7th Night Ashura Majlis Lecturer: Muhammad Kabir Topic: The fast of Ashura: A prophetic tradition or Umayyad tradition Summary of the lecture: Fasting is one of the pillars of Islam. The fast of the month of Ramadan was made obligatory in the second year after Hijra. We therefore understand from the import of the verses, that fasting was instituted by Allah to all the Prophets and their people. Meanwhile, in Islam, we have various kinds of fasting. We have the obligatory, recommended, and prohibited fastings. Apart from those obligatory and prohibited ones, fasting is recommended inevery day. And fasting on the day of Ashura falls under the recommended ones, provided one does not do it in support of the umayyad tradition. So how did the umayyads establish the fast of Ashura? They did so by fabricating traditions and attributing it to the Prophet. Bukhari narrated 8 traditions to this effect, which are contradictory to each other In some we were told that it was observed from the pre Islamic era, in others it was said that the prophet came to meet the Jews of Madina observing it in the second year after Hijra, while in others it was reported that he rather commanded Muslims to observe it in the tenth year after Hijra, Abd he was told that the Jews and Christians used to observe the day, and he proclaimed that, if that be the case then he will fast on the ninth and tenth days the following year, but he didnt live to see the coming year. All these contradictions add up to revealing the fact that those traditions were fabricated in order to sway the attention of the Umma from remembering the brutality exercised on the Prophets family on the tenth of Muharram by the Umayyads. He continued by stating that even if we accept that some events happened to some Prophets on this day, those Prophets are not superior to Husayn (a. s) for one to give them priority over Husayn. He them mentioned some traditions that indicate that Imam Husayn is superior to all the Prophets and Messengers except the his grandfather Muhammad (s a w a). The last thing he mentioned was a tradition in which Imam Ali (a s) reported that some people will kill the Prophets son, and then fabricate traditions in order to downplay the wicked act they perpetrated. That they will claim so and so happened to so and so prophet on the tenth of Muharram, but they are all lies. He concluded by emphasizing that, indeed the fast observed on the tenth of Ashura on the basis of those fabricated traditions is void and null. And if one is aware that it was one of the fabrications of the Umayyads, but still observes it, then one is delving in a haram act. May Allah protect us from those people, and forgive us for all those years we have been engaged in that act. Aameen.
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