What is your opinion of those who are fanatical about the four schools of jurisprudence and do not consider it permissible to depart from them (and the story of Al-Albani with some of the Sufis and his discussion with them regarding the issue of building on graves, and the authenticity of the hadith: "Leave the people in their heedlessness")
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The Shaykh : It is sufficient for you, if it contains one of the names of Allah, that you have mentioned His description, as long as it is His name, so when His name comes, it corresponds to His description... but this is within the poem, meaning the poem that he constantly recites every day.
The disparagement is not a suspicion in *** the aggrieved, the known, and the warned.
And the known and the warned, these are... with suspicion, rather you may find backbiting in them.
The questioner : ...How did he bring up the topic? He said: We find some preachers attacking some of the committed, or those whose beliefs are in the schools, for example, the Hanafi in the Shafi'i, they are following a specific worship that may differ from their ideas, why are they attacking? Why? Leave them... meaning he wants to say that there should be no innovations, do not talk about innovations. Meaning this is what was... for example, the Hanafis, the Shafi'is, we do not have to object to them or criticize them, the type of worship they perform and the place... as if this Islamic religion and the worship that our Lord commanded us in is... meaning he intends that, meaning the intention of it is that any innovation...
The Shaykh : Did they all seek from the Messenger of Allah?
The questioner : ...His state of being speaks of it.
The Shaykh : Yes. And this Abu 'Adnan draws from these books which, unfortunately, explicitly state that the four schools of jurisprudence are four laws, so whichever law you follow, you are on the right path. They may say this and forget that in reality there were laws from prophets and infallible messengers, and Islam came and abrogated them in their entirety and in detail. I do not know if they recall the truth, then they come and assume that four schools are like four laws, so you are free to choose. And from here comes the phrase that some people imagine is a Prophetic hadith "Whoever follows a scholar will meet Allah in safety". This thing and its like proceed on this indication, and a hadith branches out from behind it. The first scene in knowledge for me, incidentally, was a discussion between me and one of the Sufi shaykhs there in Damascus. Allah the Exalted decreed that I got to know a carpenter at a time when it did not appear to me then that he was committed as he should be, but I sensed guidance in him, and the bond and affection between us strengthened, and I began to hold private gatherings in his house. Then I understood that he was from the group of one of the Sufi shaykhs there, from those who hold what they call gatherings of dhikr, which are gatherings of dancing, and unfortunately, the gathering of the shaykh was attended by the French consul at that time, he and some of his women as well.
The questioner : ...A Christian?
The Shaykh : A Christian, the important thing... our friend one day conducted a research on musical instruments and that they are forbidden in Islam, and we digressed in the conversation and reached the mosques built on graves. After a few days, he told me that he had judged the shaykh, what was the shaykh's name, do you remember the shaykh al-'Aitah? His title al-'Aitah remains in my memory. The important thing is he told him there is nothing wrong with building mosques on graves, and he told my friend, what do you think, should you meet with the shaykh? The important thing was the meeting and the gathering took place, and I began to speak about the issue of the prohibition of building mosques on graves, and I mentioned to him a mosque we had in the neighborhood. This did not fit him in reality, more than what I should mention about this man because he died, because few are those who admit the truth, and even if he ultimately deviated from the truth in some way, he did not deny it and did not argue with falsehood, as you know from the books of al-Ghumari.
The questioner : Yes, I know.
The Shaykh : Ah, so he admitted this, but what did he say to me, and here is the point, he said to me, O Shaykh, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said, the hadith, . This is the logic of the shaykh that you referred to, but I at that time... was a young novice in the pursuit of knowledge, and I did not have this type of comprehensive knowledge of the Sunnah and of the authentic and weak hadiths, and so on. This hadith was a problem for me because I weighed it with scientific logic, "Leave the people in their heedlessness." Where is enjoining good and forbidding evil, where, how can this hadith say either this hadith has no basis or it is an interpretation and publicizing that I do not understand. Okay, the session ended and I went to the house, I could not sleep until I searched for this hadith and found it. And this hadith was cited by Shaykh Isma'il al-'Ajlouni and others in his book "Kashf al-Khafa'". And since the hadith is circulated on the tongues of some people in the wording mentioned by the shaykh it is circulated, but these books' function is to distinguish the authentic from the weak from what is prominent on the tongues of people, and when he says: the hadith is in Sahih Muslim, and in my opinion Sahih Muslim 1522a it does not contain the word , so what did those who publicized this hadith do... they deleted the second half, is it related to the hadith about sales and not going out to receive visitors from the desert, if... in the first and second half, and they placed in its place "in their heedlessness." The hadith became . So now, the words you hear are derived from this meaning, what... these people are an innovation, this is a Sunnah, this is from the authentic, unlike the hadith, "It is not for you and the people, leave the people in their heedlessness." This is the guidance of Islam, and as you all know, many of these shaykhs who are thought to have knowledge, and the second type of those obligated, namely women, were unfortunately deceived in... the so-and-so scholar said: such and such. And the so-and-so scholar said: such and such. And they are not of knowledge in any way, not near or far. So they are mostly, as al-Ghazali called them in his time, scholars of rituals, meaning what does the king draw... here what is it?
