Brother Zeeshan and Ibadah are joined by their good friend Muhammad Hijab to talk about a recent incident that happened in the UK. They talk about it and try to make sense out of it.
00:02:34.880From what I was told, correct me, correct me if I'm wrong, but the choo-choo, the thing that he's doing, I don't know if it's a vibration, I don't know if it's a dua, I don't know if it's the wind, but it's to receive it.
00:05:39.960He's reading the dua and he's blowing it on there, okay?
00:05:43.320The question that needs to be asked is the following, yeah?
00:05:45.080Because with these kind of things, when it happens, you need to understand, as human beings, we are weak, okay?
00:05:49.780Now, in my culture, in my family, like I said before, what they do is, they get coffee, they drink it, they turn it upside down, wait for a little bit, turn it, and see animals and say,
00:05:58.900Oh, you're going to get married, that's going to happen, blah, blah, blah, blah, yeah?
00:06:01.660Now, most of the times, there is a saying in Turkish, yeah?
00:06:03.780They say, don't believe, it's called fal, fal means fortune telling.
00:06:07.740Don't believe in the fortune telling, but don't go without it.
00:06:11.840Don't believe the fortune telling, but don't go without it.
00:06:15.760Now, what that means is, in a sense, don't believe it, but there's no harm in looking at it.
00:06:21.340Now, what happens is, let's put ourselves in a situation, okay?
00:06:24.680Because in this situation, you're either going to laugh or cry at the matter.
00:06:27.020I'll be honest, it's a crying matter or a laughing matter.
00:06:30.180We're laughing because it's sad to see the state of desperate people who might have marriage issues, family might have disease, or whatever it may be, and they're in a desperate situation.
00:06:39.720Now, if you go to this guy, and we know, for example, from the Quran, where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says there are jinns who go to the certain heavens and try to get information.
00:06:47.380What does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala say in the Quran about those jinns that do that?
00:07:38.420Now, if she ascribes that to this person, and there's a reoccurrence of things happening, positive things, whenever she visits this specific period or this specific event or this, let's say, wherever they are, yeah?
00:07:49.100And let's talk about all aspects of life, Christians, Hindus, whoever does this kind of stuff, yeah?
00:07:53.820If they attend that, where is their iman growing towards?
00:07:58.240Towards Allah or the individual or the act that's being done?
00:08:05.040But remember, there could be sunnah acts and there could be acts which are not sunnah, which I think is where the crux of this discussion should be.
00:08:11.720Because the question here is, is what's happening here in line with the sunnah according to any of the mazahib?
00:08:19.780Like, if someone is a Hanafi or if someone is a Shafi, if it's a Maliki or Hanbali, from the four schools of Sunni orthodoxy, is this what's going on?
00:08:30.000Is this detailed in any of the books of fiqh that I should look into?
00:08:34.220I'll be interested to find such a thing.
00:08:36.280Like, if there's a narration on such a prayer of blowing, and I would like to see such a narration authentically transmitted from the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
00:08:46.720But that is why it's important to look at the sunnah through that lens, okay?
00:08:52.480I mean, there is going to be difference of opinion, but there are things which are outside of the pale of that difference of opinion.
00:08:58.080That's why it's very important to always, I mean, you don't want to go into extremes with this,
00:09:03.080but there is a hadith which says that the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
00:09:33.060It's the actual ibadah itself, so this is a beneficial thing that's taking place, but what's preceded it is simply something which is unprecedented.
00:09:41.100But what if, okay, look, one second, hijab, even if we said there's evidence from the Qur'an and the Sunnah,
00:09:44.420for example, when it comes to a specific, let's say somebody making du'a for you, yeah?
00:09:47.220When it's done in a situation where there's a mass gathering, if there's money involved, and there's a issue or a grey area where individuals in there,
00:13:09.880And this is something we have to recite 17 times a day at least.
00:13:13.340Which means that we have a direct connection of Allah.
00:13:15.920And you can make dua to Allah yourself.
00:13:19.160You don't need any intermediary, or anybody, or any human being, or any wise person, or guru, or shirk, or peer, or whatever it is to do that.
00:13:31.780Number two is, make sure that what you're doing, the action that you are performing, is in line with Sunni orthodoxy, as per any of the madhahib.
00:13:42.420No, I'm not saying, oh, you have to be this madhahib, or that madhahib, or follow this shirk, or that shirk.
00:13:46.920Any of the madhahib, which are bona fide and legitimized in the Sunni school of thought, follow those.
00:13:54.160But make sure that you're not going overboard.
00:13:57.460Because if it's something which has not been done, or spoken of, by the scholars of Islam for 1,400 years, and it's just something that you're doing, it's gimmicky, and it's new, and it's innovative.
00:14:09.360Then it has nothing to do with the Sunni of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
00:14:12.500And in fact, it is an invention, or an innovation into the religion.
00:14:16.120And so there is something called bid'ah in the religion.
00:14:18.180The Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would say this every time he would ascend the pulpit, the minbar.
00:14:27.100He would mention the bid'ah, which is an innovation into the religion.
00:14:31.960So we don't want to fall into those innovations, okay?
00:14:34.640But we don't want to label everything, and everybody as innovators, and everything as innovation.
00:14:38.280But we don't want to fall into the innovation as well.
00:14:40.220These kind of actions give birth to the other extreme.
00:14:42.940So, brothers and sisters, look, I'll tell you personally, I'll talk from personal experience.
00:14:46.180I've been in situations, I've needed specific du'as to be answered.
00:14:50.120And I could have easily, brothers and sisters, go and be like, okay, yeah, let me go to this bid.
00:14:54.100Because you're in a vulnerable position.