Advice for students about to graduate regarding the disagreements among them
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Question:
What advice do you have for students who are on the verge of graduating, concerning the disagreements that arise among them over certain scholarly issues and methodologies, and this way of life? What advice do you have for students who are about to graduate, regarding the problems and violations that occur among them concerning the methodology and other matters?
Answer:
Yes, we advise them to fear Allah and to reconcile their own differences before they reconcile the differences of others. It is expected that they should be the ones reconciling people, so how can they not first reconcile themselves and fix their own differences? The lessons they study and the courses they read carry this message: they carry reconciliation, they carry the call to Allah, they carry advice, they forbid insulting one another, they forbid hostility and severing ties, they forbid all of that. So how can they carry books and act contrary to them? They read and read courses but do not apply them to themselves, while wanting to reconcile people. This is a difficult matter, and there is no doubt that this is a great error. There is no doubt that this is the work of the devils of mankind and jinn, who want to divide people, because if they divide the students of knowledge, they will certainly divide others a fortiori, because the students of knowledge are the people of reconciliation and the people of trust among the people. If there is wrestling among them over nothing.
It is not over anything; they are all sons of one creed, they are all people of tawhid (the oneness of Allah), they are all people of one land, because the land of the Muslims is one.
So they are one community, praise be to Allah, and[Al-Anbya 21:92] It is not fitting for the common people among the Muslims, it is not fitting for them to divide, disagree, be hostile, and hate one another. It is not fitting for the common people, so how much less for the students of knowledge? How much less for the scholars? It is obligatory to reject this matter, and there is no doubt that this is a suggestion from Satan to sow enmity and hatred among you. Yes.
What advice do you have for students who are on the verge of graduating, concerning the disagreements that arise among them over certain scholarly issues and methodologies, and this way of life? What advice do you have for students who are about to graduate, regarding the problems and violations that occur among them concerning the methodology and other matters?
Answer:
Yes, we advise them to fear Allah and to reconcile their own differences before they reconcile the differences of others. It is expected that they should be the ones reconciling people, so how can they not first reconcile themselves and fix their own differences? The lessons they study and the courses they read carry this message: they carry reconciliation, they carry the call to Allah, they carry advice, they forbid insulting one another, they forbid hostility and severing ties, they forbid all of that. So how can they carry books and act contrary to them? They read and read courses but do not apply them to themselves, while wanting to reconcile people. This is a difficult matter, and there is no doubt that this is a great error. There is no doubt that this is the work of the devils of mankind and jinn, who want to divide people, because if they divide the students of knowledge, they will certainly divide others a fortiori, because the students of knowledge are the people of reconciliation and the people of trust among the people. If there is wrestling among them over nothing.
It is not over anything; they are all sons of one creed, they are all people of tawhid (the oneness of Allah), they are all people of one land, because the land of the Muslims is one.
So they are one community, praise be to Allah, and
Indeed this, your religion, is one religion, and I am your Lord, so worship Me.
إِنَّ هَٰذِهِ أُمَّتُكُمْ أُمَّةً وَاحِدَةً وَأَنَا رَبُّكُمْ فَاعْبُدُونِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-102-واجب الطالب الجامعي بعد تخرجه|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (57:10)
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