All praise is due only to Allaah. We laud Him and beseech His

The card may 
be abused by being thrown around or even in the dustbin, 
whereas it bore the words of 
Bismillah
. All such actions 
invite the Wrath and Anger of Allaah Ta'ala.
However, since we are living in this advanced age where 
everything is mechanised and we don’t have the time to go to 
each person’s house to invite them to the Walimah (or it is not 
possible to phone or email), and the only alternative is to invite 
them by letter, then the best solution is to 
prepare a simple 
invitation and make copies of it and post it to the various 
recipients. Instead of writing 
Bismillah
on the page rather 
write the letters ‘786’. This will prevent the Name of Allaah 
Ta`ala being abused.
The Sunnat Walimah and videos 
Amongst the evils and un-Islaamic practices in vogue 
nowadays at the ‘walimah’ functions is that of making a 
video of the occasion.
This evil has become prevalent and 
there is hardly an occasion which is devoid of this Haraam 
accursed act. Whether the occasion is a Walimah, Aqeeqah, 
Nikah, etc. or whether the host is a rich man or poor man, the 
video cameras must be there. 
In order to film the occasion so much preparations are to be 
made. A photographers has to be called, special lighting is 
needed, etc., etc. 
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During the filming the photographers will have to walk 
around amongst the men and women. 
Besides all this, which in itself are inconveniences and waste, 
the very concept of filming the occasion is Haraam. Picture-
making and photography are Haraam in Islaam. May Allaah 
Ta`ala save us all. 
Immodest intermingling of sexes 
In the not so recent past, whenever there would be any 
occasion, then there would always be separate facilities for men 
and women. In fact, there would be a partition separating the 
men from the women.