The state of the scholars of India and Pakistan regarding the science of hadith and the Salafi call.
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The questioner : May Allah reward you with good. You mentioned that India, I mean Pakistan, had the Salafi call previously and it remained there.
The Shaykh : I do not say Salafi call; I say hadith-based call.
The questioner-based.
The Shaykh : Yes, because the one to whom the credit for reviving this hadith-based call belongs is Wali Allah al-Dahlawi, the author of his famous book "Hujjat Allah al-Balighah." And among the wonders of this man, from one aspect, and his virtue, from another, is that he was a Sufi, and some of his effects still appear in some of his writings. He was a man of illusions and fantasies, and the fantasies of our companion are less than his. Yes, indeed, he believed that the angels ascend and descend, and so on. So it is wonderful, and among the subtle decrees of Allah, that He made this man a means for reviving the call to the hadith, whereas India, before that, was like the other Islamic countries. You must have heard, for example, about Turkey; in Turkey, they do not know of the hadith except in the context of seeking blessing only, as for acting upon the hadith, it is completely absent from their minds. Likewise, the situation was in the entire Islamic world for a long time, unfortunately. So this man, may Allah—Mighty and Majestic—made him a means and established through him this good Sunnah, where he called the people and taught what he called for, which is the hadith. Then some of his sons received it from him, and they were better than him in terms of acting upon the hadith and distancing themselves from the fantasies and visions that their predecessors and their father lived with. By the blessing of this man and then his sons, the hadith spread in the lands of India and then Pakistan, which was separated from India and made specifically for Muslims, so the number of hadith scholars, or those who adhere to it, or those named after the hadith there, reaches millions. They have their specific mosques, universities, schools, and institutes, and this is due to the large number of Muslims in those lands. But I say, however, the care of the scholars who adopted this good call in the jurisprudence of hadith, its explanation, and its clarification, this aspect dominated them, and they did not pay the necessary attention to distinguishing the authentic from the weak in the hadith. In fact, this aspect is almost completely neglected in those lands. And therefore, ... it is the one that begins with the takbir and ends with the tahlil, so any addition before it or after it has no basis in the religion, and what is such falls under the generality of his saying—peace and blessings be upon him—every innovation is misguidance, and every misguidance is in the Fire.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : And beware of that.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, yes.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : I do not say Salafi call; I say hadith-based call.
The questioner-based.
The Shaykh : Yes, because the one to whom the credit for reviving this hadith-based call belongs is Wali Allah al-Dahlawi, the author of his famous book "Hujjat Allah al-Balighah." And among the wonders of this man, from one aspect, and his virtue, from another, is that he was a Sufi, and some of his effects still appear in some of his writings. He was a man of illusions and fantasies, and the fantasies of our companion are less than his. Yes, indeed, he believed that the angels ascend and descend, and so on. So it is wonderful, and among the subtle decrees of Allah, that He made this man a means for reviving the call to the hadith, whereas India, before that, was like the other Islamic countries. You must have heard, for example, about Turkey; in Turkey, they do not know of the hadith except in the context of seeking blessing only, as for acting upon the hadith, it is completely absent from their minds. Likewise, the situation was in the entire Islamic world for a long time, unfortunately. So this man, may Allah—Mighty and Majestic—made him a means and established through him this good Sunnah, where he called the people and taught what he called for, which is the hadith. Then some of his sons received it from him, and they were better than him in terms of acting upon the hadith and distancing themselves from the fantasies and visions that their predecessors and their father lived with. By the blessing of this man and then his sons, the hadith spread in the lands of India and then Pakistan, which was separated from India and made specifically for Muslims, so the number of hadith scholars, or those who adhere to it, or those named after the hadith there, reaches millions. They have their specific mosques, universities, schools, and institutes, and this is due to the large number of Muslims in those lands. But I say, however, the care of the scholars who adopted this good call in the jurisprudence of hadith, its explanation, and its clarification, this aspect dominated them, and they did not pay the necessary attention to distinguishing the authentic from the weak in the hadith. In fact, this aspect is almost completely neglected in those lands. And therefore, ... it is the one that begins with the takbir and ends with the tahlil, so any addition before it or after it has no basis in the religion, and what is such falls under the generality of his saying—peace and blessings be upon him—every innovation is misguidance, and every misguidance is in the Fire.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : And beware of that.
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The Shaykh : Yes, yes.
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