I went on Mufti Menk's website to see where he had studied.

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The Menk character is an agent of shaitaan. We have frequently reminded Muslims to beware of this human shaitaan. The boodle constrained him to retract and support lesbianism, gayism, homosexuality and the like. He goes to trade the Deen in such countries, e.g. U.K., where it is a crime to speak against such unnatural satanic filth and immorality. This chap is a perfect sign of Qiyaamah. Among the Signs of Qiyaamah is that molvis and sheikhs will pursue worldly objectives with acts of the Deen. This is what all of these shaitaani Facebook ulama-e-soo' are doing. They sell and betray Allah Ta'ala, the Rasool (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) and the Ummah for a pittance.

HADHRAT MUHAMMAD bin Salaam Iskandari (rahmatullah alayh) said:

"The Sunnah of Walimah has been abandoned." Walimah is a masnoon sunnah feast after marriage. It is a responsibility of the groom to organize it. It is not the responsibility of his family or the family of the bride to organize the walimah. All these socalled 'walimahs' wedding receptions - have no relationship with the Sunnah. They are feasts of riya, takabbur and Israaf waste, pride and show, nothing else. The actual walimah is a simple feast given by the groom. The custom during the early era of Islam as explained by Hadhrat Iskandari, was that trays full of food used to be sent to the Masjid, depending on the person's affordability. The poor, the wealthy, the ignorant and the learned, whoever they were, all of them participated in the feast.

If the man who organized the walimah only invited the wealthy, no one would eat of that food not even the wealthy would eat. They regarded such food as evil. Why? Because Nabi (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: "Evil is the food of the walimah - the wealthy are invited and the poor are left out."

Such food is maloon (accursed). Therefore, no one would eat of that food. Even wealthy people who are deeni conscious, would not eat of that food.

Nabi (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: "He who does not answer the invitation to the walimah, he has disobeyed Allah Ta'ala and has disobeyed Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam). This warning applies to a proper masnoon walimah, not to the extravagant customary wedding feast of today. Today's wedding feast is maloon - accursed. It is not permissible to participate in these wedding feasts. The very first impediment is the food which is served. The food is mainly mushtabah and haraam. Carrion chicken is standard.

There are also other haraam activities associated with so-called 'walimahs'. Photography, videoing, intermingling of the sexes, music and other futilities accompany all wedding feasts today.