Is Every New Action In Deen Haraam?
Those people who say that every Bid'at is Haraam should understand the meaning of this universally accepted principle that the origin of everything is Mubah(permissible) i.e.everything is permissible unless a Hukm(command) has come in it's prohibition which will make it Haraam. Every novelty is not prohibited on the grounds that it is something new but the prohibition comes if the novelty is in contradiction with the Holy Qur'aan or the Sunnah. The ayahs of the Holy Qur'aan along with Hadith and the statements of the Fuqaha (jurisprudents) have approved of this principle. The Holy Qur'aan says: "O you who believe ask not of things which if disclosed to you may annoy you, and if you ask them why the Qur'aan is yet being revealed, they will be disclosed to you, Allah had pardoned that, and Allah is Oft Forgiving, Most Forbearing". From this blessed ayat we see that all those things about which no command or prohibition has come have been pardoned. T...