Ruling on kissing one’s eyes when hearing the name of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
Question :
Some imams said that on listening to the name of the holy prophet, one should kiss his eyes while others said that its meaningless. Your views please i'll wait for the reply.
Answer :
Praise be to Allaah.
What is prescribed for the Muslim when hearing the name of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) is to venerate him and show respect by sending blessings and salaams upon him.
It was narrated that Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “May his nose be rubbed in the dust, a man in whose presence I am mentioned and he does not send blessings upon me.” Narrated and classed as hasan by al-Tirmidhi, 3545; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Irwa’ al-Ghaleel, 6.
It was narrated from al-Husayn ibn ‘Ali ibn Abi Taalib (may Allaah be pleased with them both) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The miser is the one in whose presence I am mentioned and he does not send blessings upon me.” Narrated and classed as hasan by al-Tirmidhi, 3546; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Irwa’ al-Ghaleel, 5.
With regard to kissing one’s eyes when the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) is mentioned, perhaps what is meant by that is kissing the thumbs and placing them on the eyes. That is an innovation (bid’ah). The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever does an action that is not in accordance with this matters of ours will have it rejected.” Narrated by Muslim, 1718. And he (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Beware of newly-invented matters, for every newly-invented matter is an innovation, and every innovation is a going astray.” Narrated by Abu Dawood, 4607; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh Abi Dawood.
What the Muslim should do is to avoid innovations and beware of them; he should strive to follow the Qur’aan and Sunnah, without adding anything or taking anything away, for Allaah has perfected this religion:
“This day, I have perfected your religion for you, completed My Favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion”
[al-Maa’idah 5:3]
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) did not die until he had conveyed the message from his Lord in full. He did not leave anything good but he enjoined it upon us, and he did not leave anything bad but he forbade it to us and warned us against it. May the blessings and peace of my Lord be upon him.
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I think this is meaningless…all u have to do when u hear Holy Prophet SAW name is u just say “peace and blessing be upon him” either loud or in ur heart.
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in southern asia this is very popular even here in england i see ppl in mosques kissing their nails on their thumb’s and then placing the thumbs on their eye’s.
i have read how it’s bidat but for me it’s bidat-e-hasnah. it’s done with the intention to show respect for haz’ mohammed-e-mustapha :saw:]
misaal kai taur parr, just like building a concrete masjid is bidat-e-hasnah but the intention is do get sawaab so nothing wrong with it. the salafi’s for 1 seem to label everything bidat.
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Kiss the eye is the old tradition thought by Sufis and according to them the reasons why they do that is
When Prophet SAW name is mentioned then one should kiss the Thumb Nails and recite Darood Ibrahimi and then touch the Thumb Nails to eys and say "Qurrat - Aynee Rasool Allah".
According to them it was done by Prophet Adam AS when he was shown the picture of Prophet SAW in his thumb Nails.
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that is exactly what i have heard from my friend who is in the sufi silsila. he said when haz’ adam :as:] heard about the love allah subhanah wa ta’allah had for haz. mohammed-e-mustapha :saw:], they {haz’ adam} asked allah to write ‘allah’ and ‘mohammed’ on their 2 thumbs’ so they could send blessings upon the finest of creations by kissing their thumbs nails and placing them on their eye lids’…
don’t know how much of this is true but i remember being told this.
From Mulla Ali al-Qari’s
Al-Asrar al-Marfu’a fil-Akhbar al-Mawdua
Translation and Notes GF Haddad – Shawwal 1425
Wiping the eyes with the index fingers after kissing them upon hearing the caller to prayer say: “I bear witness that Mu^ammad is the Messenger of Allah,” at the same time repeating these words and adding: “I am pleased with Allah as my Lord, with Islam as my Religion, and with Muhammad oe as my Prophet. Al-DaylamÏ related in the Firdaws from Abu Bakr al-siddÏq [ra] that the Prophet :saw: said:
“Whoever does this, my intercession will definitely take place for him.”
