Answer
#03-09-11 3:45 PM
Bismillah Rahman Raheem -
Thank you for your question about
these types of emails and this one (Dream of Shaykh
Ahmad) in particular, and for putting such confidence
in our ability to answer such questions. At the end of this
answer, please click the link to more about "Lies
And Liars" inshallah.
Before we begin let us remember
some very important points to keep in mind:
1.
As Muslims we cannot lie about anything, especially about our
religion.
2.
We can always prove what our religion teaches because we have
original recorded sources of our religion:
A) The Quran
B) Teachings of Muhammad.
This is a very unique part of Islam, not available in any other
ancient religions.
3.
Sometimes "questions" contain misinformation. We must
qualify what it is that someone is saying against what they are
implying.
4.
If you find the answer to your question makes you say, "I
didn't know that" or "This is good" are you ready
to worship your God by submitting your choices to His Will?
This what Islam is really all about.
The
most important subject is the worship of Almighty God, without
any partners or associates or "gods" besides Almighty
God.
Actually,
we have written on this subject a number of times. It is not permissable
according to Islam, to forward these types of emails without first
verifying and confirming the content, especially when there is
mention of "the prophet, peace be upon him, said . . ",
nor to mention them, nor to forward emails about them. This is
not the proper way to handle the situation. In fact, this is exactly
what the enemies of Islam want us to do. In many cases they pretend
to be Muslims or friends of Islam who are supposedly "helping
Islam and the Muslims." To those who are not familiar with
some of the basics of dawah in Islam, these may not seem like
a big problem. However, it is never acceptable in Islam to try
to accomplish some good by doing something haram (forbidden).
It is never, ever possible to spread Islam by lying or using deceptive
practices.
Why
would anyone do such a thing?
Good
question.
Because
of Muslims promoting the wrong message.
Think
about this: Muslims continually send out messages like the one
that you just sent and then they tell everyone to do the same
thing. Right?
Remember that the devil only has ONE GOAL - to put as many of
the sons of Adam in the HellFire as he can. That is it. He does
not really care how they get there.And it works - for the enemy.
Shayton
(the devil) knows that most Muslims are ignorant of their religion
and think that they know enough that they don't need to ask anyone
about what they are doing. Or else, he counts on the fact that
they will consider that it looks like something that will "help"
the ummah (Muslim community) to do good deeds, even if it is a
"little white lie."
But
keep in mind that by lying about what our prophet, peace be upon
him, says (whether in a hadeeth or a dream by some mystic shaykh,
supposedly in Madinah), it is still a lie and could cause the
one who sends it on to others to go to HELL, FOREVER.
And
it is working!
We
must discourage this practice of just "forwarding this to
everyone on your list." You see many Muslims today do not
really know a lot about Islam and they are easily confused by
these people who know how to make up things to fool us or mistranslate
or misrepresent the verses of the Quran and the hadeeth of the
prophet, peace be upon him. As a result I have a number of emails
coming to me from different countries wherein the youth are asking
me about things that have really messed them up, all of it stemming
from these teachings.
For
the above reasons you can see why it is haram to forward these
emails?
What
should we do?
Good
question:
First,
when you receive email with any statements about dreams or visions
-
DO NOT FORWARD IT TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST.
Second,
send a copy to our office here in Washington, DC
email: yusuf@99islam.com
Or Fax it to us: (703) 354 5224
Or Mail it through 'snail mail' at:
Ask Islam
Post Office Box 23683
Alexandria, VA. 22312
Third,
begin to visit and promote the websites that are dealing with
the real issues of being a Muslim in this place in these times.
This is critical.
Finally,
DO COPY & EMAIL this answer to everyone ON YOUR LIST!
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