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
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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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