Why should anyone care to learn the differences between aqeedah or madhab or sect?
There are no big differences between aqeedas and between madhabs.
We need to learn the differences between “sects”, not only that, we need to call them out for their wrong! For example, a non-believer who looks into Islam doesn’t know the difference between Ahmadiyya (Qadianis) and Islam. See where I’m going with this? It’s important. Let’s stick to madhabs. All 4 madhabs are right, they are on HAQ. They differ doesn’t mean they are fighting, even the sahabas differed on things. Differences of opinion is mercy.
Is this really necessary?
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Yes in today’s time especially it’s necessary, if not we’d have everyone following their own thing, which is chaos not unity. Shaytan’s only goal is to disunite us. Come on, shaytan has succeeded in dividing us into Nations..!
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Did prophet SAW ask people to make these divisions or differences or we just love to make them up to create the differences among us?
**Again, it is established the 4 madhabs are from the sunnah then why are you trying to say otherwise?
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Fine. They themselves may not fight but do make others fight. Right?
No, the true scholars do not make others to fight, in fact they reach out to each other like brothers.
Why not follow good from each aalim? That is the real question!
If you were trying to achieve something, you wouldn’t follow all different methods to achieve that because there would be no efficiency in your pursuit not to mention there would be no discipline. Anyway that’s matter of this dunya, here we’re discussing serious ,atter of deen.
If you pray and be sincere and search/read all sources of info., it will not be hard to make a good decision.
**See exactly my point, these sources don’t just appear out of thin air. They the men of knowledge do not just appear like magic. They study their whole lives, not part time like us. They know what it takes to derive a ruling, even then they hesitate and fall back on the 4 great Imams. **
I do not think Allah will ask if you were a deobandi and why were you not barelvi, and how come you did not do ‘bait’ on a peer sahab when they were available for you?
**Obviously not. The deobandis/barelvis, attach themselves to their schools out of love for Allah and His Prophet(saw). Just like today we see people attaching themselves with a university/sports team/political party.
The issue is with the infighting that bothers you, that you will see in every party everywhere. It doesn’t mean they are wrong, it just means some people love to fight because it’s easier to fight than to study and live peacefully.**
I did not say drive the ruling on their own. I said drive the ruling from reading quran and hadith and available rulings. These rulings by the way can be very specific and trivial.
If major issues of relgion are same in each madhab or sect then why bother ‘fixating’ on trivial matters?
**Again, how do you derive the rulings? Do you know the Arabic of the Quran? Do you know each ayat by heart? Do you know the Prophet(saw)'s life by heart? Do you know hadith volumes by heart? Here we need scholars, the knowledgeable men.
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Bhai sahab the problem is who are ‘the people of reminder’?
Barelvi, deobandi or other sect aalims such as shia?
Do you see my point?
**Let’s leave the shia if you are sunni and/or aware of history. Let’s just focus on the subject of madhabs this thread is about.
I agree with you that today it’s hard to find pious knowledgeable scholars. No doubt about that. But we have to ask ourselves, are we just lazy in pursuit of knowledge? Do we look for some ruling that would be in line with our desires even though that has nothing to with Quran and Sunnah? Do we have that enthusiasm, that thirst for knowledge? Or is Islam just a part time religion for us (like for many of Muslims)? The true scholars can be found out if we have true thirst for knowledge and good intentions. Secondly to know if they are true knowledgeable men, just look at whom they have studied under, who gave them ijaza or are they just some graduate of some university in states? Anyway that’s a different topic altogether.**