The Cause of the Weakness of Faith and Knowledge Among People
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The Shaykh : Why did the Lord of the Worlds say: [An-Nisa 4:65], when a person receives a ruling that suits him...
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : No, why, and why not, and so on.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And I say that the cause of the weakness of faith is the weakness of knowledge.
The questioner: Allah is the Greatest!
The Shaykh : And the cause of the weakness of knowledge is the absence of scholars, so people no longer trust the fatwas.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Do you understand?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Ah, I think if they were in the Prophetic era, this doubt that has afflicted the masses today would not have occurred.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Dissolving the contract, and what is in it and what is not in it.
The questioner : 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 was agreeable to us, but obedience to Allah and His Messenger is more beneficial for us."
The Shaykh : This is faith.
The questioner: Yes.
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 questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : No, why, and why not, and so on.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And I say that the cause of the weakness of faith is the weakness of knowledge.
The questioner: Allah is the Greatest!
The Shaykh : And the cause of the weakness of knowledge is the absence of scholars, so people no longer trust the fatwas.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Do you understand?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Ah, I think if they were in the Prophetic era, this doubt that has afflicted the masses today would not have occurred.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Dissolving the contract, and what is in it and what is not in it.
The questioner : 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 was agreeable to us, but obedience to Allah and His Messenger is more beneficial for us."
The Shaykh : This is faith.
The questioner: Yes.
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