The Sharee'ah has come to bring about betterment for mankind and to
repel from them any form of corruption. This Sharee’ah has come to eradicate Shirk
and innovations and any path that lead to them.
The paths that lead to Shirk and innovations must be
obstructed and prohibited, even if a person has good intentions behind
innovating new practices into the religion, however if it leads to a greater
harm and the changing of the religion, then these new acts of worship must be prevented as they have not been legislated by Allaah or His Messenger.
Allaah, the Glorified and the Exalted, Said:
“This day, I have perfected your religion for
you, completed My Favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your
religion”
[al-Maa’idah 5: 3]
Anything that was not legislated at the time of the Prophet
or at the time of the Companions after him cannot be legislated now or any other time
after them. If the doors for such practices are opened then this would cause
great corruption to the religion because it will lead to whatever is alien to
it to enter it. The Muslims will become confused about their religion. The
Muslims will imitate the paths that led to the Jews and the Christians to
deviate, playing with their religion and changing it as their desires pleased
to what brought up personal gain.
Imaam Maalik bin Anas (d. 179 AH), the Imaam of al-Madeenah in his time,
has an amazing statement to which the other scholars in his time and after him
agreed with.
He said, “The latter part of the Ummah will not be rectified
except that which rectified the former part of it.”
He spoke the truth, may
Allaah have Mercy on him.
As soon as people began to change their ‘Aqeedah and
invented various innovations into the religion, they became divided and became
sects, each one having their doubts (areas of misguidance), and all of them became delighted and contented in their state of
disunity.
As a result, the enemies of al-Islaam overpowered them. Differences
in objectives and partisanship that existed in these sects continued until many
paths to deviation opened up through despicable innovations that these sects
had created.
This continued until what we see today - the Muslims being disunited
because there exists a variation of personal opinions, resulting in the Ummah
becoming overpowered by the other nations around them. End quote.
[Majmoo’ al-Fataawaa Shaykh ‘Abdul-‘Azeez bin Baaz (1/411)]
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