Having a hard time understanding madhabs

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Re: Having a hard time understanding madhabs

@psyah

^And to us all … Ameen … Another important factor to realise is that.

a) All Qur’an translations are done by scholars.
b) All Hadith translations are done by academics.
c) Qur’an is taught through a tutelage chain.
d) Hadith compilations are done by scholars copying what previous scholars have done, i.e. compilation of Sahih Bukhari, Muslims, etc
e) All fiqh books are prepared by scholars and their students from the learnings with their teachers.

So the people who think they can actively AVOID giving their trust to scholars and learn from the source of Qur’an and Hadith are kidding themselves … Islam has been brought to us from scholars by scholars, if we don’t trust an 'alim who has 'ijaza to do exegesis and qiyaas then we choose to do that qiyaas ourselves for whatever reason … Picking up a book of Hadith and forming an opinion on it means that at least we have trusted the translator and the narrators of those ahadith …

There is no denyig that much and all of the informatioan available to date is brought by people of knowledge.

It does not absolve individual’s responsibility to check and verify from searching on his/her own the source.

At least one can hope that Quran with its translation is as accurate as it can be. And the tafseer is all one has to look up to for explanation.

There is no attempt to reduce the importance of Aalims here.

But what is proposed is the fact that even the Aalims and Imams do DIFFER in their interpretations of Quran and Hadiths.

And hence there is absonlutely no need to follow one or other Aalim on any specific issue rigidly especially if it involves small or trivial matters.

**There are people who make these small or trivial matters unnecessarily huge/create divisions among Muslims and they are wrong to the core.

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