Common Mistakes Muslims make

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Common MistakesMuslims make
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• Our purpose in life
• Allah tells us in the Quran
• "And I have not created the Jin and man but that
  they worship Me" Quran 5157
• Our main purpose in this life is to worship
  Allah.
• By obeying his commands
• And abstaining from what he forbade
• If we look at how we live our lives
• How much of our actions really reflect or
  contradict this purpose?
• Our Eman (faith) decrease and increase with sins
  and worship.

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• Story
• a time after the prophets death (SAW)
• a group of people gathered in the masjid to do
  (loud group thikr)
• the sahaba told them, what is this bidaah you
  are doing?
• The prophets clothes are still here, and his
  pots have not yet broken, and his sahaba are
  still amongst you, and you managed to make this
  innovation (bidah)?
• Either you want to be better than the religion
  of the prophet, or you have brought halaak
  destruction on yourselves.

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• MISTAKE 1 INNOVATION IN THE RELIGION
• This day, I have perfected your religion for
  you, completed My favor upon you, and have chosen
  for you Islam as your religion Quran 53
• I have left two things behind me for you (the
  Ummah) You will never go astray as long as you
  follow them the Quran and the Sunnah (Malik)
• Whoever innovates something in this matter of
  ours Islam that is not a part of it, will have
  it rejected. (Bukhari Muslim)
• Islam is perfected
• and we must be aware of adding new things to it.

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• We read fatiha17 times each day, and ask Allah
  to
• Guide us to the straight path The path of
  those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not of
  those who have evoked Your anger or of those
  who are astray 16-7

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• Examples of common innovations
• Making up new Muslim celebrations other than the
  two Eids
• Eid al-mawlid celebration
• Laylat al-miraaj celebration
• Gathering in the night of Ramadan and assigning a
  certain chapter to each person, so that we all
  finish the Quran in one night
• Singing thikr together
• You might find some people justifying it, but go
  back to the Quran and Sunnah and see what it says

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• As a general rule
• In everyday lives
• it is Halal until clear evidence (Quran /
  hadeeth) speaks against it (i.e. eating
  something, wearing something)
• In ibadah (worship)
• DONT DO a type of ibada until you know clear
  evidence supporting it
• otherwise you might be coming up with an bidah
  (innovation) in the religion

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• MISTAKE 2 SPEAKING ABOUT ALLAH AND ISLAM WITHOUT
  KNOWLEDGE
• Example
• online forums or yahoo answers
• What do you think about this matter in Islam?
  What is your opinion?
• well I think this, and I think that
• They dont realize they are giving a Fatwa
• without referring to credible scholars and
  providing evidence from Quran and Sunnah

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• Say, "My Lord has only forbidden immoralities
  (fawahish) what is apparent of them and what is
  concealed and sin, and oppression without
  right, and that you associate with Allah that for
  which He has not sent down authority, and that
  you say about Allah that which you do not know.
  Al-aarfaf33
• Othman was asked about his opinion on the Quran
• He answered What sky or earth will hold me if I
  give my opinion on Quran?
• In the end of this world
• Allah will take away the knowledge
• by taking the knowledgeable scholars
• only the ignorant ppl will remain,
• and people will ask them for fatwa, and then they
  will give fatwa,
• misguiding themselves and the people

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• It is a major sin (kabair)
• Some sahaba considered this shirk because you
  are inventing your own religion.
• People follow you blindly, instead of following
  the truth that Allah revealed
• Shirk only came into existence in the first place
  when people speak about Allah without knowledge
• Example the Christians and paul

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• This is how new religions get invented
• Whether it is an addition to the religion
• Or making your own interpretation for quran
• Twisting verses of Quran and pick and choose to
  support your opinion

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• MISTAKE 3
• Adhering to a certain ruling /opinion, even if
  there is a CLEAR EVIDENCE from Quran or authentic
  hadeeth AGAINST this ruling
• Example
• You tell someone its haram to do something,
  based on a hadeeth or Quran.
• They respond this scholar said its halal, so I
  dont care what the other scholars say, they are
  extremists.
• Who are you getting your deen from? Allah and his
  prophet, or this scholar?
• Arrogance is rejecting the truth and looking
  down at people

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• When we look at the opinion of the scholar
• Must see his evidence from Quran and sunnah
• Be aware of selecting an opinion just because you
  like it.
• Or following blindly because other people are
  doing it
• when those who have been followed
  disassociate themselves from those who followed
  them, and they all see the punishment, and
  cut off from them are the ties of relationship
  - Quran 1166

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• Differing opinions amongst scholars
• lack of clear evidence
• They perform ijtihad
• came up with rulings and conclusions based on
  evidence they had at that time

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• The imams admitted they might commit errors, and
  that in origin, we should follow Allah and the
  prophet peace be upon him.
• Imam Shafii said If I said something against a
  hadith of the prophet, smite my opinion against
  the wall and practice the Hadith of the prophet.
• Imam Abu Hanifa said it is haram to follow my
  ruling unless you know my evidence (from quran
  and hadith).
• Imam Malik said we can take the words of
  everyone or reject them, except the words of the
  owner of this grave (meaning prophet Muhammad
  peace be upon him).

