I want 2 ask that which acts are allowed to perform in masjid like wise bohra community is doing jaman in masjid, performing majlis, waz etc.
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brother burhan. May allah reward u the best of these world for the great &
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launching this site. There r hundreds of people like me who had came out from
the darkness of ignorane. may allah help u in this noble work. Actually i want
2 ask that which acts are allowed to perform in masjid like wise bohra
community is doing jaman in masjid,
performing majlis, waz etc. If this thing is allowed in Islam then it would in contradiction
with the rules of masjid that no worldly matters are allowed to discuss in
masjid except namaj. Plz. Guide
regarding this topic. khuda hafiz, your
brother in Islam
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Eat & wordly matters in mosque
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is no one (no idol, no person, no
grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai,
nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
May Allah Subhanah reward you with the best of this world
and the Hereafter for your kind comments of encouragement for our humble
efforts in the propagation of the Truth.
If our humble and modest efforts have helped even one brother or sister
get closer to Allah and His Deen of Truth, then we would consider ourselves
indeed fortunate to have been given this opportunity by the Lord Most Merciful
to serve in His Cause. We hope, beg, and
pray the Merciful Lord accepts our humble and weak efforts, forgives us our
shortcomings, and saves you, us, and all the believers from the torment of the
Hell Fire. Ameen.
Your
Question: Actually i want 2 ask that which acts are allowed to perform in
masjid
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 9 Surah
Taubah verse 18:
18 The mosques of Allah shall be visited and maintained by such as
believe in Allah and the Last Day, establish regular prayers, practice regular
charity, and fear none except Allah. It
is they who are expected to be on true guidance.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 24 Surah
Noor verses 35-36:
35 Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The parable of His Light is as if there were
a Niche and within it a lamp: the Lamp enclosed in glass: the glass as it were
a brilliant star: lit from a blessed Tree, an olive neither of the East nor of
the West whose oil is well-nigh luminous though fire scarce touched it: Light
upon Light! Allah doth guide whom He will to His Light. Allah doth set forth
Parables for men: and Allah doth know all things.
36 (Lit is such a light) in houses (mosques) which Allah hath permitted
to be raised to honor; for the celebration in them of His Name: in them
is He glorified in the mornings and in the evenings (again and again).
Dear and Beloved Brother in Islam, the literal meaning of
the Arabic term ‘masjid’ means ‘a place where prostration or sajdah is done’;
thus the very essence of the name ‘masjid’ implies that the main and very
purpose of the mosques in Islam is solely for the Remembrance of Allah
Subhanah.
The first thing that the Messenger of Allah (saws) did on
reaching Madinah was lay the foundation of a ‘masjid’; and thereafter the
masjid was used as an assembling place for the believers not only for their
regular prayers, but also served as a ‘city hall’ or meeting place for the
believers who wished to serve in the Cause of Allah.
Although the primary cause of the ‘masjids’ in Islam is to
assemble to worship their Lord Most High in prayer, it is absolutely
permissible to use these noble houses of Allah to do anything that will further
the Cause of Islam.
During the Prophet’s (saws) time, his mosque was used as
an assembling place for the believers where they would pray, learn the deen
from the Prophet (saws) and amongst themselves, recite the Quran, invite other
people to Islam, assemble and make strategies to further the Cause of Allah,
etc.; basically the houses of Allah were used at a ‘city hall’ where the
believers could assemble and remember their Lord Most Gracious and strive
together as a unit to further the Mission.
Your
Question: like wise bohra community is doing jaman in masjid, performing
majlis, waz etc.
My beloved brother in Islam, if the believers eat in the
masjids, or gather to remember Allah (majlis), or one gives a sermon (waaz) in
them, etc. there is absolutely no harm provided all these acts are done in the
Blessed Name of the Lord Most High and for His Cause and
For one who has confessed belief in Allah and the Last
Day, to eat or assemble to eat of the food which has been assigned to any other
name other than that of Allah Subhanah (jaman), or to gather and praise,
glorify, invoke, and worship any other than Allah Subhanah (majlis), to give
sermons praising, glorifying, invoking, and worshipping any other than the Lord
Most Majestic (waaz), etc. is a grave and abomination of the sin of ‘shirk’ by
itself; but to do and further this abomination of ‘shirk’ in the masjids and
houses of Allah is a sin beyond compare!
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 9 Surah
Taubah verses 107-110:
107 And there are those who put up a mosque by way of mischief and
infidelity to disunite the believers, and in preparation for one who warred
against Allah and His Messenger aforetime.
They will indeed swear that their intention is nothing but good;
but Allah doth declare that they are certainly liars.
108 Never stand thou forth therein. There is a mosque whose foundation was laid
from the first day on piety; it is more worthy of thy standing forth (for
prayer) therein. In it are men who love
to be purified; and Allah loveth those who make themselves pure.
109 Which then is best? He that
layeth his foundation on piety to Allah and His good pleasure? or he that layeth his foundation on an
undermined sand-cliff ready to crumble to pieces? And it doth crumble to pieces with him into
the fire of Hell. And Allah guideth not
people that do wrong.
110 The foundation of those who so build (such mosques) is never free
from suspicion and shakiness in their hearts, until their hearts are cut to
pieces. And Allah is All-Knowing, Wise.
Thus my beloved brother, if the believers meet and
assemble to Remember, Praise, Glorify, Invoke, and Worship their Lord Most High
they fulfill the purpose of the masjids of Allah; but if some meet to remember,
praise, glorify, invoke, and worship any other deity other than or with Allah
Subhanah they would be accountable for their shirk in the Presence of their
Lord Most High on an Inevitable and Tumultuous Day!
