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Summary: Dr Zakir Naik is a Da'ii and we give him his due respect for that. He knows himself that he is not an Alim in Deen. Thus Ulema have given their decree that he, not being an Alim in deen, should focus his da'wah to what he is good at (i.e. comparative religion), and leave religious answering to the Fuqaha.
Mufti Ibareem Desai
Darul Iftaa, Madrassah In'aamiyyah
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Question:
At our campus several students are actively promoting the ideology that one should only follow the Qur’an and Sunnah, not one of the four Imaams. They especially criticise the Hanafis who do not raise their hands upto the ears before going into ruku, etc. This is causing much confusion. Could you guide us in this aspect.
Answer:
It is clear fro
m the question that the impression being given by the promoters of the said ideology is that if you follow one of the four Imaams of Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence), you are not following the Qur’an and Sunnah. This is utterly baseless. Understand the fallacy of this argument from the following example: Every citizen of the country is required to obey the laws of the land. Those laws are recorded and available to every citizen. However, a person who wishes to conduct some major business goes to a senior counsel to enquire what legal procedures he will have to follow and what factors he must take into consideration to ensure that he does not contravene any law. He then follows the advice of the senior counsel and conducts his business accordingly. If anybody objects that this person is following the senior counsel and not the law of the land, such an objection will be regarded as extremely foolish and not worth listening to. It is obvious that the person acting according to the advice of the senior counsel is following expert advice about what the law says. In fact, if the businessmen decided to go directly to the law books himself and do what appeared to him to be the correct procedure, he will probably end up making a mess of everything. Thus the proper course is for him to refer to an expert.
MASTERY TESTIFIED TO BY SCHOLARS
llah Ta’ala has commanded us to follow those of knowledge. Those who follow one of the four Imaams of Fiqh have chosen to follow very highly qualified senior counsels and expert jurists who possessed such expertise in Islamic Jurisprudence which all the great scholars of the past 12 centuries have testified to. Imaam Abu Hanifa (R.A.) and Imaam Malik (R.A.) were both Tabiees (those who had seen a Sahabi). Imaam Malik compiled his famous work of Hadith titled Al Mu’atta. Imaam Abu Hanifa (R.A.) compiled a book of Hadith named Kitaabul Athaar. This book was compiled from a collection of 400 000 Ahadith. Imaam Shafi (R.A.) compiled the great work title
d Kitaabul Umm and other books of jurisprudence. Imaam Ahmad bin Hanbal (R.A.) placed before the world his collection of thousands of Ahadith known as Musnad Ahmad. The world attested to his knowledge and mastery. Apart from their vast knowledge, all the four Imaams were known to be on a very high level of taqwa (piety). Thus those who follow any one of these Imaams can do so with complete confidence.
TRANSLATE ONE AAYAH
Those who claim that they are following the Qur’an and Sunnah directly should take a moment to ponder over the reality of their claim. The Qur’an and Ahadith are both in Arabic. The overwhelming majority of those who follow this ideology and claim to refer directly to the Qur’an and Sunnah cannot directly translate even one aayah of the Qur’an or one Hadith correctly. How can it ever be imagined that such a person will be able to extract the detailed masaa’il (laws) from the original sources. In reality such people merely follow some novice “lawyer” of this age who claims to extract the masaa’il directly from the Qur’an and Hadith. The expertise of the novice “lawyers” of today is less than a drop in the ocean when compared to the vast knowledge and expertise of the four great Imaams of Fiqh. Almost every single person today who claims to refer directly to the Qur’an and Ahadith, and who has also acquired some knowledge of Deen, still refers to the views of various scholars of the recent past or those of the earlier era, in most masaa’il. Hence while those who make taqleed (follow) one of the four Imaams refer to one great expert, those who claim to go directly to the Qur’an and Sunnah make taqleed of a host of people, many of whom do not remotely compare to the four Imaams.
For a detailed discussion of this subject, refer to the book “Legal Status of following a Mazhab” by Justice Mufti Taqi Uthmani Saheb.
