Wearing Wedding and Engagement Rings are Haraam and are classified as "Imitation of the Kuffars"..!!

Wearing Wedding and Engagement Rings are Haraam and are classified as "Imitation of the Kuffars"..!!

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Islam, how you take or Interpret the below, it is your problem. Not mine, I am here just to Inform You. I see many pictures of wedding rings on fingers or on a Qur'an.

The wedding ring, which is worn on the occasion of marriage, this is not one of the customs of the Muslims. If it is believed that it generates love between the spouses, and that taking it off and not wearing it will have an effect on the marital relationship, then this is regarded as a form of shirk and is a kind of jaahili belief. Based on the above, it is not permissible to wear a wedding ring under any circumstances.

Wearing wedding ring is an imitation of those who are no good; it is a custom that has come to the Muslims from the non-Muslims.
Narrated by Abu Sa’eed Al-Khudri (Radia Allahu ‘Anhu) that,
The Prophet Muhammad (Salla-Allahu’ Alayhi wa Sallam) said:

“YOU WILL CERTAINLY FOLLOW THE WAYS OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE YOU HAND SPAN BY HAND SPAN, CUBIT BY CUBIT, TO THE EXTENT THAT IF THEY ENTERED THE HOLE OF A LIZARD, YOU WILL ENTER IT TOO.”

We said: “O Messenger of Allah, (do you mean) the Jews and the Christians?”

He (Salla-Allahu’ Alayhi wa Sallam) said:

“WHO ELSE?”

Bukharee 1397 & Muslim 4822

This hadeeth indicates that it is haram to imitate the Jews and the Christians, and that those who follow them and tread the same path as them are criticized. Islam has reinforced this prohibition, by describing those who imitate the kuffaar as being of them.
Narrated by ‘Abd-Allaah Ibn ‘Umar (Radia Allahu ‘Anhu) that,
The Prophet Muhammad (Salla-Allahu’ Alayhi wa Sallam) said:

“WHOEVER IMITATES A PEOPLE IS ONE OF THEM.”

Abu Dawud 3512. Classed as saheeh by Al-Albany in Irwa’ al-Ghaleel, 2691

Shaykh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (Rahimullah) said:

“This at the very least indicates that it is haram to imitate them, although the apparent meaning is that the one who imitates them is a kaafir.”
Based on that, the rulings on things that are only forbidden because they are imitation of the mushrikeen vary according to time and place, and according to different traditions and customs.
When you wear wedding ring is accompanied by the belief that it has an effect on the marital relationship, then this is a kind of "Superstitious phenomenon" which has nothing to do with Islam !

The Prophet Muhammad (Salla-Allahu’ Alayhi wa Sallam) said:
“WHOEVER DIES CLAIMING THAT ALLAH HAS A RIVAL, WILL ENTER HELL.”

Bukharee 4497 & Muslim 92

Wearing wedding ring is a form of Riyaa’ (Showing off). Wearing Wedding ring to show-off others or people to see that you are married or not is also falls into minor shirk.

Narrated by Mahmoud Ibn Labeed (Radia Allahu ‘Anhu) that,
The Prophet Muhammad (Salla-Allahu’ Alayhi wa Sallam) said:
“THE THING THAT I FEAR MOST FOR YOU IS MINOR SHIRK.”
They said: “O Messenger of Allah, what is minor shirk?”
He (Salla-Allahu’ Alayhi wa Sallam) said:

“SHOWING OFF, FOR ALLAH WILL SAY ON THE DAY WHEN PEOPLE ARE RECOMPENSED FOR THEIR ACTIONS: ‘GO TO THOSE FOR WHOM YOU WERE SHOWING OFF WITH YOUR DEEDS IN THE WORLD, AND SEE WHAT REWARD YOU FIND WITH THEM.’”

Al-Musnad 27742, Classed as saheeh by Al-Albany in al-Silsilah al-Saheehah 951

Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (Rahimullah) said:

The engagement ring is a kind of ring, and there is nothing wrong with rings in principle, unless that is accompanied by some belief, as some people do when the man writes his name on the ring that he gives to his fiancée, and she writes her name on the ring that she gives to him, believing that this will create strong bonds between the couple. In this case, this ring is haram, because it is an attachment to something for which there is no basis in Islam and which makes no sense. Similarly, with regard to the engagement ring, it is not permissible to the man to put it on his fiancée’s hand, because she is not his wife yet and she is still a stranger (non-mahram) to him, because she is not his wife until after the marriage contract has been done.

Al-Fataawa Al-Jaami’ah li’l-Mar’ah al-Muslimah, vol. 3, p. 914-915

Source: http://islamqa.info/en/21441

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