The Darkness Of Tashabbuh

Tashabbuh bil Kuffaar (emulating the kuffaar) is haraam.

Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: “Whoever emulates a people, becomes of them.” Many aayaat in the Qur’aan prohibit even inclination to- wards the kuffaar. Hadhrat Mujaddid Alf-e- Thaani (rahmatullah alayh) in a letter to the sons of his Shaikh, Hadhrat Khwaajah Baaqi Billaah (rahmatullah alayh) said: “This Faqeer once went to visit a man who was in the throes of death. When I concentrated on his spiritual condition, I discerned that his heart was enveloped by clouds of zulmat (spiritual darkness). Despite all my endeavours (of Tawajjuh) to eliminate the zulmat from his heart, it was to no avail. Afterwards I discovered that these clouds of zulmat were the effects of the attributes of kufr which were hidden in him.

These attributes of kufr were the consequences of association and friendship with the people of Kufr. By means of Tawajjuh the clouds of zulmat cannot be eliminated.” This episode should be adequate admonition for those who follow the ways, styles and fashions of the kuffaar. The ultimate end could be kufr and departure from this dunya with out Imaan.

May Allah Ta’ala save our Imaan.