Question:
Assalaamwalaikum,
I have a problem and am very depress. Need some dua or wafiza to fulfill my wish . I don’t know whom to write pls email me any peer or maulana’s email contact. Maybe Maulana Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani or Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad’s email address.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Allah hafiz
Answer:
Wa `alaykum salam,
In-sha-Allah Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani is praying for you.
Taher Siddiqui
Question:
Selamun aleykum,
Benim 30,000 salavat borcum var. Sufilive.com/Salawat sitenizdeki bu salavatı bir defa okursam borcum silinir mi?
Allah Dostları, bu salavatın 100,000 salavata denk olduğunu bildirmişlerdir:
اللّهُمَ صَلِّ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمّدٍ عَبدِكَ ونَبِيِّكَ ورَسُولِكَ النَبِىّ الأُمِّىّ وعَلَى آلِهِ وصَحْبِهِ وَسَلِّمْ تَسلِيمَاً بِقَدرِ عَظَمَةِ ذَاتِكَ فِى كُلِّ وَقتٍ وحِين
Allahumme salli ala Seyyidina Muhammedin abdike ve nebiyyike ve rasuliken nebiyyil ummiyy ve ala alihi ve sahbihi ve sellim teslimen bi kadari azameti zatike fi kulli vaktin ve hıyn.
Manası: Ey Allah’ım! Kulun, peygamberin ve resulün olan o nebiyyi ümmi efendimiz Muhammed’e ve âli ashabına, her an zaman Sen’in zatının büyüklüğünün sonsuzluğu kadar salat ve selam eyle.
Translation:
I made a debt upon myself (a vow) to recite 30,000 salawat. If I recite the following salawat once as mentioned on your Sufilive.com/Salawat website, will my vow be fulfilled?
According to awliyaullah, reciting this salawat once is equal to reciting 100,000 salawat!
اللّهُمَ صَلِّ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمّدٍ عَبدِكَ ونَبِيِّكَ ورَسُولِكَ النَبِىّ الأُمِّىّ وعَلَى آلِهِ وصَحْبِهِ وَسَلِّمْ تَسلِيمَاً بِقَدرِ عَظَمَةِ ذَاتِكَ فِى كُلِّ وَقتٍ وحِين
Allahumma salli `alaa Sayyidina Muhammadin `abdika wa nabiyyika wa rasoolika an-nabiyy al-ummiyy wa `alaa aalihi wa sahbihi wa sallim tasleeman bi qadari `azhamati dhaatika fee kulli waqtin wa heen.
O Allah! Please send prayers upon Sayyidina Muhammad, Your Servant and Your Prophet and Your Messenger, the Unlettered Prophet, and send peace and greetings as plenty as Your Greatness, in all times and moments!
Answer:
Alaykum Salam,
Many hadiths promise the rewards of fard acts for doing something small, but that never replaces the obligation of actually adducing those fard acts as required in the Law. For example, the Prophet (saws) said that “If you remain sitting in your spot after Salatul Fajr until the sun rises and then pray 2 rakaats of shuruq, the reward will be like that of a complete, complete, complete Hajj and `Umra.” But no one ever claimed that doing so replaces the obligations of Hajj and `Umra! Therefore, your vow of adducing 30,000 salawat has to be fulfilled just as you pronounced it.
Furthermore it is easy to fulfill and does not form a hardship, which makes it even less excusable not to fulfill. Say “Allahumma salli `ala Muhammadin wa `ala Ali Muhammadin wa sallim” for 8 hours, it will be 30,000 salawat. You can do it while shopping, walking in the street, riding the bus, sitting on a couch or lying down.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
Translation:
Aleykum selam,
Birçok hadis-i şerif küçük bir amel karşılığında farz amellerden kazanılan sevapları vaat eder. Ama bu, şeriat kanununa göre yapmakla yükümlü olduğumuz o farz amellerin yerini hiçbir şekilde alamaz. Örneğin, Peygamber Efendimiz (s.a.v.) buyurdular ki: “Kim sabah namazını cemaatle kılar, sonra güneş doğuncaya kadar oturup Allah’ı zikrederse ve sonra kalkıp iki rek’at (İşrak) namazı kılarsa eksiksiz edâ edilmiş bir Hac ve umre sevabı alır.” Ama hiç kimse bunun Hac ve Ümre farizalarının yerini tuttuğunu iddia etmemiştir. Bu nedenle, eğer 30,000 salavat getireceğine dair bir adağın varsa, bu adağı yerine getirmen lazım.
Üstelik yerine getirilmesi çok kolay bir ameldir, hiçbir zorluğu yoktur ve böyle olması daha da az bir mazerete sebebiyet verir.
