Why You Can't Fast on Eid: The Worship Rule

Way. Identify has remember so many However, the natural disposition of worship is that it is permitted or prohibited by default. the natural state of customs, things that people do to to to live, walking, standing, sitting, running, putting clothing on, eating, drinking, speaking. It is by default permissible or impermissible. Permissible. Except what? Except what Allah has outlined as being prohibited. It is the opposite with worship. Correct? With respect to worship, all worship in time, place and in how is permissible or impermissible? Impermissible without direct instruction from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. These are two opposites, right? And the worship of Allah, you are not permitted to worship Allah in this place, in this time, in this way, unless he has instructed. And with respect to things that are not worship, right? You are permitted to do all things except that which Allah has what has prohibited. Remember, think back to the first example that Allah gives us right after saying Allah says he is the one who has created for you all for you all everything that is in the earth. Right after that he tells us the story of Adam and what did he instruct Adam the nature of that admittance into paradise was eat from anything that you want as much as you want how you want, when you want, where you want, except for this tree, either a one tree or one type of tree. It's unclear the verses. The point is is that stay away from that. So with respect to worship, we are told what to do or what not to do. With respect to worship, we're told what to do or what not to do. what to do with respect to customs, with respect to anything that is not worship. We are told what to do or what not to do. What not to do. This this is one of the most important principles of all of Islamic f and law. the nature of worship and the nature of you know customs what we refer to as customs. So right the nature The natural being, the disposition, the default of worship is that it is not permissible unless Allah's messenger has instructed it. Everything, all types of worship, the statement, subhan Allah, who has allowed us to say that? This is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala taught to us very specifically by the prophet sallall.aii wasallam. If the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam tells us in the morning and in the evening recite okay in the morning every morning and every evening recite that's a sunnah. So, a person comes and says, "I will recite it 2,000 times every morning and every evening instead of one time in the morning, one time in the evening. No, 2,000 times in the morning, 2,000 times in the evening. That is permissible or impermissible." What do we call that in Islam? This is an innovation. This is not just innovation, but it's extremism, right? It's as if once that's not enough for me, right? And there are things which are generally permitted. But to specify a time and place and occasion for this thing and this exact way and this exact number, that is not permissible. We have to have evidence for that. Right? So the natural position of worship is that it is permissible or impermissible. It is impermissible unless Allah allows it. Conversely, the nature of customs, the nature of human existence, the nature of our relationship here in this earth, our relationship to our surroundings and our environment is that it is permissible or impermissible. Permissible. That's why Allah doesn't tell us what to eat. It doesn't tell us necessarily when to eat. doesn't tell us what to wear, doesn't tell us when to wear, doesn't tell us. He tells us what not to eat. Meaning, eat everything and these are the exceptions. He tells us what not to wear. Wear everything except these things here. He tells He may suggest, there are suggestions. That's different. But we're speaking about permissible and impermissible. Now when we come to fasting, fasting or prayer or any other type of worship, if we were to say for instance, I want to make Hajj, Hajj is made in which month, right? I want to make Hajj in. I'm going to make Hajj in I'm going to go and on the 9th of Sar I'm going to stand on Araf and I'm going to do the whole thing. But in not is this permissible? Huh? Would we just say that this is invalid or would we say this is positively haram? Haram. Why? This is exactly what the definition of innovation is. Exactly. Right. Person says, you know, Ramadan doesn't really jive with my schedule. I'm gonna fast during Shaan this year. Right. or I don't really the time of I'm going to pray it two hours early or four I could do 400 for from now on I'm going to make 400 for is that permissible or impermissible haram right why the nature of worship is that it is not permissible to approach the king except in the way time place that he has permitted subhanahu wa'ta'ala contrary to our existence in this world we can exist however we want as long as we don't cross the bounds of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so when the author tells us these are days which are impermissible to fast this means that it is haram to fast on these days just it is waj to fast on certain days. It is also what haram to fast on certain days. Same thing with salah. Just it is obligatory to pray at certain times, it is also what haram to pray at other times, right? Etc. So I think we understand. And so this chapter deals with the days in which it is impermissible to fast. The first of that list is ali the day the two days of the two two days of right. So that is the first of and that is the 10th of those two days are the days of Eid right those two days it is haram for a person to fast during the that those two face.

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In Bkari Muslim Abu one of the freed slaves of Ibar. He says that he celebrated the day of Eid with Omar and he heard Omar say where was this likely said. Imagine this. We have one of the okay he says I was there for with and I heard him say and then he mentions the statement. He says these are two days in which the messenger of Allaham has prohibited fasting. the day in which you all break your fast from from Ramadan and the second day when you all eat from your slaughtering. So he's speaking about when do we assume this happened? When did he say this? Think about it. Omar says this on the day of he's speaking to a group of people. What was the occasion? Huh? Thebah the for what? The form meaning incorrect. He's given the he is speaking to the masses. And he is saying these are two days. These are two days in which the messenger of Allah has prohibited be fasting. The day in which you all you all who speaks that unless you're giving a huh what if we were just talking two or three of us and I'm like the day when you all break your fast it's a bizarre way of speaking right it's clear from the wording that this is during autbah this narration has been collected by bkari Muslim.