Who/Where do you go to for SOLUTIONS to your PROBLEMS?

[cricketplaya]

Have we lost all love and respect for our scholars? Why do we not turn to our scholars for the problems we face day to day. Not just issues of namaz, roza, hajj and zakat but all other social, economic, family..etc

Why is it that today we turn to our friends OR strangers (online) for advices for the most sensitive of matters (ie divorce, abortion, marriage..) Why do we not turn to the learned men? If we have firm yakeen that Allah is the ONLY One who solves all our problems and His deen is the only way we accept, then WHY do we turn to non-Muslims and Muslim laymen for solutions?

Imam Abdul Wahab Sha’rani (R) writes: A covenant was made with us (Muslims) on behalf of Rasulullah (Sallallahu-Alaihi-wasallam) that we respect the Ulama, the saintly and the elders, whether they themselves act according to their knowledge or not. And that we shall continue to discharge their necessary rights and entrust their personal matter to Allah Ta’ala.

Whosoever fails to discharge the Ulama’s rights and fails to show them the necessary respect and honor is indeed guilty of sin towards Allah and His Rasul (Sallallahu-Alaihi-wasallam), for the Ulama are the successors of the Ambiya (AS), the heirs of Rasulullah (Sallallahu-Alaihi-wasallam), the bearers of the Shariah and they are His servants. When anyone insults them, the insults set forth a chain reaction which reaches Rasulullah (Sallallahu-Alaihi-wasallam).
This is Kufr.

Now think for yourself: The king appoints someone as his ambassador. The king will with attention listen to this ambassador and debar the insulter from his court. On the other hand, the king will make a favorite out of that man who showed respect and honor to his ambassador and who discharged the rights due to his emissary.

Also I came across a good article mash’Allah, posted way back in 1999: http://www.paklinks.com/gs/religion-scripture/38860-importance-respecting-ulema-islam.html

[hsap]

Re: Who/Where do you go to for SOLUTIONS to your PROBLEMS?

Why is it that today we turn to our friends OR strangers (online) for advices for the most sensitive of matters

i've always thought that bringing up a matter in front of a friend or online @ forum simply mean discussion , just to know what majority has to say and to relate with others who're in the same boat. However if people blindly follow what others say ,without even refering to islamic teachings regarding that matter than that means they're ignorant.

[cricketplaya]

i've always thought that bringing up a matter in front of a friend or online @ forum simply mean discussion , just to know what majority has to say and to relate with others who're in the same boat. However if people blindly follow what others say ,without even refering to islamic teachings regarding that matter than that means they're ignorant.

You be surprised to find out that the advice of friends/family is all they need to make a decision, doesn't matter if these friends and family are giving advice from shariah or not..they will blindly follow.

This brings up another issue, who is responsible for this? No doubt the parents are the ones responsible for the tarbiya of their children but there comes an age where the child is no longer a child and is responsible for his own faults in the court of Allah.

This is one of the reasons I brought up this topic of "respect of the Ulema", when we start promoting the scholars, we promote Islam and role models are born. We all know how much the youth love role models. Instead of those singers, actors who bring nothing more than death to heart, if we concentrated in bringing up our scholars, society would definitely be better off.

[hsap]

You be surprised to find out that the advice of friends/family is all they need to make a decision, doesn't matter if these friends and family are giving advice from shariah or not..they will blindly follow..

don't get me started here , i've seen a lot of such cases

This is one of the reasons** I brought up this topic of "respect of the Ulema"**, when we start promoting the scholars, we promote Islam and role models are born. We all know how much the youth love role models. Instead of those singers, actors who bring nothing more than death to heart, if we concentrated in bringing up our scholars, society would definitely be better off.

and to that the majority is gonna ask u , where the genuine ulema r ?? (no one question about the authenticity of other role models of society , but ulema, yeah right) well the answer to that is , than open up the quran ,read what's in it & follow

[zarra8]

Re: Who/Where do you go to for SOLUTIONS to your PROBLEMS?

Those ulama's used to play a vital role in the society of that time.......these days the society is more disintegrated and ulema's don't have the same authority/control or even intimacy with the general public to play that role. Furthermore, I don't personally think I would feel comfortable approaching an unknown ulama. However, I don't advise against it if people know that the ulama are genuine/honorable and do not provide wrong means of answering duas (peer/tawiz) etc.

[abdelyuuki]

Re: Who/Where do you go to for SOLUTIONS to your PROBLEMS?

yahoo answers!

no not really :P

[Mirch]

Re: Who/Where do you go to for SOLUTIONS to your PROBLEMS?

IMHO,the problems are more complicated than most of those ulema's from Madarsa can handle. There are few learned scholars who went to madarsa and who live in this world and can answer your questions keeping in mind the realities of the world we live in they are well respected and people do pose them questions and get satisfactory answers. Most of the ulema's qualified from Madarsa will answer the questions in light of the realities of 1400 years ago not the realities of this world we live in.
There are some ulema's who did not go to madersa but they have acquired more depth and knowledge of deen and will keep realities of this world in mind when they answer your questions, they are well respected by their admirers.