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Venerating other than Allah (may He be Glorified)
- Welcoming a coming person by standing up and kissing them
- Bowing or to taking off shoes to greet others
- Impermissibility of bowing to greet a Muslim or a non-Muslim
- Students standing up when their teacher enters the classroom
- Standing up as a way of honoring the national anthem
- Saluting the flag, honoring officers, and shaving beards when in the army
- Saluting the leaders and the presidents like non-Muslims do
Ruqyah and amulets
- The Qur’an heals the ailments of the hearts and bodies
- Reciting Surah Al-Ikhlas, Al-Mu`awwidhatayn, and Al-Fatihah as a cure for illness
- Ruqyah with the Qur’an, Dhikr, and Du`a’
- Seeking treatment by reciting the Qur’an through Ruqyah and making amulets and charms with it
- Saying Ruqyah in return for fees
- Reciting the Qur’an for a sick person
- Treating patients through Ruqyah by reciting the Qur’an and saying Dhikr and Du`a’ reported in authentic Hadith
- Writing some Ayahs of the Qur’an
- Whoever visits a diviner and asks them about anything, their Prayers will not be accepted for forty nights
- Permissibility of Ruqyah by reciting the Qur’an for others
- The lawful Ruqyah is that taken from the Qur’an and the Du`a’ reported in authentic Hadith
- Ruqyah by reciting the Qur’an and saying Dhikr and Du`a’ reported in authentic Hadith
- Charms, amulets and love-potions count as Shirk
- Treating a person possessed by jinn according to the Shari`ah
- Ruqyah is permissible when it does not entail any Shirk
- Permissibility of supplicating with the Names of Allah to be cured from illness
- Going to a diviner in cases of illness
- Ruqyah used by Bedouins seeking treatment from vermin bites
- Going to practitioners of acts of Shirk who supplicate and seek help from the dead
- Treating a patient possessed by jinn by reciting Ayat over them
- Ruqyah by reciting the Qur’an, Dhikr and anything that does not entail Shirk
Amulets
- Writing an Ayah of the Qur’an and wearing it around the upper arm
- Carrying pocket-sized copies of the Mushaf for protection against envy or the envious eye
- Reciting the Qur’an on some water of Zamzam then giving it to someone to drink to fulfill a need
- Writing Qur’anic Ayahs or any other Du`a’ Ma’thur to be hung on the sick seeking recovery
- Wearing Qur’anic amulets by humans
- Wearing amulets and talismans containing some Qur’anic Ayahs
- Reciting some Ayahs on water for the sick and asking them to drink it
- Ruling on Ruqyah and amulets
- Writing some Ayahs of the Qur’an and Allah’s Most Beautiful Names in amulets to be worn around the neck
- Wearing amulets containing Ayahs, Hadith, or strange words by the sick
- Istighfar and Du`a’ for a person who used to invoke the dead
- Receiving fees for making amulets
- “Whoever wears an amulet, may Allah not fulfill their want for them, and whoever wears a seashell, may Allah not give them peace”
- Putting a piece of cloth, leather, or the like on the abdomen of a baby
- Praying behind who makes amulets containing Ayahs or Du`a’
- Offering Salah while wearing amulets
- Al-Hijab Al-Hasin is an abhorred Bid`ah and a kind of making amulets
- Using a chain for self-preservation, marketing, and offering it to a girl to marry her
- Hanging a piece of metal by a woman during the postpartum period or by a circumcised person as a charm to bring benefit or prevent evil
- Eating from animals slaughtered by those who profess Shahadah, perform Salah, pay Zakah, observe Sawm, and perform Hajj but wear amulets
- Wearing amulets containing Ayahs and other writings
- Making unlawful Dhikr a means of protection
Prostration before other than Allah
- Whoever dies as a disbeliever will not be forgiven and shall abide forever in Hell
- Prostrating before other than Allah and slaughtering animals for them
- Performing Ruku` for one’s parents
Swearing by other than Allah
- Swearing by other than Allah and saying “What Allah and I will” and “None can help me except Allah and you”
- Swearing by honesty
- Swearing by other than Allah as Shirk
- Seeking help from the Jinn, hypnosis and swearing by people
- Swearing by other than Allah
- Taking an oath by other than Allah
- Praying behind someone who swears by other than Allah and hangs amulets
- Swearing by Allah and His Attributes
- Swearing by a pious shaykh
- Swearing by graves and shaykhs
- Swearing by the Qur’an and by other than Allah
Exaggeration regarding graves and building Masjids over them
- Cursing the religion and ridiculing anything related to the Qur’an or the Sunnah
- The vision attributed to the attendant of the Prophet’s grave
- Visiting graves for anyone other than women
- There is no obedience to a creature in disobedience to the Creator
- Destroying statues and obliterate their drawings and wiping out pictures and their drawings
- Demolishing small and big Masjids built over graves
- Prostrating and slaughtering animals on graves
- Taking graves as places of worship
- Prostrating and slaughtering animals on graves
- Praying in a Masjid where someone is buried
- Praying in Masjids that have graves and shrines
- Building Masjids over the graves of the Awliya’
- Praying in a Masjid with a grave and honoring the dead and invoking them
- Building and praying in a Masjid that has a grave in it
- Building Masjids over graves
- Giving in charity to build a Masjid over the grave
- Participating in building a Masjid over a grave
- Building over graves as an abominable Bid`ah
- Building Masjids over graves
- Cursing Islam is an act of serious Riddah
- Praying in a Masjid that has a grave and taking it a place of distributing charity and food among people
- Praying in the shrine seeking blessings from the Waliy
- Praying in a Masjid built over an old cemetery
- Building a Masjid over an old cemetery
- Offering Jumu`ah prayer in the Masjid where there are graves
- Including the mentioned grave or any part of the cemetery in the Masjid
- Placing a grave in the Masjid
- Specifying an area in the Masjid to bury the person who built it or any other person
- Praying in the Masjid built over a grave and invoking the dead
- Making the Prophet’s grave a place visited daily
- Visiting Al-Masjid Al-Nabawy
- Traveling to Madinah to pray in Al-Masjid Al-Nabawy
- Traveling to visit the graves of the prophets, righteous people and others
- Visiting the Prophet’s Masjid and praying there
- Pilgrims visiting the Prophet’s grave and Al-Baqi`
- Visiting the graves of righteous men, slaughtering for them and supplicating to them
- Ibn Al-Qayyim’s stance from traveling to Al-Khalil’s grave and claiming the fire will end
- Seeking blessings from graves and their dwellers
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