Question
I do not eat from tables. If I am invited by relatives/ friends for a walimah, can I ask then to spread a dastarkhaan for me? At the function there will also be ulama who will be eating from tables.
Answer
You should not accept the invitation if the eating will be kuffaar style- tables/chairs. Going there and asking them to spread a dastarkhaan for you, is not proper. The best is not to go at all to such places. You will be flaunting „piety‟, and this is pride which is haraam. The fact that you even contemplate answering such an invitation, then compounding this error with your proudful request indicates that there is something amiss in your intention.
If your relative should ask the reason for not having answered the invitation, then politely explain the impermissibility of violating the Sunnah, and do not argue if the relative attempts to vindicate the haraam practice, especially by citing the presence of molvis.
- Source
- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- The Majlis Vol 27 No 02
- PDF page
- 8
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