Evil Weddings and Allah's Punishment

A sign of the impending fate of destruction of a community is the leeway and latitude allowed to them by Allah Ta'ala to happily perpetrate their acts of transgression. When Allah Ta'ala has finally decided to eliminate a community with His Punishment, he snatches away all taufeeq of goodness from its members. They then embark o­n a process of reckless haraam and transgression. The decree then arrives. Suddenly and swiftly it overwhelms the transgressors. The past history and the recent history of mankind bear ample testimony to this uniform Sunnat of Allah Ta'ala, viz., His sudden and swift punishment for the transgressors, the ringleaders of whom are almost always the affluent ) the wealthy who think that they are free to do whatever they wish with the wealth Allah Ta'ala has bestowed to them.

Among the acts of transgression which have to be particularly singled out, are the haraam wedding functions and the accompaniment of up-Islamic customs. These functions and the haraam activities of which they comprise are too well-known to require any elucidation. The kufr, immodest acts of intermingling of sexes, hiring of halls, displaying in exhibitions of zina, the bride, music, photography, video-ing the haraam process of the haraam wedding, decorating vehicles with hooters blaring just like the kuffaar, etc., are among the evil and satanic ingredients of these shaitaani wedding functions.

Huge sums of money, usually thousands and sometimes tens of thousands of rand, are satanically squandered and thrown down the drain into Jahannum simply to provide some egoistical pleasure to the ignorant culprits who have organized these affairs. That these people are the brothers of the shaitaan, there is no doubt in it, because the Qur'aan Majeed places the seal of satanism o­n them:

These people while claiming to be Muslims, have absolutely no understanding of the meaning or of the demands of Imaan. Innumerable Muslims, hundreds of thousands, in the different parts of the world are languishing in dire straits of poverty, squalor and starvation ) homeless and without clothes, they have been and are being brutalized by kuffaar, yet we find Muslims squandering huge amounts in haraam and immoral wedding functions. Never does it occurs to them to rather contribute the wasted money for aiding the downtrodden Ummah. Their hearts have become clogged and hardened with all the paraphernalia of kufr, hence they display all attributes of kufr o­n wedding occasions to gain some miserable pleasure for their nafs. They seek to project an image of greatness for themselves by digging their own hell-graves with their acts of transgression. While they labour under the extremely false notion of impressing others with their extravagance and their daughter put o­n display for the evil eyes of all and sundry, they succeed in o­nly deceiving themselves.

The very punishment which usually settles over the married couple who went through the spiritual torture of haraam wedding functions is the miserable relationship between husband and wife. Such marriages are overshadowed by unhappiness and misery. Many lead to divorce. When misery bogs down the marriage, they wonder what went wrong.

A large part of the blame for this rotten state of affairs has to be hoisted o­nto the shoulders of condescending Ulama who curry the favour of the rich by submitting to the haraam wishes of such people. These Ulama participate in the evil wedding functions and with their presence at such nikahs, such walimahs and such functions they endeavour to confer respectability, acceptability and legality to the satanic wedding functions and customs . In participating and aiding in the these functions of satanism, these Ulama should understand that they have abdicated their role. They no longer act as bearers of the Standard of Islam. They have betrayed Islam. They betrayed Allah and His Rasool. They have betrayed the Ummah. They have joined the ranks of the ulama-e-soo' (the evil ulama) about whom our Nabi (sallall~hu alayhi wasallam) said:

When an Aalim is aware of the haraam activities contemplated after the nikah, then it does not behove him to perform such a nikah. It is his incumbent duty to refuse. Concerned Muslims, i.e. those who are concerned with the Pleasure and Displeasure of Allah, should not participate in even the nikah of persons who will be indulging in haraam satanic activities after the nikah. Their invitation to attend their walimah functions too should not be answered. This is the minimum response which a Muslim cconscious of his Imaan should offer. Rasulullah (sallall~hu alayhi wasallam) said: