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Fatwas of the Permanent Committee on Tawheed – Part 02. Each link opens the fatwa as a PDF. Click a topic below:
Venerating other than Allah (may He be Glorified) Ruqyah and amulets Amulets Prostration before other than Allah Swearing by other than Allah Exaggeration regarding graves and building Masjids over them
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
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