The mourning ceremony of Imam Hussein (AS) has always been emphasized by the Imams (AS) and the religious leaders. According to the custom of each society, there are different methods for mourning during Muharram, such as breastfeeding, chaining and eulogy, which are performed in different ways in each country. All mourning ceremonies should be compatible with common sense as long as they do not cause significant harm to the body and do not contradict the divine destiny or the denial of religion; It is approved by Islam, but beheading in the mourning of Imam Hussein (AS) due to significant harm to the body, creating fear and panic for children and women, denying the Shiite school, undermining the goals of mourning and being against the Ahl al-Bayt (AS) ) Is heresy and forbidden.
Some people vow to do this, and others do it for children and shave their heads to the point that they bleed. This wrong behavior has no Islamic roots and is a behavior that is explicitly denied in the Holy Qur'an by God as harming the body. In this section of Wet Religion, we examine beheading from different perspectives.
قمه زنی
Beating in the days of Muharram
Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi in one of his jurisprudential sessions addressed the issue of beheading in the days of Muharram and said: Muharram is a great opportunity to propagate the religion, but the enemies try to infiltrate this ceremony, give it a superstitious face, including The rituals that the enemies are attached to is the issue of beheading. For this reason, when the foreign media want to show mourning, they show beheadings and bloody faces, etc., in order to make this ceremony irrational.
There used to be conditions for this, and some scholars also defended beheading, but now these ceremonies are a document against Ashura, such as the ritual of walking on fire in India or smashing glass and going naked on it with documents for anti-rationality. Giving is Ashura and everyone should avoid these things, even if it is out of love and affection, because it is not in the interest of the ceremony of Imam Hussein (AS), but one should mourn rationally so that these problems do not occur.
The issue of Ashura and mourning is not a ceremony related to the past, but "the whole day of Ashura and the whole land of Karbala" and "the staff of Mina al-Zala" is our constant slogan and it is painful for the enemy that Ashura becomes a living jihad and Karbala is a mobile history. Which has always been and will be and is a lesson for all.
Muharram beheading ceremony
Beating from the perspective of the Quran
God says in Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 195: And spend in the way of God! And do not destroy yourselves with your own hands. And do good! That God loves the virtuous.
The sentence of beheading according to the fatwa of the authorities of imitation
Imam Khomeini, may God have mercy on him
In a referendum, Imam Khomeini considered the sanctity or lawfulness of beheading to be a function of harm and time conditions, and declared it haram due to time conditions.
Beheading sentence
Ayatollah Khamenei
Beheading, in addition to being not traditionally considered a manifestation of sorrow and grief, has no history in the time of the Imams (as) and the times after it, and there is no specific or general confirmation of the infallible (as) about It has not arrived, at the present time it causes religion to be disgraced, so it is not permissible in any case. (Treatise on Answers, Question 1461)
Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi:
Beheading is definitely forbidden and one should avoid doing acts that cause religion to be lost or harm the body. (New issues from the point of view of scholars and authorities, vol.
Rulings on beheading according to the authorities
Ayatollah Bahjat:
Beating is not an obstacle in itself, but it deserves for the believers to adopt a more appropriate manifestation in the position of sorrow and grief over the martyrs, and that different manifestation to the differences between countries and cities, and God knows best. (New issues from the perspective of scholars and authorities, vol. 4, pp. 201 and 202)
Ayatollah Sistani:
Things that hurt mourning should be avoided. (New issues from the perspective of scholars and imitators, Volume 3, page 34)
Grand Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani:
The mourning of Hazrat Sayyid al-Shuhada (peace be upon him) supports the survival of Islam and the establishment of Shiism. It also attracts others to the path of Hussein ibn Ali (as), so avoid any tools and instruments that cause bloodshed.
Beating according to the Quran
Ayatollah Khoei:
It is not permissible if beheading and chaining with metal hooks, which is done in the month of Muharram, leads to significant losses or leads to insult, ridicule and insult to religion. (Sharia issues, referendums of Imam Khoei vol. 2, p. 455)
Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani:
Attention to the tendency towards Islam and Shiism after the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, has been found in most parts of the world and Islamic Iran is known as the ummah of the Islamic world, and the actions and behavior of the Iranian nation as a model and expression of Islam. It is necessary to act in such a way in relation to the issues of mourning and mourning of the martyrs, Imam Hussein (as), that it causes more inclination and more intense interest in that Imam and his holy goal. Obviously, in this situation, the issue of flogging not only does not play such a role, but due to the inadmissibility, and the lack of any understandable justification for the opposition, the consequences will be negative. Therefore, it is necessary for the Shiites who are interested in the school of Imam Hussein (as) to refrain from it; And if there is a vow in this case; The vow is not qualified for validity and cohabitation. (Jame 'al-Masa'il, vol.
The reason for beheading is forbidden
Ayatollah Nouri Hamedani:
Respected and committed mourners, instead of beating the baton on their heads, think about the baton on the enemies of Islam who occupy their lands and think of weakening them, looting their resources, and finally every day with a new trick of their Islamic life. Jeopardize. May God grant more success to all Muslims to walk this path. (Referendums, vol. 2, p. 597)
Ayatollah Javadi Amoli:
It is not permissible to disgrace Islam and desecrate mourning, it is expected to avoid beheadings and the like.
Needless to say, there is no objection to the hair, the mourning of the martyrs (AS) and the oppression of the Ahl al-Bayt (AS). Let's go. For several years, blood donation bases, called "blood vows", have been hosting people on the days of Tasua and Ashura to help patients.
