The sign of acceptance of an ‘Offering’ those day was...

The sign of acceptance of an ‘Offering’ those day was considered to be its consumption by the fire. In order to be successful, Qabeel made a house for fire and started worshiping it. After his ‘Offering’ was not accepted he killed his brother, as suggested by Iblis. [64] Vow to Fast: فَكُلِي وَاشْرَبِي وَقَرِّي عَيْنًا فَإِمَّا تَرَيِنَّ مِنَ الْبَشَرِ أَحَدًا فَقُولِي إِنِّي نَذَرْتُ لِلرَّحْمَنِ صَوْمًا فَلَنْ أُكَلِّمَ الْيَوْمَ إِنْسِيًّا (26) Eat and drink, and refresh yourself.

Should you see even a single human being, then say: ‘ I have vowed to keep a fast to the Mercy-giving whereby I’ll never speak to any person today’ !(19:26) In the first twelve verses of Sura Dahr the Holy Qur’an tells us the story of ‘NAZAR’ by the Ahlul Bayt -asws : يُوفُونَ بِالنَّذْرِ وَيَخَافُونَ يَوْمًا كَانَ شَرُّهُ مُسْتَطِيرًا (76:7) وَيُطْعِمُونَ الطَّعَامَ عَلَى حُبِّهِ مِسْكِينًا وَيَتِيمًا وَأَسِيرًا (76:8) إِنَّمَا نُطْعِمُكُمْ لِوَجْهِ اللَّهِ لَا نُرِيدُ مِنْكُمْ جَزَاءً وَلَا شُكُورًا (76:9) They always keep their Vow and fear a day whose evil tends to spread around.

They offer food to the needy, the orphan and the captive out of love for Him. We are only feeding you for God’s sake. We want no reward from you nor any thanks (76:7-9) The above Veses are about Ahlul Bait -asws , who always and under all circumstances keep their words (yufoona bin-nazri). The Hadeeth literature indicates that the Ahlul Bait -asws showed the importance of Nazar by their acts several times.

The Nazar narration is recorded in many Tafseer books about the revelation of these verses of sura Dahr (76) and is given in Appendix II. Also included in Appendix III other supplications, e.g., paying debt, recovery from illness, safeguard from spell and troubles caused by the influential and Iblis’s army (among human and jinee). We have also included in Appendix IV, few selected Duwa and Nazar, Niaz, which are commonly observed by Shias. Appendix I We will present only Shia point of view here.

Some Sunnis also belief in the concept of ‘Wasila’ (Intercession), but their extreme sects, i.e., Deobandi/Wahabis consider it harram and Shirk. The latter group views are based on self derived meanings of Quranic Verse, while ignoring those where Allah -azwj explicitly gives the Right of ‘Intercession/Wasila/Shifaah to His ‘Selected’ one in His creation. For example they take Verse 2:254, while ignoring the following Verse 2:255, in which Allah -azwj allows for the Shifaah of His ‘Selected’ on.

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