|
Is
it permissible to attend family gatherings at which innovations
take place
*Please appropriately reference
this fatwa to: www.fatwa-online.com, thankyou!*
Question:
Whenever my family have any occasion (gathering) such as a
wedding, circumcision or funeral, in the wedding and circumcision
celebrations they use a drum and make ululations of joy, and
on the occasion of a death they wail in an outrageous fashion.
So is it right for me to go to these gatherings or not when
they practice these innovations?
Response:
It is not permissible for you to go to a gathering in which
these evil actions take place, unless you are able to (interfere
and) put a stop to these innovations and advise them and teach
them in a good manner. (If you are able to do this,) then
go and enjoin the good and forbid the evil, (otherwise, it
is not permissible for you to go).
And
with Allaah lies all success and may Allaah send prayers and
salutations upon our Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) and his family and his companions.
The
Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research and Fataawa,
comprising -
Head: Shaykh
'Abdul 'Azeez Ibn Abdullaah Ibn Baaz;
Deputy Head: Shaykh
'Abdur-Razzaaq 'Afeefee;
Member:
Shaykh
'Abdullaah Ibn Ghudayyaan
Member: Shaykh
'Abdullaah Ibn Qu'ood
Fataawa al-Lajnah ad-Daa.imah lil-Buhooth al-'Ilmiyyah wal-Iftaa.,
- Volume 12, Page 364, Question 6 of Fatwa No.5666
|
