Alim-Daur e Jahiliyyah
“Bismillahir Rahmannir Raheem”Al-Hamdu Lillaahi Rabbil ‘Aalameen was Salaatu was- Salaamu ‘Alaa Sayidinaa Muhammadin wa Aalihi wa Asabihi Ajma ‘een (tauheed- risalat- ahkirat and islam-iman-ihsan)
Jahiliyyah (Foolishness and misguidance)
Ignorance X knowledge AND Foolishness X wisdom(OPPOSITES)
Ignorance and kufr (disbelief) CHANGED with guidance and the religion of truth(ISLAM).
It may exist in one place/one person and not another .
Ignorance both of the rights of Allah and the rights of His slaves
There is no Jahiliyyah after the coming of Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), because among his ummah there is a group which will continue to prevail and follow the truth until the Hour begins.
Looking down upon muslims(ignorant, deviant and doomed)
1.Pleased with himself and admires himself, and he is envious of those who are above him and scornful of those who are below him.
2.Scolding and rebuking himself and is not pleased with himself.
3.Always muslims are best .
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL
Exposed to many outside influences as it employs open trade.
They never respect women and believed that they bring no luck for the clan.
Step sons could marry their step-mothers
Human sacrifices to propitiate gods.
Father killing children fearing poverty.
Female child was considered curse and buried alive by the father.
They all spoke one language, i.e. Arabic, though with its different dialects.
Drinking, gambling, usury and polygamy were essential and deep-rooted elements of Arab Culture.
Gradually, betting became so common that when anyone had lost all his wealth and property, he would pledge his wife and children.
Interest based transactions was the common feature of pre-Islamic Arabian life.
They considered their tribe first before anything, and regarded the support of a tribesman a supreme service, even if he was a culprit.
Arabs were the perpetration of injustice, maltreatment of orphans and cheating of others.
CHANGES
Prohibiting burying females daughters alive.
Islam raised the status of women by making it compulsory for them to get inheritance and dowry.
Islam prohibited all forms of social evils (alcoholism, adultery and gambling)
Islam forbade stopped all forms of tribal wars, plundering and wilful attack on tribes and destruction of crops and properties without just cause.
Islam replaced injustice with justice (Al-adl)
Marriage
Jahiliyyah =A man can marry as many women as he pleased.
Islam=A man is only allowed to marry up till four wives at any one time. However it cannot be practiced according to one‟s whims and fancies such that women are oppressed .
Zihar
Jahiliyyah =A husband equating his wife with one of his mahram such as his mother or sisters(way to divorce the wife).
Islam=Zihar is not a way to talak (pronounciation of divorce), however kaffarah (fine) is imposed.
Social Relations
Jahiliyyah =Separated life within each clan and tribe led to animosity amongst tribes.
Islam=Loyalty to tribes no longer existed and replaced with the bond of brotherhood .
RELIGIONS DURING JAHILIYYAH
Arab world had 4 set of people worshipping in their own ways.
1.people of the book (jews and Christians)
2.people worshipping sun,moon and stars (rehban)
3.people worshipping fire (majoosi)
4.people worshipping idols (kuffar)
1.All these people had belief in Allah also as one of their gods.
2.their opinion was ,one god cannot manage the whole universe
3.they distributed portfolios to their deities and attributed good to Allah and bad to other idols of their choice
4.in order to attain real god-Allah they thought that the other idol gods must be satisfied.
5.people of the book made the prophets of Allah as sons of god (christains said prophet isa(as) as son of god and jews said prophet uzair (as) as son of god .
6. they took angels as daughters of Allah.
Hanif Religion =Brought by the prophet ibrahim(he was a Muslim not a Jew nor a Christian). Hanif religion does not worships idols, gambling, drink alcoholic and other unlawful practices that Allah forbids.
Judaism= They altered/falsified the teachings of Prophet moses/torah.they took prophet uzair as son of god.
Christianity= They altered/falsified the teaching of Prophet Jesus/injil . they took prophet isa as son of god.
Zoroastrians (fire worshipping)= from Persia(no holy books/no true prophets).
Hinduism (idol worshipping)=worshipped trees,animals,stones,blind beliefs, superstitions, black magic, false stories/personalities etc
Wathani Religion (idol worshipping)= worshipped idols, stones and heroes. They had a family and tribal idols about 360 idols were being worshipped in Ka’abah .
The three principal idols of Pagan Arab Idolatry were the goddesses Lat, Uzza and Manat.
Superstitions and black magic
1.would refrain from killing a snake fearing that its mate come and take revenge.
2.Soothsayers =their main function was to giving prediction of the future and giving news of heaven to the masses. Each of them was thought to be accompanying a Jinn who would convey him all sorts of news.
Soothsayers= brought misguidance in form of rituals and charged heavy fees/offerings.
3.They used to make offerings of a male kid born to a sheep. Similarly, she-camel would be set free after she delivered ten off springs.
4.During a famine, they tied hay to the tail of a ram and set it on fire with the belief that it would become a source of rainfall.
5.When anyone set on a journey, he tied knot of a thread on a tree and if he found it untied on return, he concluded that his wife had been unfaithful.
