Assalamualikum,
Ustaad one of my relatives does not follow a Mazhab. He says i dont need to follow it because im following what Prophet(PBUH) did. Im following Qur’aan and Hadith. How should i guide him?
Furthermore he says that we call our selfs Hanafi, sunni etc. But in the Qur’aan it says to call us as muslims. So he claims we are bid’at because we are adding an extra group to islam.
How should i explain to him that he is wrong?
Last thing he said did our Prophet (PBUH) follow mazhab and tell us to follow so why should i. Please could you help me
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Walaykum ussalam w w
Tell him he says these things bcos he thinks there is contradiction between madh’hab and Quran Hadith
This is where he is wrong!
Madh’hab is nothing but a detailed research and explanation of Quran & Hadith
Ask him Do you read books and take medicine or Do you go to a doctor?
Why don’t you take your own medicine?
If you can trust a doctor with your life why can’t you trust the ulema with your Deen?
Tell him the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam taught us that the ulema are the heirs of prophets.
Why were prophets sent? So that their message be heard. Similarly ulema shud be obeyed.
Quran says:
أطيعوا الله وأطيعوا الرسول و أولي الامر منكم
Ulul amr’a tafseer is ulema
Follow a madh’hab for 2 reasons!
1, it’s easier;
Much easier than delving in to Quran and Hadith for every mas’ala, because you don’t have time for that nor do you know all the Ahaadeeth
2, it’s safer;
Safer because if you do your own research, you are prone to mistakes and you will be held to account, on the day of qiyamah, for your errors
Imam ghazali has said that delving into Quran and Hadith without proper tools is like jumping into an ocean without knowing how to swim; you will definitely drown.
About the sect thing, ask him does he not call himself a salafi? That is also a sect. And prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam was not a salafi.
Relating to a madh’hab is just a form of saying I have confidence in the research of the mujtahid whom I claim to follow.
Salafees don’t follow Quran and Hadith. They either follow Their own understanding or the explanation provided by the salfi scholars or by imam bukhari.
What makes these more deserved to follow than the legends like imam Abu Hanifa imam shafi’ee imam Malik and imam Ahmed?
So stick your madh’hab and trust your local ulema, respect them, learn from them and stay in their company. They are waaritheene ambiyaa ayhimussalam.
Wassalam
“And prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam was not a salafi.”
How could he be a salafi when the salaf came after him? This does nothing to refute salafiyyah. One can easily say that the Prophet was not a Maliki, Shafi’i, Hanafi, etc. This line of reasoning proves nothing.
“Salafees don’t follow Quran and Hadith. ”
Says who??? Real salafis necessarily follow the Quran and sunnah according to the salaf. It is in fact you sufis who don’t follow the Quran and sunnah strictly. You promote various things which have no basis in Quran/Sunnah (i.e. baseless duas, acts of celebration, etc).
As for your claim:
“They either follow Their own understanding or the explanation provided by the salfi scholars or by imam bukhari. ”
You don’t seem to understand that a person can be a salafi while following one of the 4 madhabs. Hence, once can follow salafi scholars by following a madhab, because the madhabs followed the salaf. If you think that salafiyyah contradicts following a madhab then you are seriously mistaken and brainwashed. Fake salafis (i.e. Zakir Naik)
follow their own understanding of the texts, while real salafis follow the understanding of the salaf. Before flagrantly misrepresenting salafiyyah, educate yourself from the scholarly sources about salafiyyah. Also, learn how to spell properly.
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Jazakallah for that.
If you had started with salam, it would have been more closer to Sunnah.
Anyway, you are saying exactly what I wanted to say. Many ignorant salfees say that the prophet was not a hanafi, shafi’ee etc so why should we be one? So we ask them the question Was he a salafi?
You say “Salfees follow Quran & Hadith” So does that imply that the mujtahideen, in whose research we have confidence, went against Quran and Hadith? Did they throw out masaail from their own pockets? Did they not have any knowledge of the Sunnah? Are they not our salaf? Should we not trust them with their research?
It seems that the salfees try to drum their messages into the minds of ignorant people. Albani tried that but he was caught out and much refutation has been written against him. But I don’t think the extremist salfees will ever learn.
If you say that Zakir Naik is a fake salfi then why are the Arab countries splashing their millions on him? This includes the imams of harams going to his functions and promoting his ideologies. Do you not know that he has created his own smartphone with his videos in it for reference, and the salfees have placed their orders even before it comes in the market?
It seems that some people change colours like a chameleon. Sometime ago it was only Quran and Hadith and now pick and choose from madh’habs. This means that their knowledge supersedes that of the aimmah and they can decide which opinion is closer to Sunnah, when they don’t even know basic Arabic language. Wallahul musta’aan
As for your claim that I am a Sufi etc,
Fiqh has nothing to do with Sufism. They are both totally different things. So don’t try to mix things up. Get some understanding of Deen before posting something here.
Wassalam
Salaams.
These salafis nowdays have lost the plot..Allah Tala save us from their fitan Ameen
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Ameen
And may Allah give them hidayat and some understanding