded the Muslims
to be different
than the Jews, be different from them.
Okay?
They took it as a festival.
In some cases, they say they would they
would wear jewelry and, you know, have almost
like a festive occasion.
They were saved from pharaoh,
So this is an important day
to them. But he said we are going
to be different than them.
Okay? We're going to recognize
what they recognize
but we're also gonna be different.
Okay? So this is Ashura.
So what Ashura
is,
it's part of the process of fasting.
Okay? You could say the gradual process of
fasting
because it was first obligatory.
So Ashura
was obligatory
before Ramadan.
Okay?
And,
fasting appeared in three forms.
Of course, when they first came, you know,
to Medina,
he, the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, fasted
on Ashura,
and then also
he,
wanted he he told his followers to fast
3 days in every month.
So that's the that's the middle 3 days,
the white nights.
So they're supposed to fast on those days
also. There was no
Ramadan in the 1st year when they were
there,
in Medina.
After that,
then,
the second chapter of the Quran is revealed,
verse 183
where it says, kutibaa'alaikumusiam,
that fasting has been written on you as
it was on those before you.
And this is where Ramadan
comes in.
Okay? So that's the process of
obligatory fasting
and how it comes in. So it shows
you how important
Ashura actually is.
And you can see based upon
the Muslims
today,
a lot of people are even surprised if
you tell them Ashura is on Tuesday coming,
right?
They might get shocked,
okay, because it doesn't have
that nature
that it did before and it's supposed to.
We're supposed to be following
the calendar
as the sunnah, as the people who follow
the sunnah.
So we are following this calendar
and that is where,
the importance of Ashura comes in.
Okay?
So, Ibn Abbas also said
in speaking about Ashura,
I never saw the Messenger of Allah sallahu
alaihi wa sallam
so keen
to fast any day
and give it priority over any other day
except this day of Ashura.
And this month,
which he meant Ramadan.
So after Ramadan,
like this, he was keen
on fasting this day.
Okay? That's how important
this day is supposed to be.
And the prophet also said for fasting the
day of Ashura, I hope that Allah will
accept it as a kafarah, as an expiation
for the year that went before.
So the sins, the minor sins
that went for the year before can be
forgiven
for fasting on Ashura.
That's how important this day is.
Okay?
And
the other day that's not mentioned much
in general
Muslim discussions,
that is the day of Tasua
Tasua.
Can anybody figure out where the word Tasua
comes from?
Ashura comes from Asherah.
Those of you who know a little bit
of Arabic,
where do you think Tasua comes from?
Count in Arabic. And then you can you
can any of you count in Arabic?
Right?
So you what had it named? Dalatha, Adaba,
Khamsa, Sitta, Saba, Damania,
Tissa.
Is 9. Right?
And Ashura is 10. So Ashura from Ashura,
Tasua from Tissa.
So this is the 9th day of Muhar.
It's called Tasua. It's not really
such a major it's not mentioned much within
our literature, although it is there, but the
general population
doesn't usually
mention the word Tasua.
Anyhow, it comes in
that Ibn Abbas reports
that when the Messenger, O Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, fasted on Ashura,
he commanded the Muslims to fast as well.
They said, oh Messenger, Allah, it is a
great day venerated by the Jews and Christians.
The next tradition says,
the prophet said, if I live to see
the next year,
InshaAllah,
we will fast on the 9th day too.
Okay?
But it so happened as Ibn Abbas reports
that the Messenger of Allah
passed away
before the next year.
But he said if I was to live
to the next year,
I'm gonna fast on 9th
to be different.
Okay. So 9th,
and 10th
are the fasting days,
the critical fasting days
for the month of,
Ashura,
that's Tasua
and Ashura,
the 9th 10th.
Okay.
And
there's also some discussion
of 11th
but basically speaking,
to fast on Asura
is not obligatory.
K? That's a question that might come up.
Is it obligatory? It's not like Ramadan.
So it's not obligatory.
Although it is strongly,
highly recommended,
look at because of the of of the
the value of
it, the virtues,
and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was
so keen to fast on that day, so
it's not obligatory.
And therefore obviously Tasua
also is not obligatory,
but strongly recommended
to fast on the 9th
and then to fast
on 10th.
And some scholars say that if for some
reason you didn't make it for 9th,
in order to be different,
you know, than the yahood,
then do it the next day too.
But the 11th is not mentioned in the
traditions.
Okay? But it is allowed to do, you
know, that Muchalafah,
to be different,
by doing on 11th as well. So that
that is possible then.
