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Asalam wa laikum Burhan Bhai,

Thanks for you kind help with which i have much knowlede about Islam.

My question,

When we getup in the morning, sometimes we have a neck pain due to which we cant move our face. People tell that if you keep your pillow in the sunlight your pain will go away. I have tried that many times and has worked all the time. I just want to know, what i am doing is Bidat, shirk or just nothing regarding sin.

Awaiting your reply.

AllahHafiz

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Answer:

Pillow in sunlight bida

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: When we getup in the morning, sometimes we have a neck pain due to which we cant move our face. People tell that if you keep your pillow in the sunlight your pain will go away. I have tried that many times and has worked all the time. I just want to know, what i am doing is Bidat, shirk or just nothing regarding sin.

If one gets up occasionally with a neck pain after a night’s sleep, logic dictates that it is a simple muscular over-stretch pain due to the position of one’s head while sleeping; and this pain normally disappears within a day or two.

But to believe that when one experiences a muscular pain in the neck due to sleep, subsequently keeping the pillow in sunlight would in any way have any effect of the neck pain being experienced, is absolutely against logic and common sense! It would make as much logic and common sense if I said I have a head-ache, and if someone wears my shoes it would be cured!!!

It would be indeed harsh to associate such belief to the abominations of shirk or bida, but the belief that exposing the pillow to sunlight cures muscular neck-aches is something against basic logic and common-sense.

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

Your Brother in Islam,

Burhan