A year or two ago, I decided to take on a bunch of wahabbis who were spreading falsehood about sending Darud and Salaam upon Nabi Muhammad (s.a.w.s). A quite interesting exchange took place (you can view the original thread here, look for posts made by "Sufi", that's me!). After reading the responses to my posts, i felt really disenchanted and as if i completely wasted my time.
Then the other day i received a Private Message from someone, that basically read "I read your posts on Tazeem, they were wonderful. Pay no attention to those guys, they're narrow minded".
That message made me feel great, and rekindled an energy in me. That is partly responsible for me creating this blog. Anyway, here's the posts i made:
First post
Love for Rasulallah (s.a.w.s) is a very remarkable thing. If Nabi Muhammed (s.a.w.s) spat, his blessed saliva would surely land on one of the hands of his
noble companions (may allah bless them all). When he made wudhu, they would busy themselves in collecting the wastewater. If a hair fell from his (s.a.w.s) blessed beard, most assuredly it would be caught before it fell to the ground. Such was the love that the holy companions had for Allah's beloved Prophet (s.a.w.s). Such loyalty to a ruler has never before been seen, and will never be seen again. It is this love that granted them almost 'superhuman' abilities on and off the battlefield. It is this love that caused the few at Badr to defeat the much larger horde of the kufar. These blessed companions taught us how to live, and how to depart from this world.
From since the time of Rasulallah (s.a.w.s), the kufar realized that the muslims' love for their Prophet (s.a.w.s) was their deadliest weapon. To this day they still know it. From since that time until now, they have attempted to completely eradicate love for Rasulallah (s.a.w.s) from Islam. They cut down trees that he planted with his (s.a.w.s) own blessed hands and defaced and destroyed the grave sites of great lovers of Rasulallah (s.a.w.s). When the kufar managed to remove love for Rasulallah (s.a.w.s)
from, great Islamic empires built with the help of this weapon crumbled (Spain, Ottoman Turks).
Nowadays, so called 'muslim leaders' are preoccupied in building large palaces and owning luxurious private jets. This is not the way of Rasulallah
(s.a.w.s). He (s.a.w.s) was a humble man of very simple means. He made
sure that his last bit of wealth was distributed to the poor before he departed from this world.
So successful was the kufar's mission to destroy the muslims' supreme weapon, that to this day we find 'Muslims' labelling Darood Salaam,
Milad-un-Nabee and other spiritually fortifying practices as shirk and bidah.
They say that those who carry out these practices are misguided, when truly they are the ones who have been hoodwinked by the elaborate schemes of kufar.
Thankfully, the kufar have not managed to completely destroy those who love Rasulallah (s.a.w.s) and one day Inshaallah, the lovers of Muhammed
(s.a.w.s) with the permission of Allah will restore Islam to it's former glory.
Second Post
Firstly i would like to begin with a brief history lesson in the form of a quote from Johann Hari's article in the independant UK about Wahhabism.
"The champion of globalization is in fact a puritanical desert-nomad from the sands of Arabia who died in 1792, and the evidence was there in this week’s Islamic panic front pages. Mohamed ibn Abd al-Wahhab had a dream. He dreamed of an Islam stripped down to a cold list of mechanical rules, strictly enforced, severely upheld. He ordered whippings and beheadings of Muslims to “purify” the faith. He smashed up and burned down the worship places of the softer, more mystical Muslims all around him. And - his smartest move - he cut a deal. He met the chief of the desert bandits who lived in nearby Najd - a man named Mohamed Saud - and offered him his allegiance, in return for enforcing his severe, new brand of Islam. The Saud ruling family and the Wahhabi doctrine have been locked in a stiff waltz ever since.
More than two centuries later, oil was discovered under the territory of these bandits, and billions of dollars began to soak into the kingdom. True to their ancestor’s deal, the House of Saud used this black gold to promote the ideas of Wahhab across the world. By paying for thousands of schools, mosques and trained imams, they dispersed the reactionary preacher’s ideas to every continent. Slowly, steadily, they are succeeding in eroding other, gentler forms of Islam."