Sekiz saatte “Allahumme salli ala Muhammedin ve ala ali Muhammedin ve sellim” dersen toplam 30,000 salavat çekmiş olursun. Bunu alışveriş yaparken, sokakta yürürken, otobusteyken, koltukta otururken veya uzanırken de yapabilirsin.
Question:
as salamawalykum
my ek ladki se behad pyar karta hun aur o ladki bhi mujse karti hai. magar hamare ghar wale hamare shadi ke liye raji nahi hai. Q ki o ladki mahedi (MOMEEN) ki hai. ham 10 sal se ek dusre ko cahte hai. bas app se iltja hai ki aap hame koi dua, wazifa bataiye jise hamare ghar wale jadse jald raji hojaye. Q ki o ladki ke ghar wale uska rista kahin aur taykara ne ki kosis kare hai. to aap hamari madat kiji ye.
Translation:
I love a girl too much and she love me as well but our family is not agreeing in our marriage because the girl is Mahedi (MOMEEN). We know each other for last 10 years, I humbly request you to give me some dua or awrad which will make our family agree on our marriage. Girl’s family is trying to fix her marriage with someone else.
Answer:
A`udhu billahi min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem
Bismillahi ‘r-Rahmani ‘r-Raheem
Wa `alaykum salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
Please see Shaykh Taher’s advice in the Post “For Marriage with my lover“.
Staff
Question:
If a non-Muslim baby or the child who didn’t attend the age of maturity dies will the child be admitted to Jannah? JazakhAllah Khair.
Answer:
Yes, according to a hadith the children of unbelievers who died before maturity are with Sayyidina Ibrahim alayhissalam in paradise.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
Question:
I have a series of erotic photographs, which don’t reveal the entire face and body of the subject, is it haram to share them in an art show?
Answer:
Eroticism is halal between halal partners, so if your art show consists of your lawful spouse(s) there is no harm. For all others it would be haram.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
Question:
Is it haram to take pictures of your underwear and send it to your boyfriend because you can’t have sex till marriage?
Answer:
It is haram to titillate someone who is not your spouse as that breaks the divine command “Do not even approach zina.” Nevertheless the Sunna permits and even recommends the proposer to see three parts of the one they propose to: face, hands and feet as it is more conducive to a desire to marry them; which means that a form of what we may call “appropriate and decent” pre-marital desire is permitted when the objective is marriage. So there are conditional boundaries to permissiveness and these may not be clear to many people.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
Question:
Salaams,
Could you provide further information on the following hadith:
Abu Bakr Ibn Abu Dunya wrote in the book Ahkam al-Qubur (The Rules of Graves), based on a long chain of citation, that the Prophet said: “Daniel prayed to his Lord, Great and Majestic for the nation of Muhammad to bury him.” And he (i.e. Muhammad, PBUH) said: “Whoever discovers Daniel give him tidings of Paradise.” The man who discovered him (his corpse) was called Harqus. Umar sent to Abu Musa saying: “Bury him; and send to Harqus, for the Prophet has given him promise of Paradise.”
This hadith is mursal (it has a good chain of citation) as it is recorded, and Allah knows best.
MaSalaama
Answer:
Alaykum Salam,
Daniel’s dua is narrated in Ibn Abi Shayba’s Musannaf from Sayyidina `Umar (r) and in Ibn Abi Dawud’s Masahif with strong chains, along with the account of the discovery of his grave by Hurqus and the practice of istisqa’ through it but with the addition: the people would bring him out to pray for rain and it would rain.
Wassalam,
Hajj Gibril Haddad
Question:
Assalamoalaikum,
In Sahih Muslim there is a hadith about the sins of Muslims being given to the يهود و نصارى. A scholar said that the hadith is rejected and weak because it contradicts the Quranic verse on soul bearing the burdens of another. How are they reconciled?
Also, could there not be another understanding of the verse “no one can bear the sins of another” because Mawlana always relates the hadith of “man al-muflis” and what transpires… ?
Answer:
Alaykum Salam,
Regarding this particular hadith Imam al-Nawawi and others said that what is meant by the sins being given here is a figure of speech (majaz) standing for the ineluctability or inevitability of punishment for the people of hellfire. So the appearance is that they take on the burdens of others, but the reality is that the others belong in paradise and their sins were forgiven while these belong in hellfire and their sins were not forgiven, so they look as if they are being made to pay for any and all sins of the former. And Allah knows best.
The rightly-guided caliph `Umar b. `Abd al-`Aziz and Imam al-Shafii both said that this was one of the most hopeful hadiths for the Muslims.
