I was quite surprised to hear [1] that some people wanted to demonstrate against the royal wedding. Yes this is a non-Muslim wedding; nonetheless, they are celebrating and upholding a great institution here. Why should they demonstrate? There is nothing in the Shari’ah where it states that non-Muslims aren’t allowed to marry. They are allowed to marry, have children and this right (men and women getting married together) has been given by God to all human beings, irrespective of their religion or culture, and it should be celebrated.
God states in the Qur’an:
‘And God has made for you partners of your own nature, and made for you, out of them, sons and daughters and grandchildren, and provided for you sustenance of the best: will they then believe in vain things, and be ungrateful for God’s favours?’ [2]
According to Ibn Abbas, ‘Ikramah, Al Hasan, Al Dhahik, and Ibn Zayd, in this ayah God mentions the blessing he has bestowed upon His servant by giving them partners from among themselves, mates of their own kind. If He had given them mates of another kind, there would be no harmony, love and mercy between them. But out of His mercy He has made the children of Adam male and female, and has made the females wives or mates for the males. Then God mentions that from these wives he creates children and grandchildren. [3]
‘And among His Signs is this, that He created for you wives from among yourselves, that you may find repose in them, and He has put between you affection and mercy. Verily, in that are indeed signs for a people who reflect.’ [4]
If God had made Adam’s entire progeny male, and created the females from another kind such as from Jinns or animals, there would never have been harmony between them and their spouses. There would have been revulsion if the spouses had been from a different kind. Out of God’s perfect mercy he made their wives from their own kind, and created love and kindness between them. For a man stays with a woman because he loves her, or because he feels compassion towards her if they have a child together, or because she needs him to take care of her, etc. [5]
This is the divine system of creation by the Most Sublime and Master of the Universe. One of the five objectives of the Shari’ah is the protection of progeny (Hifdh al-Nasal). Marriage protects the family and protects the society from corruption and licentious behaviour. It was the concern of all laws and civilisations to protect this great institution of marriage. Imam Tahir Ibn ‘Ashur wrote:
‘The consolidation and proper functioning of the family constitute the foundation of human civilisation and the integrating of society’s order. Therefore, it has been one of the objectives of all laws in the world to take special care of the family by laying down specific rules for its formation and proper functioning. In fact, establishing the family was one of the earliest concerns of civilised human beings in the process of laying down the underpinnings of civilisation, toward which they were guided by Divine inspiration. Its purpose was to protect descendants (ansab) from doubt about their lineal indetity (intisab), that is, that a man confirms the attribution of his children to himself….’ [6]
I am not suggesting that we, as British citizens, should give money and ‘celebrate’ it the way in which some people would want us to. I do not believe that the taxpayer should be paying any money to this wedding. I think the royal family possesses more than sufficient wealth to provide for this wedding themselves. It would have made more sense for these if they wanted to demonstrate against taxpayers paying for this rather than the wedding itself.
And a final point, it is quite a paradox that when they say that Muslims should not participate in elections, voting and democracy, they requested and sought permission from the police and other authorities to protest outside Westminster Abbey. Isn’t that Haram? [7]
[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13125846
[2] Al Nahl: 72.
[3] Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Volume Five), 494.
[4] Al Rum: 21.
[5] Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Volume Seven), 535.
[6] Ibn Ashur, Maqasid al-Shari’ah (Eng), IIT, p, 247.
[7] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13125846
The police have denied them the permission
lol I don’t think they are protesting at the fact that they are getting married! It’s because of all the reasons they claim
You Abdul seem to have missed the point. The Mujis are not against non-Muslims getting married, otherwise would have objected to the millions of marriages that take place.
They’re against what the marriage represents and because the marriage is of a person who fought in wars against Muslims.
Next time do us a favour and look at the root of the arguement rather get all baffled and muddled up due to your obsession of the Maqsad of everything.
A bit surprised that a man like yourself doesn’t know the difference between seeking permission to stand somewhere and legislating in parliament!!!!
Mehboob: they sought permission from a system that rules by man-made law. You have rounded up voting and participating in elections (not haram in and of themselves) to ‘legislating’, simply because you feel it implies recognising the authority of a man-made system, whilst judging the seeking permission (not haram in an of itself), as just that, whilst it similarly implies recognition of a man-made system.
