Abu Taymiyyah – Fasting Muharram VS Lashing your back on Ashoora Imamhussein & Halloween
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Brothers and sisters,
their respective
uncles and aunties,
You
know, this year that Allah
has given us
that consists of 12 months
You tend to find that there is certain
times in the year
where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
has designated for that time
special
things that take place.
There's virtuous
regarding it
And there's other
blessings that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
has blessed
certain times of the year.
We tend to find ourselves every now and
again. Our iman goes down.
But you find that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
He gives us times like Ramadan.
People's Imaan tends to boost up.
Especially maybe the last few months they may
have had.
The imam went down.
They wound themselves.
They found themselves in situations
in which they were sinning.
But then the lifeline came through the mouth
of Raula
for a person
to bring back up his imam
with everything happening around him. From the khair,
the goodness,
the people that have started
doing good again.
And then you tell the fine brothers and
sisters as soon as the raman finishes
And the
doors of hellfire are snapshot, and the shayra
king, they locked up. The shayra king, they
get unleashed.
Just as we get to a aid, you
tend to find that
we end up destroying maybe many good acts
that we've done in the month of Allah
on the day of Eid.
And I don't need to go into much
detail of what
many of the Usid Ahab are doing on
this day.
Then brothers and sisters,
as time goes on, the demand is going
down. Allah
throws you another lifeline.
The first 10 days of Duhija,
people's demand was down.
It's lowest.
But Allah
gave you these virtuous 10 days.
There is no action that a person does.
Then
the actions, the righteousness that he does in
the 10 days of the the first 10
days.
So Omani said, what else jihad?
Even jihad?
The
prophet
said, what else jihad? Even jihad?
Even jihad?
It doesn't equal that goodness, the best it
does. The reward that he gets out of
what he does in these 10 days,
anything else.
But then the prophet said,
throws in all our life mind to you.
As soon as that 10 days finish,
again brothers and sisters,
we we tend to go back to our
daily lives
which might consist
of days in which we might not even
remember Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And then Allah
brothers and sisters,
in this month
that we are about to enter into
the month of Al Muharam.
Allah
swtamah throws us another light's mind
in order to get back on our feet.
If we were sitting, the bar Imam went
down to boost it up again.
This month, brothers and sisters,
has
many aspects that we can today speak about.
The 3 things that I want to touch
on today
is the virtue that comes with this month.
Also, brothers and sisters,
fasting the day of Yeshua
and
also
Halloween.
And some of the things that people tend
to do on the day of Ashura.
Because it's a day that has been connected
with a lot of controversy.
Do we whip ourselves and lash our backs,
and make ourselves bleed and cut our body
parts open?
Or do we fast in a civilized way?
Brothers and sisters,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells in the Quran.
This year that we have has been split
into 12 months.
The day when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala preached
to heaven and the earth.
And from these 12 months, brothers and sisters,
there is 4 months that are sacred.
Prophet told us that he was narrating Baran
Abu Hari,
a standard to
The year is 12 months.
It has 4 sacred months.
3 months that go
come after each other insistently.
1 after the other. Sorry.
3 months that come after the other.
Then the prophet
said,
the month of Rajah which is between Jamadi
and also Sharban.
Brothers and sisters,
when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said
of the
Quran, from those who are excessive when it
came to
doing tafsir of the Quran.
That's why his tafsir
is taking into consideration
more than others of the
And sinning in this month, brothers and sisters,
It is more worse as in Abbas
says,
and also doing good deeds.
Righteous actions,
a person against far creates a reward.
Oppressing yourselves, brothers and sisters,
one shouldn't do this at all.
Oppressing yourselves in these 4 months are far
greater
than doing it outside these 4 months.
Even though oppression
in any case and in any time is
something that is great.
1 shouldn't be oppressing himself or oppressing anyone
else. What do you mean by oppressing yourself?
When you sin, when you transgress against the
purdood, the innocent of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
For operating these months than the other months.
But at the same time, want you to
be doing that anyway.
Especially
transgressing and also oppressing others.
Brothers and sisters,
we need to hasten.
Not only in these mams that Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala has specified.
Rather, we shouldn't be oppressing anyone. And we
should seek forgiveness as soon as possible. People
tend to seek forgiveness maybe before they are
going to Hajj.
And
what's the message goes around?
Everybody forgive me.
Only at the time of Hajj billi halei,
or only in the month of Ramadan, or
only on the day of Eid, or maybe
in the first 10 days of the Ijja,
or in these months.
Rather the prophet,
and will be placed on your behalf.
That is the greatness of
that we know
the
great days of Islam,
and we take the responsibility as parents.
And likewise, as lecturers put a hat
that we convey this
to everybody that we know,
especially our kids.
If you ask our kids today,
when you ask them about the celebrations that
the Kufar
have, and we can't blame them. They are
in these schools.
They are able to tell you They
are able to tell you straight
away. In April, we celebrate what? Easter. Christmas
comes,
that's in December.
Halloween,
it's in this month.
These days are known by them.
Inside out, they knew it.
But maybe we asked them about, what do
you know about the days of the hija?
