Question
A friend sent me the following message: "A humble request is made to all to join our group in sending 100 million Duroods upon our Beloved Nabi (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) a month. All you have to do is send your Durood counts tomorrow after Asr, Insha-Allah, and weekly – Saturday to Thursday – or daily counts by T h u r s d a y M a g h r i b. …..Target is 6,000,000 for tomorrow, Insha-Allah. Please send this message to all your contacts to help us reach our target." Is this allowed?
Answer
Inform the 'friend' to make Taubah and not be the victim of shaitaan's trap. Shaitaan approaches people via 'deeni' avenues and destroys them with riya. It is haraam to advertise and publicize one's acts of ibaadat. Never be a party to this satanic ploy. Recite Durood Shareef in privacy, and never inform others. The 'counts' and the attitude underlying ibaadat are for only Allah's knowledge, not for the information and nafsaani gratification of a stupid group egged on by shaitaan.
The request of this dimwit braggart drips with riya. He and his group are wallowing in an iniquitous cesspool of show and self-esteem (ujub). This group is making a satanic mess of their time and of the ibaadat of Durood. It seems that they are out to impress shaitaan and gratify their nafs by hallucinating that they are great 'buzroogs'. Their brains are thoroughly vermiculated by the worms of nafsaaniyat. Never become part of this mockery which this miscreant group is making of Ibaadat. Ibaadat has to be concealed, not advertised. This snare of shaitaan is termed Talbeesul Iblees.
- Source
- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- The Majlis Vol 22 No 08
- PDF page
- 6
Appears under A SATANIC MOCKERY OF DUROOD (approximate).