The Reality of Tashabbuh & Mushabahat

 

What is Tashabbuh? What is Mushabahat? Is there a difference between them? What does the Shari'ah say about them?

TASHABBUH:
Tashabbuh means that a person willfully imitates. He intends to become like something else. He wants to be seen and identified as something else. This is not permissible at all. 

MUSHABAHAT:
A person does not willfully intend to look or become like something or someone else, but by his actions, he resembles others automatically. This is not forbidden in itself, but Sayyiduna Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam emphasized that we stay away from it also. There must be a clear distinction that remains between the Muslims and the non-Muslims. It must not be that people see us and they don't even know whether the person is a Muslim or not. From head to toe, a person is dressed and groomed such that the onlooker does not know whether to greet him with salaam or not. 

Sayyiduna Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam emphasized that the Muslim Ummah refrains from allowing Mushabahat to creep into even actions of worship. The reason for this is that the Deen that Allah Ta'ala blessed us with is unique and different from every other religion and way of life, and it is much higher and loftier than other ways. For this reason, the outer and inner of a Muslim must remain unique and different from that of non-Muslims; one's dressing, one's worship, one's actions, one's character, they are all different from that of non-Muslims. 

Islam is unique and different, it has not come to be watered down and changed, but it changes everything around it. Appreciate this great Deen of Islam, it is to be lived and experienced, and not seen as something trivial to be done away with whenever one feels like. May Allah Ta'ala bless us with the reality of Islam. Ameen 


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