And that means that
we are on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday
coming,
according to our mainstream,
position
is
Tasua
and Tuesday
coming is Ashura.
So we should fast on those 2 days,
in the same way as like you get
up for Suhur
and you fast the whole day as we
do in Ramadan.
Okay? And,
iftar in the evening.
There's no tarawiyah. There's nothing like that, but
it is there. And then the next day
of Ashura,
we also fast,
you know, on that day. Okay. So that's
the 9th and 10th. And if for if
for some reason you couldn't make the 9th,
10th, we got to really strive for the
Tuesday.
Okay. But if for some reason you couldn't
make the Monday, then definitely the Tuesday and
you could do the Wednesday as well
just to be different.
Okay?
So this is the fasting,
in Muharram.
These are the virtues of the month.
It's positive thing for us.
So it is Alhamdulillah.
It is, you know, to venerate the day
for Thanksgiving.
It's it's celebratory
but it's also thanking Allah. So we're withholding,
you know, to to thank Allah for
the blessings
of Ashura.
So I want to open up the floor
for any questions,
that anybody may have concerning,
you know, the month of,
Muharram.
Well, first, Ashura and then the month of
Muharram. Floor is open.
Is there a double reward
Is it double reward?
You mean, in general or this one? For
the 5th on Monday. Yes. Normally, we're passing
on Monday to Thursday.
Yeah.
There's no mention about whether it's double. Monday
is a Sunday day because all of it's
Sunday. All of it's like,
you know, recommended, strongly recommended, but it's not
obligatory.
No. But this Tasua is special for that.
Okay. The floor is open for any other
general questions that anybody has concerning
the fasting in Ashura.
Online.
Yeah. What would you say are, like, some
of the reasons why these kinds of traditions
were eroded
or, like, forgotten? Uh-huh.
Well, you know, they are there.
I mean, it is there in the Muslim
world.
But,
for most people,
you know, fasting
is not something that the human body wants
to do. Right?
So people are not striving to fast.
That's why maybe people are more a little
reluctant to fast they don't look at it.
You know
like when you look at the 2 Eids
outside of if you're on Hajj,
Eid al Fitr
is massive celebration
because we are not fasting anymore. Right? We
are eating.
So everybody wants to eat. Right? So you'll
never forget Eid al Fitr.
But then time goes by and suddenly somebody
says, you know, Eid al Fitr Eid al
Adhar is in 3 days.
And they get shocked, right?
Because there's nothing, there's no big fasting or
anything before it. So
unfortunately, it is weakness of people.
They're not striving to,
you know,
to not eat and drink,
although there's great blessings.
That's opposite of how we should be thinking.
Right?
We should be thinking in the sense, it's
an opportunity for
us to again purify ourself.
That's right.
This is why it's important
to follow along with the Islamic calendar,
you know, constantly throughout the year. Question online.
Why is is Ashura understood differently
amongst the communities?
Okay.
This is another question
and,
you know, we have to deal with it
and get
what has happened over the centuries
is,
because Islam spread
to different parts of the world
and events happened,
people sometimes
put more emphasis on the events
after the time of the Prophet
than what happened during his time.
Okay. Also, cultural things come in as well.
So you find in some
communities within Islam,
you find extremes.
1 of the extremes which is not spoken
about so so much,
of of of 1 group,
Nasabin,
just 1 group,
because,
Ashura,
people fast on it, but it's supposed to
be a celebration.
So they go overboard
to
celebrate.
So they have all types of things that
they do
in celebrations
during this time. That's not the sunnah.
We are happy and what not but we're
fasting.
So it's not a celebration, open celebration
because you are fasting on that day.
So you cannot treat it like Eid day
but they went to an extreme and treated
it like Eid day.
Okay. The other
group, and this is a long discussion
in it, but basically to,
to summarize it,
this is the position of the Shia
and the Shia community
today in the world,
because of social media and whatnot, you say
Muslim world, Sunni and Shia,
as though it's divided in half it's not
divided in half.
The Sunnah, the ones following directly
with the Prophet SAW are about 85
to 90 percent of the Muslim world.
So it's not divided in half.
Okay. However,
there were people in,
the Muslim world,
and this is a long discussion
which we have if you want to get
the details in it. We have a we
have
a a course,
SECTS,
s e c t s, and groups in
Islam.
There are other discussions you can get online
as well by different scholars. I know Sheikh
Yasir Qadi and some others have some good
discussions on this as well. So you get
a, you know, a brief summary.
