Islam bans practice of idol worship ,so do u think that we bohris do sajdah to our dai and go to thier turbats and perform sajdah to them
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4)islam bans practice of idol worship ,so do u think that we bohris do sajdah
to our dai and go to thier turbats and perform sajdah to them ,i would also
like to ask that was there nobody to stop this thing in the past when the
bohris were at nascent stage of thier religion and what we do now is wrong or
right
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Sajdah to Dai and graves
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.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 22 Surah Hajj verse 77: O you
who believe, do ‘rukoo’ and ‘sajdah’ to
Allah Alone, worship Allah Alone, and do righteous deeds. It may be that you attain true success.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 41 Surah Fusselat verse 37: Do
not do ‘sajdah’ to the sun and the
moon, but do ‘sajdah’ to that
Allah, Who Created them, if you really are indeed His worshippers.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 13 Surah Raad verse 15: For it
is Allah Alone before whom everything in the heavens and the earth do ‘sajdah’
willingly or un-willingly. Even the
shadows of all things do ‘sajdah’ to Allah in the morning and evening!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 16 Surah Nahl verse 48-50: And
don’t they observe anything created by Allah: how it casts its shadow right and
left, doing its ‘sajdah’ to Allah
Alone? Thus do all things express their
humility to Allah. All the animate
creation in the heavens and the earth and all the angels do ‘sajdah’ in
adoration to Allah Alone. They do not
show any arrogance at all, and fear their Lord,
Who is above them, and do
whatever they are bidden by Allah.
Your Question: islam bans practice
of idol worship ,so do u think that we bohris do sajdah to our dai and go to thier
turbats and perform sajdah to them
My
beloved brother, the act of ‘sajdah’ whereby a person bows down and completely
humbles himself by putting his forehead on the ground if front of or in the
direction of another, is the ultimate act of humility, submission, subjugation,
and worship of that being.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 39 Surah Zumur verse 2-3: So worship Allah
Alone, making your religion His
exclusively. Beware! Religion is the Exclusive Right of Allah. As for those who have taken other ‘auliyas’
with Allah (and justify their this conduct by saying): “We serve them only that
they may bring us closer to Allah.”
Allah will surely judge between them concerning all that in which they
differ. Allah does not show guidance to
any liar and denier of the Truth.
In Islam,
the act of ‘sajdah’ is considered an integral act and rite of worship, and
Allah is our witness, none in creation deserves to be worshipped except Allah
Subhanah, the Lord, Creator and Sustainer of the Worlds.
If one
bows down in ‘sajdah’ to anyone or anything other than Allah Subhanah Alone, be
it an idol, an image, a person, a grave, or anything else in creation, he will
be guilty of the abomination of sharing the right of worship that is due to
Allah Subhanah Alone with someone else!
Such a person will be severely accountable for his heinous and
unforgivable sin of ‘shirk’ in the Presence of the Lord Most High on an
Inevitable Day.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 9 Surah Taubah verse 31: They
have made their scholars and their monks as their ‘Rabbs’ besides Allah!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 16 Surah Nahl verse 20-21: All
the other beings, whom the people invoke
with Allah, create nothing! Nay,
they are themselves created.
They are dead, not living, and they do not at all know themselves when
they shall again be raised to life!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 22 Surah Hajj verse 71-72: They
worship besides Allah those for whom Allah has sent down NO AUTHORITY! Nor they themselves have any knowledge about
them. Such transgressors have no
helper! And when our clear Revelations
are recited to them, you perceive signs of
disdain on the faces of the disbelievers,
as though they were going to assualt those who recite our Revelations to
them!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 33 Surah Ahzab verse 66-68: On
the Day their faces are rolled about on the Fire, they will say, “Would that we had obeyed
Allah and His Messenger!” And they will
say, “O our Lord, we obeyed our CHIEFS
and our GREAT MEN, and they led us astray from the Right Path. O our Lord, give them a double chastisement
and curse them severely”.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 39 Surah Zumar verse 67: These
people (who commit shirk) have not recognized the true worth of Allah, as His worth should truly be recognized. (As for His Omnipotence) the entire earth on
the Day of Resurrection shall be in His grasp and the heavens shall be rolled
up in His Right Hand. Glorified is He
and Exalted above the ‘shirk’ that these people commit.