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Q: In Fazail Amal you will find that some ahadith have been taken from the book called ’Zailul Aalee’ of Imaam Sooyuti, which means “Tails Of Pearls”, but in the meantime the real name of the book is “Zailul -La’aali-ul-Masnuah fil Ahadethil Maudhoo’ah” which means ’Tails of made up pearls in fabricated ahadeeth\’.
On the end of the page 21 and in the beginning of the page 22 in the book of Virtues of Salaat, you will find the the words ascribing Kashf of “seeing sins falling down from the limbs of the person performing Wudhu...” to Imaam Aboo Haneefah r.a. Kashf means, in Khandhlawi’s own words “divine manifestation of unseen things”(pg.128 of Virtues of Zikr).
Muslims know that seeing the unseen(ghaib) is only possible to Allah s.a.w.s., and the claim and lie that ppl are able to do such things is CLEAR SHIRK. And on top of that it is a lie on Imaam Aboo Haneefah r.a.
There is a hadith on page 142 of Virtues of Zikr, hadith no.28 which in english tells us about Adam a.s. and how he asked forgiveness from Allah when he saw the Prophet\’s s.a.w.s. name on the \’Arsh. Now, if u read the same hadith on the same page in arabic u will find a word MAWDU\’ which we know means fabricated. The same is not translated into english or Urdu for that matter. That is a clear lie on the Prophet s.a.w.s.?
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A: 1. We definitely agree with the literal translation of the title of that book, but the object of the author was not to mention fabricated Ahaadith only. In fact, he mentions Ahaadith that some Ulama claim to be fabricated and then challenges that ruling. In some instances, he concedes to the verdict of those Ulama and in others he differs and proves the authenticity of these Ahaadith. The proverb is famous, ‘Don’t judge a book by it’s cover!’
2. There is a vast contrast between ‘manifestation of unseen things’ and to have knowledge of the unseen. As mentioned, knowledge of the unseen is only possessed by Allah Ta’ala. This is a fundamental belief of every Muslim and cannot be contested, however, the manifestation of unseen things is different and has taken place time and again from the time of the Sahaaba (Radhiallaahu Anhum) to our day. The angels of Allah are unseen to man, although we believe in their existence. Similarly, we believe that the punishment of the grave is true but it is unseen to us. However, the manifestation of these things were granted to some Sahaaba (Radhiallaahu Anhum), i.e. visibility of the angels for Sayyidatuna Aaisha (Radhiallaahu Anha), Sayyidunaa ibn Abbaas (Radhiallaahu Anhu) and others. The punishment of the grave was heard and manifested for others. See Hayaatus sahaaba vol.3 pgs.777, 841 In the same manner, the washing off of the sins in Wudhu is something we believe in because of the Hadith of Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) although it is part of the unseen. However, it being part of the unseen does not negate the possibility of it’s manifestation by Allah for anyone of His chosen servants as is the case in the above mentioned examples. The incidents of Sayyiduna Umar (Radhiallaahu Anhu) is quite wellknown – when once while he was in Madinah and his army was in battle in a land away from Madina, Allah made it possible for him to see his army’s position in the battlefields and he was able to command them from his Minbar in Madinah to change their position. (See Dalaailun nubuwwa of Abu Nu’aim and Hayaatus Sahaaba vol.3 pg.808)
In this instance, Allah manifested for Sayyiduna Umar (Radhiallaahu Anhu) what remained unseen to the rest of those that were present in that gathering. So, acts of Kashf have taken place many a time and it’s refutation is a clear result of ignorance.
3. Firstly, just by the word ‘Mawdhoo’ being written in the Arabic commentary does not necessitate that the actual Hadith that was quoted is fabricated. In fact, the author Shaykh Muhammad Zakariyyah cited that ruling (Mawdhoo) in general, in regard to another narration not in regard to Hadith no.28. Anyone with slight knowledge of the Arabic language will understand this from that passage.
Secondly, based on this misunderstanding for one to go further and comment on that particular Hadith (no.28) being ‘a clear lie on the Prophet (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam)’ is baseless and senseless as well. In fact, that Hadith is Hasan (sound), neither weak nor fabricated. See Ra’ul Manaarah pg.248 and al-Raddul muhkamul mateen pg.138.
