Sad state of Muslims today

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Re: Sad state of Muslims today

@ZeeshanParvez

If the Salafi Ulema can give reference for every one of their verdicts then it only follows that the ulema of other schools start giving their evidences. And in this digital age with scanned copies of all books it is very easy to do. You can’t be labelled an Alim unless you know your evidences. The only person who would hide evidences is one who knows they are to weak to present or has no clue about them. Even in darse Nizami when they teach you there are references in some books like Hidayah. Best the students memorize these if they want to call themselves scholars.

The scholars who I follow are both not anti-taqlid and do provide their evidences … taqlid to some degree is inescapable … I prefer to focus on amal rather than detailed knowledge … I used to sit with Salafi brothers to learn and I found a stagnation in tawfeeq and no barakah.

Being bogged down in argumentation and debate and heavily pruning the Sunnah away led to inaction and strictness on others mostly. I chose what I chose because I saw beautiful people with much tawfiq and adab and a knowledge that they had which they acted on and was consistent. Taqlid may not be suitable for people involved in transmitting and partaking in documenting ahadith and who are the scribes involved in such matters, but for the rest of us we have to exercise trust moreso so enable our lives to go on functioning.

Full knowledge is not the job of every person … nor is it fair for those who are less capable and less resourced. I am yet to get an acceptance on these point from you.