As-Salaamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuhu!
Our Sheikh Saalih Ibn Fawzaan Ibn Abdillaah Al-Fawzaan was asked the following question.
ما ضابط البدعة . و متى يقال هذا الشخص مبتدع ؟
What is the precise definition of innovation and when is it said that this person is an Innovator?
البدعة كما قال النبي صلى الله عليه و سلم "من أحدث في أمرنا هذا ما ليس فيه فهو رد", كل محدثة بدعة , و كل بدعة ضلالة , فالبدعة:هى كل ما لم يكن له أصل في كتاب الله و لا في سنة رسول صلى الله عليه و سلم فما أحدث من العبادات و الأفكار و غير ذلك من أمور العبادة هذه بدع. الذي ليس له دليل من الأقوال أو من ا لأفعا ل أو الاعتقادات أو غير ذلك, كل ما ليس له دليل من الكتاب أو السنة فهو يكون محدثا, وكل محدث في الدين يكون بدعة. و كل بدعة ضلالة.
Innovation as it was said by the prophet [sallalahu alaihi wa salam]:
?Whoever introduces something into this affair of ours that is not in it then it is rejected.? [1]
Every newly invented matter is an innovation and every innovation is misguidance. So innovation, it is everything that does not have a basis in the book of Allaah nor the Sunnah of the messenger of Allaah [sallalahu alaihi wa salam]. So what is newly introduced from the acts of worship and ideologies and other than that from the affairs of worship then this is innovation that which does not have an evidence from the Book or Sunnah then it is a newly introduced matter, and every newly introduced matter in the religion is an innovation and every innovation is misguidance.
1. Related by Bukhaaree in his Saheeh [3/167 ] on the authority of Aa?ishah [radhia Allaahu Anhaa]
شهدت بأن وعد الله حق و أن النار مثوى الكافرين و ان الأرش فوق الماء طاف و فوق العرش رب العالمين I bear witness that the promise of Allaah is true and that the abode of the kuffar is the hellfire and that the Arsh is above the water suspended and above the
As-Salaamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakaatuhu!
Briefly, I forgot to quote the source of the extraction, it was extracted from our Sheikh Saalih Ibn Fawzaan Ibn Abdillaah Al-Fawzaan [hafidhahullaah] book entitled:
Muhaadhiraat Fil Aqeedah wa Dawah 3/398
Baraka Allaahu Feekum
ابو عكاشة شاكر بن ويلارد جرينوود Abu Ukkaasha Shaakir Ibn Willard Greenwood
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26-03-2003 @ 12:00 AM
