Ruling on cursing specific people
May 6th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
What is the ruling on cursing (and not just insulting) the Jews and Christians or other groups, whether living or dead? May Allaah reward you with good.
Praise be to Allaah.
The author of Lisaan al-‘Arab [a famous Arabic-language dictionary – Translator] said: La’n (curse) means being cast out far from goodness, and it was said that it means being cast away far from Allaah, and from people.
Cursing happens in two ways:
Cursing the kuffaar and sin in general terms, such as saying “May Allaah curse the Jews and Christians,” or “May Allaah curse the kaafirs, evildoers and wrongdoers,” or “May Allaah curse the wine-drinker and thief.” This kind of curse is permissible and there is nothing wrong with it. Ibn Muflih said in al-Adaab al-Shar’iyyah, 1/203: “It is permissible to curse the kuffaar in general.” « Read the rest of this entry »
I am confused about whether the qubda lenght of the beard is sunnah or wajib
April 9th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Khat by Osman Ozcay
I am confused about whether the qubda lenght of the beard is sunnah or wajib. Everybody is on the world wide web is saying that it is wajib to have at qudha lenght.
But then I read this:
Shaykh al-Hadith ‘Allama Ghulam Rasul Sa’idi al-Hanafi (hafizahu Llah) has a thorough analysis of the subject in his Sharh Sahih Muslim (urdu), where he quotes from many of the great Hanafi authorities, like Ibn Hummam (Fath al-Qadir), Badr al-Din al-‘Ayni (al-Binaya), Zayd al-Din Ibn Najim (Bahr al-Ra’iq), al-Shurunbulali (Hashiya al-Durar wa al-ghurar), Mulla ‘Ali al-Qari (al-Mirqat), al-Haskafi (Durr al-Mukhtar), Ibn ‘Abidin (Radd al-Muhtar), al-Tahtawi (Hashiya ‘ala Maraqi al-Falah) – Ramatu Llahi ‘alayhim ajma’in – all stating that the qubda is ‘sunna’.
Most of the quotes go in the line of ‘wa huwa ay al-qadr al-masnun fi al-lihya al-qubda’, or ‘… bi qadr al-masnun wa huwa al-qubda..’, or the like. « Read the rest of this entry »
