[WrinnaArraple]

A humble request for practising Muslim Brothers & Sisters...

Please list questions about Islam which absolutely puzzle you and you can't get your head around them no matter how much you read and how much is explained to you!

Here are mine (more to be added later)...

1) What is Bid'ah and how does an act get categorised as Bid'ah?

2) How did Muslims get to be so indiscplined, rude and bad mannered? I mean less then 300 years ago we had a global position and now we are nothing (and thats fine) but how did we fall down from a position of lofty manners of Sunnah and to where we are now i.e. when you visit Muslim countries people stand and urinate against the wall (and just don't care!!!)

[mashabox]

1) What is Bid'ah and how does an act get categorised as Bid'ah?

This question puzzle me as well

[Ibrattnofich]

Assalaamoalaykum-w-w
Would I feel out of place in the Arab world with my big beared and an Amamaa?

[loikrso]

1) What is Bid'ah and how does an act get categorised as Bid'ah?

2) How did Muslims get to be so indiscplined, rude and bad mannered? I mean less then 300 years ago we had a global position and now we are nothing (and thats fine) but how did we fall down from a position of lofty manners of Sunnah and to where we are now i.e. when you visit Muslim countries people stand and urinate against the wall (and just don't care!!!)

I am longing to get a convincing answer to the above questions.

For the second question some say that slavery for a few centuries does leave its mark......

[xyznicks]

2) How did Muslims get to be so indiscplined, rude and bad mannered?

The prophet was sent to perfect our adab and akhlaq. However since shaithan couldn't (or it is hard to) attack our aqidah, the next and easiest thing to attack is our akhlaq and adab. They don't care about the non-muslims because they already manage to ruin their aqidah, but since our aqidah is still intact, they try to play with our adab. If I remember correctly from somebody who said this.

[trowUrillioth]

A humble request for practising Muslim Brothers & Sisters...

Please list questions about Islam which absolutely puzzle you and you can't get your head around them no matter how much you read and how much is explained to you!

Here are mine (more to be added later)...

1) What is Bid'ah and how does an act get categorised as Bid'ah?

2) How did Muslims get to be so indiscplined, rude and bad mannered? I mean less then 300 years ago we had a global position and now we are nothing (and thats fine) but how did we fall down from a position of lofty manners of Sunnah and to where we are now i.e. when you visit Muslim countries people stand and urinate against the wall (and just don't care!!!)

Colonel Saheb, I think Shaykh Hamza has a podcast that is about number 2; I think it's the second half of this one. He translated a book of ahadith The Content of Character on that very topic because of this problem. His speech at RIS The Neglected Sunna is also on adab.

[carletoxtrs]

1) What is Bid'ah and how does an act get categorised as Bid'ah?

2) What are the rules and regulations pertaining to takfir?

3) Which acts (not beliefs!) lead to kufr and and which not? Because there are obviously some acts which lead to kufr but some others will not automatically lead tokufr so how does Ahl al-Sunnah explain this issue.

4) How to effectively bring an Islamically positive change on an entire society within one generation as the Messenger of Allah did within one generation with the Sahaba. (i.e. how to build an Islamic society which cares for Islam and the Muslims' honour)

5) How to effectively bring an Islamically positive change within myself while my environment is completely anti-Islamic to the bone. I cannot work, go to school/university, keep family relations, have friends without comprising my deen.

6) What ingredient to success did the sahabah have which I lack today to get the same success? How can I acquire it? (i.e. why were they so strong and why am I so weak)

[Gymnfacymoota]

Here are mine (more to be added later)...

1) What is Bid'ah and how does an act get categorised as Bid'ah?

2) How did Muslims get to be so indiscplined, rude and bad mannered? I mean less then 300 years ago we had a global position and now we are nothing (and thats fine) but how did we fall down from a position of lofty manners of Sunnah and to where we are now i.e. when you visit Muslim countries people stand and urinate against the wall (and just don't care!!!) The answer to the second question probably lies in your quest to answer the first.

[finasteridonline]

A humble request for practising Muslim Brothers & Sisters...

Please list questions about Islam which absolutely puzzle you and you can't get your head around them no matter how much you read and how much is explained to you!

Here are mine (more to be added later)...

1) What is Bid'ah and how does an act get categorised as Bid'ah?

2) How did Muslims get to be so indiscplined, rude and bad mannered? I mean less then 300 years ago we had a global position and now we are nothing (and thats fine) but how did we fall down from a position of lofty manners of Sunnah and to where we are now i.e. when you visit Muslim countries people stand and urinate against the wall (and just don't care!!!)

as for bid3a/innovation is concerned then its ruling stems from the ground it is rooted in. Just as matters are divided into five situations; obligatory/fardh, recommended/mustahahb, permissible/mubah, disliked/makruh, and forbidden/haram, so are the bid3a that stem from these 5 grounds. There are innovations that are wajib/fardh/obligatory that must be done, whose doing is rewarded and whose abandonment is sinfulness, like the compilation of the Quran which the Sahaba did, the codification and preservation of the Arabic language so that the Quranic and Sunnah terminologies are understood, the gathering of hadith and its recording upon papers/texts, etc., these were all done after the Prophet sallahu aliye wasalam era, and were seen obligatory for the preservation of the deen.

