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| Warning Against Tourism And Excursion To Sites Of Shirk by Orthodoxy(op): 10:55am On Aug 26, 2024 |
Warning Against Tourism and Excursion to Sites of Shirk August 21, 2024 in Articles, Creed, Da'wah, What's New Reading Time: 6 mins read One of the ways by which Shaytan deceives some Muslims into associating partners with Allah is by tourism and respecting cultural sites. It should be known that many cultural and tourist sites in Yoruba land are places of Shirk; places where the idol worshippers call upon false gods. Venerating those places in your heart is a Shirk in itself. When the Prophet ﷺ returned to Makkah and became the authority, the first project he executed was the demolishing of all the idols that Quraysh worshipped besides Allah. But people call themselves Muslims today, and they still believe in visiting Olumo Rock and Osun River as part of celebrating ‘Eid al-Adha. Allahu Akbar! Where is our hatred for things that are worshipped besides Allah?! Do we not know that these Shirk sites are the most evil places on the earth?! What if Allah wants to destroy the Mushrikūn and He destroys you among them?! Taking these rocks and rivers to be sacred is Shirk, stay away from it! You can not be a Muslim until you have Imān bi Allah and Kufr bi Taghut (belief in Allah and disbelief in Idols). The disbelief in idol entails that you hate Shirk and its people. And when you do not have this, you are not a Muslim yet. فَمَن يَكْفُرْ بِالطَّاغُوتِ وَيُؤْمِنُ بِاللَّهِ فَقَدِ اسْتَمْسَكَ بِالْعُرْوَةِ الْوُثْقَى لَا انفِصَامَ لَهَا وَاللَّهُ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ “Whoever disbelieves in Taghut and believes in Allah, then he has grasped the most trustworthy handhold that will never break. And Allah is All-Hearer, All-Knower.” [Baqarah: 256] It’s part of Jaahiliyyah to take honour in the Shirk of the forefathers. Islam has liberated us from the darkness of worshipping stones and rivers. Islam has taught us that stones and rivers are non-living things, they can not benefit us with anything, and they can not harm us with anything. Muslims should not attend excursions to places of Shirk, they must not promote tourism to places of Shirk. They must hate Shirk and places of Shirk. Allaahul Musta’aan. Allah said: وَالَّذِينَ اتَّخَذُوا مَسْجِدًا ضِرَارًا وَكُفْرًا وَتَفْرِيقًا بَيْنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَإِرْصَادًا لِّمَنْ حَارَبَ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ مِن قَبْلُ وَلَيَحْلِفُنَّ إِنْ أَرَدْنَا إِلَّا الْحُسْنَى وَاللَّهُ يَشْهَدُ إِنَّهُمْ لَكَذِبُونَ "And as for those who put up a mosque by way of harming and disbelief, and to disunite the believers, and as an outpost for those who warned against Allah and His Messenger (Muhammad) aforetime, they will indeed swear that their intention". لَا تَقُمْ فِيهِ أَبَدًا لَمَسْجِدٌ أَسْسَ عَلَى التَّقْوَى مِنْ أَوَّلِ يَوْمٍ أحَقُّ أَن تَقُومَ فِيهِ فِيهِ رِجَالٌ يُحِبُّونَ أَن يَتَطَهَّرُوا وَاللَّهُ يُحِبُّ الْمُطَهِّرِينَ "Never stand you therein. Verily, the mosque whose foundation was laid from the first day on piety is more worthy that you stand therein (to pray). In it are men who love to clean and to purify themselves. And Allah loves those who make themselves clean and pure (i.e. who clean their private parts with dust [i.e. to be considered as soap) and water from urine and stools, after answering the call of nature". Look carefully at the two verses, Allah was talking about a mosque, and he warned the Prophet ﷺ never to stay or stand at that mosque because the mosque is based on Kufr (disblief). If Allah warned the Prophet ﷺ not to stay in a mosque (which is supposed to be a place to worship) because it was built upon kufr, what do you say about a place that was basically built for associating partners with Allah? That is from the Qur’an. Also from the Sunnah, it was authentically narrated in Sunan Abi Dawud 3313 that a man had vowed to slaughter a camel for Allah at a place called Buwanah, then he came to ask the Prophet ﷺ about it, then the Prophet ﷺ said: هَلْ كَانَ فِيهَا وَتَنْ مِنْ أَوْثَانِ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ يُعْبَدُ “Is there any idol from the idols of jahiliyyah being worshipped there?” The man said, “No”. Then the Prophet ﷺ said: هَلْ كَانَ فِيهَا عِيدُ مِنْ أَعْيَادِهِمْ “Is that place a place of their festival”, the man said: “No”. Then the Prophet ﷺ told him to fulfill his vow. The scholars of Islam explained that had it been that the man answered affirmatively to any of these questions, the Prophet ﷺ would have forbade him from slaughtering the animal there. Shaykh ‘Abdurrahman bn Hasan bn Muhammad bn Abdilwahab commented on that Hadith that: “It contains leaving off imitating the Kuffar.” Because if the Kuffar would slaughter their animals there or have festivals there, a Muslim who goes there to slaughter his own animal for Allah would resemble them, and he has added to the number of the disbelievers. A person said, “Visiting does not mean believing in their beliefs. These things are manifestations of the greatness of Allāh as well as His signs. Osun river does not mix (two bodies of water), yoruba people decided to cook up stories regarding this, I don’t believe in this story and this does not stop me from going there to ponder over this signs. Same as olumo rock, you get to see large rocks sitting on smaller ones, they are all parts of the signs of Allāh. Moreover, siting these places is not to honour these beliefs but to see the wonders of Allāh.” This is strange because both Osun Oşogbo and Olumo rock are where Mushrikūn from different parts of the world worship the stones and the tree, how will a Muslim add to the number of those associating partners with Allah with the evidence that the trees and stones are signs of Allah? Where is your dissociation from the people of shirk? Where is your hatred for the places of Shirk and your dislike of being seen therein? And as for the claim that “stones and rivers that have been taken as partners can not be demolished because they are innocent of the worship”, the refutation is as follows: What the person claimed is that idols that can be demolished are the ones built by people, as for the “Allah’s creations”, they should be left. Firstly, whether the idols are carved with hands or just a tree, river or stone that is worshipped, all of them were created by Allah. All of them are creations of Allah. Secondly, the illusion that the person wanted to create was that the prophet only demolished the Idols and didn’t touch trees and stones. This is indeed not correct. Al-Lat that the kuffar would worship was a stone, while Al-‘Uzza was a tree. When Islam entered into Makkah, the prophet commanded the Sahabah to demolish these places. Al-Mughīrah bn Shu’bah and Abu Sufyan demolished Al-Lat while Khalid bn Walid cut the trees of Al-‘Uzza. By what the Prophet ﷺ commanded his companions to do, we see clearly that trees and stones should be destroyed if they are be taken as gods by the disbelievers. Also, Umar رضي الله عنه ordered that the tree of Bay’ah Arridwān should be cut off when he realized that people would intend that place to observe Salah. If this tree can be cut down because who of people who intend to observe Salah to Allah under it, what about the trees that are taken as partners with Allah?! This is a refutation of the one who said, “Why should I hate the mountains and rock and rivers because some people decided to worship them?” Lastly, we should stop talking regarding the deen of Allah without knowledge. We should know the danger of Shirk and stay away from it. If anyone dies upon Shirk, Allah will not forgive him and he will be in Jahannam forever. Everyone should learn Tawheed thoroughly. Tawheed is not what you just learn in 10 minutes. You need to study books of Tawheed like Thalathatul Usül, Al-Qawa’id al-‘Arba, Kitāb at-Tawhid etc. Bārakallahu feekum. Abū Muḥsinah Mubaarak. https://arrisaalahpubs.com/warning-against-tourism-and-excursion-to-sites-of-shirk/
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| Re: Warning Against Tourism And Excursion To Sites Of Shirk by Orthodoxy(op): 11:01am On Aug 26, 2024 |
