Re: Are Prophets Dead?
Brothers, you all seem mashAllah quite intelligent, don't bring this up becuase there's no point of it. Allah Subhaanhu Wa Ta'ala and Prophet(SAW) never taught us to follow one Imaam or follow that Imaam etc. Allah says many times in Quran that Obey Me and My messenger.
I never expected from you to bring this up, did you read my earlier post. If not, i'll post it here again. **I say this again, follow Quran and Sunnah not any Imaam. Was there any madhab during the time of first generation's shabas?
** Few days agon, i asked a similar question to one of my teachers, he's not a scholar or anything but he gave me great answer.
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Question: I heard that the taqleed (following) of one of the 4 Imams is wajab. Is it true? If so then which Imam did Shaykh Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhaab follow?
Answer: IT IS DEFINITELY INNCORRECT TO MAKE TAQLEED(BLIND FOLLOWING) OF ONE OF THE 4 iMAMS. This was not the practice of the first generations of muslims (the best genereations) nor even the practice of the Imams or their students May allah have mercy on all of them. The sad story is that today people of the madhabs say it is wajab to follow one of them completly and ignore everything else. And this is ignorant and definetly led to the breaking up and demise of our Ummah. The problem lies in the fact that Allah is one, his Messenger is one, his message is one and his way is one, not 4,5,6, etc) Besides there were many scholars of the past with just as much knowledge why should it be restricted to 4 only? Everyone besides Muhammad PBUH is not prone to making mistakes only Muhamaad was INfalable. Therefore, if one were to only follow one madhab he would indeed get a good portion of the correct religion but at the same time he would be getting incorrect knowledge and fatwas, and miss from the knowledge of other scholars. Although the layman such as ourselves are not fully trained in fiqh so we therefore no doubt need such scholars it is incumbent to realize and distinguish the difference between TAQLEED (BLIND FOLLOWING) AND THE CORRECT THING TO DO, ITTIBAA (REASONED FOLLOWING). Ittibaa is following scholars based on their proofs from the sources of islamic knowledge ie. the quran and sunnah. If a scholar has a proof from the sources of islam for his fatwa and it is closer to the truth than another scholars fatwa than that is what we must follow. We are commanded to follow the truth where ever it is based on reason and truth and not to simply follow our dsires or our tribe, or group, or madhab. And although there is much more to this topic I hope this will suffice you for the mean time, and this was the madhab of Shaykh Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhaab, and all of the great Imamas of the past. (and some of the present) Wallahualaam.
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Prophet (SAW) among the 73 sects there'll be ONLY ONE who will go to Jannah the one who is like me (SAW) and my sahabs(RA).
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Abdullah bin Amar (RA) relates that the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) said "Surely things will happen to my people as happened earlier to Israelites, they will resemble each other like one shoe in a pair resembles the other to the extent that if anyone among the Israelites has openly committed adultery to his mother there will be some who will do this in my Ummah as well, verily the Israelites were divided into 72 sections but my people will be divided into 73 sections, all of them will be in the fire except one." The companions asked, 'Who are they O Messenger of Allah,' Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) said, " They are those who will be like me and my companions."
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