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BEAUTIFYING INNOVATIONS

by Sh Abu Iyad
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A way in which Shaytaan beautifies innovations is by whispering to someone: The people in this time have left the Deen and their returning to it seems difficult. Why don't we do some acts of worship and add to them so that the people are attracted by them to the religion. He also comes to people and says: 'People are far away from the Deen, perhaps if we bring some Hadeeths which will instill fear into them or increase their aspirations they will return to the Deen'. As a result they invent Hadeeth attributing them to the Messenger (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam). They then say: "We do not lie against the Messenger, we lie for him!!"

They impute lies against the Messenger and invent Hadeeth to scare the people. They describe Hellfire in a strange and unheard of way and likewise for Paradise, thinking they are doing good. Shaytaan has certainly deceived them. Sufyaan Ath-Thawree (RA) said: "Shaytaan is more pleased with innovation than sin, because one can repent from sin whereas one cannot repent from innovation because he thinks it is something good."

Innovation is from the handiwork of Shaytaan and occurs in both belief and action. It is more destructive than sin because the damage falls upon the religion itself and the unity of the Muslims. The effects of sins do not harm the religion and fall upon people only. This is one of the most powerful of Shaytaan's tools and has indeed been used effectively by him in all the Muslim lands, each of which possesses unique, different innovated acts of worship and a variety of conflicting ways of performing them.

You will also find that this is the way Shaytaan has used to instil enmity and hatred into the Muslims' hearts, one to another. He seduces some of them to abandon the Sunnah, from remaining firm and patient upon it and then make an innovation, or a new idea, or a way of thinking which was never known to the Companions of Messenger (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) or to the Pious Predecessors of this Ummah. Then people rally around this new idea and form a group and begin to like and dislike, love and hate on its basis thereby tearing their hearts apart. This shows the necessity of adhering to the Sunnah in all matters and giving it the utmost importance.

Al Irbaad bin Sariyyah, one of the Companions said: "The Messenger of Allah gave us a sermon by which our hearts were filled with fear and tears came to our eyes. We said: "0 Messenger of Allah, it is as though this is a farewell sermon, so councel us." He said: "I counsel you to fear Allah and to give absolute obedience even if a slave becomes your leader. Verily he among you who lives [long] will see great controversy, so you must keep to my sunnah and to the sunnah of the rightly-guided Khalifahs – cling to them stubbornly. Beware of newly invented matters, for every invented matter is an innovation and every innovation is a going astray, and every going astray is in Hell-fire."

So, innovating and innovations are one of the most destructive things to this Ummah and it is necessary for every truthful and sincere Muslim to root them out from himself, from his family and from his offspring, whether they are matters of belief, action or even ideas and methodologies which are in opposition to and contradict the the understanding of the Companions of the Messenger (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam), the Pious Predecessors.

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