A discussion on the obligation of scholars toward the common people.

The questioner: The hadiths, and so on.

Another questioner: No doubt, if a hadith is mentioned to you... the brother took it and asked the Shaykh: "Adorn your festivals with takbir, what do you want...?" He told you: "It is authentic." What is your position...?
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The Shaykh: Shaykh Khalil will tell you: This hadith is authentic; is that not so?

Another questioner : The Shaykh : He says it is not authentic.

The Shaykh: Shaykh Khalil will tell you: This hadith is authentic.

The questioner: No, he does not say: It is authentic.

The Shaykh: For example, I mean.

The questioner : Yes, you may.

The Shaykh: Is it possible, is that not so?

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh: In that case, what is the ruling?

The questioner: What is the ruling? This is the common person.

The Shaykh: We are asking you a question.

The questioner: O Professor - may Allah bless you - ... about the common person, this common person when he asks and you tell him: It is authentic. He wants to go and...

The Shaykh: You are still returning to the common person, we are telling you: Shaykh Khalil.

The questioner: ... meaning, does he have to submit to him?!

The Shaykh: You returned... to the common people? We are telling you: Shaykh Khalil - may Allah guide you - !

Another questioner: What is the requirement of your question?

The Shaykh: That is something strange!! We are talking about the scholar, he tells you: The common person.

Another questioner: ... it covers what is required and what is not required - may Allah bless you - , the session does not need - my brother - what is required.

Another questioner: No, I mean we also benefit... I mean, what is required, what is on your mind, or the only thing you are focusing on...

Another questioner: Peace be upon you.

The Shaykh : And upon you be peace, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.

The questioner: ... clarify - for example - between what you heard...

Another questioner: ... we have the ability to distinguish, we know that this Shaykh is right or wrong...

Another questioner: O Shaykh Abu Ahmad, I am asking you... to distinguish... O Shaykh, listen to me.

Another questioner: Go ahead.

Another questioner: There is a saying of the Shaykh when they asked: .

Another questioner: I am not like that...

Another questioner: O Shaykh, stay with me, my brother, you are saying: I have the ability to distinguish.

Another questioner: All right.

Another questioner: He told you: This is authentic. And the second scholar was present and told you: This is weak.

The questioner: ... he wants to say: This is weak and this is authentic...

Another questioner: Who told you? This is the man of so-and-so and so-and-so and so-and-so. And this one told you: How did the scholars authenticate it; what is the result? There is no distinction, O Shaykh, if you are not well-versed in knowledge, you cannot distinguish.

The Shaykh: O Shaykh Ahmad, I would like to draw your attention; there is a recording here.

Another questioner: And there are no recordings!

The Shaykh: Do you not care? This is a book that speaks the truth, do you not care? Why is Abu Sayah making a fuss now? What is all this heat for? Why? One person asks you about the scholar in whom he believes, Shaykh Khalil tells me: The common person, there is no definition of the subject at all, we are talking to him about the scholar and he returns to the common person!! ... there is the issue of the common people.

Another questioner: Allah - the Exalted - said: .

The Shaykh: Glory be to Allah!

Another questioner: We are not... the common person, but you develop, you do not stop at a limit, he asks this one and asks this one and asks this one...

The Shaykh : ... .

The questioner: The summary of the discussion.

The Shaykh: The summary of the discussion.

The questioner: The summary of the discussion, if you please, a question regarding smoking; what is your opinion regarding smoking; some people say that its sale, its purchase, and smoking it are all forbidden?

The Shaykh: We were hoping that the Shaykh... would be present so that he, unfortunately, the one who wants to hear from us has heard from us for a long time, but he was afflicted with weakness, and Allah knows best; and therefore he becomes heated and shouts and cries, and we drew his attention to the fact that this is being recorded on you, meaning when one hears his voice in this agitation, there is nothing that moves him like this, what is the scientific research? Calm, and we are asking him about the scholar and he tells you: The common person. Shaykh Khalil, this is what you are hitting like if I said: This hadith is weak and he said: Authentic; what is the solution? He tells you: The common people!! Our problem now is with the common people or is our problem with the scholars whom I asked: Who is the scholar? Our problem is with the scholars, not with the common people, the common people are excused, however much the common people deviate from the Book and the Sunnah, they are excused, and the blame falls on whom? On their scholars whom they call scholars. Regarding.

Another questioner : ... .

The Shaykh: Ah, and this is the problem of the Muslim scholar today, there is no awareness, I observe something, a very, very simple issue, and it is not one of the disputed issues, it is agreed upon, this one eats with his left hand, and this one drinks while standing, there is no disagreement among scholars that the Sunnah is to eat with the right hand and not eat with the left hand, and the Sunnah is to drink while sitting and not drink while standing, there is no disagreement in these issues, so why do we see in every gathering, we see the committed and uncommitted youth at the sandwich sellers holding the sandwich and eating from it, with which hand? With the left, what difference does it make to a person whether he eats with the right or eats with the left? It is a single price, so if there is general awareness in the society from the people of knowledge, you will not see a person eating with his left hand; because it does not cost him, meaning it is not that eating with the left hand is easier than the right except for the left-handed person, we are not talking about left-handed people; do you see how? But we are talking about those who do not care, so I see this phenomenon is widespread in this country and other countries; what is the cause? The cause is that the scholars are silent, their mouths do not advise them. So like this issue, this is the biggest example that the scholars are not fulfilling their obligation.