Re: Nalain of Rasool SAWS
Reems, Last night I had started typing the example of Hazrat Yusuf (AS)'s shirt and how he was told to place it over his father and the latter’s sight returned. Does that mean that the shirt became an object of worship?
You recite Allah’s name over something and barkat is added in it. For instance you recite Bismillah or even Fatiha over a glass of water, there is more blessing in it. Exactly how that barkat will affect your body or rooh is a a different matter. Now if it doesn’t heal your illness, that’s Allah ki marzi…but that still should not make one arrogant enough to say or even imply that medicines or drugs are more superior or effective to than the former. I am not suggesting that one shouldn’t seek medical treatment, however even if the drugs worked for you..it was because of Allah’s will. With such reasoning, what does then one say if the most highly advanced of drugs and medical treatments doesn’t work for some people while it works for others…just as dam kia hua pani may heal some and not others? As tempting as it is to rant that it’s not effective, as Muslims we are to believe that in either case (meds or ruqya) the cure is in Allah’s Hands; it’s His marzi. We shouldn’t be trying to use the former to dismiss the latter or to say that there is no barkat in something upon which Allah’s name is recited or which Rasool SAWS has said contains barkat.
Last night I wanted to post that since there is more than one side to a story, why aren’t people considering the possibility that maybe Western propaganda is trying to mar the image of zamzam? Is that so unreasonable? Now Rasool SAWS encouraged using ithmid kohl in the eyes and he said is strengthens the eyes and makes lashes grow. There is some debate as to whether this kohl was made from antimony or leas sulphide..but it’s thought to be lead sulphide. Now, Western media slammed hashmi surma which had been used for years for having lead sulphide and how dangerous it is. And I do not know how bad this brand of surma was but a team of French scientists discovered lead sulphide in ancient Egyptian cosmetics particularly kohl and it was found that in certain amounts, this compound was found to be beneficial for the body. But you have two conflicting views; not just one view. Allah says that there is healing in honey. The Prophet SAWS told us to seek cure through honey. In a hadith a mam was recommended by Him SAWS to consume honey for an ailment. The man returned to the Prophet SAWS maybe twice saying he saw no improvement and each time he was told to not give up as Allah would not lie. Sometimes we don’t follow a remedy regularly or give it time; we want immediate results. But even if you don’t see them, you should be careful in what you say about it; you should use a tone of mockery for zam zam and ruqya etc. That does not reflect respect. Some folks here are sooo scared of shirk and committing shirk that they don’t realize or see the disrespect/mockery in their tone toward relics, toward reciting Quran for shifa, etc etc.
And for those who insist on following that which is only mentioned in the Quran, well that’s why I put forth the salah example…as a way to ask where do you draw the line? Do you then pick and choose which of the authentic ahadith you will believe and which you will dismiss? And for most of us, we pray a certain way not because we researched the ahadith for how to perform salah…but more because that’s how we were taught by our family. And yes there are variations in salah in the ahadith and different sects pray differently. But the point is that you only and only have ahadith from which to learn about how to perform it. So common sense tells u that you study thee resources you have and pick the one that is supported by majority of the schools or is more sound. You don’t sit there and say well Prophet SAWS did not even want there to be hadith. In that case your rejection should be consistent instead of picking and choosing what to accept/reject. But even proponents of “Quran only and nothing else” pick and choose what they want to follow from the book and how they choose to interpret its verses.