The questioner : He walks.The Shaykh : He walks, so these... and the truth is that they were appointed to guide the people and teach them, and if they had done that, they would have been like the others, dismissed from their jobs, they would have been real scholars, and Allah is the helper.
The questioner : ... ؟
The Shaykh : This guidance, it has its objectives. Here it is clear.
The Shaykh laughed here.
The disparagement is not a suspicion in *** the aggrieved, the known, and the warned.
And the known and the warned, these are... with suspicion, rather you may find backbiting in them.
The questioner : ...How did he bring up the topic? He said: We find some preachers attacking some of the committed, or those whose beliefs are in the schools, for example, the Hanafi in the Shafi'i, they are following a specific worship that may differ from their ideas, why are they attacking? Why? Leave them... meaning he wants to say that there should be no innovations, do not talk about innovations. Meaning this is what was... for example, the Hanafis, the Shafi'is, we do not have to object to them or criticize them, the type of worship they perform and the place... as if this Islamic religion and the worship that our Lord commanded us in is... meaning he intends that, meaning the intention of it is that any innovation...
The Shaykh : Did they all seek from the Messenger of Allah?
The questioner : ...His state of being speaks of it.
The Shaykh : Yes. And this Abu 'Adnan draws from these books which, unfortunately, explicitly state that the four schools of jurisprudence are four laws, so whichever law you follow, you are on the right path. They may say this and forget that in reality there were laws from prophets and infallible messengers, and Islam came and abrogated them in their entirety and in detail. I do not know if they recall the truth, then they come and assume that four schools are like four laws, so you are free to choose. And from here comes the phrase that some people imagine is a Prophetic hadith "Whoever follows a scholar will meet Allah in safety". This thing and its like proceed on this indication, and a hadith branches out from behind it. The first scene in knowledge for me, incidentally, was a discussion between me and one of the Sufi shaykhs there in Damascus. Allah the Exalted decreed that I got to know a carpenter at a time when it did not appear to me then that he was committed as he should be, but I sensed guidance in him, and the bond and affection between us strengthened, and I began to hold private gatherings in his house. Then I understood that he was from the group of one of the Sufi shaykhs there, from those who hold what they call gatherings of dhikr, which are gatherings of dancing, and unfortunately, the gathering of the shaykh was attended by the French consul at that time, he and some of his women as well.
The questioner : ...A Christian?
The Shaykh : A Christian, the important thing... our friend one day conducted a research on musical instruments and that they are forbidden in Islam, and we digressed in the conversation and reached the mosques built on graves. After a few days, he told me that he had judged the shaykh, what was the shaykh's name, do you remember the shaykh al-'Aitah? His title al-'Aitah remains in my memory. The important thing is he told him there is nothing wrong with building mosques on graves, and he told my friend, what do you think, should you meet with the shaykh? The important thing was the meeting and the gathering took place, and I began to speak about the issue of the prohibition of building mosques on graves, and I mentioned to him a mosque we had in the neighborhood. This did not fit him in reality, more than what I should mention about this man because he died, because few are those who admit the truth, and even if he ultimately deviated from the truth in some way, he did not deny it and did not argue with falsehood, as you know from the books of al-Ghumari.
The questioner : Yes, I know.
The Shaykh : Ah, so he admitted this, but what did he say to me, and here is the point, he said to me, O Shaykh, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said
Leave the people in their heedlessness
دعوا الناس في غفلاتهاLeave the people in their heedlessness
دعوا الناس في غفلاتهاLeave the people in their heedlessness
دعوا الناس في غفلاتهاleave the people alone, Allah will give them provision from one another.
دعوا الناس يرزق الله بعضهم من بعضin their heedlessness
في غفلاتهاLeave the people in their heedlessness
دعوا الناس في غفلاتهاThe questioner : He walks.The Shaykh : He walks, so these... and the truth is that they were appointed to guide the people and teach them, and if they had done that, they would have been like the others, dismissed from their jobs, they would have been real scholars, and Allah is the helper.
The questioner : ... ؟
The Shaykh : This guidance, it has its objectives. Here it is clear.
The Shaykh laughed here.