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Impermissibility of Blindly Following a Scholar |
Author: Shaykh Saalih Fawzaan
Source: Al-ajwibatul Mufeedah
Translated by: Kashif bin Hazoor Khan as-Salafi
Footnotes by: Jamaal bin Fareehan al-Haarithi
Produced by: Waseelatus Salafiyyah |
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Question:
What is a ruling on someone who loves a scholar or
a daa’ee (caller to Islam) and says, I have a great
love for him and I do not want to hear anyone refute
him and I will take from him even if what he says
goes against the proofs because he is more knowledgeable
of the proofs than me.
Answer: This is an ugly and abominable blind
following and it is not permissible.[1]
We love the scholars and for Allah is all praise and
we love the callers to Allah, the Exalted Most High,
but if someone from amongst them commits a mistake
in a certain mas’ala (issue) then with proof we make
the truth clear in that issue. And that does not decrease
the love of the scholar who has been refuted nor does
it decrease him in his reputation. Imaam Maalik (rh)
says: “There is no one from
amongst us except that he can be refuted with the
exception of the man in this grave (referring to Muhammad
(saw)).” [2] If we refute
some of the people of knowledge and some of the exemplary
people then this does not mean that we hate them or
we decrease them in what they have but verily we are
only making the truth known. And because of this some
of the scholars say when one of their peers make a
mistake that “So and so is
very beloved to me but the truth is more beloved to
me”.[3] This is the correct
way. And do not understand a refutation upon some
of the scholars in a issue that they have made a mistake
in that the meaning of the refutation is to lower
them or hatred but the scholars have not stopped refuting
each other and they still have love for each other.
And it is not permissible for us to take everything
that a certain person says unchallenged weather it
be the truth or a mistake because this is blind following.
The one from whom we take all his statements and we
do not leave anything is the Messenger of Allah (saw)
because he reports on his Lord and he does not speak
from his desires. And as for other than him then they
make mistakes and they are correct. Even if they are
from the best of the people and the hardest working
then they still will make mistakes sometimes and be
correct sometimes. There is no one who is free from
mistakes other than the Messenger of Allah (saw).
It is obligatory for us to know this and not to remain
silent upon a mistake because of our love for a certain
person, but it is upon us to make the mistake clear.
The messenger of Allah (saw) says:
“The deen is advice.” So we said “for whom?” and he
said: “For Allah and His Book and His Messenger to
the leaders of the Muslims and their common folk".[4]
And making the mistake clear is from advice for all
of the people while silence is the opposite of advice.
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