Is remembering "Subhan Allah, Al-Hamdulillah, La Ilaha Illallah, Wallahu Akbar" after lowering one's gaze from immodest girls, with the intention of remembering the Houris and the abiding good deeds, considered an innovation?
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Saying that sometimes is permissible, as long as it is not taken as a regular to be consistently observed and its virtue believed in. Forcing it to be like a prescribed litany (wird shar'i) and a regular Sunnah in the designated remembrances is an innovation (bid'ah). Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah says that no one is allowed to innovate for people a type of remembrance or supplication that is not legislated (masnun) and make it a regular act of worship, for this is an innovation in religion that Allah has not permitted, unlike what a person might supplicate with occasionally without making it a Sunnah for people.
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