decentGuy
- He is indeed referring to those people who care enough to make niyyat to wake up in fajjr. Slept with that intention but could not wake up. Offcourse, why would people who did not intend to wake up for fajjr would be interested to read fajjr at any other time of the day ?
Also, people must be informed that during & atleast 15-20 minutes after the sun rise, it is for hidden to pray fajjr. It is in the hadees (I heard it is in bible too) that the sun rises from the horns of satan. If people happen to wake up during those 15-20 mins & rush to pray fajjr then that’s wrong. Many people end up doing that because they’re not aware of those for hidden 15-20 mins to pray.
- Personally, I don’t like music. Don’t listen to it as it gives me headache. Yeah liked it as a kid/younger adult. It might be forbidden by scholars because of the fitna associated with it in modern world. Most of the music being made either comprises of shirk or it is satanic, violent. It’s rare to find good music. & it sure is no comparison with the peaceful frequencies the Quranic recitation brings to hearts.
But that still does not mean Quran or the prophet prohibited music. He sure prohibited the negatives associated with it. The scholars have also forbidden women from visiting mosques & graves while the prophet pbuh did not. The reasoning of scholars, here also, is the fitna associated with a practice not forbidden by Allah & his prophet pbuh. I know from my mother that during my grandmother’s time, women used to visit mosques. Later, it was forbidden due to some fitnas arising. Similarly, visiting graves by women is also not free from fitna in places like Pakistan. So that is the scholars reasoning of forbidding it. If any individual wants to listen to music, any woman visits mosques & graves while at the same time stay free from the negatives associated with it then it is not forbidden. However, women must not visit graves frequently. But still none of the above three practices forbidden by Allah & the prophet pbuh.
BTW, it is a news to me that celebs find him wonderful. I think people with better commonsense find his take on any subject important. He is many ranks higher in his understanding & explanation of any issues as compared with mufti tariq masood. The later is careless in his choice of words.
- Again, the element of fitna associated with making pictures is the reason many scholars took it as haram. The fitna of taking pictures of an important figure of the society as too important, going as far as to worship him/her. When you put any human in place of Allah, that’s shirk. So he made it clear, the fitnas involved. If any individual is able to keep those fitna away then all of the the things not forbidden by Allah & the prophet pbuh are not haram on him. Every individual must be aware well about him/herself better. If they’re honest, they’ll decide to keep away from fitna causing things.
decentGuy, tell me how much difficult would it have been for almighty to forbid anything through Quran or the prophet pbuh? There are so many other things forbidden so how much difficult would it have been for Allah & the prophet to forbid things which later islamic scholars forbade ? Allah did not & the prophet did not. The wisdom in that is that there are always going to be ‘exceptions’ in every society, in every country, in every community who do not find the negatives attractive. Individuals who intentionally or unintentionally have the will power to keep the negatives away. Or know when to avoid if it is not in their power to keep the fitna away. That is the wisdom behind certain things not forbidden by Allah & the prophet pbuh themselves. It was not difficult for them to do so.
When I said people must learn Quran & interpret themselves, I was referring to those who are smart enough to ‘accurately’ interpret. Also, I always mention the word ‘majority’ for molvies misguiding the masses. I never said all of them are misguiding. Just like exceptions in everything else, good, wise ulema also exist. Offcourse, there are the wise ones too but not everyone knows who/where they are. And not every one can connect with any of them to get instant answer to any question bothering them about an issue.
So my suggestion is for all those who realise (feel like a donkey) walking behind a jaahil molvi’s fatwaas just because he was ‘trained’ & was given a certificate to issue any fatwa for the common people. & who fear that following a jaahil molvi may turn him/her away from the religion.
If you do not find jaahil mullahs’ jahalat to be a threat to your belief in islam then you & others like you continue to follow them. Accuracy & detail is very important to me, personally. If I don’t have direct access to any such trained islamic scholar with better, sophisticated understanding on islamic issues then I must be able to comprehend any verse / word myself. And there are many people just like me. My post was for those people. The ‘DIY’ kind.
I was reading tafseer of surah Rehman some time ago. Ruby (yaqoot) & coral (marjaan) are both red stones. The translation does not mention they’re white or red in colour. Just the names. But in the tafseer, ruby stone was mentioned as red while marjaan as ‘white’. Maybe the person opting to put up those colours names, when there is no mention of the colours in translation itself, did it because he was impressed with ‘white’ colour of skin ? I, personally, find natural skin color of any person attractive. Even if I was a man, associating white skin color with ‘hoors’ in jannah will not attract me ‘more’ towards them. If there is a type of white coral stone that exists even then stating ‘white’ as the color of coral stone is retarded because natural organic coral stone is pale red. Ruby is deep red. There is no mention of ‘white’ in the translation. The person whose interpretation is read by most of world was SURELY impressed by white skin color & hence wrote something not mentioned in the translation.
Similarly, I found so many more unnecessary additions in tafseer of not only in surah Rehman alone but in so many other places which are not mentioned in the Quranic translation & which entirely change the whole meaning of the actual translation. At times, leaving me to wonder whether those tafseers added in different copies of quran were written by a biased nonmuslim?!
Similarly, there are so many places I felt some accurate details were needed to understand translation of specific words/verses. But accurate, proper explanation was skipped.
Yeah we don’t stop going to doctors. I do not mean stop checking what molvies say about a certain issue. But if you feel like a donkey following a certain ‘bad apple’ then must keep yourself equipped with correct knowledge & do not follow those bad apples.