various 'schools' of thought in Islam

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Re: various ‘schools’ of thought in Islam

@vroom

So if you are not an Abdul Deoband, how do you know what the deobandis are annoyed with me about is baseless. I have not been asking questions, although the case can be made that I should be. I can not do such a thing because I do not vouch for the trustworthiness of deobandis

You have said you do not take everything from them, so this means they are not a trustworthy source even to yourself. How about you refute yourself first? Or admit they give out deviant beliefs, like imkan e kadhib, something already admitted by Psyah
On more serious issues and conspiracies you, like me, will have to get the labels out if they persist [and they have persisted]

Salam Sidi

In that video link I provided above please listen to section 2:20 to 3:10 … This is what we are allowed to do - Talfeeq, joining between the schools.

So long as the final act can be said to be acceptable to any faqih of the two madh’habs then it can be done … and here we are not even talking about two different madh’habs we are talking about two different schools of the same hanafi madh’hab …

Elitism and separation to this degree with two close schools Barelvi and Deobandi should be rejected we are brothers … it also prevents adjustments to be made … rather than accepting the fluidity of two schools growing and improving in time, you see the two schools as fixed and unchanging that we must select our beliefs from one or the other … but if there are issues in both then what?

You will see classically many opinions have become merged and many schools shift their positions from their Imam … There are many things that various schools have eventually accepted from the other madh’habs on the strength of the arguments presented resulting in the school’s position differing from the position of the forerunners … The same thing can be allowed to happen in Deobandi and Barelvi schools - of course there will be things that we differ on but those differences will be either unacceptable or acceptable … the scholars of both schools should be open to entertaining deviation from their forerunners - there is taqlid and then there is “zidd” … and we should avoid the latter.

If Deobandis have not already removed the concept of “the possibility of Divine lie” among our own ulema - I think you will find many who do not hold this to be true. But even if it is not removed - at least the Barelvi brothers are obliged to give our 'alims the benefit of the doubt … i.e. at least such 'alim do not say that Allah (SWT) actually lies … Auzdubillah … Instead the possibility is an open door to a problem which means it should be a huge warning - but is in itself the same belief as Barelvis that “God does not lie” … So there are way to be kind and compassionate and these ways should be expressed even moreso at this level - because when your ikhlaq is high then acceptance of your point of view will be high … by elitism and separation we will alienate others, by inclusion and tolerance we will win the hearts of others. And our job is to care for each other …