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| Re: Warning Against Tourism And Excursion To Sites Of Shirk by Ekrenji: 11:34am On Aug 30, 2024 |
Keep demonizing your own cultural heritages while you travel to Mecca to circle round a black stone and also kiss fragmented black stones while decking yourselves in white half naked robes like the pagans of those days did. But you don’t see your actions as wrong because they are imported activities! What crime has Olumo rock committed for crying out loud? |
| Re: Warning Against Tourism And Excursion To Sites Of Shirk by Ekrenji: 11:42am On Aug 30, 2024 |
Bubu4Sea:If the traditional religion in Nigeria asks them to throw stone at another stone called Satan, they will term it paganism. But they are joyfully practicing their refurbished paganism |
| Re: Warning Against Tourism And Excursion To Sites Of Shirk by Namelesscoder: 11:46am On Aug 30, 2024 |
Na excursion to appreciate God’s creation bro, just like going to Makkah too |
| Re: Warning Against Tourism And Excursion To Sites Of Shirk by mariovito(m): 11:50am On Aug 30, 2024 |
Reason I despise these borrowed religions, especially the Abrahamic religions. Accepting them means denouncing yourself. How can you tell me that historic and cultural sites are the most evil places on earth? |
| Re: Warning Against Tourism And Excursion To Sites Of Shirk by Hassanmaye(m): 11:54am On Aug 30, 2024 |
Orthodoxy:Many Yoruba people won't like this, we see tradition as.... |
| Re: Warning Against Tourism And Excursion To Sites Of Shirk by Danmisra(m): 11:58am On Aug 30, 2024 |
Jazakallahu khairan, thanks alot |
| Re: Warning Against Tourism And Excursion To Sites Of Shirk by doffman: 11:59am On Aug 30, 2024 |
Orthodoxy:Jazakallah khairan . You indeed provided enough valid reason from the Quran and Hadith . This is enough for those that really want the truth . I have cancelled my ambition to visit olumo rock as a tourist . May Allah prevent us from being a kufar by falling into shirk. Bye bye olumo Rock until those worshipping you vacate the place and demolish their shrine there . Thank you very much my dear brother in Islam . |
| Re: Warning Against Tourism And Excursion To Sites Of Shirk by Naz34(m): 12:39pm On Aug 30, 2024 |
Honestly i expect all muslim clerics to come out enmass and condem these acts of terrorism and banditory by these criminals who parade themselves as muslims and perpetrates all sorts of evil through the guise of Islam or whatever it is they believe. Let them desist from crmes against Nigerians and humanity for God sake. Sane muslims are not doing enough in condeming these beasts !!! |
| Re: Warning Against Tourism And Excursion To Sites Of Shirk by naija4life247: 2:16pm On Aug 30, 2024 |
Okay. We don hear. But the OP should go and get a good job so that he will not become a Southern Almajari. Most of these sites you call Holy used to be Idols Worship Centres, Abi you know read the history of Islam ni? Saudi Arabians that brought this religion has now legalised alcohol drinking and manufacture. Also their ladies will be contesting in the next Miss Universe and they will wear only bra and pant and dance seductively for we men to lust after and we may even book such ladies for sex for money. So, why you carry the religion for head pass the owners? Christian’s shouldn’t quote me to say nonsense because I am not talking to you homosexuals, transgenders and pedophilles. The same people that told us that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah are now forcing us to be homosexuals |
| Re: Warning Against Tourism And Excursion To Sites Of Shirk by ivolt: 2:21pm On Aug 30, 2024 |
The funny thing is 100% of tourist sites you think are holy have "idol" history. Think this is false? just provide one counter example. |
| Re: Warning Against Tourism And Excursion To Sites Of Shirk by compton11(m): 2:34pm On Aug 30, 2024 |
What's wrong in visiting olumo rock? |
| Re: Warning Against Tourism And Excursion To Sites Of Shirk by pythonkid(m): 2:45pm On Aug 30, 2024 |
Fd up religion of retrdts |
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