In both cases there is another choice – either do an action off your own back without regard to the authority, or just sit at home and do nothing because it is involving yourself in man-made politics.
Where is the justice ya akhi?
You said it brother mehboob. Even calling the police in an emergency and lending your support to those who legislate by rejecting allaahs law are two entirely different things. Brothers need to do some basic studies before they try to tarnish the image of their own brethren without having having uttered a word of baraa against disbelief, it’s rituals and it’s crimes.
@Silly – you need to do some basic studying of this deen and of political lobbying before you accuse brothers of acts of kufr. If you have no idea of how lobbying really works in the nitty-gritty, you have no right to claim there is a difference between calling the police in an emergency (which is what trying to save some of your wealth from being stolen?) and trying to use the political process to stop military wars and try to fight back against the laws that will slowly start to restrict the practice of our deen like that which is happening gradually all over Europe.
Most people – even those supporting political lobbying – have little idea of how it works and how well it can work if done well (and I am not talking about Muslim MPs, who do jack-all). Before you make something haram based on the fact that this is not a life-and-death situation, when others are claiming it is, justice dictates you actually look into the opposing argument in all its detail.
You could reply with a barrage of attacks or refutations or you can actually ask yourself: “Do I really have enough shar’i knowledge or knowledge of the system to make unsubstantiated claims that eject other Muslims from the fold of Islam?”.
In a general election, the christianity party seeks to establish the law of christianity on the land. It can only achieve this when people vote for them. THIS OBVIOUS fact must be stated a some people try to over complicate things.
Thereby, it has always been agreed upon as a general rule by all, that voting for disbelief over islam, or out of love, admiration respect for kufr can amount to major disbelief.
The process of selecting a leader or law such as voting isn’t prohibited in and of itself. But voting for kufr is. depending on the reason, it can be disbelief.
Imagine that! The scholars of islam calling for people to establish christianity! the parties of atheism are far worse.
hmm, I smell the rotten stench of Mujis here. I say to Mujis: Go eat cake! and learn some of your religion while you’re there!
Hmmm… I am not a muji nor does it matter if I was. If you are truly a student my son, you would not dismiss an argument simply because it came from a particular group of muslims.
They are after all, muslims right? Unless, you ALSO suffer from a takfeer mentality?
Voting for kufr to secure one’s personal benefit (or perceived islamic benefit) is certainly not the same as asking a desbeliever to help you in an emergency. i.e 999 call.
It would do much good if the author would clarify that the general rule on voting for kufr is prohibited and can lead to disbelief… then state that there are exceptions to this ruling and that one must fulfill some basic conditions before taking advantage of exceptional rulings.
However, I don’t expect the authors are allowed to comment on this heavily censored blog.
And umer siddique… well…
1. Don’t make assumptions.
I don’t recall anyone accusing any group or individuals of kufr or ejecting them from the fold of Islam. You assume that the previous posts were written by a member of the muhaajiroon.
2. Define political lobbying and process.
If you are of the view that political lobbying is only limited to the power(less) of the vote at the general elections, then it is YOU who doesn’t even grasp the bare basics of what political lobbying is. So let alone the ‘nitty gritty’. You too would be well advised to become a student.
3. To simply state the Islamic law with regards to voting in the general elections doesn’t make a person guilty of takfeer. Just like saying that taking an innocent life is murder doesn’t automatically mean that the individual accused is charged for murder and sentenced to death or imprisonment. There is a due legal process after which this person is found innocent or guilty. Yet the law is the law.
And the law revealed to us by Allah is regarded to be supreme… well, at least by Muslims anyway.
several years ago i was given a pamphlet at east london masjid by IFE brothers, which implied that i was a sinner if i don’t vote. when i pointed this out to the speaker at their meeting on the subject of voting he made it out that i was mistaken, to which i replied that people should read it. they dont wont to tell me who to vote for its up to me what if i make a mistake and vote for the wrong person maybe that would be worse. at other times they try to get vote for muslim candidates, if people want to vote and suck up to mps and councilors that up to them but don’t try to involve me in your plans to to elect bangalis into power to serve the bangali community i dont care about bangalis just as bangalis dont seem to care much about me, i care about islam and muslim