innovation
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Is the follower or caller to innovation necessarily an innovator?
Question Regarding your text on following a Madhab being a Bid’ah (innovation), how about the ones who follow it and call to it? Does it make them callers to innovation? Answer 1. The standard to determine who becomes an innovator and who doesn’t become an innovator after calling to innovation or following it No judgment…
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BEING criticized for not taking knowledge from those my parents take from
Question Is there anything in Islam that prevents children from taking the religion from other than their parents or sources their parents have approved? My parents do not care for Aqidah, nor Madhabs, are not cautious about the Shias (my dad finds warnings against them stupid, and blames Salafis for it), and they have the…
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CARRYING OUT A ‘KHATAM’ FOR A NEWBORN OR THE DECEASED
Question When a child is born or someone dies, our family sometimes does something called a ‘khatam’, where everyone in the family gets one Juz of the Quran and they have–for example–one week to complete it. Then we all come together and someone recites the last verses of Juz 30. My family says this way…