Re: Nalain of Rasool SAWS
Peace TLK bhai
Technically we are evaluating for shirk … Again it is not the image of the shoe that has any power … But the love we harbour that is praiseworthy.
Very significant tabarruk have been recorded in Islamic history … Such as the burdah sharif. The poem of the mantle (scarf) … Is a tabarruk and was the means for the healing of the one Imam Busairi (RA), because he wrote it with intense love for RasoolAllah (SAW) and because of that the reward of shif’a was given by Allah (SWT) … When the Christians use the cross, kiss it or emulate it … It represents not only the mistaken death of Christ (AS) but also the three upper sections mean Father, Son and Holy Ghost … The symbol is representing Trinity which is where the shirk lies. It is not in the symbol of the cross itself … The Christians are not doing shirk of the cross with God, rather the symbol represents a worship of a false understanding of God. Likewise, we have Hijra-e-Aswad … It is part of the act of Hajj and Umrah to touch it … In this specific case … We are told it removes our sins to do so … It is a devotional act … Not because it is thought that this stone inherently removes sins …
In order for an act to be shirk out of the nature of the act itself then we have a lot of internal matters to explain … But if we understand the matters properly then nothing needs explanation and we find other relics become acceptable to have and cherish.
Coming from a Deobandis background I found this the hardest thing to overcome … But with learning critical reasoning I have compared other things we do and they seem to be quite similar yet those are acceptable … So I concluded it must be down to familiarity rather than fact that gives us concerns …