ALLAH said in His book:
وما كان
لمؤمن ولا مؤمنة إذا قضى الله ورسوله أمراً أن يكون لهم الخيرة من أمرهم ومن يعص
الله ورسوله فقد ضل ضلالاً مبيناً
Which in English
means, “It is not for a believer, man or woman, when ALLAH and His Messenger
have decreed a matter that they should have any option in their decision. And
whoever disobeys ALLAH and His Messenger, he has indeed strayed into a plain
error. (al-Ahzab 33:36)
'Abdullah bin 'Amr
bin Al-'As (May ALLAH be pleased with them) reported:
I heard the
Messenger of ALLAH peace and blessings of ALLAH be upon him saying:
"Verily, ALLAH does not take away knowledge by snatching it from the
people, but He takes it away by taking away (the lives of) the religious
scholars till none of the scholars stays alive. Then the people will take
ignorant ones as their leaders, who, when asked to deliver religious verdicts,
will issue them without knowledge, the result being that they will go astray and
will lead others astray." (Bukhari and Muslim; Related by Imaam an-Nawawi
in "Riyad-us-Saaliheen,
Book 13, narration
1391; reference in unabridged Arabic copies.)
We have lost many
experienced scholars in our time. And what do people do today (and even when
some of them were still living?) They are on the minhaj of living by the word
of the man with the hat on his head and gives rulings based on rumor and
personal notions, rather than an 'Alaamah who will educate with what ALLAH said
in the Qur'an and what the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said and did, and
what the prophet's companions knew from what they prophet taught them and they
taught each other from those same teachings. DARE any Muslim admit that
they don't their religion to be taught from Qur'an and Sunnah? What is prefered; the thoughts and mind of a so-called cleric from our communities? Are people going to discredit someone, who comes with the TRUTH, because he or she is not from the same land? All of the Muslims in the world are guilty of this. Among the Arab countries if (for example) the truth is being relayed from a Saudi, or an Egyptian, or a Lebanese, etc, to a Libyan, the said Libyan will reject the speech from the other Arab nation, albeit proven true. Pakistani communities in the world will not accept from Arab or African communities. The African-Americans will not accept from the African-American Salafi community or from the immigrant (non-American) Muslim community. The Asian communities refuse knowledge from Saudi Arabia. The cycle continues on and on because the clear authority is not recognized by the Mulsims; the Muslims have not made the Qur'an and the authentic Sunnah their authority, and this is the source of our problems.
