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The Obligation of Banishing the People of Innovation From the Masā  jid 

By Al- ʿAll ā mah, al-Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-FawzānTranslated by Abū al-Ḥasan Mālik Ᾱdam al-Akhḍar

 Al-ʿAllā mah Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (  ( said:

ژۓ   ۀۀ ڻڻ    ڻڻ   ںں ڱ  ڱڱ  ڱ    ڳژ  

“The Masā  jid of Allāh shall be maintained only by those whobelieve in Allāh and the Last Day; perform al-Ṣal ā t and give

Zakā t .” [al-Tawbah 9:18]

So these are the people of the masā  jid , and these are the people who areresponsible for them and placed in authority over them, not the disbelieversand the people of innovation; rather, [the masā  jid ] are under the authority of the people of Imā n, the people of Taw ḥī d , the people of ʿAqī dah (sound creed).

Similarly, the masā  jid must be safeguarded from that which does not befitthem; from the greatest [of these affairs], innovations, newly invented mattersand Shirk with Allāh (); so it is obligatory to banish the people of innovation, the people of superstitions and polytheists from the masā  jid . It isnot permissible to allow them to establish themselves or their innovations,superstitions or Shirk in the masā  jid .

ژ ڳ ژ ژ   ڈڈ   ڎ         ڎڌژ  

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It is not for the polytheists to maintain the houses of Allāh.” [al-Tawbah 9:17]

Rather, it is obligatory to prevent them from them. The masā  jid must remainopen for the remembrance of Allāh () Alone and His worship alone.

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ژ ڇ ڇ  چ چچ چ     ڃ  ڃڃژ  “And the masā  jid  are for Allāh [Alone], so do not call on

anyone other than Him. [al-Jinn 72:18]

This is how the masā  jid are maintained, with Taw ḥī d and Ṭ aʿah (obedience);worship and remembrance of Allāh (). Similarly, the masā  jid aresafeguarded from that which does not befit them from filth and impurities;and protected from ignoramuses and children who do wrong in them;protected from spitting saliva and phlegm in them. This is from what Allāh

() has prohibited.1

 

 

1 Refer to http://www.albaidha.net/vb/showthread.php?t=40610