Responses irrelevant to post
2016
I paste below the responses (with no
comment on my part) to my post: Is Muharram holy because of Karbala? (10th
Oct 2016) so that readers can on their own decide how far ‘my emphatic No’ is countered.
One student
mailed me following.
Hope you will be fine, I could have replied to your questions on
blog but again I am saying that I don't want to publicise/advertise my beliefs
on media. Every body will answer his actions so honourably, read the given link
below,
Best way to
say thanks to God is to share the blessings of God. If one believes that his beliefs
are right so he must preach them so that others follow them.
I have gone
through a link and find nothing to prove my understanding wrong. Readers as
well try.
One student
sent me the following:
It is our firm belief that one who dies with love for the descendants of Muhammad (SAW) dies a martyr.
We read in Al-Bidaayahwa al-Nihaayah vol. 6 pg. 360:
Hazrat Umar (RA) said whenever I venture out at sunrise, I remember the death of my brother Zaid b. Khattab (A.S)
Obviously the remembrance of his brother's death did not make him laugh; he was sorrowful (azaadaar).
Taarikh-e-Yaqoobi, vol. 1, pg. 3:
The father and mother of humanity (Hazrat Adam (AS) and his wife Hazrat Hawwa (AS) wept for their son Haabeel for so long that their tears turned into a stream.
One can refer to the Holy Quran via this hadis in Ahle Sunnah's authoritative work Tafseer-e-Durr al-Manthoor, vol. 4 pg 31:
The Prophet (SAW) was asked: What was the extent of Hazrat Yaqoob's (AS) mourning for his son? He (SAW) replied, It was on par with mourning of 70 men and women. And what was the reward for this? He (SAW) retorted, It is on par with one hundred martyrs.
Please refer to the Holy Quran, which permits crying:
And he turned away from them, and said: O my sorrow for Yusuf! And his eyes became white on account of the grief, and he was a repressor (of anger).
(Surah Yusuf (12): 84)
If you refer to the exegesis of this verse, it will be clear how much Prophet Yaqoob (a.s.) cried for his son ultimately forfeiting his eyesight in the process.
In Surah Nahl (16): 53, Allah declares: And whatever favor is (bestowed) on you it is from Allah; then when evil afflicts you, to Him do you cry for aid.
He is not from our group who slaps his cheeks, tears his clothes and cries in the manner of the people of Jaahiliyyah. (Saheeh Bukhari).
Umme Salmah (RA) has also narrated: I heard the jinn mourning for Hussain (AS).
1. Tarikh al-Kabir by al-Bukhari (the author of Saheeh), vol 4, part 1, pg 26
It has been mentioned in reliable traditions that often Holy Prophet (SAW) mourned for Imam Husain (AS) which was obviously before his martyrdom.
The well-known scholar of 10th century A. H. Allauddin Muttaqi Hindi in his book Kanz al-Ummaal has quoted Ibn Abi Shaibah, who has related from Umme Salmah , the wife of Holy Prophet (SAW) that Once Imam Husain (AS) came to Holy Prophet (SAW) when I was sitting near the door. I saw that the Holy Prophet (SAW) had something in his palm, which affected him, making him weep profusely. By now Imam Husain (AS) had fallen asleep in his lap. I asked about the matter. He replied: Jibrail has brought the sand of the place where Husain (A.S) will be martyred and informed me that people of my Ummah will slay him.
I'm not Shia. beating heads, tearing cloths and more like these activities are forbidden in Islam. Mourn doesn't mean beating heads, it means weep or grief. And the sorrows in a human for a Shaheed is natural, one can remember the story of Karabla, the sacrifices of Imam and weep over it by sitting all alone in a room. Weeping or having sorrows for The Shaheed , or for anyone is natural, doing other activities are not natural. Like beating heads.
But when our ancestors like father mother anyone dies, why do we cry? Even knowing Allah sends them and calls them back. i weep at their deaths as well, butI don't beat my head, I don't do Matam, but I do cry for the offsprings (Ahlebait) of my last Prophet (PBUH) all the daughters sacrificed enough for Islman. Every time i have tears naturally in my eyes whenever I remember the story of Karbala’.