Re: Are today’s muslims, yesterday’s Bani Israeel?
I need to clarify on what you mentioned.
You missed to bold the most important part of my post ’ obligated to obey him’ but in matters which are in accordance to Quran and hadith! Khalifa does not have any new mission or his own mission. He carry forward a prophet’s mission and the true teachings. Just to clear again, when I say divinely inspired, what I meant was that He is chosen by Allah and his mission is the mission of the prophet. It is NO different than khulfa e rashideen. Despite having Holy Prophet PBUH, there were 4 rightly guided khulfa who all Muslims did ba’it on. Again, inspiration that i meant was of such that since He is chosen by Allah to be caliph, we are His helpers to help him spread the mission that he gets from the prophet.
Yes, we are not suppose to take our scholars as Lords like how jews did. This is what we say to you people. Do not be fooled by your scholars telling you such and such is not Muslim, such and such are wajib ul qatl, such and such is the belief regarding Jesus a.s etc.. and you blindly following it without questioning them. We do not do such thing. Khalifa is a man who carry forward the mission of a prophet. We do not blindly follow our scholars. Infact, we r encouraged to ask question and let them know where they are wrong. Such courage of disagreement with your scholars are not found in you. What we see is people saying how can all these scholars be wrong? you therefore, take your scholars words as the final verdict and do not question them and show them how what theyre saying is contradicting with something else.
You also keep in mind that anyone that u associate with Allah will become witness against you. You take Jesus a.s to be alive ( God is also alive ), Jesus to not be eating ( Allah does not eat ), Jesus a.s to have literally raised dead ( Allah says he alone will do it ), Jesus a.s to revert everyone Muslim ( Allah says he guides whomsoever He wishes ) and vice versa. So, you need to see if unintentionally you are not doing shirk.
And yes, lets move on to other aspects of today’s Muslim ummah vs Bani Israel.