About MATAM IN ISLAM RIGHT OR WRONG

Matm is a ritual done by Shia Muslims on

10th of Ashoora, in the grief of the Martyr

Hussain رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ

To show their grief they mourn and harm

themselves by striking sword on their body

or slapping their face and beating their

chest.

This action of their is unapproved from

the Islamic Sources (The Quran & Sunnah)

and it is considered as Haram and Bidah

(Innovation).

The Prophet did not do them, nor did any of his

companions. None of his companions did them

when he or anyone else died, although the loss

of prophet Muhammad was greater than the

death of Hussain  رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ.

Prophet ﷺ,  strictly forbade harming oneself

over the loss of someone dear to us and said:

"He is not one of us who strikes his cheeks,

rends his garment, or cries with the cry of the

Jaahiliyyah."

(Sahih Bukhari : 1294)

Infact these Shia do matm just as a showoff,

because the loss of 

Hussain (رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ) is a lesser

loss than the loss of their greatest Imam his father

and our beloved Khalifah 

Ali رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ, so why

don't these Shia show grief on the death of Ali just

like they show for Hussain (May Allah be pleased

with them both).

We should learn from our righteous salaf (people

of past), the prophet Yaqub, when he heard the

loss of Yusuf, he was saddened and felt the loss so

much so that he lost his eyesight because of crying

but never be beat himself nor strike his chest and

back with any knife.

We see the loss of prophet Muhammadﷺ, all

of the Sahabah were in deepest level of grief,

Uthaman fell unconscious and other Sahabah

couldn't believe, her daughter Fatimah bursted

into tears for days and cried but nobody of

them mourned over the loss of greatest all

Imam, the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ , the way the

Shia's do.

Thus we should learn the from the

authentic source of Islam and the practices

of our righteous people of past. And

not to practice such evil deeds which is

bidah. And al ways know that all Bidah is

transgression and all the transgressions

leads to hellfire.

So my humble to my dear Shia people,

please don't follow nor support such

rituals. Change yourself and your thinking.

You are harming yourself in a way which

won't benefit in this world nor in Akhirah.

May Allah guide us all