Then there are matters that are recommended/mustahahb, like collective recitation of the entire Quran for a whole month, praying tahajud regularly at night, group dhikr, fasting every two successive days, reciting salawat many times over without a set number, and the tasbeehat as well, giving sweets/chocolates to little ones to make them happy, setting up job training-placement programs for the unskilled poor and deprived so that can find a means of livelihood etc., these are mandub where the doer is rewarded for carrying them out.

Then there are matters that are mubah/permissible, like driving a car instead of camel, flying an aeroplane instead of riding with the wind, using telephone instead of letters, using a camera instead of mirror, etc.

Then there are matters that are disliked, like having a lizard-biryani for a banquet, instead of chicken, etc.

Then there are roots in haram matters, innovations that are haram, like praying 5 rakah for dhuhr instead of 4, delaying the prayers to their dharuri time out of holding it to be unblameworthy, seeing mandub acts as punishable wajib, and wajibs light as mustahab, adopting haram music, obscenity and cursing, as a way to promote the deen etc.,


As for your second question, believe it or not, what i feel that the main cause for the described deteroriation in manners and morals amongst us muslims since the past few centuries, is I believe the dietary habits, and sleeping, if you look at out foods and cusines from the Maghreb till India, then you see how rich they are in all sorts of ingredients, that make the nafs/soul strong and create in the person backwardness and laziness, and love of sleep,which in turn translate into heaviness in behaviour, and handling of the perils of everyday life challenges.

Wallahu A3laam

[bUqLfXRI]

The answer to the second question probably lies in your quest to answer the first.

Thats very true, actually.

[casinobonusese]

Assalaamoalaykum-w-w
Would I feel out of place in the Arab world with my big beared and an Amamaa?

Wa Alaikum as Salaam,

Is this a serious question?




Anyway Brother Colonel,


A question has been playing on my mind thanks to all those beard topics,


If the beard is so important and earns a man such great blessings, how come Allah created millions upon millions of Muslim Adult men with the inability to grow any facial hair at all??


I'll think of some more questions later.Hope someone can come up with a convincing answer for the one above, buena suerte.

[PaulRyansew]

If the beard is so important and earns a man such great blessings, how come Allah created millions upon millions of Muslim Adult men with the inability to grow any facial hair at all??

There exist even people physically unable to perform Sujud (to prostrate), does this fact decrease the importance and virtue of performing Sajdah or even Salah at all?

There are some people unable to fast in the blessed month of Ramadhan. Does fasting become less important? Does it in your opinion maybe even decrease the virtue of the blessed month of Ramadhan?

And there are people unable to pay Zakah, unable to perform Hajj... and the list goes on and on. I just read your post and don't know if this is even sibject of the discussion right now, so I won't dwell further on it. Insha'Allah, this much was enough...

6) What ingredient to success did the sahabah have which I lack today to get the same success? How can I acquire it? (i.e. why were they so strong and why am I so weak)

Spend time in the path of Allah and you'll learn about this. The effort puts much emphasis on this point and matter of fact the solution to this question is one of it's key goals.

[dodadaxia]

2) What are the rules and regulations pertaining to takfir?

Regarding the Fundamentals of Islamic Belief

http://deoband.org/2009/10/aqida/all...slamic-belief/

[Menierofe]

The prophet was sent to perfect our adab and akhlaq. However since shaithan couldn't (or it is hard to) attack our aqidah, the next and easiest thing to attack is our akhlaq and adab. They don't care about the non-muslims because they already manage to ruin their aqidah, but since our aqidah is still intact, they try to play with our adab. If I remember correctly from somebody who said this.

salams brother,
agree with you and if i may add further. Shaytaan by attacking the akhlaaq of a mu'min causes a deteoration in his/her attitude towards everything related to Deen. I'll give some examples.

A mu'min who develops disrespect for others, old, young, male, female, those in authority etc will automatically develop a lack of respect for those who are in authority from a Deeni aspect. For example, lack of respect for scholars. They'll mock those with far suprior knowledge and wisdom to them because of a lack of akhlaaq. Where has that lack of akhlaaq come from? Shaytani influence. What's shaytaan's most defining trait? Arrogance. Arrogance and lack of akhlaaq are both linked. One feeds the other.

A mu'min who develops bad habits such as urinating against a wall doesn't care who sees him. It stems from a lack of modesty and shame. This is another trait of shaytaan.