Al-Sakhawi said:
Inauthentic. Shaykh Ahmad al-Raddad cited it in his book Mujibat al-Rahma [wa-Azaim al-Maghfira] with a broken chain containing unknown narrators from al-Khadir :as:. In fact, everything related on this chapter is inauthentic as attributed to the Prophet :saw:.
If it can only be established as a saying of the Abu Bakr al-siddÏq [ra] it would be enough as a basis for practice because of the Prophet’s saying :saw:
“You must follow my Sunna and the Sunna of my Rightly-Guided Successors.” 1
It was also said: “It is neither done nor forbidden and its strangeness is no secret to those endowed with intelligence.”2
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^ there is nothing wrong in saying that, that for me would again be bidah-e-hasnah. something here is being said in praise of the finest of creations haz. mohammed-e-mustapha :saw:]
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luc, I have read in Fazail-e-Aamal on several places Sahaba used to say ‘ya rasool Allah mere maan baap aap pay qurban’ specially when replying back off a question.
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exactly amaloun ka daromadar niyat pai hai, the uptight arabs can keep saying bidah this, bidah that... if praising the finest of creations for arguments sake is bidat, then i'm going to continue doing so till the end of time and keep earning sawaab.
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salafi,
during the time of the Prophet (saw), there was no fatha damma kasra or nukta. Qa and Fa were the same. These were added 100 yrs after the death of the prophet. So i would suggest that you pick up an Uthmani Quran and start reading that. Leave the bidah hasana to us.
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^-- is the fatha damma kasra nukta part of your worship? Do you aim to recieve sawab for it when you follow it??
Bidah hasana, by the definition of some is, a good thing in religion, and the person who starts it, and those who follow it recieve 'rewards' for it. Those who add the pronounciation marks do it to ease reading, not to earn sawab.
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But tell me who is more misguided. The one who follows the innovation and earns sawab for reading the quran correctly, or the one who follows the hadith blindly and reads the quran all wrong.
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o bhai mere.. it IS NOT INNOVATION IN RELIGION because no one considers it a part of islam, or assumes that they are earning sawab from it.. you are comparing apples and oranges
1) kissing one's eyes - you think its biddah hasana .. and assume its a good thing in RELIGION, and good innovation IN RELIGION
2) pronounciation for the quran - NO ONE THINKS its an INNOVATION "IN RELIGION".. i dont say its biddah hasana.. because it is NOT A RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY!!
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Ammarr,
Your argument seems weak. If bi'dah *is correctly translated as "Innovation". Then by definition it means "the act of introducing something new", and in the context of Islam, it means to add something new to the *deen *of Islam. Anything that has anything to do with Islam is under this umbrella. So while your taking the car or bus to work may not fall under this definition, but using a loud-speaker to announce *adhaan does, as adhaan *is part of Islam. And so is the use of microphone to broadcast *salah. As these are done to call a wider-range of people to salah and consequently earn sawaab. These are all innovation, and amazingly as it may sound, I know fairly educated people in Pakistan who oppose using microphones and speakers to announce adhaan, as according to them, it is still bi'dah. Are you also part of the group that thinks using microphone and speakers to announce adhaan *or *salah *is a *bi'dah?
Similarly, Qu'ran is the centerpiece of Islam. When all non-Quraysh copies of Qu'ran were collected and destroyed and only Quraishi Arabic Qu'ran scripts were sent out to the entire Muslim ummah, or when *ai'raab *are added to Qu'ran, there is only one purpose for that, which is to unite all muslims to correct recitation of Qu'ran and to earn sawaab. When Hazrat Abu Bakar (on the advice of Hazrat Umar (May Peace and Blessings be upon them both)) got the entire Qu'ran written on script (something that was never done by the Prophet (Peace be upon him), or when Hazrat Usman (Peace be upon him) issued one script for Qu'ran or when Hujjaj Bin Yousaf got *ai'raab *put on the Qu'ran, they were infact acting outside strict line of sunnah, but were firm in their belief that this is to help Islam and muslims.
So, while it may entirely fashionable to criticize anything as bi'dah, especially things you don't like or prefer not to agree with, it is quite another matter to make a logical argument for saying why something is part of Islam in the first place, and something else which seems like the centerpiece of Islam is not.