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few questions
zanfaz
07/09/01 at 02:02:54
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I hv few questions. :)

a) what is the significance of number '786' in Islam ?

b) Is there any relationship between green color and Islam ?

Jazakallahu Khair in advance for the answers.

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Re: few questions
se7en
07/09/01 at 02:16:34
wa alaykum as salaam wa rahmatAllah,

[quote]a) what is the significance of number '786' in Islam ?[/quote]

Check out [url=http://www.jannah.org/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl/YaBB.pl?board=madrasa&action=display&num=3011]this[/url] thread for a discussion on this issue.
Re: few questions
Mahmoodah
07/09/01 at 02:18:23

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b) Is there any relationship between green color and Islam ?
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salam,
i think ppl just relate islam and the colour green b'coz of the mosque in madina!!!
The prophets grave in onder the green dome, so may b thats y ppl just relate islam n that colour!!!
but i'm not sure abt facts!!!

wa-salam
Re: few questions
Safiya
07/09/01 at 08:22:45

or b-cos the people of jannah will be wearing green garments....
Re: few questions
Anonymous
07/09/01 at 15:50:33

Question:


We want to form a Muslim group in a place where there are a lot of
student groups in the university, including groups from other religions. We
want to distinguish ourselves with something and to have a symbol,
because symbols are important in distinguishing groups from one another,
Can you advise us of a specific color or symbol that we can use for this
Muslim students’ group?

Answer:

Praise be to Allaah.

We put this question to Shaykh Muhammad Saalih ibn ‘Uthaymeen, who
replied as follows:

“If the Muslim students agree on something, this is OK, but if each
Muslim group is adopting its own symbol, it is not right. The symbol or
color that we recommend is bright green.”

Is there any daleel (evidence) for this color?

“No, but people like this color and in the Qur’aan it says
(interpretation of the meanings): ‘Their garments will be of fine green silk’
[al-Insaan 76:21] and ‘Reclining on green cushions’ [al-Rahmaan 55:76].”

Is there any indication from the reports that the Prophet SAWS (peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him) had white and black banners that
these colors are mustahabb in such cases?

“No, we cannot use these colors, because these were the banners in that
time, and each era has things that are appropriate for it. But black
now is one of the symbols of the Raafidah, as is well known.”

The crescent is commonly used as a symbol by Muslims to distinguish
themselves from Christian groups who use the cross as a symbol. Is it
permissible for us to use the crescent as a symbol in our publications and
on our banners, to distinguish ourselves from other, non-Muslim groups?

“I do not think this is right, because the crescent was originally a
symbol that was placed on graves that were worshipped instead of Allah.
We read this in an answer given by some scholars and leaders of Daw’ah.
But we could use a picture of the Ka’bah as a symbol, because it is the
Qiblah of all Muslims.”

In some countries they put a crescent on Muslim places of worship to
distinguish them from Christian places of worship, which have crosses on
top of them. They do this so that people can tell them apart from a
distance, because the architecture is often similar. Can we say that
putting a crescent on the mosques or minarets of the Muslims is bid’ah?

“It is as you say (i.e., we can say that). It is sufficient for a
mosque not to have a Christian symbol on it. Symbols may be something that
is present, or something that is not present. If the Christians have a
symbol, namely the cross, then the fact that the Muslims have no symbol
is in itself a symbol. (i.e., we do not need to put anything).

And Allâh knows best.



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