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Salaat The Majlis Vol 25 No 06, p.1

Is it permissible to allow non-Muslims into a Musjid?

Question

Is it permissible to allow non-Muslims into a Musjid? In response to this question, the Darul Ifta of Azaadville said: "If entering the Masjid is permitted for a Kaafir as explained above, there is no harm in them viewing the Masjid particularly when done with the Niyyah of giving them Dawat towards Islam. Obviously, giving them Dawat means that we simply invite them towards the oneness of Allah and the Risaalat (prophethood) of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam), and not to engage in any sort of interfaith dialogues as has become rife in various places." (End of Azaadville's fatwa)

Answer

In several articles have we explained the impermissibility of allowing non-Muslims into the Musjid. These articles are available on our website. It will suffice here to say that the Darul Ifta has erred in its view. Da'wat to the kuffaar is never reliant on inviting them to the Musjid.

Although the Mufti Sahib says: "not to engage in any sort of interfaith dialogues as has become rife in various places", he has portrayed short -sightedness and lack of wisdom. Shaitaan is a cunning ustaadh. He initiates his plot with permissibilities, in fact, with even masnoon acts. Only purified Aql fortified with the noor of Taqwa is able to detect the subtle snares of Iblees. To save people from zina, Allah Ta'ala commanded them to abstain from such permissibilities which lead to zina, hence the Qur'aan Majeed states: "Do not come near to zina."

The Mufti Sahib has not applied his mind in his fatwa. Non-Muslims entering the Musaajid in our era are not rare occasions or isolated acts. They are nowadays invading the Musaajid with the consent of the trustees, the ulama-e-soo', and short-sighted Muftis, in droves. Tourist buses bring droves of kuffaar wallowing in janaabat and kufr, and dressed lewdly men and women - to do some sight-seeing in the Musaajid. The molvis in the Musaajid dupe themselves with their 'dawah' stupid argument. The male musallis stare lustfully at the kuffaar women dressed immodestly. The entire atmosphere in the Musjid is polluted with fisq, fujoor and najaasat.

The first step in the plot of Iblees was to convince the molvis and muftis with the 'dawah' chimera. Gradually, it developed into interfaith dialogue right inside the Musjid. Then the situation deteriorated. Instead of giving them da'wah, the kuffaar give da'wah of Christianity to Muslims right inside the Musjid. This was recently a shaitaani accomplishment in a Musjid in England.

Degenerating further into the cauldron of kufr, the priest ridiculed the Qur'aan Majeed and d e n i g r a t e d R a s u l u l l a h (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) right inside the Musjid which had a full-house of musallis, all listening attentively to the kufr preachings of the priests and the insults to Islam. Not a word of protest escaped the lips of a single musalli on that vile occasion created by the Imaam of the Musjid.

The situation has deteriorated further. Now Muslims in New Zealand, drunk with bootlicking and fearful of their own shadows, have invited Christians to sing hymns of shirk and kufr right inside the Musjid. And, the situation is set to deteriorate further when actual cross-worship by Muslims will take place inside the Musjid. Anyone who denies this reality is a kaafir because this is Rasulullah's prediction. Qiyaamah is in close proximity of our era.

We have today reached this deplorable state of kufr and shirk being accepted inside the Musaajid as a consequence of zig-zag and downright baatil fatwas issued by moron muftis and the ulama-e-soo' who have their own pernicious agendas. In fact, they are without Imaan. They have absolutely no fear for Allah Ta'ala. Thus they fear their shadows and bootlick the kuffaar.

It is indeed lamentable that Muftis, even sincere ones, of this era are so disgracefully short-sighted to fail to discern the danger in issuing fatwas based on just any permissibility. They lack the ability of applying the mind, and that is because they have hitherto failed to understand the meaning of Taqwa for themselves. Today, branding carrion as haraam, is a 'taqwa' not fatwa for these muftis who have lost the Path - Siraatul Mustaqeem.

Once when Hadhrat Shah

Abdul Aziz (Rahmatullah alayh) was giving a bayaan to his mureeds and some Ulama, two persons from the public entered and sought a fatwa. The one said: 'Today my friend drank water which was the left-over of an Englishman. What is the fatwa?" Hadhrat Shah Sahib adopting a very sombre attitude said that since this issue was extremely delicate, it will take time to search for the fatwa. He told them to return for the fatwa after a couple of days. The audience consisting of Ulama, was surprised. The fatwa according to the Shariah is simple. If the kaafir's mouth was paak (taahir), the water remains paak, hence there was no concern. If his mouth was impure due to liquor or haraam food, then obviously the water was impure. Why did Shah Sahib adopt this strange strategy? But no one had the courage to question him.

On the appointed day, the two chaps came for their fatwa. Shah Sahib said: "The fatwa is Tajdeed-e-Imaan (i.e. renewal of Imaan. By implication he had become a murtadd); Tajdeed-e- Nikah (renewal of his marriage)." Shah Sahib furthermore prescribed some penances to be performed as an expiation (kaffarah) for having drunk the water which had touched the lips of the Englishman. The two persons being sincere, were satisfied. They left and observed the prescription and the penalty.

When the surprised Ulama questioned Hadhrat Shah Sahib, he responded: "By this measure, I have saved their Imaan."

Muftis should reflect, apply their minds and not acquit themselves like morons enslaved to the nafs. The objective of fatwa is not to ruin the morals of Muslims and to open the avenue for fisq, fujoor, bid'ah and kufr. A Mufti should be farsighted. He should be able to fathom the one who poses a question and not pander to the vagaries of people. But bootlicking has become an ingrained disease in the Ulama of today, in even the sincere ones, hence they all are in line for Allah's Athaab. About them, the Qur'aan Majeed says:

"Beware of such a punishment which will overtake not only the transgressors among you." It will overtake and utterly destroy even the molvis and the buzroogs who excelled in bootlicking and accommodating baatil.

The muftis who have legalized entry into the Musaajid for kuffaar wallowing in janaabat and kufr are the culprits who are laying the foundation for cross-worship in the Musaajid.

"Upon Us is the obligation of providing Nusrat (Help) to the Mu'mineen."

(Ar-Room, Aayat 47)

Nusrat (Divine Aid - Allah's Help) for the Mu'mineen is Allah's Promise and Obligation. This Aayat as well as other Verses and Ahaadith emphatically declare that to provide Help for the Mu'mineen is Allah's responsibility. But a panoramic view of the condition of the Ummah worldwide confirms that no such Help is forthcoming. Allah Azza Wa Jal is not providing the Nusrat stated in the Qur'aan. How is this 'conflict' to be reconciled?

In reality there is no contradiction and no need for any interpretation to eliminate the imagined conflict. The Aayat has to be viewed in conjunction with other Aayaat and Ahaadith to understand its purport. The Help which Allah Ta'ala promised for the Mu'mineen is for genuine Muslims true Mu'mineen. They are those who subscribe fully to the Aqaaid (Beliefs) and who adopt the Sunnah of Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) and the Sahaabah. They are those who tread resolutely along the Path of the Sunnah and the Shariah as shown to us by the Fuqaha and Auliya of the Salafus Saaliheen era on whose integrity, authority and authenticity Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) himself placed the Seal. Thus, Nabi-e-Kareem

(Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: "The noblest of ages is my age, then those after (my age), then those after them (after the Sahaabah), then those after them……. Thereafter will be people who

love obesity."

"Honour (and obey) my Sahaabah, for verily they are the noblest of you; then those after them, then those after them. Thereafter will prevail falsehood."

Minus the Salafus Saaliheen there is no Islam. The 'Ummah' today has absolutely no resemblance and no affinity with the Islam expounded in the Qur'aan and Sunnah. 'Muslims' are 'Muslim' merely in name, not in reality. The beliefs and practices the entire life of those of whom the Ummah comprises, are corrupt, and consist of a compound of zandaqah, fisq, fujoor, bid'ah and clear-cut kufr. How is it ever possible for Allah's Nusrat to settle on this villainous 'Flotsam'? The Ummah today is the RUB- BISH predicted by our Nabi (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam).

Once Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) mentioned to the Sahaabah that a time will dawn when the kuffaar nations will form coalitions to devour the Muslims. A Sahaabi asked in surprise: "O Rasulullah! Will that be because of our small number on that day?" Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: "In fact, you will be innumerable, but you will be ghutha (rubbish) like the flotsam of floodwaters. Allah will eliminate fear for you from the hearts of your enemy, and He will cast wahn in you." The Sahaabi asked: "What is wahn, O Rasulullah!".

Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: "Love of the world and aversion for Maut."

The gross rebellion of the Ummah against Allah Ta'ala has blocked the promised Nusrat of Allah Ta'ala. The Divine Aid is meant for only obedient Slaves of Allah Ta'ala, not for the flotsam which constitutes the Ummah today. Anyone who denies this reality, loses his Imaan because the Qur'aan Majeed explicitly and emphatically states that the provision of Help for the Mu'mineen is Allah's obligation. It is therefore necessary to understand that the Ummah today is not the Mu'mineen who qualify for Divine Aid.

As long as Muslims do not change their condition, morally and spiritually - as long as they do not revert to Islam, they will continue sinking in the filth of degradation licking the boots of the Yahood and Nasaara.

"Then Allah apprehended them because of their sins.

Verily, Allah is powerful and severe in punishment.

That (infliction of punishment) is so because

Allah does not change

(eliminate) the bounty which He has bestowed to a people. (Only when they themselves) change what is within themselves (does Allah inflict His punishment.) Verily Allah is the One Who

Hears,

Who is aware."

(Al-Anfaal,52 , 53)

"Verily, Allah does not change the condition of a nation as long as they do not change what is within them. When Allah wills punishment for a people, nothing can then ward it off."

(Ar-Ra'd, Aayat 11)

The former pedestal of glory of the Ummah has been removed by Allah Ta'ala. The villainy of Muslims does not entitle them for Allah's Aid, hence wherever Muslims are suffering under kuffaar domination and oppression they are tasting the effects of their evil. But it appears that there is no hope for the redemption of this fallen Ummah. Only Imaam Mahdi (Alayhis salaam) will now be the solution.)

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