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• MISTAKE 4 HIJAB IS JUST A HEAD-COVERING
• Its great that so many sisters wear it now
  mashaaAllah
• We must remember why we are doing it (for Allahs
  sake)
• To elevate women from the level of lust object
  and mistress, to a respectable honored human
  being
• We must refer to the Arabic Quran
• translation of Quran is not the Quran itself
• could lose the original meaning

Before Hijab
After Hijab
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• And tell the believing women to reduce some of
  their vision and guard their private parts and
  not expose their adornment except that which
  necessarily appears thereof and to throw a
  portion of their Khimar over their jaib (chests)
  and not expose their adornment except to And
  let them not stamp their feet to make known what
  they conceal of their adornment Quran Surah
  Al-Noor31
• O Prophet! Say to your wives and daughters and
  the women of the believers, that they should cast
  upon themselves their Jilbab. That is closer for
  them to be known as such and not be
  molested/harassed Quran Surah al-Ahzab59)

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• So, what is hijab?
• It is both
• a moral code
• a dress code (we will cover this)

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• There are varying opinions amongst scholars on
  interpretation of these words
• We respect both parties opinions
• The Muslim scholars
• Disagreed on (covering face and hands)
• Agreed on (covering whole body)
• avoid the controversial issues in hijab (such as
  niqab)
• looked on the agreed upon issues amongst scholars

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• The story of Naila bint Al-Farafisa
• People were about the entere othman bin Affans
  house to kill him
• To protect him, she started showing her hair, for
  hope they will refrain from entering the house of
  shame of looking at her hair
• (men back then lowered their gaze)
• Othman told her
• Put back your khimar, for if I was to be cut into
  many pieces, is better than committing the haram
  of showing your hair
• The men entered and attacked him
• She tried to protect him and two of her fingers
  were amputated with the sword

• 1) Khimaar must cover ALL the hair

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• 2) Covers the jaib (chest)
• Does NOT describe the shape of the chest

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• The story of Asma bint Abu Bakr,
• her Son ibn al-zubair bought her a gift from iraq
• She was blind, so when she touched the dress
• she said
• - uff, its(thin / light)
• Her son said
• It is not transparent
• She replied
• If it is not transparent then it describes the
  body

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• 3) NOT thin or transparent

• 4) Does NOT describe the shape of the body

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• Hadith
• There will be, at the end of my ummah, women who
  are
• clothed yet naked
• walking with an enticing gait, inciting men
• their heads looking like the humps of camels,
  leaning to one side
• Curse them, for they are cursed from the mercy
  of Allah
• in another hadeeth
• They will not enter paradise and even smell its
  fragrance, even though its fragrance can be
  detected from such and such a distance. (Sahih
  Muslim, no. 2218)

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• Hadith
• Allah will not look at the person who drags his
  garment (behind him) out of conceit.'
• um Salama replied
• So what will the women do with the tails of their
  garments?
• He replied
• They increase a shibr to the length
• Um Salama said
• But our feel will be uncovered
• He replied
• They must increase a thiraa, and not more than
  that

5) Covers the feet
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• 6) must NOT display fame, pride, arrogance and
  extravagance
• And do not be extravagant, for Allah loves not
  the extravagant. (Surah al-Anam, V 141)

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• 7) Must NOT imitate the clothes of the opposite
  sex
• The prophet Cursed those men who imitate women
  and those women who imitate men. (Sahih
  al-Bukhari, 7/205)
• 8) Must NOT imitate the clothes of non-believers
• Whosoever imitates a nation is amongst them.
  (Sunan Abu Dawud, no. 4031)

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• 9) NOT perfumed, but clean, nice and elegant
• Hadith
• "The teeb for men is that whose odour is
  apparent but whose color is hidden
• and the teeb for women is that whose color is
  apparent but whose odor is hidden.
• 'If a woman uses perfume and passes the people so
  that they may get its odour, she is so-and-so.
  (meaning severe remarks).

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• MISTAKE 5 CHANGING ALLAHS CREATION
• Abd-Allaah said Allaah has cursed the women
• who does tattoos
• who plucks her eyebrows
• who files her teeth
• Who puts hair extensions
• and those who did any of these things to them
• The ones who change the creation of Allah

• Superficial
• Changes Allahs creation
• Forehead appears large

• Natural
• Innocent
• Suites the face best

• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
• in our mind
• Changes by fashion

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• In the Quran, Satan says
• Verily, I will mislead them, and surely, I will
  arouse in them false desires and indeed I
  will order them to change the nature created by
  Allaah
• al-Nisa 4117-119

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• Last but not least
• We are not perfect. We all make sins
• I know a lot are taking this great step into
  wearing the headscarf, and are slowly trying to
  become familiar with it
• But we should all have the intention )???) to
  improve ourselves gradually
• We are doing it for the sake of Allah
• Because our main purpose of creation is to
  worship Allah
• By obeying his command and refraining from what
  he forbade
• And not commit the mistake of making fun of
  people who wear more modest types of hijab by
  calling them
• Extreme
• Old-fashioned
• not modern

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• Jazakum Allah Khair
• for listening ?