in this world are not real afflictions; the real affliction is the one that strikes one’s religion and belief. So long as one’s religion and belief are safe, one is a real Mu’min [believer] who deeply believes that whatever is destined for him by All?h ( - عز وجل -) will surely touch him and believes that All?h ( - عز وجل -) will grant him the best of rewards in the Hereafter.

[1/ 64] In Isl?m there are only two Eids: Eidul Fitr and Eidul Adh?. Regretfully, muslims these days celebrate many Eids [festivals] some are temporal others are spatial. Examples on the former are the following: the prophet’s ( - ) birthday, the Day of Ascent, the night preceding the fifteenth of Sha‘b?n, the righteous birthdays, the day of accention to the throne which is adopted from the Persian New Year’s Day, the Revolution day against a king or so which is similar to the festival done by the westerners, the evacuation day (of foreign troops), the day of Independence and other such false Eids (1) that All?h ( - عز وجل -) never permits.

As for the spacial festivals; they were invented by the ignorants such as: gathering in cemeteries, visiting graves so often or on special occasions -as what happens near the so called Badaw? grave in Egypt and the so called Al-Husain grave in Karbul?’ and the so called Abdil Q?dir Al-J?l?n?, in Bagd?d.

These three places were made places of celebration by those who have no sense of understanding, imitating the pure muslims’ gathering around the Ka‘bah, on ‘Araf?t, Muzdalifah and Min? on the days of Hajj.

The aforementioned graves are only few to mention for the purpose here is not to name them but to warn [muslims] against imitating the disbelievers in their temporal and special “Eids”. (2)