My dear
and beloved brother, if one performs the act or rite of ‘sajdah’ or prostration
to any being or thing other than Allah Subhanah, one would be guilty of the
absolute abomination, heinous and unforgivable crime of ‘shirk’ in the Court of
Allah Subhanah! Allah Subhanah has
Declared in His Glorious Quran that if one who was guilty of ‘shirk’ did not
sincerely seek repentance for their abomination from the Lord Most high and
were to die in that state, Allah Subhanah would forbid for him Paradise, and
the Eternal Fire of Hell would be his Everlasting Abode.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 5
Surah Maidah verse 72: Whoever commits ‘shirk’ (invoking anything with
Allah), Allah shall forbid for him
Allah says in the Quran: Chapter 4
Surah An-Nisa Verse 48: Shirk (associating other deities with Allah) is the
only sin that Allah does not forgive, and He forgives, whomsoever He pleases, sins
other than this. For whosoever
associates any other partner with Allah, does indeed forge a big lie and
commits the most heinous sin
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 39
Surah Zumar verse 65-66: If you commit ‘shirk’ all your works will be rendered
vain and you will be among the losers.
Therefore, you should worship
Allah Alone, and be among His grateful
servants.
Your Question: i would also like
to ask that was there nobody to stop this thing in the past when the bohris
were at nascent stage of thier religion and what we do now is wrong or
right
My dear and beloved brother in Islam, Allah Alone
knows who, when, and how did this evil abomination of making ‘sajdah’ to human
beings and the graves of their ancestors started, especially amongst those who had
professed belief in Allah Subhanah and His Last and Final Messenger, Mohamed
ar-Rasool Allah (saws)!
It is obvious that after they had professed
belief and accepted Islam as their way of life, only a small group of people
started and propagated this act of doing ‘sajdah’ to human beings and graves; and
when the true believers and worshippers of Allah Subhanah Alone warned them of
the ‘shirk’ they were doing, they broke themselves away from the believing
Ummah and formed a ‘sect’ of their own!
In fact if one reads or knows the history of this
particular sect, they were literally thrown out and had to flee the Arab
country of Yemen because of their beliefs and acts which were so blatantly
contrary and against the clear guidance of the Quran and the Sunnah; that is
precisely why the seat of the ‘dawat’ moved from Yemen to its present location
in India where they could practice their ‘shirk’ without any hindrance!
Even today, when their ‘high-priest’ visit the
Arabian-Gulf countries and especially Saudi Arabia, their followers are
strictly warned by their aamils and priests never ever to do sajdah or any act
of ‘shirk’ towards their Syedna in public for they fear that they would be immediately
declared non-muslims!
You and I were obviously not present during the
nascent stage of their movement, thus Allah Alone Knows exactly what transpired
during those times. But today, many
amongst our Bohra brethren have read and understood the Quran, and know from their
experience and the oppression they face everyday of their lives with their
aamils and bhaisahebs that what is currently taking place in the community is
absolutely against the guidance of the Quran and Islam; but how many of them
are willing to stand up and take the side of the Truth?
Bold indeed are these poor souls! They fear the hardship they might face if
they stood up for the Truth from their bhaisahebs, and aamils, and society, and
family, and friends,….but they fear not the hardship that they will inevitably
face when they are called upon to answer for their deeds and their beliefs in
the Majestic Presence of the Lord Most High, Most Supreme on an Inevitable
Day!!! Bold indeed are these poor souls!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 6 Surah Anam verse 94: (And on
the Day of Judgment Allah will say to those who committed shirk in the world),
“So, you have come before Us all
alone, as We created you at first. Now,
you have left behind all that We gave you in the world. Now We do not see with you those ‘shufa’a’
(intercessors), who, you believed, had a
share in moulding your destinies! All
the relations between you and them have been cut off, and all those, in whom you trusted, have left you in the lurch.”
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 19 Surah Maryam verses 81-82: These
people have set up other gods with Allah,
so that they may become their supporters! There will be no supporters! They will not only disown your worship, but also become their opponents.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 40 Surah Mumin verse 47-48: Then
imagine the time when these people will be disputing with one another in
Hell. The weak ones will say to the
haughty ones, “We were your followers!
Now, can you save us from some
part of our punishment in Hell?” The
haughty ones will say, “We are all in the same state here, and Allah has already passed judgment between
His servants.”
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 7 Surah Aaraaf verses 52-53: We
have brought to these people a Book which gives details based on knowledge and
which is a guidance and blessing for those who believe. Now,
are these people waiting for anything other than the consequence of
which they have been warned in the
Book? When the consequence will come
before them, those very people who
aforetime had disregarded it, will say,
“Indeed, the Messenger of our Lord had
come with the Truth. Shall we have,
then, any ‘shufaa’ who will intercede for us?
Or could we be sent back that we might do deeds different from those we
did before?” They have, indeed, incurred heavy loss upon themselves, and all the false things they had invented
have forsaken them today.
If one
trusts, obeys, and follows the guidance and commands of
Allah and His Messenger (saws), one can
be assured of never ever being misled;
but if one believes, obeys and
follows any other guidance, other than
that of Allah and His Messenger (saws),
one can be assured of being led astray.
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 in
Islam,
Wister