An erosion of akhlaaq and adab results in a character that is far removed from the Sunnah of Nabi-e-Karim SAW.

If the 5 pillars of Islam are the building blocks of the house, then the Sunnah of Nabi-e-Karim SAW is/are the lights that illuminate that house. The Sunnah encapsulates Akhlaaq and Adab. When the illumination of a house leaves, it's covered in darkness. That house is inhabitable and it decays because there is no-one there to maintain it.

This then sets the scene for shaytaan to attack from an aqidah angle and the rest is well....history. The vast vast vast majority of people that became murtad, you'll find a common denominator; abandonding the Sunnah of Nabi-e-Karim. The enemies of Allah have recognised this for centuries and every single heretic cult you find has this trait; attack the Sunnah.

I've said in a previous post, the deterioration of a muslim nation through history can be traced back to abandoning the work of Dawah. It's this Dawah that is the motivating force to better one's self. This is what drives an individual to learn the Sunnah of Nabi-e-Karim SAW and illuminate that house.

[Ehlgamxf]

A humble request for practising Muslim Brothers & Sisters...

Please list questions about Islam which absolutely puzzle you and you can't get your head around them no matter how much you read and how much is explained to you!

Here are mine (more to be added later)...

1) What is Bid'ah and how does an act get categorised as Bid'ah?

2) How did Muslims get to be so indiscplined, rude and bad mannered? I mean less then 300 years ago we had a global position and now we are nothing (and thats fine) but how did we fall down from a position of lofty manners of Sunnah and to where we are now i.e. when you visit Muslim countries people stand and urinate against the wall (and just don't care!!!)

walikum salam

I share the same questions as you.

3) How to explain all the strange stories and sayings of authentic Sufis, such as those listed in Mashaik e Chist ( available on the Majlis website). Examples: people changing appearances, stories about pigs and dogs, Sufis wanting to commit suicide, Sufis and music etc

[Garry Richardson]

Regarding the Fundamentals of Islamic Belief

http://deoband.org/2009/10/aqida/all...slamic-belief/

for the link, but the word takfir is not even mentioned in the article.

[somamasoso]

for the link, but the word takfir is not even mentioned in the article.

salam

denying any one those 51 points and (others not listed) will take one outside islam..becaue its kufr

also

(1) The first type is that which is proven from clear verses of the Qur’an such as the prohibition of marriage with one’s own mother or daughter. (2) The second type is that which is proven from al-sunnah al-mutawatirah (mass-transmitted narrations) — regardless if the mass-transmission was in letter or in spirit — in belief or in actions, in fara’id (obligatory acts) or in nawafil (supererogatory acts). (3) The third type is that which is established with absolute consensus (ijma’ qat’i) such as the caliphates of Sayyiduna Abu Bakr al-Siddiq and Sayyiduna ‘Umar al-Faruq (may Allah be pleased with them both). There is no doubt that if one denies any of these [three types] then this person’s belief on the Qur’an and the Prophets is not correct.”

denying anything proven from above 3 categories is kufr

[9mm_fan]

salam

denying any one those 51 points and (others not listed) will take one outside islam..becaue its kufr

also



denying anything proven from above 3 categories is kufr

Shaykh Nuh Keller apparently says otherwise in his writing "Iman, Kufr, and Takfir".

Question:

Is someone who has an idea that is kufr or “unbelief” thereby an “unbeliever”?

Response:

The short answer, somewhat surprisingly, is “not necessarily.” In some cases such a person is, and in some not.[...] What are these regulations/rules who according to Shaykh Nuh would not make one a kafir although having beliefs of kufr?

[diundasmink]

Assalamalaikum wa rahamtullahi wabarakatuhu

“And your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him. And that you be dutiful to your parents. If one of them or both of them attain old age in your life, say not to them a word of disrespect, nor shout at them but address them in terms of honor.

“And lower unto them the wing of submission and humility through mercy, and say: ‘My Lord! Bestow on them Your Mercy as they did bring me up when I was small.’”

(Qur’an, 17:23-24)

[avaiftBoara]

What are these regulations/rules who according to Shaykh Nuh would not make one a kafir although having beliefs of kufr?

brother, these 51 things and more are listed in books of fiqh and aqida that denying these things wil throw u from islam

why are these labeled fundamentals? usoool..for a reason

lets take few from the list like

Prohibition of alcohol
if a person says alcohol is not haram, can u stil regard him muslim?

or

Finality of the Prophethood
if someone denys that, is he a muslim?

Existence of Angels?
u tel me?

similary u can go thru each # on list..

these things are either proven from

a. clear verses of the Qur’an
b. al-sunnah al-mutawatirah (mass-transmitted narrations
c. absolute consensus (ijma’ qat’i