Many of our kids don't know.
You asked them about the day of Arafah.
What is the rewards for it?
So how did this day come about, brothers
and sisters?
Why so special about
this month and the day of Ashura?
The prophet used to dedicate this month
in fasting
and it came in the hadith that the
prophet
said,
The best fasting after the month of Ramadan
is fasting in the day of in the
in the month of
He used the excessive in fasting in this
month.
Brothers and sisters, if we look at his
way, this month,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, this month of Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala,
he done Ilaha for the insaviyi,
called it sha'ullah.
Then it shows the honor of his issue.
When we hear Baytullah,
the house of Allah, that issue is honorable.
It
shows us the greatness
and the secretness of this issue.
That we shouldn't be taking it lightly.
We didn't hear this about
of Ashura.
How did this day come about?
The prophet
said then,
They replied back and they said,
This is a righteous day.
This is the day when Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala he saved
many Israel from the enemy, from Fir'aun.
And because of this, we fast.
So he commanded everybody to fast.
Because we are the people who what?
Follow the Din of Musa, alayhi, salam,
how it should be followed.
They oppressed him. They bullied him. They chased
him out. They attacked him. They done all
sorts of things to him,
the Jews.
And you can find it in the Quran.
And you can find it in the Quran.
Allah says in the Quran,
They really gave Musa alaihi a very tough
title.
So the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa sallam
I didn't see the promise of Allah by
waiting or wanting that we would
of the day of Ashura
I believe that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala,
he would forgive
the past sins for the last year.
Fast on this one day brothers and sisters.
Do not take this lightly. We all have
many sins. Allah a'lujah can keep throwing us
these chances that come running back to him.
If our iman drop, if we sin, if
we done whatever we done from the things
that Allah ahsawwade is displeased with,
He's telling you come back to me, take
this reward, and do this action.
So we shouldn't take it very, very lightly
brothers and sisters.
From the day of Ashura.
Alakim al Hadith of Ibn Abbas salAllahu alayhi
wa'ala narrated by your Muslim
that
some of the companions of the prophet
and he said to the prophet,
this is the day
This is the day that the Jews and
the Christians,
they create in this day. They really honor
and respect this day.
So then the prophet said,
If I live the next year, then I
will fast the 9th day also.
Yoh, my Ashur, our brothers and sisters, on
10th of Muharram,
when the Prophet was told, when the prophet
was told
that the Yahud and the Christians,
they greater, they honor this day.
And he gave you another narration. The 10th
is the 8th of Yehud.
It's the day of celebration. It's the 8th.
This day they respect it.
The prophet
said, if I live the next year,
then I will fast the 9th as well.
He tried to be different,
but the thing is brothers and sisters, he
died before that. That was the only time
that he fasted on the day of Ashura.
What we learned from this brothers and sisters,
and that brings me on to the issue
of hideaway.
How the prophet
used to always try to be different
from the Yahuja and Rasalah. Try to be
different from whatever they do.
There is a line that we need
Does that mean, brothers and sisters, that we
compromise in our region? Or
when Bob, my neighbor, he says, hello, Muhammadu
in the morning. How are you? Good morning.
Then I give him a dirty note
that I behave towards him in a inmanned
way.
Rather, we behave in a nice way, but
when it comes to our religion,
this is my religion, and that's your religion.
I will not take part of participating in
your religion.
But today, brothers and sisters,
Our religion being watered
down. Us compromising
just so
we fit in.
Who said you can't fit in by practicing
your religion?
We used to work in government companies
where everybody dresses up
on the day of Halloween.
We go in the fold, they think that
we've dressed up as old.
Well, my brothers and sisters, there was a
time I went to the food center.
A man he's wearing what the wizard wear.
It's like a fold, a black fold, but
he's got a hood. I don't have a
hood.
Because, Mohammed, we look we look the same
today
because of the soul that I'm wearing.
This is my religion, that's your religion.
So prophet
said, look brothers and sisters,
in many examples that I can give you,
he tried to be different, But at the
same time, he wasn't horrible to
them. He tried to hold him in a
nice way just so they could accept that
Islam. He had a smile on his face.
Make your bids red,
yellow it.
For indeed, the people of the book, they
don't what?
To be different from them. They don't do
that.
Then
The
people of the book, they wear trousers, but
they don't wear gizah.
So the prophet said,
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he said,
Let your beard grow
and cut your moustaches.
And many examples brothers and sisters that we
can give. This is how the prophet was
with this religion.
But at the same
time, he tried to call them to Al
Islam in a very nice way.
When they spoke to him, he didn't disrespect
them. Iba told they would disrespect him.
With his morals and with his behavior, with
his manners,
there will be people who will enter into
Islam.
And at the same time, he threw the
eye. He didn't compromise with his religion.
Brothers and sisters,
imagine now we have all these nusos,
Abdul Raul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And then maybe we go and we celebrate
in this Iqifada.
These celebrations that our religion has nothing to
do with.
Our kids, when you look at other way
brothers and sisters,
the reality of the matter is, who are
we imitating? We're imitating the shaykhan.
