{"id":6635,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/sufi-practices\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:20:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:20:52","slug":"sufi-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/sufi-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Sufi Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>What is the status of the practice of celebratings <em>urs<\/em>  of the dead sufi saints? Was this practice conventional during the  lifetime of the Prophet (sws)? What did the Prophet (sws) use to do when  he visted graves? Did the <em>Khulafa-e Rashideen<\/em> celebrate any <em>urs<\/em> for the Prophet (sws) after his passing away?<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>The ideas of <em>urs<\/em>  etc are product of the sufi doctrine that with their death humans join  their primal origin, the God Almighty. That is why they celebrate the <em>urs<\/em> which literally means marriage and union. The Prophet (sws) and the Companions (rta) never celebrated <em>urses<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>The Prophet (sws) would only pray for the dead when passing by graveyards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-02-13<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6635\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the status of the practice of celebratings <em>urs<\/em>  of the dead sufi saints? Was this practice conventional during the  lifetime of the Prophet (sws)? What did the Prophet (sws) use to do when  he visted graves? Did the <em>Khulafa-e Rashideen<\/em> celebrate any <em>urs<\/em> for the Prophet (sws) after his passing away?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1191],"tags":[1901,1859,1509,1993],"class_list":["post-6635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-muslim-sects","tag-saint","tag-shrine","tag-sufism","tag-tomb"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sufi Practices - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/sufi-practices\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sufi Practices - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What is the status of the practice of celebratings urs of the dead sufi saints? 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