#039: Common Misconceptions Series | Sh. Jalal Chami | FINAL CLASS OF SERIES

The first thing the Shaykh mentions is the reciters attending gatherings of condolences.

So we know that it is a tradition of many Muslims that when someone passes away they invite someone as a Qari and they do something called the Maqra which is a gathering of recitation of the Qur'an.

The Shaykh says here, this is a newly invented innovation that has nothing to do with the religion.

This idea of gathering to read Qur'an for the deceased, there is no basis for it in the religion.

There is no evidence of the practice of the Prophet ﷺ, or the Sahaba, or the Salaf as-Saleh.

So it has no basis in the religion.

And no one can say that there is any basis.

Believing that it is a legislated act of worship, is surely an affair which Allah has sent no authority for.

Allah says, أَلَمْ لَهُمْ شُرَكَاءً شَرَعُوا لَهُمْ مِنَ الدِّينِ مَا لَمْ يَأْذَنْ بِهِ اللَّهِ Or have they partners with Allah, false gods, who have instituted for them a religion which Allah has not allowed.

So for someone to believe that this is something that is legislated in Islam, without any evidence, without any authority from Allah, then this is something very dangerous.

So as I said, no one can claim that there is a basis for reading Qur'an or having gatherings of reading Qur'an for the deceased.

No one can claim that.

But what do they claim? That...

Yes, it wasn't from the practice of the Prophet ﷺ, but they based it on some hadith which many of the scholars deemed weak.

And even if those hadith were authentic, that isn't the application of it.

Like for example, اقرأوا على موتكم يسين Read Yasin over your dead.

Here it said, first of all, many of the scholars speculated whether the hadith was authentic or not.

So many of the scholars said it's not authentic.

So if it's not authentic, it shouldn't be something that is the basis of practice.

Second thing, let us assume that it is authentic.

How do we implement it? How do we read Yasin over the deceased? Some scholars, they said, meaning the one who is about to die, the one who is still alive and aware, read Surah Yasin, over him as this person is approaching death.

So it will be a way of reminding and keeping that person steadfast upon faith.

So this is one, maybe we can say.

Or reading over the deceased, not gathering in a gathering to read.

The deceased is not there.

The first thing the Shaykh mentions is the reciters attending gatherings of condolences.

So we know that it is a tradition of many Muslims that when someone passes away they invite someone as a Qari and they do something called the Maqra which is a gathering of recitation of the Qur'an.

The Shaykh says here, this is a newly invented innovation that has nothing to do with the religion.

This idea of gathering to read Qur'an for the deceased, there is no basis for it in the religion.

There is no evidence of the practice of the Prophet ﷺ, or the Sahaba, or the Salaf as-Saleh.

So it has no basis in the religion.

And no one can say that there is any basis.

Believing that it is a legislated act of worship, is surely an affair which Allah has sent no authority for.

Allah says, أَلَمْ لَهُمْ شُرَكَاءً شَرَعُوا لَهُمْ مِنَ الدِّينِ مَا لَمْ يَأْذَنْ بِهِ اللَّهِ Or have they partners with Allah, false gods, who have instituted for them a religion which Allah has not allowed.

So for someone to believe that this is something that is legislated in Islam, without any evidence, without any authority from Allah, then this is something very dangerous.

So as I said, no one can claim that there is a basis for reading Qur'an or having gatherings of reading Qur'an for the deceased.

No one can claim that.

But what do they claim? That...

Yes, it wasn't from the practice of the Prophet ﷺ, but they based it on some hadith which many of the scholars deemed weak.

And even if those hadith were authentic, that isn't the application of it.

Like for example, اقرأوا على موتكم يسين Read Yasin over your dead.

Here it said, first of all, many of the scholars speculated whether the hadith was authentic or not.

So many of the scholars said it's not authentic.

So if it's not authentic, it shouldn't be something that is the basis of practice.

Second thing, let us assume that it is authentic.

How do we implement it? How do we read Yasin over the deceased? Some scholars, they said, meaning the one who is about to die, the one who is still alive and aware, read Surah Yasin, over him as this person is approaching death.

So it will be a way of reminding and keeping that person steadfast upon faith.

So this is one, maybe we can say.

Or reading over the deceased, not gathering in a gathering to read.

The deceased is not there.