BID`ATS IN OUR DAILY RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES

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We will now see that no worship in Islam is void of Bid`at-e-Hasana. IMAAN: Every Muslim child is taught Imaan-e-Mujmal and Imaan-e-Mufassal whereas no such categories or names for Imaan were in practice in the age of the Holy Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa`sallam) or the three blessed generations after him.(*)

 

(*) By the three blessed generations we mean the ages of the Sahaba, the Tabe`een and the Tab`e Tabe`een.

 

KALIMAY: Every Muslim memorises six Kalimay. These six Kalimay, their enumeration and their sequence that, this is the first Kalimah, this the second, etc. are all Bid`ats which were not there in the commencing period of Islam.

 

QURAN: To divide the Holy Qur`an into thirty Paray (sections) and to divide the Paray into Rukus, to put the I`raab (expressions such as Zabbar, Zer, Pesh) in the Holy Qur`an and to have the Holy Book printed by offset in the press are Bid`ats which could not be traced in the commencing era of Islam.

 

HADITH: To collect the Hadith in book form and state the chain or narrators and to characterise the Hadith by saying this is Sahih, this is Hassan or Da`if, Mu`addaal or Mudallas, etc. and to establish the commands with the help of Hadith such as Makruh, Mustahab, etc. are all appreciable Bid`ats which were not in practice in the blessed age of The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alaihi wa`sallam).

 

PRINCIPLES OF HADITH (USUL-E-HADITH): This whole branch of knowledge along with its rules is itself Bid`at Hasana.

 

FIQH: Nowadays all the matters in our daily life depend upon this knowledge because it contains the rules and commands for everything which may come across our lives, but this field of knowledge also is Bid`at Hasana.

 

USUL FIQH AND I`LM-E-KALAAM: These two branches of knowledge too, along with their principles and injunctions are all Bid`at Hasana.

 

SALAH: It is Bid`at-e-Hasana to intend for praying Salah by proclaiming the intention loudly or to pray the 20 Rakaah Tarawih prayer in congregation during the Holy Month of Ramadhaan.

 

FASTING: At the time of breaking fast (Iftaar) to say the Dua: "O Allah, for Thee have I Fasted and in Thee I believe and upon Thee I trust and with the food given by Thee I open my fast" and to intend for fasting by saying this Dua audibly at the time of Sehri: "O Allah, I intend to fast for Thy sake tomorrow" are all Bid`at Hasana.

 

ZAKAAT: To give Zakaat with the currency which is currently used such as coins and paper notes is Bid`at because these were not in vogue in the commencing centuries of Islam.

 

HAJJ: To perform Hajj by travelling in aeroplanes, ships, cars, lorries, buses and to go to the field of Arafaat by car or bus are all Bid`ats because such conveyances had not been invented in that age.

 

When Bid`at has been introduced in such things as Imaan and Kalimay then how will we succeed in abstaining from it. So we will have to agree that all Bid`ats are not Haraam and only those Bid`ats are Haraam which contradict the Kitaab and Sunnah.

 

BID`AT IN WORDLY AFFAIRS: Nowadays we see around us such new inventions that could not be found in the first three centuries of Islam and we got so much accustomed to them that life would be very difficult without them. Everyone is compelled to use these things such as trains, cars, aeroplanes, watches, electricity, and hundreds of other things, without which we cannot imagine how life would be. But all these things are Bid`ats and cannot be traced back to the blessed age of The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alaihi wa`sallam) or the Sahaba.