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Qur’an Kahaani and Ayat-e-Karima

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Q: I have a question about the practice of Quran Kahaani and Ayat-e-Karima, are these practices considered as Bidaah?

Quran Khani–> A practice in which a group of people or a group of huffaz sit together and complete the recitation of one complete Qur’an and after this act a dua is made and later some hadiya and/or food is served to the group.

Ayat-e-karim–> A practice in which a group of people gather together and recite tasbi-e-Younus about 125,000 times and after completion of this some dua is done and later either some hadiya is given and/or food is served to the group.

My understating is that these practices will not fall under Bidaah, if two conditions are met:

1. If this practice is not considered as an essential part of the Deen, but only done to receive Mercy and Blessing from Allah and for the purpose of Esala Sawab.

2. If this practice is not restricted to a particulate date and time.

I also believe that these acts are extremely virtuous, if our purpose and intentions are clear and if all the laws of Shari’ah are met and not violated during these practices.

The following are the benefits of this practice:

1. Jamaaths or gathering’s always have blessings for example salaat with Jamaat is more virtuous about 27 times better than one that’s done individually.

2. Recitation of Qur’an or Tasbi-e-yunus is a very blessed act, and none accept the ignorant can deny this fact.

3. Serving of food and drink to the students or huffaaz, is again a blessed act.

4. Allah doesn’t reject a dua that’s done in Jamaat.

5. The environment in the house is restored with blessings, due to the presence of jamaat and recitation of Qur’an and Zikr, compared to the modern Muslim houses that are polluted by TV, music and non Shar’iah acts.

Please provide a detailed explaining on this subject, as I need to forward this to my friends.

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A: Nobody can dispute the virtue of Qur’aan Khani and zikr. Our fuqahaa have stated that sometimes a mustahab act should be discouraged when the elements of “iltizaamu ma laa yalzam” and “al-ma`roof kal-mashroot” become apparent. Hence, the way that these virtues can be obtained without any objection from the fuqahaa is that the Qur’aan Khani and the zikr can be done individually according to one’s ease and convenience. In fact, it will be more rewarding since the sincerity in this will be even greater.  

And Allah Ta’ala (الله تعالى) knows best.

عن عائشة رضي الله عنها ، قالت : قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم : من أحدث في أمرنا هذا ما ليس منه فهو رد (مشكاة # 140)

مطلب البدعة خمسة أقسام قوله ( أي صاحب بدعة ) أي محرمة وإلا فقد تكون واجبة كنصب الأدلة للرد على أهل الفرق الضالة وتعلم النحو المفهم للكتاب والسنة ومندوبة كإحداث نحو رباط ومدرسة وكل إحسان لم يكن في الصدر الأول ومكروهة كزخرفة المساجد ومباحة كالتوسع بلذيذ المآكل والمشارب والثياب كما في شرح الجامع الصغير للمناوي عن تهذيب النووي وبمثله في الطريقة المحمدية للبركلي قوله ( قوله وهي اعتقاد الخ ) عزا هذا التعريف في هامش الخزائن إلى الحافظ ابن حجر في شرح النخبة ولا يخفى أن الاعتقاد يشمل ما كان معه عمل أو لا فإن من تدين بعمل لا بد أن يعتقده كمسح الشيعة على الرجلين وإنكارهم المسح على الخفين ونحو ذلك وحينئذ فيساوي تعريف الشمني لها بأنها ما أحدث على خلاف الحق المتلقى عن رسول الله من علم أو عمل أو حال بنوع شبهة واستحسان وجعل دينا قويما وصراطا مستقيما ا هـ (رد المحتار 1/ 560)

Answered by:

Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)

This answer was collected from MuftiOnline.co.za, where the questions have been answered by Mufti Zakaria Makada (Hafizahullah), who is currently a senior lecturer in the science of Hadith and Fiqh at Madrasah Ta’leemuddeen, Isipingo Beach, South Africa.

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