I sincerely feel I am at fault of not being clear despite writing so many post and so many questions. Many of the questions were either not answered or understtod.
Let me clarify:
1- It is not just the ‘fight’ among people of different groups in Islam which I feel concerend.
2- It is also many muslims attitude towards Islam and their adamant behaviour to follow an Imam strictly thinking they must follow an Imam to be called muslims. This strong belef on one imam is bound to give rigidity in groups of people and strong division.
Please refer to other thread by hareem about barelvis and deobandis to see what I am talking about.
People including yourself love to point out which group one belongs to and which imam he she follows. ![]()
The names of groups and schools of thoughts are just mind boggling to say the least!
3- It is said repeatedly that all these four madhabs are from Sunnah then why worry about someone following part by part as the person deems fit in his or her life from ANY of these schools?
Why consider a person to be wrong if the person chooses for ANY reason ANY of the ruling from ANY of these schools at different time in his or her life.
I cannot be more clear I think what I am asking. I have chosen words very carefully again.
4- Regarding your eaxmple agai about wudu and any person to feel it as illogical is fine.
If other Imams do not agree with Imam Shafi’s ruling then why worry about someone else not considering it correct? What kind of sin that person will commit to doubt Imam Shafi?
Obviously the issue of wudu in this regard was not clear from Sunnah ‘enough’ that these aalims themselves brought different rulings in this matter. Do you see the point here?
5- Similarly ANY ruling which differs among these imams is open for further interpretation and understanding by anyone. Which could be based on the time we are living in being very different than the time these imams came up with their rulings.
I am not talking about major issues here upon which all fours imams and any other school of thought including I must include a major sect of Shia Aalims. But if all five of them differ then there must be some ‘problem’. Problem not in literal sense but in the sense that these issues must not be clear enough or strong enough that one should always hangs his hat on everytime one faces these issues in his life.
**These so called problem may be that hadiths are not clear enough. Interpreation of hadiths and scenarios are taken differently by every one or there are contradictory or different methods described in hadiths to perform one act. Even different books may cite the same hadith or event in different wordings. If this was not true then there should not have been so many contradictory rulings by these imams. **
Starting from Kalmah to Hajj, every act has different way of performing among these five groups.
Even how to address to the prophet has no consensus!
So don’t even try please to say somehow they do not confuse a reader or do not cause one to doubt one or the other. Please admit the truth.
Forget imams for a second, now these farhat hashmi, zakir naik, Tahirul qadri, Taqi usmani followers are emerging rapidly! Over next 50 or 100 years people will call them ‘imams’ too. And argue among themselevs. A bit far fetched at this time but isn’t this possible if we continue this trend? I know you will be upset that I talked about these people being at same level as previous imams but do we know for sure that this will not happen?
Have we not already made deobandis and barelvis from hanafi/sunni groups for example within the last few decades?
Similarly shias, ismailies etc. have made further groups over time.
You know why?
**Becasue we are hell bent on following a person called ‘imam’, ‘leader’, ‘a school’ which is better than us **
and we are just sheep, lazy, or brainless human being!
6- At least I am not arguing about those major issues which are clearly accepted, in their crude sense, by at least these five groups. Fair enough? ![]()