How
to visit these holy sites?
Dear visitors to Makkah and Madīnah!
For the acquisition of blessings I have mentioned only a few holy sites. For
further information about holy sites and faith-refreshing parables, interested
devotees of Rasūl should study the book 'Āshiqān-e-Rasūl kī Ḥikāyatayn ma'
Makkay Madīnay kī Ziyāratayn' published by Maktaba-tul-Madīnah, the publishing
department of Dawat-e-Islami. Your Īmān will be refreshed. However, not
everyone is able enough to get to these holy sites just by reading about them
from this book.
There are two ways to visit these
sites. Firstly, you can hire a taxi outside Masjid-un-Nabawī where every
morning the drivers consistently shout 'Ziyārah Ziyārah'. The taxi will take
you to the five Masājid, Masjid Qubā and the resting place of Sayyidunā Ḥamzah رَضِیَ اللّٰہُ تَعَالٰی عَنْہُ. Secondly, you can
hire any person who is familiar with the holy sites of Makkah and Madīnah so
that he would take you to those sites.
صَلُّوْا عَلَى الْحَبِيْبْ ۔ صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى
مُحَمَّد
Offences
and their Expiations
Keep in mind some essential terms
etc. prior to studying rulings described in the form of questions &
answers.
Definition
of Dam* etc.
1. Dam: A Dam (dʌm) implies one goat (male
or female, sheep, ram or the seventh part of a cow or a camel).
2. Badanah: A Badanah implies a camel or a cow
(including bulls, buffalos etc.)
3. Ṣadaqah: A Ṣadaqah implies the amount of one
Ṣadaqah Fiṭr¹.
Leniency
in Dam etc.
If the offence occurs due to
sickness or severe heat or cold or wound or blisters/boils or the extreme
discomfort caused by lice; this is called an 'unintentional offence'. If such
an unintentional offence occurs that makes Dam Wājib, there is the option in
this case either to pay Dam or donate Ṣadaqah to six Masākīn instead of Dam. If
six Ṣadaqahs are donated to the same Miskīn¹, it will be considered as one
Ṣadaqah. Therefore, it is necessary to give six Ṣadaqahs to six different
Masākīn.
* In this book, the word 'Dam' has
been used in the sense of an expiation with its pronunciation as 'dʌm'. It must
not be pronounced as 'dæm'. Note that this word has been italicized in the
whole book with its 'D' capitalized. [Translator's Note]
¹ The amount of one Ṣadaqah Fiṭr is
1.920 kilograms of wheat or its flour or the money equivalent to the value of
this much wheat or 3.840 kilograms of barley or dates or the money equivalent
to it.
The second option is that each of
the six Masākīn can be provided with two meals (such that they are full)
instead of paying Dam. The third option is that if he does not want to donate
Ṣadaqah etc., he can observe three fasts; thus his Dam will get paid. If such
an unintentional offence occurs that makes Ṣadaqah Wājib, then there is the
choice either to pay Ṣadaqah or to keep one fast instead.
(Mulakhkhaṣ
az: Bahār-e-Sharī'at, vol. 1, pp. 1162)
Important
ruling regarding expiatory fast
In case of observing an expiatory
fast, it is a condition that its intention must be made within the night, i.e.
before Ṣubḥ-e-Ṣādiq. The intention may be made in these words: 'I am going to
observe a fast for such and such expiation.' Iḥrām is not a condition for these
fasts. Similarly, it is also not a condition to observe such fasts
consecutively.
The act of donating Ṣadaqah and that
of observing the fast may be performed in one's own country as well. However,
it is preferable to donate Ṣadaqah and food to the Masākīn of Ḥaram. It is a
condition that the animal for Dam and Badanah be slaughtered within Ḥaram. The
meat of the animal slaughtered in gratitude can be eaten by the
sacrifice-performing person as well as the rich and the poor, but that of the
one slaughtered to pay Dam or Badanah etc. can only be eaten by the deserving
people. The expiation-paying person and the Ghanī people cannot eat it.
(Mulakhkhaṣ
az: Bahār-e-Sharī'at, vol. 1, pp. 1162-1163)
¹ A Miskīn is the one who does not
possess anything and who has to beg others for clothes or food for covering the
body. Begging is Ḥalāl (allowed) for him.
Fear
Allah ﷻ
Some people deliberately commit the
'offence' but do not pay the expiation. This act of theirs leads to committing
two sins: (i) committing the offence deliberately and (ii) not paying the
expiation.
Therefore, they must pay the
expiation, and repentance will also be Wājib for them. However, if an offence
occurs unknowingly or under coercion or by mistake, just expiation is enough in
this case, repentance is not Wājib. Further, it must also be remembered that
whether the offence occurs deliberately or by mistake, knowingly or
unknowingly, willingly or under coercion, whilst one is asleep or awake,
unconscious or conscious and whether one commits the offence himself or causes
someone else to do it, expiation must be paid. If the expiation is not paid, it
will be a sin.
When it comes to paying for the
offence, some people even say: 'Allah ﷻ
will forgive us', and then they do not pay Dam etc. Such people should remember
the fact that paying Dam etc. has been declared Wājib by Sharī'ah, and evading
Dam etc. deliberately is non-compliance with Sharī'ah, which is itself a severe
sin. Some wealth-loving unwise Hujjāj even ask such a question as: It is just a
sin, Dam is not Wājib (مَعَاذَاللّٰہ).
Alas! All they are concerned about is to save a few coins only ignoring the
fact that they have deserved a severe torment due to the sin. To trivialize a
sin leads to serious consequences and even Kufr in some cases. May Allah ﷻ bless us all with a Madanī mindset!
اٰمِيْن بِجَاهِ النَّبِیِّ الْاَمِيْن صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى
عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم
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