Majmu' al-Fatawa - Ibn Taimiya - (4/16)

Majmu' al-FatawaIbn Taimiya

“And it is not permissible to use mosques for singing, dancing, or mingling with beardless youths. Anyone who does so must receive a severe, deterrent discretionary punishment. As for wearing hoops, armlets, chains, and shackles, and wearing rings of iron or copper, this is religious innovation and ostentatious display. The worst matters are those newly introduced into religion. These are theirs in this world; they are the attire of the people of the Fire, and they will be theirs in the Hereafter if they die persisting in this. It is not permissible to prostrate to anyone other than Allah, whether living or dead, or to kiss graves. Anyone who does so must receive discretionary punishment. Anyone who curses a Muslim must receive severe discretionary punishment for doing so.

“A believer is not given to cursing—and what he acknowledged concerning the curse returning upon him.”

He said:

“It is not lawful to pray at graves or to walk over them, whether for men or women. Nor may they be made into places of prayer, for:

‘Allah’s wrath became intense against people who took the graves of their prophets as places of worship.’”

He said:

“As for scholars cursing the leading figures of the Ash‘ariyya, anyone who curses them must receive discretionary punishment, and the curse returns upon him. Whoever curses someone who does not deserve to be cursed brings the curse upon himself. The scholars defend the branches of religion, while the Ash‘ariyya defend its foundations.”

He said:

“As for their entering fires, this is a trial for anyone who does not hold fast to the Quran, and a cause of misguidance for those who see them, just as people are put to trial by what appears at the hands of the Dajjāl. Anyone through whom an extraordinary occurrence takes place must be weighed against the standard of revealed law. If he is upright, what occurs through him is a divinely granted wonder; if he is not upright, it is a trial, like the raising of the dead that occurs at the hands of the Dajjāl, and the appearance of his paradise and his fire. For Allah leads astray those who have no share of goodness through what appears at the hands of such people.

وَلَا يَجُوزُ شَغْلُ الْمَسَاجِدِ بِالْغِنَاءِ وَالرَّقْصِ وَمُخَالَطَةِ المردان وَيُعَزَّرُ فَاعِلُهُ تَعْزِيرًا بَلِيغًا رَادِعًا وَأَمَّا لُبْسُ الْحَلَقِ وَالدَّمَالِجِ وَالسَّلَاسِلِ وَالْأَغْلَالِ وَالتَّخَتُّمُ بِالْحَدِيدِ وَالنُّحَاسِ فَبِدْعَةٌ وَشُهْرَةٌ. وَشَرُّ الْأُمُورِ مُحْدَثَاتُهَا وَهِيَ لَهُمْ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَهِيَ لِبَاسُ أَهْلِ النَّارِ وَهِيَ لَهُمْ فِي الْآخِرَةِ إنْ مَاتُوا عَلَى ذَلِكَ. وَلَا يَجُوزُ السُّجُودُ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ مِنْ الْأَحْيَاءِ وَالْأَمْوَاتِ وَلَا تَقْبِيلُ الْقُبُورِ وَيُعَزَّرُ فَاعِلُهُ. وَمَنْ لَعَنَ أَحَدًا مِنْ الْمُسْلِمِينَ عُزِّرَ عَلَى ذَلِكَ تَعْزِيرًا بَلِيغًا. وَالْمُؤْمِنُ لَا يَكُونُ لَعَّانًا وَمَا أَقَرَّ بِهِ مِنْ عَوْدِ اللَّعْنَةِ عَلَيْهِ قَالَ: وَلَا تَحِلُّ الصَّلَاةُ عِنْدَ الْقُبُورِ وَلَا الْمَشْيُ عَلَيْهَا مِنْ الرِّجَالِ وَالنِّسَاءِ وَلَا تُعْمَلُ مَسَاجِدَ لِلصَّلَاةِ فَإِنَّهُ " {اشْتَدَّ غَضَبُ اللَّهِ عَلَى قَوْمٍ اتَّخَذُوا قُبُورَ أَنْبِيَائِهِمْ مَسَاجِدَ} " . قَالَ: وَأَمَّا لَعْنُ الْعُلَمَاءِ لِأَئِمَّةِ الْأَشْعَرِيَّةِ فَمَنْ لَعَنَهُمْ عُزِّرَ. وَعَادَتْ اللَّعْنَةُ عَلَيْهِ فَمَنْ لَعَنَ مَنْ لَيْسَ أَهْلًا لِلَّعْنَةِ وَقَعَتْ اللَّعْنَةُ عَلَيْهِ. وَالْعُلَمَاءُ أَنْصَارُ فُرُوعِ الدِّينِ وَالْأَشْعَرِيَّةُ أَنْصَارُ أُصُولِ الدِّينِ. قَالَ: وَأَمَّا دُخُولُهُمْ النِّيرَانَ فَمَنْ لَا يَتَمَسَّكُ بِالْقُرْآنِ فَإِنَّهُ فِتْنَةٌ لَهُمْ وَمَضَلَّةٌ لِمَنْ يَرَاهُمْ كَمَا يَفْتَتِنُ النَّاسُ بِمَا يَظْهَرُ عَلَى يَدَيْ الدَّجَّالِ فَإِنَّهُ مَنْ ظَهَرَ عَلَى يَدَيْهِ خَارِقٌ فَإِنَّهُ يُوزَنُ بِمِيزَانِ الشَّرْعِ فَإِنْ كَانَ عَلَى الِاسْتِقَامَةِ كَانَ مَا ظَهَرَ عَلَى يَدَيْهِ كَرَامَةً وَمَنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ عَلَى الِاسْتِقَامَةِ كَانَ ذَلِكَ فِتْنَةً كَمَا يَظْهَرُ عَلَى يَدَيْ الدَّجَّالِ مِنْ إحْيَاءِ الْمَيِّتِ وَمَا يَظْهَرُ مِنْ جَنَّتِهِ وَنَارِهِ. فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ يُضِلُّ مَنْ لَا خَلَاقَ لَهُ بِمَا يَظْهَرُ عَلَى يَدَيْ هَؤُلَاءِ.