6.If any one lost direction while traveling, he would reverse his ferments wearing them with the wrong side up imagining that he would learn of the right direction thereby.
7.If any one abuse Laat or Uzza (idols), it was considered to be the potent cause for afflicting leprosy to the abuser.
8. The Arabs also had the belief that poets had demons with them and the composition of poetical verses was the inspirational effect of those demons.
Palmyra and Petra worshipped sun
Ma’in People worshipped the moon.
The tribe of Khuza’ah worshiped the Jinns.
The tribe of Himyar worshiped the sun
The tribe of Kinana adored the moon
The tribe of Tamim worshiped Al-Dabaran
The tribe of lakhm worshiped jupiter
The tribe of juzam worshiped canopus
The tribe of tai worshiped the dog-star
The tribe of banu qais and banu asad worshiped mercury
Though they believed Allah to be the Supreme God but
1.His worship was neither obligatory nor common.
2.They believed small gods will serve as intercessors .
3. The Angels were thought to be the daughters of Allah (intercessors before Allah)
4.To show Allah in human shape or imagine sons or daughters of Allah, as if Allah were flesh
5. Jinns were regarded as the co-sharers of Almighty in the practical control of the world.
6. daughters for Allah and sons for them, was their concept.
CHANGES
Tauhid
Islam=Submission to Allah and service to human kind
Islam =As a movement for the establishment of a just order in this world.
From polytheist to monotheist(Islamic beliefs)
Judaism /Christianity/paganism/Zoroastrians/Hinduism etc etc was Jahiliyyah.
Islam is the religion of all Prophets – Abraham, Noah, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad (peace be upon them all )
Calling towards tauhid-risalat-ahkirat (islam-iman-ihsan)
Tawaf (Circumbulation)
Jahiliyyah =Executed in nudity and through piercing of spikes on the body.Using clothes that were worn when making the sinful act.
Islam=It is obligatory to perform the Tawaf while all the physical bodily aspects (aurat) are covered.
POLITICS
People divided into groups, clans, and tribes (fighting each other). They use to fulfill promises.
Tension between Himyar (Roman empire-controlling west and northern part) and Yemen (Persian empire controlling eastern part).
Makkah was not under colonization but unstable political and governance structure.
Makkah was once attacked by abraha from yemen but failed.
They plundered communities and enslaved people(wars).
These clans are always rivalry with each other and even war. Defeated clan will be slave.
The root cause of their fight was rivalry over chieftainship ,water and fodder.
They were good in archery and horsemanship(courageous).
CHANGES
Qisas (Retaliation)
Jahiliyyah =When a member of a clan is murdered then that clan can retaliate by killing as many members of the murderer‟s clan
Islam=Only the proven murderer is to face the death penalty (no unlawful killing)
War
Jahiliyyah =Pride and social solidarity (noble profession).
Islam=Safeguards the sanctity of the religion, race and society from intrusion(obligatory guidelines)
Slavery(oppression, humiliation and exploitation)
Jahiliyyah =Bankrupt, criminal offence,tribe fights subjected to slavery.
Islam=Did not obliterate slavery but forbids the exploitation of slaves by their masters (laws regarding slavery)
‘Aqilah (Compensation for Murder or Blood Money)
Jahiliyyah =The compensation was collected from amongst members of the clan or tribe of the murderer.
Islam=The compensation is only to be paid by the men of sound mind from the father‟s side (‘asabah nasab)
ECONOMICS
The Arab clans keep fighting with each other.
Tension between Himyar (Roman) and Yemen (Persia).
Unstable trading due to robbery
They were skillful astronomers.
They were skilled sailors
CHANGES
Distribution of Estate
Jahiliyyah =No rights of inheritance for women (oppressed).
Islam=Women have the rights of inheritance .
Sale and Purchase
Jahiliyyah =Filled with usury and fraud (measurements of weight)
Islam=Usury is forbidden (ethics of sale and purchase)
To avoid making the rich richer and the poor poorer, goes against the concept of charity (wealth must be in circulation not getting stationed at one place /person.
KNOWLEDGE AND INTELLECTUAL
There is no inheritance of knowledge and most
of them illiterate(only 17/few can read and write) .
They learn from mouth-to-mouth.
No writings or encryption found that illustrate
the period.
They were good poets and orators
Ignorance both of the rights of Allah and the rights of His slaves.
Ignorance and kufr (disbelief) CHANGED with guidance and the religion of truth(ISLAM).
Nobility
Jahiliyyah =Nobility is because of wealth, stature and many children
Islam=Nobility is due to taqwa (piety)
Modern jahalat
Underprivileged remain under privileged .
Society facing increase rise in gambling, drinking, women and wine etc
No justice and high level of corruption.
Violation of rights.
Education system getting nationalized.
Superiority of specific countries.
Slavery at the workplace.
Women are used for pleasure or money.
People fighting for money, fame, power or desires.
Rich becoming richest and poor becoming poorest.
Wars in the name of peace (innocent getting killed).
Islam = submission to God and service to human kind
Islam =movement for the establishment of a just order in this world.
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