Regarding your second question, yes, of course, and that was probably how the early Muslims such as Imam al-Shafii took it. I.e. literally, and as a qualifier of the verse of wa-la taziru. Because if Allah decides, “He is free to put even Sayyidina Isa and his mother in hellfire,” i.e. the legal evidence (dalil shar`i) does not pre-empt the rational evidence (dalil `aqli); likewise He is free also to burden a soul with the sins of another, but in the latter case it is not only a dalil `aqli but a dalil shar`i as well, namely, that the burdened soul has legally deserved it because of its evildoing. Wallahu a`lam.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
Question:
Salam Dear Sheikh,
Hope you are doing fine. Below is a message I got which I would appreciate if you could kindly enlighten us on the issue. Jazakumullah.
FASTING ON THE DAY OF ASHURA
Growing up in a Sunni Islamic orthodox community, we were taught that fasting on the day of Ashura to be something that is prophetic, really important and by doing so, we may gain an extra reward. In fact, there is a hadith saying that fasting on the day of Ashura will expiates the sins of the previous year. However, I refuse to believe in the authenticity of such hadith even though it may come from Bukhari or Muslim. I am going to explain some of the reasons as to why I do not believe in hadith of the fasting on the day of Ashura.
A popular hadith recorded in Bukhari says that Mohammed when he entered Medina in the first year of Hijrah, he saw the Jews were fasting on the day of Ashura. This is as to remember the incident of how the Children of Israel were saved by Moses from the Pharaoh. So, Mohammed then told them that Muslims should be better off than them thus saying that Muslims should fast on the day of Ashura.
There are a few things that can be seen sceptical in this hadith. First of all, this hadith was narrated by Ibn Abbas, Abu Musa al-Ash’ari, Abu Hurairah and Muawiyah bin Abu Sufyan. Let us look at these four Companions and what were they doing at that time:
1. Ibn Abbas was only four years old at that time since he was born three years before Hijrah.
2. Abu Musa al-Ash’ari was in Yemen, spreading the da’wah of Islam. He was not together with Mohammed during the event of Hijrah.
3. Abu Hurairah was not seen during that time. He was only seen in Medina again after the Battle of Khaybar (which happened in the seventh year of Hijrah) while Mohammed entered Medina in the first year of Hijrah.
4. Muawiyah bin Abu Sufyan converted to Islam in the 8th year of Hijrah.
Those where the narrators of the hadith were when the event of Hijrah took place. How can you narrate a hadith when you yourself were not even there? Now, let us look at the definition of ‘Ashura‘. Ibn Athir, an Arabic language scholar, said that ‘Ashura‘ has two meanings (an old meaning and a new meaning):
Old meaning of Ashura: the 10th day of any month. New meaning of Ashura: the 10th day of Muharram and it only occurred after the death of Husayn ibn Ali in the Battle of Karbala.
Now, the hadith reported that the Jews were fasting on the 10th day of Muharram. Please bear in mind that Jewish calender and Islamic calendar are not the same. The Jews were fasting on the 10th day of Tishrei. The day is called Yom Kippur. The Jews fasting on the 10th day of Tishrei has got nothing to do with the 10th day of Muharram. This is because, mathematically, the 10th day of Tishrei only corresponded with the 10th day of Muharram in the 28th year of Hijrah.
Besides that, the fasting on Ashura has got nothing to do with Moses saving the Children of Israel from the Pharaoh. This is because Yom Kippur (Arabic: Yaum al-Kaffarah; English: Day of Atonement) is not the day to remember when Moses saved the Children of Israel from Pharaoh, instead it is the day of atonement or repentance for what the Children of Israel did when Moses were off meditating for 40 days. The Children of Israel were worshiping a calf when waiting for Moses to finish his meditation. The day when Moses saved the Children of Israel was not on the 10th of Tishrei. It happened on the 15th of Nisan (which is supposed to be on the 23rd of Ramadan and not on the 10th of Muharram!).
Other than that, the hadith itself is historically incorrect. Mohammed did not enter Medina in Muharram. Mohammed entered Medina in Rabi` al-awwal. So if there was a fast that is supposed to be recommended, it shouldn’t be in Muharram, instead it should be in Rabi’ al-awwal.
Allah Knows best.
Answer:
Alaykum Salam,
The Umma has been fasting, is fasting and in sha Allah will continue to fast voluntarily in Muharram especially the 10th and around the 10th as this `amal has long been agreed upon as Sunna, and Ashura’ is the most meritorious non-fard fast. Whoever wishes to fast let them fast it and whoever does not is free to leave it.
Wassalam,
Hajj Gibril Haddad
