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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