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| In the name of Allah, Most Beneficent, Most Merciful
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| What
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Maulana Ahmed Yar Khan |
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Types of Bid'at and their status in the Shari'ah A.
Bid'at Ja'iz 1.1 THE WORD BID'AT AS MENTIONED IN THE HOLY QURAN The literary meaning of "Bid'at" (in the dictionary) is "innovation; novelty." In the following lines we see where in the Holy Quran this word has been used, and the meaning with which it is associated: Says the Holy Quran: Qul ma kuntu midu'a minar Rusuli "Say I am no Bringer of New Fangled Doctrine among among the Apostles." (XLVI: 9) and it says: Bari'us samawaati wal ard "The Originator of the Heavens and the Earth." (II: 117) and it says: Warahbaaniyatan ibtadaooha ma katabnaha alaikum "But monasticism (which) they invented - We ordained it not for them." (LVII: 27) In these Ayahs from the Holy Quran the word Bid'at has been used in it's literary meaning. It's definition in the technical language of the Shari'at is different. In the Holy Quran it has been used to mean "to invent" and "to create a new thing", whereas it's technical meaning is as written in the book Mirqat (under Babul I'tisaam bil Kitaab was-Sunnah) - "that belief or action which was not in practice during the blessed age of Rasulullah (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) but was introduced after him." From this we see that Bid'at is of two kinds:-
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