Chapter One: Definition of Bida’ Linguistic meaning: ‘It is something which is invented without a preceding example.’[1] Sharee’a Definition: Shaykh al-Islaam Ibn Taymeeyah defined it as: ‘Al-Bida’ in the Deen: is that which Allaah and His Messenger have not legislated, and it is that which has not been commanded, neither as an obligatory command nor…