What is your opinion of the book "Critique of the Book on the Description of Prayer" by Mazen Badran?
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The questioner : The book "Critique of the Book on the Description of Prayer"... its author is Mazen Badran.
The Shaykh : Ah
The questioner : I do not know if you have looked into this book.
The Shaykh : Do you know who the author is?
The questioner : I have heard that he is a young man.
The Shaykh : Do you know who the author is?
The questioner : I know him.
The Shaykh : Do you know him as a scholar?
The questioner : I know him, but I do not know if he is a scholar or not. I would like to know, what is your opinion of these books?
The Shaykh : My opinion is that he is not a scholar, but rather an ignorant person.
The questioner : Yes, and the gist of his book...
The Shaykh : May Allah guide you. That answer does not suffice you.
The questioner : Okay, Shaykh. May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : Glory be to Allah. Every time a barker barks and a fool falls, you raise your voices with him and ask about him. I fear most of all that a Jew or a Christian will respond to Al-Albani, and you will come and say, "What is your opinion of so-and-so's book?" My brother, do you know the author of so-and-so's book? No, we do not know him. The book "The Description of Prayer" is thirty years old. In the Islamic world, it was not found among all the scholars of the world and their sheikhs, who are older than me in age and knowledge, and younger than me in age and knowledge, and so on. No one responded to it except a young man now, who is being paid, and Allah knows his intention. Yes, what is your opinion of this book? Tomorrow you will ask me about the books of this distorted Saffah, who attacks the Book and the Sunnah, and so on. This is a door that does not end.
The questioner : His argument is the Saffah pamphlet.
The Shaykh : It is a pamphlet about some people, but he has misled many people. The reason is that people have no awareness. Every time a barker barks, they shout with him. "O people, be calm. Understand that this person who wrote this treatise or others, what do you know of his academic life? Nothing, except that he wrote the treatise in response to Al-Albani. The best of his states is that he is pointing to Al-Albani today, saying, 'By Allah, so-and-so responded to Al-Albani, what Allah willed.' This is the best of his states. As for the worst of his states, he wants to plot against the Sunnah and make Muslims doubt the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), this hadith and this Sunnah. This person did not serve it with his testimony, but with the testimony of the great scholars in various lands of Islam for more than half a century. Now, with a stroke of the pen, one wants to respond to Al-Albani, whether in "The Description of Prayer" or "The Authentic Chain" or "The Weak Chain" or others. And therefore, my advice to the youth is not to pay attention to any book that falls into their hands. Yes, what is your opinion, Shaykh, of Al-Albani regarding this book? What does Al-Albani have to do with this? May Allah help him with this era and this laxity in knowledge and lack of shame and religion. And Allah is the Helper, and there is no power and no strength except with Allah. Do you have anything else?
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good. Your supplication, Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Peace be upon you.
Listen, may Allah guide you. This one whom you do not know contradicts in his speech those whom you know.
The questioner : No, but for example, he establishes, for example...
The Shaykh : May Allah guide you, may Allah guide you, my brother. This man is ignorant. May Allah guide you. Not everyone who writes and publishes becomes a scholar. Not everyone who writes in tafsir is a mufassir. Not everyone who writes in hadith is a muhaddith. Not everyone who writes in fiqh is a faqih. Now is the time of fitnah and the time of loving to show off, that so-and-so is a scholar, so-and-so is a writer, so-and-so is a muhaddith, so-and-so is a faqih, and so on. So do not be deceived by this. His inner self is like his outer self. His outer self is beautiful decoration, his inner self... if you know what is in it, you know the ignorance.
The questioner : Shaykh.
The student: There is an important question for...
Another student: Please, my brother.
The Shaykh : Ah
The questioner : I do not know if you have looked into this book.
The Shaykh : Do you know who the author is?
The questioner : I have heard that he is a young man.
The Shaykh : Do you know who the author is?
The questioner : I know him.
The Shaykh : Do you know him as a scholar?
The questioner : I know him, but I do not know if he is a scholar or not. I would like to know, what is your opinion of these books?
The Shaykh : My opinion is that he is not a scholar, but rather an ignorant person.
The questioner : Yes, and the gist of his book...
The Shaykh : May Allah guide you. That answer does not suffice you.
The questioner : Okay, Shaykh. May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : Glory be to Allah. Every time a barker barks and a fool falls, you raise your voices with him and ask about him. I fear most of all that a Jew or a Christian will respond to Al-Albani, and you will come and say, "What is your opinion of so-and-so's book?" My brother, do you know the author of so-and-so's book? No, we do not know him. The book "The Description of Prayer" is thirty years old. In the Islamic world, it was not found among all the scholars of the world and their sheikhs, who are older than me in age and knowledge, and younger than me in age and knowledge, and so on. No one responded to it except a young man now, who is being paid, and Allah knows his intention. Yes, what is your opinion of this book? Tomorrow you will ask me about the books of this distorted Saffah, who attacks the Book and the Sunnah, and so on. This is a door that does not end.
The questioner : His argument is the Saffah pamphlet.
The Shaykh : It is a pamphlet about some people, but he has misled many people. The reason is that people have no awareness. Every time a barker barks, they shout with him. "O people, be calm. Understand that this person who wrote this treatise or others, what do you know of his academic life? Nothing, except that he wrote the treatise in response to Al-Albani. The best of his states is that he is pointing to Al-Albani today, saying, 'By Allah, so-and-so responded to Al-Albani, what Allah willed.' This is the best of his states. As for the worst of his states, he wants to plot against the Sunnah and make Muslims doubt the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), this hadith and this Sunnah. This person did not serve it with his testimony, but with the testimony of the great scholars in various lands of Islam for more than half a century. Now, with a stroke of the pen, one wants to respond to Al-Albani, whether in "The Description of Prayer" or "The Authentic Chain" or "The Weak Chain" or others. And therefore, my advice to the youth is not to pay attention to any book that falls into their hands. Yes, what is your opinion, Shaykh, of Al-Albani regarding this book? What does Al-Albani have to do with this? May Allah help him with this era and this laxity in knowledge and lack of shame and religion. And Allah is the Helper, and there is no power and no strength except with Allah. Do you have anything else?
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good. Your supplication, Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Peace be upon you.
Listen, may Allah guide you. This one whom you do not know contradicts in his speech those whom you know.
The questioner : No, but for example, he establishes, for example...
The Shaykh : May Allah guide you, may Allah guide you, my brother. This man is ignorant. May Allah guide you. Not everyone who writes and publishes becomes a scholar. Not everyone who writes in tafsir is a mufassir. Not everyone who writes in hadith is a muhaddith. Not everyone who writes in fiqh is a faqih. Now is the time of fitnah and the time of loving to show off, that so-and-so is a scholar, so-and-so is a writer, so-and-so is a muhaddith, so-and-so is a faqih, and so on. So do not be deceived by this. His inner self is like his outer self. His outer self is beautiful decoration, his inner self... if you know what is in it, you know the ignorance.
The questioner : Shaykh.
The student: There is an important question for...
Another student: Please, my brother.