But basically speaking,
after the death of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam, there were differences of opinion in terms
of leadership.
Who would be the the Khalifa?
Should it be somebody from the family of
the prophet
or should it be somebody chosen by the
Muslims?
And the overall
writing position
overriding position was that it should be somebody
chosen by the Muslims.
Even the Prophet's cousin Ali,
who was closest to his son, he agreed
with
this because the leaders after the prophet was
Abu Bakr, Umar and Earthmen.
But the 3rd caliph or the 3rd leader
unfortunately was assassinated
by an extreme group
and his family called the Umayyads, they wanted
revenge,
but Ali,
the main body, said we first consolidate
rule
and
they chose Ali as the Khalifa.
So he's the 4th great Khalifa.
The other side, the Umayyads,
we will call them,
they disagreed
and this disagreement eventually,
turned out to be,
some fighting went on. There was conspirators on
both sides
and fighting went on.
And the side of Ali,
was victorious,
and,
the the the the rule of Islam
continued.
Okay. So the rule of Islam never,
basically
ended
there.
Ali, however, himself, because of so many conspirators,
he was assassinated
and,
his son,
Hassan,
was elected, not selected because of his,
his identity
as the leader.
But the other side, which disagreed, was led
by Muawiyah,
one of the great companions.
Hassan,
Ali's son, was elected as the Khalifa. He
said, I give the leadership to you, Mahawiyah.
You're the leader.
K. So now there's peace.
So peace was established
amongst the Muslims.
Everything went back to almost normal.
Muawiyah
was a fairly righteous leader,
but Muawiyah's
greatest mistake
was that he trusted his son Yazid.
So he changed it into a kingdom because
he now wanted to give the rule to
his son and not have the community select
the leader. And Yazid had personality problems.
Okay. Some even say that he drank
alcohol. Allah knows best.
But many of the companions refused to follow
Yazid.
They refused.
Abdullah ibn Zubayr,
great companion.
He went he controlled Mecca and Medina
for 20 years.
They did not follow,
the Umayyads.
Many companions refused
and one of the great companions named, Al
Hussein,
who is the grandson of the prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi wa Salam's brother. Right? They were twins.
So Hassan's brother,
he was given a message by the people
of Iraq of a place called Kufa.
If you come to us in Iraq, we
will struggle with you against Yazid.
And Hussein,
despite the fact that other companions told him
do not leave Medina,
you can't these people are fickle, they
change.
If you win, they're with you. If you're
against if you lose, they're against you like
Toronto Raptors fans
or Toronto, you know, Blue Jays. You know,
if, you know, if if the Toronto's winning,
everybody's yay. If they lose, then you're you're
in the doghouse.
Okay? It's fickle.
So they were fickle in Kufa.
And by the time Hussein and his family
got close to Kufa and Iraq,
they changed their mind
and they left him alone
with his family. Yazid sent his forces,
and they slaughtered Hussein,
well, Yadavila, may Allah be pleased with him
and his family,
in a place called Karbala.
Okay?
And that is insane.
But the but the soldiers who were in
the army of the Ramaids were mainly Syrians.
So they were new Muslims.
So they didn't know anything about companions or
anything. They were just allegiance to their leader
in Syria
and they saw this group as conspirators.
Okay. So
once the smoke cleared
and the people of Kufa
realized
what they had done,
they had left Hussein
in the middle of the desert,
like leaving the
maple leaf, Toronto maple leaves,
leaving them before their final game, right?
They left him alone
and he died.
They were really sad about this.
So they went to Karbala
and they wanted to repent.
And this is a strange practice, nothing to
do with the sunnah.
So they went there and they started to,
fast, and then they even beat themselves,
beat their chests.
Some of them even tortured themselves.
You know, you have these groups like this
in the Christians have a group called Opus
Die,
And Opus die Christians are extremists.
If the man looks at a woman too
much, then he goes home and beats himself
20 times
because by flagellating himself, he's getting rid of
the sins. Right?
This this, is in a lot of different
religions.
So this group,
these people of Kufa,
were doing these things, flagellation things and all
that to themselves
in order to make up for the sin
of
leaving Hussein in Karbala.
Alright?
And this practice
continued amongst them.
It was not the mainstream Shia at that
point, because Shia was only the group that
was with, Ali,
But eventually it became
one of their practices.
As the years went by, it became the
dominant
practice in the month of March.
So in the mainstream Shia community,
and if you go online right now,
you might see some crazy things happening. Right?
