Strings at dargahs

[raisa]

Assalaam Alaikum!

I was just surfing on this site, where someone asked what the background was of the tieing strings and knots at dargahs. It is common that people tie strings (dhaaga's) at dargahs in India and Pakistan, for a wish. If the wish comes true, they have to go back to the dargah to untie it. They couldn't asnwer it on that site, I hope you can tell me more about the background of it.
Thank you in advance.

Allah hafiz

[Imam]

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Wa'alaykum 'Assalam wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu


Praise be to Allah the Almighty who is the Lord of the Worlds, and may Endless Blessings be showered upon His Most Beloved, Last, and Final Messenger (Salla Allahu ta'ala 'alayhi wa Sallam).


Jazak'Allah for your valued question. Personally, I have never heard of this 'practice', which seems to me to be a geographical tradition, probably in the area of a particular 'Dargah', in which both the Muslims, and the Non-Muslims, may have visited.


Sometimes, there are background stories to such practices, as the tying of the strings may have been practiced by the 'Sahib-e-Dargah', or probably by someone who had been commanded, by a pious person to make that action.


Normally, when Saints, or pious persons command you to do something, in order for a problem to be solved, or difficulty uplifted, or disturbance to be erased, and when this happens they may ask you to do something (like the tying of the strings), then it is possible that they may also ask you to take it off, on completion of the event in question, although it may not be prescribed in the Qur'an al kareem, or the Sunnah, nor will the Qur'an or Sunnah have stated its abstention, which would make it perfectly within the law, known as 'mubah'. At this stage, there is nothing wrong in practicing that, when you attend that particular 'dargah'.


Different 'Dargahs' have different practices, as some may require that you enter through a certain door, in order for your sins to be erased, or some may require that you have your head knocked with a stick, so that you forget thinking about bad things. Some may require that you see the Shaykh of that 'dargah', and for men, where the Shaykh may smack you on your back, to erase all fear of the world from you, and to create the fear of Allah the Almighty from within you.


Hence there are many practices such as these which are optional, and non that are fardh. They are more to to do with gaining the blessing, and the barakah of that particular place, or Shaykh.


However, I have not myself come across, or heard of, the practice of tying a knot to the wrist, and untying it, when my desire is fulfilled ....


May Allah the Almighty grant us all the Blessings from all of His signs, which He has given to us, and by them, may He make our broken destinies become true once again.



Wallahu A'lamu Biththawaab


M. Waseem Ashrafi