By Mawlana Sulayman Kindi

عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏”‏ لَتَتَّبِعُنَّ سَنَنَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ شِبْرًا بِشِبْرٍ وَذِرَاعًا بِذِرَاعٍ حَتَّى لَوْ دَخَلُوا فِي جُحْرِ ضَبٍّ لاَتَّبَعْتُمُوهُمْ ‏”‏ ‏.‏ قُلْنَا يَا رَسُولَ الله آلْيَهُودَ وَالنَّصَارَى قَالَ ‏”‏ فَمَنْ

ʾAbū Saʿīd ʾal-Khudrī (may Allāh be pleased with him) narrated:

Allāh’s Messenger ﷺ said, “You will most certainly follow theSunan(ways) of those before you, handspan by handspan, armlength by armlength until if they should enter a lizard hole you would definitely follow them.”

“O Messenger of Allāh,” we asked, “The Jews and the Christians?”

“Who else,” he replied.

Muslim

As we approach the Islāmic year 1443 there are those who seek to push us ever further into the lizard hole. If our heads are not already squeezed in, these kind folks would push us in all the way to the toes.

Significance of Muḥarram