Is it right to go to darga(shrine).
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salamu alai kum
Is it
right to go to darga(shrine).women r nt allowed to go to graveyard bt many
women visits shrines.is nt this a grave of a holy person.plz brother help me
out as my family visits darga and me too.i dont want to make any sin
Allah
hafiz
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Answer:
Visit darga shrine
tomb
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 none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear
witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His
Messengers.
Your
Question: Is it right to go to darga(shrine).
Jabir reported: "The Prophet(saws)
forbade the whitewashing of a grave, sitting on it, or erecting any structure
on it." (Reported by Ahmad, Muslim, Nasa'i, Abu Daw'ud, and Tirmidhi.)
Abu Hurairah reported: "The Prophet
(saws) said: 'May Allah destroy the
Jews, because they used the graves of their prophets as places of worship
(shrines).'' (Bukhari and Muslim)
Aishah reported: "Umm Habibah and Umm Salamah
mentioned to Allah's Messenger (saws) a church in which they saw drawings while
in Abyssinia, whereupon he said: 'Those people used to build a place of worship
(shrine, tomb, etc.) over the grave of a righteous man among them when he died, and make such drawings in it. These will be the worst of people in the
Sight of Allah on the Day of Resurrection.'' (Bukhari and Muslim)
In light of the above absolutely clear guidance of the
Messenger of Allah (saws), it is absolutely prohibited in Islam to make a
shrine over the dead, leave alone visiting or invoking those buried in the
shrines!
Allah Says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 39 Surah Zumar verse 3:
Is it not to Allah
that sincere devotion is due? But those
who take ‘awliyaas’ other than Allah (say): "We only
serve them (the awliyaas) in order that they may bring us nearer to
Allah." Truly Allah will judge between them in that wherein they
differ. But Allah guides not such as are
false and ungrateful.
It has indeed always happened
that when some true and pious servant of Allah Subhanah died, some people declared him after his death as a
‘Wali’ (plural Awliya) from
themselves, and shared some of Allah
Rights and Attributes with this departed person! Some made images and worshipped them, some
made idols and invoked them, and some turned their graves into places of
worship and invocations!
Allah Alone is All-Hearing; but
some ignorant people shared this Noble Attribute of Allah with their Awliyaas
and stared falsely assuming that those buried in their graves can hear and
respond to their supplications and invocations; this is precisely what is
termed ‘shirk’ in the Glorious Quran!
Similarly, Allah Alone is
All-Knowing and All-Seeing; but some
ignorant people shared these Noble Attributes of Allah with their Awliyaas and
started falsely assuming that those buried in their graves sees and knows their
condition and has the power to help them.
They thus started invoking them in their graves and this is precisely
what has been termed as manifest ‘shirk’ in the Glorious Quran!
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 46 Surah
Ahqaf verses 4-6:
Prophet, say to them, "Have you ever seen them with open
eyes those whom you invoke instead of Allah? Show me what they have created in
the earth? Or have they any share in the creation and control of the heavens?
Bring me a Book revealed before this, or produce some remnant of knowledge in
support of your beliefs if you are truthful." And who could be further
astray than the one who invokes, instead of Allah, those who cannot answer him
till the Day of Resurrection. Nay, they are even UNAWARE THAT THEY ARE BEING INVOKED.
And when all mankind shall be gathered together (on the Day of Qiyamah), they
(the so called leaders and intercessors) will become enemies of those who
invoked them and they will DISOWN THEIR WORSHIP!!!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 18 Surah
Kahf verse 102:
What? Do
these people, who have disbelieved, presume that they would make My servants
their ‘auliyaas’ besides Me? We have
prepared Hell for the hospitality of such people.
It is indeed unfortunate and absolute and utter ignorance, that after being specifically warned by the Messenger of Allah (saws); some people who profess their belief in him and his message start making and using the dargahs of the deceased pious slaves of Allah Subhanah as places of worship and invocation!
If one invokes anything or anyone other than Allah Subhanah, or if one invokes or call upon anything or anyone with Allah Subhanah… there is absolutely no doubt that such a person will be committing the heinous and abomination of ‘shirk’!!!
It is the strict command and
sole Right of Allah Subhanah, as the Creator and Sustainer of the World, that
He and He Alone should be invoked for anything one desires and needs; for there
is none in the Universe who can give anything if Allah does not will to give,
and there is none in the Universe who can stop Allah if He wills to show mercy
on His slaves!
If one so much so as even tries
to invoke someone or something other than Allah Subhanah in the unseen, he will
be committing the most heinous of crimes in the sight of Allah Subhanah; that
is, ‘shirk’!!!
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 5 Surah Maidah verse 72:
Whoever commits
‘shirk’ (invoking anything with Allah),
Allah shall forbid for him
Your
Statement: women r nt allowed to go to graveyard bt many women visits shrines
There is absolutely no harm in Islam if a believing woman
wishes to occasionally visit a graveyard.
Hadrat Abdallah ibn Abi Mulaikah (r.a.) said,
"Once Aishah (the wife of the Prophet (saws)) returned after visiting the
graveyard. I asked, 'O Mother of the Believers, where have you been?' She said:
'I went out to visit the grave of my brother Abd ar-Rahman.' I asked her:
'Didn't the Messenger of Allah (saws) prohibit visiting graves?' She said,
'Yes, he did forbid visiting graves during the early days (of Islam), but later
on he ordered us to visit them'."
Related by Al-Hakim and Al-Baihaqi.
The purpose of visiting graves is to remember the
Hereafter, which is something that both men and women need. Men are by no means more in need of this
reminder than women. Thus provided the
woman does not violate the rights of her husband, or her duties towards her
house and her children, and she does not violate any of the guidelines of
Shariah in her dressing and adornment and speech, there is absolutely no harm
if the believing woman occasionally visits the graveyards, if she wishes to do
so.
The Messenger of Allah (saws) said: “,
"May Allah curse the women who are frequent visitors of the graves."
Related by Ahmad and Tirmidhi.
Al-Qurtubi explains the implications of the above hadith:
"The curse mentioned in this hadith applies only to those women who visit
graves ‘frequently’. The reason for this
curse lies perhaps in the fact that it involves infringement of the rights of
the husband, and leads to adornment and exhibition of their beauty to
strangers, and shouting, yelling, and other similar things." It may be
said that, "If no such harm is feared from women visiting graves, then
there is no valid reason for preventing them from visiting graves, for indeed
remembrance of death is something that both men and women equally need."
Most of the scholars in Islam hold it permissible for the
women to visit the graves occasionally;
but hold it forbidden for the women to visit the graves frequently as
stated by the Messenger of Allah (saws).
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