May Allah Ta’ala save us all from such irrational decision regarding the noble sayings of Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam).
and Allah Ta’ala Knows Best
Ml. Muhammad ibn Ml. Haroon Abasoomar
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by Moulana Abdul Hamid Ishaq, Principal - Madrasah Arabia Islamia, Azaadville
It is not necessary that everything the West does is according to logic. The biggest proof that it is the invention of the west are the song words without which this function is not complete viz. 'Happy birthday to you.' No one says, 'Happy birthday celebration' or 'Happy Blessed birthday' or any other words of this kind. This disease of celebrating birthdays was never prevalent among Muslims before, but since Muslims started living alongside the non-Muslims, they have been influenced by them.
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THE MODERNIST IN THE DEEN
Hazrat Jafar ibn Muhammad Rahmatullahi Alaihi has stated that there are four types of people :-
FIRSTLY – That person who has knowledge of Deen and he is aware of it, so seek knowledge from him.
SECONDLY – That person who has knowledge of Deen but he is unaware of it, so he is sleeping, wake him up.
THIRDLY – That person who does not possess knowledge and he is aware of his ignorance, so educate him.
FOURTHLY – That person who does not have knowledge and he is not even aware of his ignorance. Such a person is a stupid, so stay far from him.
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By Mufti Taqi Usmani
Rabi'ul-Awwal is the most significant month in the Islamic history, because humanity has been blessed in this month by the birth of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam. Before the birth of the Holy Prophet, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, not only the Arabian peninsula, but also the so-called civilized nations of Rome and Persia were drowned in the darkness of ignorance, superstitions, oppression and unrest. The Holy Prophet, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, came with the eternal truth of Tawhid (Oneness of Allah), the only faith which provides a firm basis for the real concepts of knowledge, equity and peace. It was this faith which delivered humanity from ignorance and superstitions and spread the light of true knowledge all over the world.
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by Hazrat Maulana Yunus Patel Saheb (Daamat Barakaatuhum)
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Ref: mis003/07 February 2007 Q: I used to celebrate Valentines Day and never knew about it not being permissible,will I have sinned? A: It was incorrect for you to have celebrated Valentines Day.Now that you have realised your mistake, seek forgiveness for the past and make a firm intention not to commit the same mistake in the future. Mufti Shafiq Jakhura Iftaa Department, Darul Ihsan Islamic Services Centre I concur with the answer: Mufti Zubair Bayat Ameer, Darul Ihsan Islamic Services Centre |
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Valentines in Islam... a Note from Satan by Ahmed The day has come When I, Satan, will play you dumb To approach 'The girl/ boy' is hard so today break the ice with a card You will send it to them with zeal finally they will know how you feel Oh Muslim dont you see I watch you with glee For now I have you trapped Your heart once inclined towards Allah, I have snatched I have now started you off on the slippery road To Jahannam the dreadful abode. Enjoy your Valentines day! From Satan |
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| Monday, 05 January 2009 16:10 |
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Gaza: Never-ending tragedy
Robert Fisk | The Independent
How easy it is to snap off the history of the Palestinians, to delete the narrative of their tragedy, to avoid a grotesque irony about Gaza which — in any other conflict — journalists would be writing about in their first reports: That the original, legal owners of the Israeli land on which Hamas rockets are detonating live in Gaza.
That is why Gaza exists: Because the Palestinians who lived in Ashkelon and the fields around it — Askalaan in Arabic — were dispossessed from their lands in 1948 when Israel was created and ended up on the beaches of Gaza. They — or their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren — are among the one and a half million Palestinian refugees crammed into the cesspool of Gaza, 80 percent of whose families once lived in what is now Israel. This, historically, is the real story: Most of the people of Gaza don’t come from Gaza.
But watching the news shows, you’d think that history began yesterday, that a bunch of bearded anti-Semitic Islamist lunatics suddenly popped up in the slums of Gaza — a rubbish dump of destitute people of no origin — and began firing missiles into peace-loving, democratic Israel, only to meet with the righteous vengeance of the Israeli air force. The fact that the five sisters killed in Jabalya camp had grandparents who came from the very land whose more recent owners have now bombed them to death simply does not appear in the story.
