The Prophet ﷺ said:
'All of my Ummah would enter Jannah, except him who
refuses to enter it.' It was said: 'Who would refuse to enter
it?' He said: 'Whoever obeys me would enter Jannah, and
whoever disobeys me has refused to enter it.' (Bukhari #6851)
Sheik Islam b. Taymiyyah, may Allah have mercy on him,
said: 'That is why Allah, the Exalted, has ordered us to say in
each prayer: 'O Allah guide us to the straight path. The path of
those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the path)
of those who earned Your Anger nor of those who went
astray. Those who earned the anger of Allah are the ones who
know the truth and oppose it, and those who went astray are
those who worship Allah without knowledge, while knowing
that it opposes the Book of Allah and the Sunnah.'7F
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Religious Innovations can be categorized into three
categories:
a. Bid'ah which is tantamount to disbelief, which would take
one out of the folds of Islam; such Bid'ah pertains to creedal
issues, such as one who offers sacrificial animals to other than
Allah, and one who circumambulates a grave, and one who
beseeches and seeks help of other than Allah in matters that
they cannot help. Allah says: Say (O Muhammad): "Verily, my Salah (Prayer) my
sacrifice, my living, and my dying are for Allah, the Rubb
of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists). (6:162)
( 8 Fatawa al-Kubra pg. 194 )
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b. Bid'ah which is not tantamount to disbelief, but leads to
disbelief; such as building structures on graves, and praying
and making Du'aa (supplication) near it. That is why the
Prophet ﷺ forbade his Ummah to frequently visit his grave, for
the fear that it would be worshipped to the exclusion of Allah.
The Prophet ﷺ said:
'Do not make your homes like graves (by not offering acts
of worship in them) and do not frequently visit my grave
and (do not burden yourselves by visiting me; rather) exalt
my mention, for it would reach me wherever you are.' (Abu
Dawood #2042)
c. Bid'ah which are equal to sinful acts; such as celibacy, i.e.
to avoid marriage and to fast the days continuously and to
pray throughout the nights. Anas, with whom Allah is
pleased, reported that the Prophet ﷺ said: 'Three people came
to the houses of the Prophet's wives and asked about his
worship. When they were told, they considered it as too little,
and said: 'We are unlike the Messenger of Allah; Allah has
forgiven his past and future sins! One of them said: 'As for me,
I shall never marry.' The other said: 'I shall fast and not break
my fast.' The other said: 'I shall pray the night prayer
continuously.' When the Prophet ﷺ heard this, he called them
and said:
'Are you the ones who said this? Indeed I am the most
god-fearing of you and pious, but I pray and sleep, fast
and break it, and marry women, so whoever does not want
my Sunnah, he is not from me.' (Bukhari #4776)
From this it is clear that whoever worships Allah in a
manner that is not legalized by Allah or His Messenger or
practiced by the Rightly-Guided Caliphs, then this person is
an innovator, for the Prophet ﷺ said:
Every Religious Innovation is a Means of Misguidance ___________________________________________________
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