Bad Bid’ah and Good Bid’ah

Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya Sadat As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Dastur Mawlana Sheikh Abdullah Faiz Daghestani, Sheikh Nazim al-Haqqani. Madad. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.

Our Holy Prophet ﷺ prohibited Bid’ah/innovations to people of Bid’ah. Bid’ah means to make new things. There are two types of it. Bid’ah asserted by Salafis is Haram. It is Kufr. What is called Bid’ah is to make things against the religion, against Islam and to count them as religious. This is bad Bid’ah. And beautiful things made for good purposes are good Bid’ah.

Our Holy Prophet ﷺ cursed those who made up bad ways which were not in the religion and showed them as if they were in Islam. He ﷺ said that their prayers and Du’a would not be accepted. There are many examples for it. Some people do things on some days that our Holy Prophet ﷺ hadn’t done. They torture themselves and others. They yell and scream. These are a kind of Bid’ah. And they encourage all people to do so. These are things that have no benefit and Thawab at all. It is just an example, nothing else. Such things that are not in the religion but are shown to be religious are Bid’ah.

Otherwise, good things like honoring our Holy Prophet ﷺ, writing poems about him, making Salawat and various things like this are good Bid’ah. People ask, “Was there Dala’il al Khayrat during the time of our Holy Prophet?” No. It was made up later. Salawat is made to our Holy Prophet ﷺ and his beautiful attributes are recited with it. It brings Thawab and it is good. But others swear at the Sahabah and Khalifahs. That is bad Bid’ah, because swearing at those beloved by our Holy Prophet ﷺ is not suitable, it is not a good thing. There is a punishment for it.

You should love those whom he ﷺ loves, and you shouldn’t love those whom he ﷺ doesn’t love. This is Bid’ah Hasanah, which is a good Bid’ah. May Allah ﷻ give understanding to people so that they know what is good and bad. They are already clear. The good is clear and the bad is clear. There is no doubt in them. And may we stay away from things that are doubtful insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

www.hakkani.org Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 29 December 2021/25 Jumādā al-Awwal 1443 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

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