He puts on a costume
which is devilish,
Or he tries to dress up like a
kahid,
a sorcerer.
And Abu Shariya tells her things about the
kahid.
Whoever goes to one and they believe where
he said this person has disbelief in what
came down upon the messenger. The Prophet
said.
And then we come and we imitate them.
And the kids,
I made
a oath
that I'm going to slaughter in a place
called Buwana. So the prophet is speaking, why
did you specifically choose Buwana? He asked me
2 questions.
In this place where you're saying Buwana,
did the people of Jaziriyah
used to worship a statue, a specific
god there? He said, no.
2nd question you asked him.
Did they used to have their celebrations in
that place?
He said, no.
So he says to him, okay. Go on
and Surazah.
What does it show you brothers and sisters?
The prophet is asking him, why specifically
you want to do Ibadah in a specific
place? The question was, did they used to
do their Eids in this place? They did
a
celebration.
So if the prophet is telling him, don't
do your Ibadan in this kind of place.
Imagine a person who goes and then
you know? And he takes part and participates
their celebrations.
The last thing I want to conclude is
with, brothers and sisters,
and it's the most controversial part
of this day of Ashura.
Do we whip ourselves and lash our backs
and make ourselves bleed?
Or do we fast
in a civilized way?
You're going to find on WhatsApp videos going
wrong.
A bunch of people going to Khabbarah
and other places, and they are whipping their
backs.
Mourning, and being upset
over the death of the Hussain.
Brothers and sisters from our Aqidis,
SAW
Alaihi Wasallam,
Hazar and Hussain and their descendants.
We love them. We respect them. And we
hold them in high esteem.
So if you don't now go and celebrate
this day as some of our or some
of these people they do,
the Shia,
They tend to maybe accuse you of, you
don't love Hussain. You don't love Elevate. Why
are you not celebrating?
Why are you not taking place? Or why
are you not participating
in some of the gatherings that we have
in our houses? We get together. We eat.
We cry. We get upset.
Brothers and sisters,
you think if Hussein
was here today,
he would approve of that which is taking
place.
Look what the prophet
told
us about that which is called
Morning.
A woman withholding for beautifying herself.
In a specific time. When does she not
beautify herself?
When someone dies.
Her husband, he dies.
The prophet
It is not permissible for a woman
who believes in Allah on the last day
to mourn
over
a dead person more than 3 days.
Except over husband, 4 months 10 days.
What's taking place today, brothers and sisters?
Every year of someone's life, he's celebrating.
Not celebrating. They're mourning. They're getting upset. Crying
over the death of Rasayna.
Rasayna.
Rasayna. He used to
respect the prophet in what in doing the
action that the prophet wanted him to do.
He used to imitate him all the time.
So
here, people are holding this one. Do you
think he would be pleased with it?
Without the brothers
and sisters, we need to look to say,
The prophet
said, 'Anamin Hussain, what Hussain in me?' Hussain
is from me and I am from him.
The prophet
also told us,
Hassan al Hussain, say he that.
Hasan and Hussain are the leaders of the
youth in the Jannah,
and there's many virtues.
Brothers and sisters,
there's a problem with that person if he
doesn't love the alibates, or he hates them.
The prophet
the Arabic,
except a person that would be entered into
where? The fire. The prophet said.
Brothers
and
sisters, look how they whip themselves
and pay attention to this when you see
these videos.
Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, he told us,
Those who accused, they chase believing women,
and they don't bring 4 witnesses,
then they should be lashed 80 times.
Today, we don't have anyone that
applies his capital punishment.
You know about these people, brothers and sisters,
of Harid Islam Aunias.
They curse Aisha Taw Ya'amu Anha.
They call Hazdaiya,
a fornicator, and they don't believe in the
chapter that came down. And so on to
know.
You know what someone one time said? And
they wrote this on a picture. I was
like, this person hit the nail on his
head.
They accused Aisha of
No one was there to apply a tablet
of punishment.
80 rashes.
So
Allah he tried them with their own selves.
He's whipping himself now.
For he is in Aisha,
He's whipping himself. Nobody came and whipped him
and applied the fact of punishment to that.
He got the lashes and he lashed himself.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala traveled through this way.
All of these people who you will find
will be within themselves making themselves bleed.
And Islam has nothing to do with this.
You will hear a Hadith Modua
fabricating a light against the prophet of Allah
with some light.
They say,
Whoever has a bath from the day of
Ashura,
this person will not become sick that year.
Forgot
to mention that. He won't his eyes won't
get affected that year. And this person who
washes himself, he won't become sick that year.
And then there's another narration that they have.
Wasa Allah.
Who was generous
to his family on that day?
The Tawba will be generous upon him.
All of these narrations, brothers and sisters,
They are lying against the prophet
Rather than that which is required of us,
is the fast.
And then break our fast at the time
of sunset
and keep it moving. And a home from
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that was
he accepts our fast and he forgives
the past tense for the previous year.
I ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to benefit
us from what we heard
and to make us from those who follow
the sunnah of the word of Allah. He
was in it. He never replaced it every
time.