Question:
Is it permissible to give each other Muharram/Ashura gifts. Nabi صلي الله عليه وسلم said we should exchange gifts with each other, so what's wrong with exchanging gifts in Muharram?
Part 1 of Kufr and shirk
This chapter deals with those aspects that have a special connection with kufr and shirkeither because these aspects necessitate kufr and shirk, or because they are customs and habits of the kuffar and mushrikeen, or they have traces of shirk, or because they lead to kufrand shirk.
The following are forbidden in the Shariah:
1. To like kufr, to appreciate the things of kufr, and to make someone else commit an act of kufr.
2. To express regret or remorse at one's own Imaan due to some reason or other, e.g. by thinking that if he were not a Muslim, he could have attained such and such a thing.
3. To say the following things out of grief on the death of one's children or close ones: "Allah wanted to kill him only", "he was the only person left in the world for Allah to kill", "Allah should not have done this", "No one perpetrates such brutality as You have done."
4. To think ill of or find fault with any order of Allah and His Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
5. To scorn at any prophet or angel, or to find fault with them.
6. To have the belief that a particular saint or pious person has full knowledge of all our conditions at all times.
7. To ask about unknown matters or to cause events to be foretold from an astrologer or person under the influence of a jinn, and then to believe in what they say.
8. To take omens from the speech of a pious person and then to regard them as true.
9. To implore someone from a great distance and to think that he must have definitely come to know of it.
10. To regard someone as having the choice of benefitting or causing harm.
Burial procedures
28. It is haraam to construct a dome over the grave for the purpose of decoration. If this is done in order to strengthen the grave, then it will be makruh. It is permissible to write something on the grave of the deceased as a means of remembrance. This is on the condition that there is some necessity, if not, it will not be permissible. But these days, since people have corrupted their beliefs and habits, then due to these harms even those things that are permissible become prohibited. Therefore, things of this sort will not be permissible in any way. Whatever needs or excuses they may offer are nothing but a delusion of their desires, and they themselves know this.
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