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Originally Posted by Ansar Al-'Adl  Sufficient knowledge; there are many self-proclaimed scholars of Islam in the west who possess not an atom's weight in knowledge of Usūl Al-Fiqh, Mustalah Al-Hadīth, Ulūm Al-Qur'ān, and other Islamic sciences. Evidently, such people are like the Mr. Smith on the street who tries to propagate his views on medicine, which happen to conflict with the conclusions of virtually all educated medical physcians!
So you have already decided that you would go to heart surgeons, those with a license and qualifications, not some guy on the street with a pair of scissors who wants to cut out your heart for surgery. Likewise, you need to look for the same education, qualifications, license when it comes to religious knowledge. For some reason when we switch from medicine to religion, all of a sudden everyone's standards drop.
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actually, my standards don't drop when i switch from medicine to religion - i would follow the same process. and no, i would not turn to the muslim around the corner for knowledge about islam, any more than i would consult mr. smith, dropout, about heart surgery. but i notice that this site censors links to certain scholars and i just wonder why people need to be sheltered from diverse sources of knowledge. maybe i trust people to have the intelligence to take their information from various sources and come to their own conclusions - within the boundaries of islam, of course. why should they limit themselves to the sheikhs approved by one particular website?
learning is a lifelong experience, and it has increased my respect for islam to learn how very much scholarly texts there are - enough to keep a person busy for their entire lives!
there's no point in arguing - it's your forum, after all. i just wanted to have my say.
peace