Sha-be-barat

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

(In The Name Of Allah, the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful ...)

Its very surprising  to see the present Ummah  (the followers of Prophet Mohamed(S.A.W)) are badly doing  Shirk and  Bidah nowadays…

Before lighting you on Sha-be-barat , let me light you on what is Shirk and Bidah..

  Shirk is worshipping  of anyone or anything other than ALLAH(The Almighty)
     or establishing Partners to  Him.Shirk is the unforgivable crime Allah (The Almighty) has said
     that he would forgive any sin if one dies except Shirk.   

  Bidah  means  "to invent " or create "new things " in ISLAM..

     And you might be knowing that when a speaker is about to say anything related to ISLAM ,
     he starts     with HAMD (A speech in arabic ),the last lines of it states that
     "All bidah  is towards  aberrance and all aberrance towards the Hell fire ".

 A night Of Halwas....

A night of visiting the Graves ...

A night of  endless prayers...

This is a kind of practice usually seen at North India , Pakistan , Bangladesh and some Arab countries…

Its the night before the 15th Sha' ban and is called as Sha-be-barat.

On this night peole do Kabar ziyarat (visiting the grave yard) , they pray whole night , they recite the Holy Quran  and the worse practice seen is the Maulana reciting loudly  throughout  the streets the Holy Quran and tries to complete it before the Fajr prayer. Which is strictly a wrong practice and you could Imagine how it would sound finishing  the Holy Quran in just  6 to 7 hours.

Some Islamic group say that on this very night The Holy Quran was brought down…

The Quran in clear words ascribe in Surath-ul- Qadr.
It says; “Verily we have sent it (The Quran) down in the night of Al-Qad’r (The Decree)... The night of Decree is better than a thousand months. Therein descend the angels and Ruh (the spirit) by Allah’s permission with all decrees.” (97:1-4)

In another Surah, the same thing has been specified;
 “We sent it (The Qur’an) down on a blessed night. Verily we are ever warning. Therein is decreed every matter of ordainment.” (44:3-4)

And In Surath-ul-Bakra its said;
 " The month of Ramadhan in which was revealed the quran" (2:185)

 And This proves that The Holy Quran was brought down on the night of Qadr, and the talking is of the Layalatul -Qadr not the Sha-be-Qadr which is found in the odd nights of last 10 days in the month, Ramadhan.

Some Islamic group say that on this very night  Allah comes to the first sky and is ready to forgive all the sins on this very night .

 And that’s the reason why people do endless prayers the whole night ,do Kabr -ziyarat  ,
 gives charity and do all other good deeds.

I would like to say that till now there is no Saheeh (Authentic) Hadith found for the above doings . And to remove the curtain from your eyes, Allah (the Almighty)   is always there for you everywhere and anytime. You can ask for  repentance on any day and on any night . And Indeed He  is  the Kindest of all and He will forgive  you for sure.

 So The weak narrations, stating that fate is written in this night are to be ignored because they contradict the Holy  Quran.

There is a narration in Tirmidhi, which is considered as Za’eef (weak) Hadith according to Imam Tirmidhi. All the narrations regarding glorification of the night are weak. The Saheeh Hadiths inform us that Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) with the exception of Ramadan, never kept so many fasts as in Sha’ban. But we also find that the Prophet Mohammed (S.A.W)  forbade others to keep any fast after the mid Sha’ban.  Other than this, no reference of the 15th night is authentic.

Shias believe that 15th Sha’ban is the birth date of their last and 12th Imam who is invisible and will come back as Imam Medhi. This may be the reason behind Halwas, crackers and other celebration-like things prevalent among those who lack knowledge.

About Milads etc., every moment of the day or night when Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) is remembered, is pious but again, there is nothing in Qur’an and Sunnah which links the Prophet to the said night in particular.

When  some Islamic group preaches Islam in such a way , showing  that the night sha-be-barat is  having more importance than the layalatul Qadr , and still having no signs in the Holy Quran and no authentic Hadiths.

 Doesn’t make sense in believing the existence of such a big night, the Sha-be-barat .

According to me it might have come after the Prophet Muhammed (S.A.W) . And  we all know that the Prophet Muhammed (S.A.W) has said that he has completed Islam in its best form till the Qyamah(the  dooms day).
And so there is no alteration needed in it , and doing alteration will lead to bidah as stated above.

Thus treating the 15th sha' ban a special day is a bidah ,which has led people to wrong doings like has become an occasion of making Halwas, for youths instead of praying the whole night they are seen roaming about the whole night bursting crackers and has more or less turned to a festive  night which is again not allowed in Islam.

Hmmmmmmm.….….

This was all according to me , my research. I would request you to go deep into this and save yourself from all kind of bidah and shirk.

After all Islam is all about ones knowledge...