A Vow in the Name of Hazrat Sayyid Salar Ghazi Mas‘ud

Question

In order to renew the memory of Mas‘ud Salar Ghazi every year, [people] make in their house a mark in the shape of a ball of clay, fear it and regard it as a source of blessing (tabarruk); every year they slaughter a castrated goat and chickens in the name of the respected Ghazi, and bury the blood and the bones of the goat and the chickens in that same heap of clay, in that mark. All this they do in order to obtain his good pleasure.

Answer

All of these are polytheistic (shirk) customs; repentance from them is obligatory (wajib). A vow is permissible only for Allah the Pure; for anyone else it is not permissible. Eating an animal — chicken, goat and the like — slaughtered for other than Allah is categorically haram: [ar]قَالَ اللهُ تَعَالَى: وَمَآ أُهِلَّ بِهِۦ لِغَيْرِ ٱللَّهِ[/ar] “Allah Most High said: ‘…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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