Traits of Ignorance Persist Among People

📖Sahih Muslim 934
Abu Malik al-Ash’ari reported: The Prophet ﷺ said, “Four traits in my nation are among the affairs of ignorance that they have not abandoned: boasting over status, disparaging over lineage, seeking rain by the stars, and wailing over the dead. And he said: If the wailing woman does not repent before she dies, she will be made to stand on the Day of Resurrection wearing a garment of pitch and a chemise of mange.”

These habits were part of Jahiliyyah culture, not Islam. The Prophet ﷺ warned about them because by Allah’s permission he knew such behaviors would continue among people, and they must be abandoned.

• Boasting about status and mocking others for their lineage have no place in Islam, for all humans are equal before Allah.
• Believing rain comes from the stars is shirk, because only Allah controls provision.
• Wailing loudly over the dead – especially saying things like “Why did you leave me?!” – is rejecting Allah’s decree, showing dissatisfaction with His wisdom.

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Wailing over the dead – especially when women cry out saying things like “Why did you leave me?!” – is not merely shedding tears, but an act of complaint against Allah’s decree. Such wailing rejects Allah’s wisdom and resembles disbelief, because Allah has already promised the believers eternal life in Paradise. Crying out in objection shows dissatisfaction with His promise. However, if someone does this by mistake, out of sudden shock or without knowing, it is not counted as a sin. The seriousness depends on whether the person understands and knowingly persists in this act, since intentional wailing is a rejection of Allah’s decree.

Quranic Context:

📖Quran 49:13
O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted.

Superiority in lineage has no value in Islam.

📖Quran 30:48
It is Allah who sends the winds, and they stir the clouds, then He spreads them in the sky as He wills, and He makes them fragments so you see the rain emerge from within them. Then when He causes it to fall upon whom He wills of His servants, they rejoice.

Rain comes only from Allah, not stars or omens.

📖Quran 2:155-157
And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient. Who, when disaster strikes them, say, “Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we will return.” It is they who will receive blessings from their Lord and mercy. And it is they who are rightly guided.

📖Quran 57:23
So that you may not grieve over what has escaped you, nor exult over what He has given you. And Allah does not like everyone self-deluded and boastful.

Patience and trust in Allah are part of faith, while wailing is a rejection of His decree.