Your
Question: If this thing is allowed in Islam then it would in contradiction with
the rules of masjid that no worldly matters are allowed to discuss in masjid
except namaj.
Dear and beloved brother in Islam, although prayer and the
remembrance of Allah are the primary reasons for visiting a masjid, there is
absolutely no harm if one happens to talk ‘worldly matters’ in the masjids of
Allah, for Islam is indeed a perfect and complete ‘way of life’, and no
‘worldly matter’ in its essence is beyond the scope of Islam.
Umm Salamah (the wife of the Prophet
(saws)) related that the Prophet (saws)
came to the mosque's courtyard and said at the top of his voice, "The
mosque is off limits to menstruating women and the sexually impure
persons."
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The only people who are off-limits to the Masajids of
Allah are the menstruating women and the sexually impure people; other than
these two, anyone who wishes may visit the masajids of Allah Subhanah.
The real issue with our Bohra brethren is not that they
hold the ‘jaman’, ‘majlis’, ‘waaz’, or eat and drink in their mosques; but the
real issue is with their belief, glorification, invocation and worship of the
pious slaves of Allah Subhanah as deities with Allah Subhanah! To glorify, invoke and worship deities other
than or with the One and Only True Deity is the single biggest sin (shirk) in
Islam; but to commit ‘shirk’ in the masjids and houses of Allah Subhanah is
truly an abomination beyond compare!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 5 Surah
Maidah verse 72:
Whoever commits ‘shirk’ (invoking anything with
Allah), Allah shall forbid for him
Allah
says in the Quran: Chapter 4 Surah An-Nisa Verse 48
Shirk (associating other deities with Allah) is the only sin that Allah does
not forgive, and He forgives, whomsoever He pleases, sins other than this. For whosoever associates any other partner
with Allah, does indeed forge a big lie and commits the most heinous sin
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 39 Surah
Zumar verse 65-66:
If you commit ‘shirk’ all your works will be
rendered vain and you will be among the losers.
Therefore, you should worship
Allah Alone, and be among His grateful
servants.
If only they could understand, or be allowed to
understand, the clear guidance of the Glorious Quran, they would realize that
what they are being invited to by their priests in their majaalees and waaz is
nothing more than the abomination of ‘shirk’ with Allah Subhanah! If only our brethren could understand the
magnanimity of this evilest of evils of ‘shirk’ and the accounting that awaits
them in the Presence of their Majestic Lord on that Inevitable Day, they would
surely refrain from it. But
unfortunately they are so blinded by the ‘pomp’ and ‘show’ of their
unscrupulous and self-made priests, and they are so mesmerized by the promises
of falsehood made by their self-proclaimed holy men, that they believe that
every word that comes out of the mouth of their high priest is guidance from
the Holy Quran…whereas Allah is our witness, nothing could be further from the
Truth!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 9 Surah
Taubah verse 31:
They have made their scholars and their monks as
their Rabbs besides Allah!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 10 Surah Yunus
verse 18:
These people serve beside Allah those which can
neither harm nor benefit them, and say, “These are our ‘shofa’a’ (intercessors)
with Allah!” (O Mohammed), tell them,
“Do you wish to inform Allah of that thing which He knows not in the heavens,
or in the earth?” He is absolutely free
from, and exalted above the shirk that
they commit.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 33 Surah
Ahzab verse 66-68:
On the Day their faces are rolled about on the
Fire, they will say, “Would that we had
obeyed Allah and His Messenger!” And
they will say, “O our Lord, we obeyed
our CHIEFS and our GREAT MEN, and they led us astray from the Right Path. O our Lord,
give them a double chastisment and curse them severely”.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 10 Surah
Yunus verses 28-30:
On the Day when We will muster them
together, We shall say to those who
committed ‘shirk’, “Stay where you are,
you and those whom you set up as partners with Us.” Then We shall remove the state of strangeness
from among them, and the partners they
had set up will say, “You did not worship us!
Allah suffices as a witness between you and us, and (even if you worshipped us), we were utterly
unaware of your worship!” At that time
everyone will taste of what he did. All
shall be brought back to Allah, their
real Lord, and all the lies they had
invented will vanish from them!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 19 Surah
Maryam verses 81-82:
These people have set up other gods with
Allah, so that they may become their
supporters! There will be no
supporters! They will not only disown
your worship, but also become their
opponents.
Allah is our witness brother, all it would take for them
to realize their error is one reading of the Glorious Message of Allah with
understanding…for then the Truth would become absolutely clear from the
falsehood!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah
Baqarah verse 185:
Ramadan is the month in which the Quran was sent
down: this Book is a Perfect Guidance for mankind and consists of clear
Teachings which show the
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 18 Surah
Kahf verse 1-3:
All praise is for Allah Alone, Who has sent down this Book to His Servant
(Mohamed (saws), and assigned nothing
crooked to it. This Book says everything
directly, so that he may warn the people
of the severe chastisement of Allah and give good news to the believers, who do righteous deeds, that they will have an excellent reward.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 6 Surah
Anaam verse 157-158:
Now that a clear proof, a Guidance and Blessing, has come to you from
your Lord, who can be more unjust than
the one who treats Our Revelations as false and turns away from them? We will inflict the severest torment on
those who turn away from Our Revelations because of their aversion. Do the people now await that the angels
should come down before them? Or that your
Lord may Himself come down? Or that the
manifest Signs of your Lord should appear?
If one trusts, obeys, and follows the guidance and
commands of Allah and His Messenger (saws),
one can be assured of never ever being misled; but if one believes, obeys and follows any
other guidance, other than that of Allah and His Messenger (saws), one can be
assured of being led astray.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only
Source of Strength.
Your brother and well wisher in
Islam,
Burhan
Wister