Both Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres said back in the 1990s that they wished Gaza would just go away, drop into the sea, and you can see why. The existence of Gaza is a permanent reminder of those hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who lost their homes to Israel, who fled or were driven out through fear or Israeli ethnic cleansing 60 years ago, when tidal waves of refugees had washed over Europe in the aftermath of World War II and when a bunch of Arabs kicked out of their property didn’t worry the world.
Well, the world should worry now. Crammed into the most overpopulated few square miles in the whole world are a dispossessed people who have been living in refuse and sewage and, for the past six months, in hunger and darkness, and who have been sanctioned by us, the West. Gaza was always an insurrectionary place. It took two years for Ariel Sharon’s bloody “pacification”, starting in 1971, to be completed, and Gaza is not going to be tamed now.
Alas for the Palestinians, their most powerful political voice — I’m talking about the late Edward Said, not Yasser Arafat (and how the Israelis must miss him now) — is silent and their predicament largely unexplained by their deplorable, foolish spokesmen. “It’s the most terrifying place I’ve ever been in,” Said once said of Gaza. “It’s a horrifyingly sad place because of the desperation and misery of the way people live. I was unprepared for camps that are much worse than anything I saw in South Africa.”
Of course, it was left to Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to admit that “sometimes also civilians pay the price,” an argument she would not make, of course, if the fatality statistics were reversed. Indeed, it was instructive yesterday to hear a member of the American Enterprise Institute — faithfully parroting Israel’s arguments — defending the outrageous Palestinian death toll by saying that it was “pointless to play the numbers game”. Yet if more than 300 Israelis had been killed — against two dead Palestinians — be sure that the “numbers game” and the disproportionate violence would be all too relevant. The simple fact is that Palestinian deaths matter far less than Israeli deaths. True, we know that 180 of the dead were Hamas members. But what of the rest? If the UN’s conservative figure of 57 civilian fatalities is correct, the death toll is still a disgrace. To find both the US and Britain failing to condemn the Israeli onslaught while blaming Hamas is not surprising. US Middle East policy and Israeli policy are now indistinguishable and Gordon Brown is following the same dog-like devotion to the Bush administration as his predecessor.
As usual, the Arab satraps are silent, preposterously calling for an Arab summit on the crisis which will (if it even takes place), appoint an “action committee” to draw up a report which will never be written. For that is the way with the Arab world and its rulers. As for Hamas, they will, of course, enjoy the discomfiture of the Arab potentates while cynically waiting for Israel to talk to them. Which they will. Indeed, within a few months, we’ll be hearing that Israel and Hamas have been having “secret talks” — just as we once did about Israel and the even more corrupt PLO. But by then, the dead will be long buried and we will be facing the next crisis since the last crisis.
Arabnews.com
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The tenth of Muharram is observed by many as the day of Shahadat-e-Husain Radiyallaahu Anhu. Special gatherings are held wherein the heart-rending incident of the martyrdom of Sayyidina Husain Radiyallaahu Anhu is mentioned. This aspect is discussed in this article.
To lay down one's life for the cause of Deen is the ultimate sacrifice. Hence being the ultimate sacrifice, martyrdom naturally has the highest honour as well. Allah Ta’aala describes the martyrs as "living" in the verse: "And say not to those who have been slain in the Path of Allah that they are dead. Nay, they are alive and receive sustenance by their Master." (S.3 V.169 )
Martyrdom is nothing strange or uncommon to Muslims. The flourishing garden of Islam has been watered by the blood of the martyrs from the very early days of Islam. Among those great sons of Islam, who crowned their life-long efforts for the sake of Deen by finally laying down their lives, was Sayyidina Husain Radiyallaahu Anhu the noble grandson of Rasulullah Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam. His martyrdom was indeed heart-rending in the extreme.
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Curriculum for Iftā
Madrasah In’āmiyyah – Camperdown
Under the tutelage of Mufti Ebrahim Desai Sahib (D.B.)
Prepared by Ehzaz Ajmeri, 2nd Year Iftā Student
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| The Madrasah System - The Pride of our Community |
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The Christian community has the Church, the Jewish community has its Synagogue, the Hindu Community has it's Mandir, the Sikh community has the Gurdwara and the Buddhists have their Temple and so on…..But the Muslim community not only has the Musjid but also the educational Madrasah.
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