And you say, like, Muslims?
And you see they're like,
and they take something, they shave their head,
poke a hole with a razor, and then
beat it
till the blood comes out.
Because the more blood that fall falls,
they think it's like sins coming down.
Now think about that and think about the
sunnah, think about Ashura.
Remember Ashura?
Day of celebration,
day of Thanksgiving,
day of veneration,
Musa is saved from the pharaoh.
Where's beating your head until you bleed?
That's like another religion. Right?
That's what is called bidah.
That is an innovation
in the religion. It is a straight up
innovation.
But because time went by and, you know,
people's weakness,
it now is a mainstream practice
done by the people within that 15%.
Not 85% of Muslims don't do this.
But that
group, especially in Iran
and Iraq, Iraq is the center of it,
Parts of Syria
and some pockets in different parts of the
world.
They take the 10 days of
ah, shura meaning the whole 10 days.
So for all of these 10 days they
will get together and they will read poetry
and they cry, like they cry and they
cry.
And it reaches a climax on 10th day
where they're, you know, getting rid of, expiating
their sins,
you know, whatnot
on the day of Ashura.
Okay? So this has nothing to do with
Sunnah.
And as a new Muslim,
this is not your religion
because you cannot find anywhere
where the Prophet himself did this,
his companions,
his companions' companions,
none of them did this.
It is only those people of CUFA who
were trying to repent.
You see?
And they did it as an extremist.
So it has nothing to do with our
original practice. But unfortunately, because of social media
now, for centuries it was not even
recognized
by the mainstream Muslims.
But because of social media now, it's it's
now
projected
around the place.
So people will say, you know, Sunni Shia,
as though half the Muslim world are beating
themselves.
That's not true.
Okay? And as new Muslims,
we we go back to the the foundation
of our faith.
And we pray that Allah would guide, you
know, these people who are doing this, you
know, back to the truth, you know, so
they don't, you know, continue this extremism
in their Islam.
Okay. So floor is open for any other
questions,
anybody may have concerning, you
know, this,
practice of Ashura.
The recommended
days
would be
9th 10th.
The 3rd day
is permissible
to Fast,
but generally it is done for the people
who did not get
the
9th with the 10th. Right?
Some people say, okay. Maybe there's a difference
of opinion about what day it is Islamically
or whatever.
So just fast all 3 days
and you know that you got it.
That's how some people look at it.
Alright?
But basically, in terms of what you have
to do, it is the 9th and 10th.
You want to fast on 11th, it's okay.
But 9th and 10th are the are the
2 key days
for the fasting.
Now,
any other general questions or anybody
Okay. So now we want to open the
floor for any general questions,
that anybody has concerning,
practices within Islam.
Okay.
Floor is
open. So so this month,
again,
when we talk about,
we're using the words Sunni and Shia.
Sunni is not a little group.
Sunni means
for those who follow sunnah.
So those who are following the methodology
and lifestyle
of Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. That
is what the word sunni means.
So those who are following the first,
you know,
dispensation
and that is
that Ashura is a day of veneration,
celebration,
forgiveness of sins.
And you don't have to hurt yourself
to get your sins forgiven.
You just have to fast.
You don't have to hurt yourself.
That is the sunnah.
That's what we're talking about when we say
the Ahl sunnah.
Okay. It's been now brought down to this
Sunni Shia as though it's too little groups.
No.
This is the overriding,
overwhelming majority of Muslims
and that is that is the true practices
of Islam,
you know, from the base.
If you go with what what happens
afterwards,
there's all types of things that people do
on Ashura.
Some people say on Ashura,
the 10 days,
you need to put this kahol,
in your eyes.
If you put kahol in your eyes, this
is a sort of, it's a type of,
you know, you know, special mineral that you
put in and darkens your eyes. You'll have
special sight.
If you give during the 10 days, Allah
will give to you.
Some people say, you know, you can't get
married in,
Muharram.
Rest of your 10 days, you can't get
married.
Because how can you get married if you're
if you're crying and you're sad. Right?
See? But some people, I think Indo Pakistani
people, those who have a background like that,
in some parts of India and Pakistan, they
are affected by the Shia.
So these 10 days,
they are walking around sad too
and and they are affected by it.
So that you know, there's all types of
superstitious practices that are done during these 10
days. And this other group, Nas Sabine, you
know, group, they're extremists
on the other
side.
On 10th day,
it's a it's a Eid
celebration.
