"Habib Ghanim, Sr" wrote:
> Sister jabou ,
> you are right on the dot.
> This is a controversial example you have mentioned ( about the wig -and false
> hair- by the way not only women do it . There are many muslim men who wear
> toupees (correct spelling??) too.
> Although we may not like it, it is incumbent upon us to try to educate others not
> to practice those deviations . eventually the message will get there. Many of us
> honestly did not know or were just not properly educated including myself in the
> details of many things like these issues.
> I will give you a typical example . When we want to send a body home we have to
> embalm the deceased right -but it is definitely not allowed and clearly written
> in the hadith of sahih Buhari. Again many of us are either not aware of this fact
> including burying in a casket. We have to obey the laws of the land where we are
> so one has to comply or otherwise burial must be ASAP to avoid that. YES we can
> bury our dead without casket here in the USA you need to sign a waiver and have
> it notarized. As a notary Public I have done it several times in our Masjid to
> satisfy the rules of the cemetery and funeral homes.
> It is a catch 22.
> May Allah guide us and let us try to get closer to perfection with less trifles.
> Habib Diab Ghanim
>
> It is raining now in Washington . Thank God . All the Islamic centers had to pry
> for rain today . The drought was really getting beyond our control. We were also
> taught how to conserve water. The prophet (peace be upon him) never use more than
> a bucket of water to take a bath or shower. We nowadays tend to waste because of
> it's abundance forgetting that one day it may be short.
> hdg
>
> [log in to unmask] wrote:
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> > In a message dated 8/12/99 10:20:35 PM Central Daylight Time,
> > [log in to unmask] writes:
> >
> > << think we all agree on the prohibition of building elaborate tombs. The
> > question is
> > what do we do with the ones that are already there? destroy them ?
> > This is a very interesting point to bring up .No one should be allowed to
> > build them
> > anymore .
> > *******************
> > Habib,
> >
> > This is a very interesting point. Since l learned about the prohibition of
> > erecting any kind of monument or structure on a burial site, l have agonized
> > over the fact that all our graveyards in Gambia for example are full of them,
> > even that of my own parents have been built over by siblings and other
> > relatives who are sure they were doing something positive, and l thought
> > the same thing until l came across this information. Well, it is a real
> > dilemma.l have often thought about what everyone would think of me if l
> > decided to go and dismantle the structures on my parent's graves.The issue
> > would be very controversial if raised, and yet, the ruling against erecting
> > structures over graves is as clear as daylight.Speaking up against it would
> > carry the same weight as Imam Fatty calling the Ahmadiyyas innovators, which
> > they are, or the group that raised the issue about the Mourids in Senegal
> > which resulted in those riots, or even the fact that using any kind of false
> > hair is haram because there is an authentic hadith in which the Prophet said
> > "that Allah has cursed the womwn who wears a wig, the person who makes the
> > wig as well as the person who puts it on for her. Very authentic hadith, but
> > what an uproar that would cause nowadays when extensions are so widely used
> > by many muslim women at home. l think the fact that we do not know
> > Arabic,(except for a few amongst us) and as such, aside from learning the
> > necessary surahs for praying, we have not been able to delve into the sunnah
> > texts and the Qu'ran as well, such as those of Buhari and Muslim, as well
> > as other works that were not available to us in English or French
> > (Lnaguages we can read) until recently, to learn more about the deen,
> > especially hadith, which covers all the acceptable and unacceptable in the
> > deen. Consequently, over the years, we have continued some practices which
> > are inconsistent with the deen, unknowingly, and which will be veyr hard to
> > get rid of if ever. Well, Allah Ta'ala does forgive us for the things we are
> > ignorant of, alhamdulallah, but l am afraid that some of us will continue to
> > practice them even when we find out that they are haram.
> >
> > Jabou
> >
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