A certain person may say: “I have read some
of the prophetic traditions[1] which
prevent cupping on days of Saturday, Sunday, Wednesday, Friday, Tuesday, and
Thursday, and I have found that there is contradiction in them. Some of these
traditions prefer cupping to be performed, and others
prohibit doing it. Which Hadith is the right one? Rightness is whole in one and
it is never pluralized!”
In answer to this inquiry, we say: that all the prophetic traditions are correct and
strong and there is not any weak one among them at all. How could
weakness sneak to them, and the Almighty God has witnessed in describing
the Prophet in The Holy Qur’an, An-Najm
Fortress, Verse (3): “Nor does he speak of (his own) desire.” If
contradictory is found between a certain tradition and the Noble Qur’an, and
this denotes that there is doubt about its credibility and its fallacy is most
clear, and the Messenger of God is exonerated from it, he didn’t
speak it at all. There are many traditions that were forged and foisted in
order to let people run in confusion and divert themselves from reality and
fall preys in labyrinth. But no one can divert himself
from rightness and reality except that one who has neglected his mind and does
not give research its rightness which is attained thorough examination and
comparison according to the Holy Book "Qur'an", logic and rightness.
However, he who uses his mind contemplating in the wonders of the universe and
thinking about his end in this life and his future in the hereafter.
Then, he attains
the real faith, that changes the disbeliever to a savant after his insight is
opened, and the wax of his ears vanishes, and the haze of his eyes disappears,
and his spirit "heart" have been purified, and becomes perfect after
he has loved and adored the people of perfection, and the Messenger of God (cpth) who is the Master of Perfection and high moralities,
He becomes by this divine trustworthy bond, which has no schism, able to put
the proof against himself and against the others, depending on what he has
known and understood from the Holy Book "Qur'an" which becomes his
reference, his support and his scale ( He who grasps it in practical life saves
himself, and he who leaves it to other ones (books) perishes himself.
Therefore, through the real faith alone
man can distinguish between the exact tradition and the fabricated one. If the
utterance is contradictory and different, that means the tradition is concocted by people, and not said by the prophet.
God
said, “Certainly, you have different ideas. Turned aside there from is he
who is turned aside.”
The
Holy Qur’an,
Fortress (51) Adh-Dharyat (8 - 9)
Whereas the rightful utterance
which is approved by the Book of God is harmonious to a high level of
harmony by the right logic and irrefutable evidence, so we find in it the
uprightness and integrity of humanity.
The Messenger who has adhered himself to
God in such a way that he has surpassed the whole world and all people in
understanding the Book of the Almighty Al'lah.
Almighty Al'lah says in Holy Qur’an Ar-Ra’d Fortress (43):
“And those disbelievers say:” You are
not a Messenger. “O. Mohammed Say: It is Sufficient That God is the witness who
is the right path "me or you". And who has the knowledge of the holy
Book like me?”
And who could understand it like me? Such was his
reply to the deniers of his messages and of his prophecy and the skeptical
persons in his calling.
As well as, those who
have sincerely followed him, getting true insight, will never be deceived by
the ornament of utterance and its vanity.
The
Almighty Al'lah Says: “O. Mohammed, say; this is my way, I invite unto Allah
with sure knowledge, I and whosoever follows me….”
The
Holy Qur’an,
Fortress (12)
Yusuf (108)
As for those narrated traditions, which
permit performing cupping on days of Monday, Tuesday and Thursday; and forbids
its performance on days of Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, were weakened by Alhafez Ibn Hijr in Alfat’h (the Conquest) (12/256), and the late Imam Almajlisi showed their contradictions.
We shall, for exclusive example, bring a
pattern for you and leave the verdict to you, my dear brother reader.
The first tradition: from Ibn Omar “may
God be pleased with him” said, “Apply cupping treatment on Thursday…”[2]
The second tradition: “Never be
cupped on Thursday. He, who has been performed on, misfortune, affects him…”[3]
Today, there are so many contradictory traditions which tell you to be cupped on Tuesday, and
others tell you not to be cupped on such a day.
This contradiction denotes to their
falseness and incredibility, and aims at confusion and liquefaction of the
traditions of the favorite Prophet about cupping.
All these are
prejudiced intrigues whereas the rightful one is the one which the clear logic
accepts it through the practical fact, and that which you find it aligns with
the tradition of the Messenger of God, that does not confine cupping on days of
Saturday, or Sunday, or Monday, or Tuesday…etc. but it defines the cupping time
according to the lunar month, from his saying: “ Cupping is detested at the
beginning of the crescent, and it is not hoped for benefit until the crescent
decreases”.
It was told by Al-Hindi in his Kanz Al-Ummal (28113), by al-Ajlouni in ‘Kashf Al-khafa’ (Uncovering of the concealment), and by Ibn Al-Jawzi in Tathkarat Almawdhooaat /207/ (Memo of subjects).
This tradition
was backed by another one in his saying: “The best days for you to be
cupped are the seventeenth day, the nineteenth day, and the twenty-first day
(of the lunar month)”[4]
This honored tradition denotes the
incredibility of the traditions which prohibit most
days of the week: Saturday, Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Tuesday …
for a clear reason you yourself can discover it.
Let us suppose that the seventeenth day
of the lunar month comes on Friday and this means that the nineteenth day of it
will surely be Sunday, and the twenty-first day of it will be Tuesday.
Let us also suppose that the seventeenth
day comes on Thursday, then the nineteenth will be Saturday, and the
twenty-first will be Monday… and so on.
The inconstancy of the days in relation
with the dates of the lunar month because the lunar month is changing from
month to another, and from year to year.
This proves the abrogation of the
traditions and of the claims that prohibit applying cupping on some days despite they are in a true time of performing cupping as
they are in the spring time and after the decreasing of crescent …, and it
confirms the futility of such traditions in a clear way.
The Prophet (cpth)
is innocent of such fabrications
And praise belongs
to God at the beginning and at the end
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