Re: Kissing one's eyes when hearing the name of the Prophet (SAW)
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.