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Is Praying On New Year's Eve A Bidah?
A group of people in our community are planning to pray voluntary salah around midnight tonight( New year’s Eve) to avoid participating in useless activities around that time. Is it considered bida’h in deen?
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Is Praying On New Year's Eve A Bidah?
updated 3 years, 4 months ago
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Please see this response:
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It’s not clear from the vedio. They’re not making it as a taqreeb. They’re praying in their homes individually. They’re not making it into a habit or ritual. Just want to spend that time praying instead of watching the ball drop
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And their intention is not to introduce something new to the deen
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Of course you can pray nafil namaz anytime for any reason – that’s not innovation. Bidah or innovation would occur if they made it into an event, invited others to join them, publicized it, or insisted upon it being part of the religion. Simply praying nafil namaz in their own homes is not bidah.
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Thanks
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I need a little more clarification please. You said that” Bidah or innovation would occur if they made it into an event, invited others to join them, publicized it”
Back in October at the time of halloween there was an event arranged in the masjid , consisted of halaqas, qiyam ul lail etc. They invited others to join it, publicized it and made it into an event. I think they do some kind of program every year almost in every masjid across US on Halloween evening. The purpose is to provide some activity to the youth in the masjid so that they can stay away from participating in Halloween activities. I hope this doesn’t fall in to the bida’h catagory.
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In case of 12th Rabi ul Awwal, those congregational Salah are associated with that specific day and are arranged because of Birth of Prophet Muhammad (sws) which makes them Bidah. If there is no such additional religious affiliation with such events, then there is no harm.
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So as long as the purpose of doing it is not religious, it should be Ok?
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Purpose of a religious activity should always be religious based on purpose and limits as sanctioned by the Prophet (sws) Himself. If it is affiliated with something over and above what was actually sanctioned (in religious context), then it would count as Bidah. The above mentioned activity doesn’t seem to have any additional religious motive than what has been prescribed originally.
Please also see this response by Sajid Hameed Sahab:
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