The Bidah of Using Zikr Beads Throughout generations of Muslims, our Senior Scholars have spoken against this practice, Shuuyuuk such as Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn Baaz, Al Uthaymeen, to mention just a few. Sheikh Al Albani wrote: "it goes against the guidance of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). ‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Amr said, ‘I saw the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) counting the tasbeeh on his right hand.’” He also said (1/117): “If there is only one bad thing about the masbahah, which it is that it takes the place of the Sunnah of counting on the fingers, even though all are agreed that counting on the fingers is preferable, then that is bad enough. How rarely I see people counting their tasbeeh on their fingers! Moreover, people have invented so many sophisticated ways of following this bid’ah, so you see the followers of one of the [Sufi] tareeqahs wearing the masbahah around their necks! Or some of them counting with the beads whilst talking or listening to you! Or another one – the like of whom I have not seen for some time – riding his bicycle through a street crowded with people, with the masbahah in one of his hands! They are showing the people that they are not distracted from the remembrance of Allaah for even an instant, but in many cases this bid’ah is a cause of their neglecting what is obligatory (waajib). It has happened many times – to others as well as myself – that when I greet one of these people with salaam, they answer only by waving and not by saying the words of the greeting. The bad results of this bid’ah are innumerable, and no one can say it better than the poet: ‘All goodness is in following that which went before (the salaf) All badness is in the innovations of those who came later.’” And Allaah knows best." Quoted by Sheikh Muhammad Salih Al Munajjid.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 18:17:28 +0000
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