The Cause of Weak Faith and Submission
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The Shaykh : Why did the Lord of the Worlds say: [An-Nisa 4:65], when a person is satisfied with a fatwa that is appropriate to him...
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : No, why not, and why not, and so on. And I say: The cause of weak faith is weak knowledge.
The student: Allah is the Greatest!
The Shaykh : And the cause of weak knowledge is the absence of scholars, so people no longer trust the fatwas.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Do you understand?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Ah, I am imagining that if they were in the Prophetic era, this doubt that has afflicted the masses today would not have occurred.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Dissolving the contract, and what is in it and what is not in it.
The student : My Shaykh, also that hadith in which the Companion—I do not remember the name now—said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade us from a matter that is beneficial for us, but indeed obedience to Allah and His Messenger is more beneficial for us."
The Shaykh : ... .
But no, by your Lord, they will not [truly] believe until they make you, [O Muhammad], judge concerning that over which they dispute among
فَلَا وَرَبِّكَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ حَتَّى يُحَكِّمُوكَ فِيمَا شَجَرَ بَيْنَهُمْThe student: Yes.
The Shaykh : No, why not, and why not, and so on. And I say: The cause of weak faith is weak knowledge.
The student: Allah is the Greatest!
The Shaykh : And the cause of weak knowledge is the absence of scholars, so people no longer trust the fatwas.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Do you understand?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Ah, I am imagining that if they were in the Prophetic era, this doubt that has afflicted the masses today would not have occurred.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Dissolving the contract, and what is in it and what is not in it.
The student : My Shaykh, also that hadith in which the Companion—I do not remember the name now—said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade us from a matter that is beneficial for us, but indeed obedience to Allah and His Messenger is more beneficial for us."
The Shaykh : ... .
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