Though i disagree with the author on the point that Abd-al-Wahhab destroyed "places of worship" (They did not worship at grave sites, they paid due respects to the departed"), this quote essentially encapsulates the origin and the mission of Wahhabism. However i would like to go into a little further detail of this "Hero of Islam"'s campaign against true Islam. In his campaign of "purification" trees that Rasulallah (s.a.w.s) planted were cut down and graves of Ahle bait and companions of the Prophet (s.a.w.s) were destroyed. Even some of the graves of great Mystics were turned into latrines. If you visit Saudi Arabia today, you would see that the house where Rasulallah (s.a.w.s) was born is boarded up and surrounded by public restrooms. Astaghfirallah.
Anyways, back to what i was posting for. In the time after the departure of
Rasulallah (s.a.w.s) from this physical world, practices which are considered "bidah" and "shirk" today by many muslims, thanks to the efforts of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab were very much a normal part of Islam. Even up until fairly recently right here in Trinidad, celebration of Eid ul Milad un Nabee and Tazeem were very common and unquestioned practices. Now muslims go to Saudi Arabia, were they are conditioned and made into wahhabbi scholars, return to their homeland, where true Islam is practiced they disperse their doctrine and taint the practices that have been practiced for generations, that come from the Ahle bait themselves.
This is what is happening in Trinidad and many other parts of the world.
Regarding Tazeem being shirk, how can showing respect for, not worshipping, Rasulallah (s.a.w.s) be haraam? We do not bow down to him and say "Ya Rabb-ul-Alameen". Rather we show utmost respect for him, because he is "Rahmatulil-Alameen" Also if this were the case, those who carry out this noble practice held dear by our Habibi (s.a.w.s) and his Ahle Bait would be contradicting themselves when they say at least 17 times per day
"Thee alone we worship (Allah), Thee alone we ask for help." (Surah Faatihah).
Regarding Tazeem being bidah, how can it be an innovation when Allah himself COMMANDS us to do it?
Verily Allah and His angels send blessings on the Prophet; O you who believe! Send your blessings on him, and salute him with all respect.
[Holy Qur'an 33-56]
One might say that, "this doesn't mean that we must do tazeem, because we recite Darud Salaam in salaat." But ask yourself this, Why would Allah Tell us distinctly to send blessings on Rasulallah (s.a.w.s) if we already do it five times per day in salaat? Furthermore, just as there are several ways
to do ibadah (salaah, fasting, dhikr etc.) there are several ways to send blessings upon Rasulallah (s.a.w.s), one of which is Tazeem.
If you truly reflected, and truly have love for Rasulallah (s.a.w.s) you would know in your heart that this is the right thing. Just as those who become Muslims know in their heart that Islam is the right way.
Regarding Milad-un-Nabee, if that blessed night did not occur, there would be no Holy Quran, No Hadith, no Ahle-bait, no sunnah, NO ISLAM! There were many miracles that occured on that night. The idols of the Kabaa were destroyed, the three major statues in the Kabaa shattered into bits, Laka Sava dried up, lake Tiberias overflowed, Soothsayers were dumbstruck, the Zoroastrian fire that burned for a thousand years was suddenly extinguished. When our Prophet (s.a.w.s) was born, already circumcised and with his umbilical cord already cut, the Kabaa prostrated to him. These are only but a few miraculous events that occurred on that blessed night of nights.
So how then can we let this night pass by as if it were any ordinary night? This is the night that Allah chose to bestow his gift to the worlds upon us. How can we let this night pass without so much as a dua of shukr to Allah, as the ungrateful Najdis do? How can we not express our love for our Habibi? By the way, this night was, and still is commemorated by our Beloved Rasul's Ahle Bait.
A short time before his departure, it is reported that Muhammed (s.a.w.s) said "I am leaving with you two things, One is the Holy Qur'an, the other is my descendants (Ahle Bait), be careful how you treat them because they will join me at Kauthar." When Ibn Abd al-Wahhab ordered the destruction of the graves of Ahle Bait, was he heeding Rasulallah's (s.a.w.s) advice? Is
this how you show love for Rasulallah (s.a.w.s)? By desecrating the graves of those that he told us to take care of?
Anyway, I ended up saying way more than i wanted to, so i will end this post here.
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