And the eating food and dressed up and
everything and carrying on and, you know, it's
like it's another extreme the other the other
way.
That's not the Sundar as well.
So you'll run into different types of practices
done,
during this month but, you know, the the
middle road
based on the prophet's practice,
that is clear.
Right? And and that's the position,
you know, that we take during this time.
It's a win
win situation, it's positive time
and it's something,
you know, that we can continue without going
into extremes.
Okay. So floor is open again for any
other general questions,
anybody may have
concerning the month of Ashurah. No? So, you
mentioned,
that the prophet,
That's right.
Like, can you tell us more about what
that is?
Yes. So so what you can see is
that
he is tied into the prophets who came
before
because the prophet prophet Muhammad, peace be upon
him, said the prophethood is like a beautiful
building
and has one brick missing
and I am that brick.
So he looked at prophethood,
all the prophets as being his brothers.
Those and that's the reason why you see
with pilgrimage,
much of the pilgrimage is the practice of
Ibrahim,
Ismail Hajar.
Right? It starts because it's a
continuation.
So what so so what he saw was
that if this is being done, was this
the time when Musa was, you know, saved?
This the time when the ark landed
Vanuah on Mount Judi?
Then we will also
venerate this day. We will fast as well.
But
we're gonna be different
because we're the last ummah.
So we will do the 9th and the
10th
to distinguish ourself
from the previous,
dispensations.
However,
we recognize
the people of the book
and this is an important concept because people
tend to tend to think that Muslims are
against the Jews,
against the Christians. No.
All of them are together. It's all people
of the book, people of Revelation.
Okay. So we're a continuation,
of the previous,
prophets
and
their dispensations,
their generations
that came before us. See? So it's almost
like prophethood
and it comes down, it stops
with Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. That's
our religion.
Underneath it
k. Underneath it,
if you have the Sunnah,
if you have the righteous caliphs,
you can do some things, but your base
is
stops with the Prophet.
See? Whereas, in in in the group of
the Shia, the problem is the basis of
their religion
is starting the most important thing is after
the prophet.
It is not his time.
You see? You You can see the difference
in the 2.
Because if we were to base
for just for instance,
if we were
sad
and crying because of the death of Hussein
RadiAllahu An,
Hassan also was killed.
Umar ibn al Khattab,
the Great Khalifa,
he was assassinated.
Uthman
was assassinated.
Right? Ali was assassinated
because their lives are on the line. Right?
So and you you go and you'll see
so many companions gave their life in the
path.
If we were to cry
and be sad because of the death of
companions
we'd be crying every day of the year.
Think about this.
We should be crying every day of the
year because you can find some companion
or great person who might have died in
the path of Allah on that day.
That's because after the Prophet's time. You see?
So we cannot base the religion
on what has come afterwards.
The base of the religion
stops
with the prophethood.
And the Quran says today Allah said I
have completed my religion for you
and gave you Islam as your faith.
Complete it.
No need to add extra things on afterwards.
Okay?
So
this is clear
for those who have the vision to see.
If you're dealing with the sunnah, it's clear.
And the prophet, peace be upon him, said,
He said, I left you on a clear
path.
It's night is like it's day.
Nobody will go away from this
if somebody who is
headed for destruction.
Shura, put it together,
it's clear
what it's supposed to be.
But when people don't have that information
or they're brainwashed by their group
and they think this is the only way,
then they will get involved with the practices
and then it becomes
a nationalistic
thing, a tribalistic thing,
and people start relating to it like tribes
and whatever and they forget the Sunda.
That's not what we want
because we're not tribes and nations.
You know, we are submitting to Allah and
his messenger.
So this is a really important
issue to think about as new Muslims where
you stand.
All the cultural practices that you will see
brought to you by people,
use the Koran, use the Prophet's life as
your
basis.
That is how you judge whether you do
it or not.
If the cultural practices of people are against
the sunnah,
don't do it.
Right? If it's in line with the Prophet's
way, then then we follow it.
And this is a clear example
of something that goes, you know, off
the way. You know, it's just so strange
to see how motivated people are,
motivated to do craziness.
You know, and, that's a strange
phenomenon.
But that's the condition of human beings. Human
beings can do strange things.
Okay. If through ignorance
and through emotion and tribalism,
human beings can do very strange things.
Any more questions anybody might have? Floor is
open for any questions.
So we will close the class here and
InshaAllah next week we will continue
on with our
going through the life of the prophet.
Some interesting points you know are to come
Get your questions.
You know, we keep the corner alive Insha'Allah.
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