1. Is it that this statement falls under customary speech? From whose custom? Starting where? Or is it that as Sh. Fawzan and others say, that this statement falls under du’a and dhikr, which would fall under worship….which must be legistated from the Kitab and Sunnah?

2. It this from a hadith and is it the complete saying or partial. Abdullah bin Masūd used to say, “What the Muslims deem as good is good.”

3. Imam Bukhari’s statement from the chapter on commerce; is this meant also in speech or was it mentioned specifically about trade?

4. Is there an example from The Prophet (Peace and Blessings Be Upon Him) or the 3 generations where this statement was used?

Jazak Allahu Khairan

Thank you for this post. Jazak Allāh Khair.
I like to say Jumu’ah Mubarak with a feeling of love in my heart for Allāh, my fellow man, and basically, to acknowledge that Friday is a very special and beloved day!

Some regard Friday as a Holy Day, even as Sunday is a Holy Day inshallah.

For someone to tell me that it is bidah to bless this day with the words Jumu’ah Mubarak, for me, only points to their own ignorance of the Mercy of Allāh Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala. For certainly Ayat 18:88 is an important Ayat to remember, along with the entire Heart of the [Holy Qur’an: 10:37, 32:2].

Alhamdulillah.
Wa salaams.

I read through the article a little quickly maybe I missed it. However, I believe you might have forgot to mention that Allah (SWT) knows best.

I’ve always thought so too. What about “embellishment”? It contains meanings of “addition”, “unnecessary”, and has a slight negative connotation. I mean, innovation can frequently be a necessary or useful new way of doing things but embellishment by its inherent meaning is not necessary.

Ah, that makes quite a bit more simple sense. I was confused by the wording in the article. It is really something the opposite – “doubt does not remove certainty”?

English is not my mother language, but I have been speaking it for more than 20 years. “innovation” means a positive change. I understand that when you say “innovation”, you are referring to “bidah” which was forbidden by the Prophet (pbuh). So, isn’t there another word that better expresses “bidah”? I think, for example, “reformation” is a more neutral change, which means it could be negative. But, again, in the modern English, at least in the circles where I am working at, innovation is a change that does good and positive things.

With the help of Google Translate, here are some more words that may better express “bidah”:
disruption
degeneration
addition (partially expresses the fact that bidah is a new thing added unnecessarily to the core of Islam)
attachment (partially expresses the fact that bidah is a new thing added unnecessarily to the core of Islam)

In general, I think we, Muslims, don’t want to be seen as people against something positive: innovation. Although you did not mean that, most non-Muslims will not understand what you meant will immediately associate Muslims to a model which rejects innovation. Yet, this is absolutely not true. The first revelation of Quran is “Ikra”, which means to read and find new and better (i.e., innovate) different ways of understanding Allahu Teala.

Best regards.

“Certainty does not remove doubt” – I think, You should write: “Certainty does not remove BY a doubt” (“Certainty is not canceled by a doubt”), or something like this. Maybe I am wrong, sorry my bad English.

As-Salamy Aleykum 🙂