Bro scimitar, I prefer not to response here for your comment about he being a salaf"i" so I did not quote it, because it needs a whole thread with a lot of time and knowledge to discuss about aqueeda salafyia, and I also avoid to classify muslims, because this takes us away from sunna.
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Scimitar
He says some nice things, but he's so young ... kinda hard to take seriously.
You can't stop listening to people because they are young, if they have a point. I don't defend this "young" sheikh, but what he said is good.
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Vision
Ive watched a few of his videos and i think he has a screw loose somewhere, he seems ever so keen to divide the Muslims with his rhetoric and has his own wacky views when it comes to issues of Deen. I personally wouldn't take advice from such people, may be a good speaker but extremely ignorant.
to answer this quote I will let a nice brother called Vision reply :
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Vision
Its disrespectful to question the Sheikh's credentials,
But I will add to his wise reply that I was not disrespecting Imran Hussein. I said may be he is a scholar, but in his discourse in the videos he is not doing the role of scholar, he is giving his own opinion (that I respect) as an ordinary muslim, but I am not to take his opinion as a determinative islamic rule or fatwa, but as another point of view. I don't think it's his intention, but unfortunately many people take his speech as a 100% truth.
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TrueStranger
It would be much better if our Muslim leaders advised each other privately instead of telling Muslims to be aware of so and so. I watched a video that talked about Professional Jealousy, where one Shiekh/Mufti/Imam will say something about another one and the other will retaliate....I thought that was the job of layman and laywoman, and not that of our Ulama
Sister, If you watch his videos again, he is always saying that it's wrong to speak about ulama' in public and that's what ahlu sunna wa jamaa believe. But when a muslim or a person spreads wrong and dangerous information about islam, it's obligatory for ulama' to warn people about the person, to save the majority of muslims from losing their deen. In this case it's the job of ulama'.
format_quote Originally Posted by
TrueStranger
I haven't heard anything extremely negative about Imran Hosein, he just brings another perspective into the conversation. We all have the right to agree or disagree, but no need to portray him as someone that is dangerous.
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Vision
He clearly uses Quran and Hadith to back up his opinions.
Yes he sometimes uses Quran and Hadeeth. But he interprets them incorrectly, and without supporting his interpretation with reliable tafseer, especially for controversial hadeeth, where the meaning is not clear for everyone. Islam is not about throwing up hadeeths and verses here and there, and inserting whatever we want to say in between.
If it's ok to quote quran and hadeeth and then say what you want, then every one is a scholar.
Now I'm not preventing anyone to watch Imran Hussein, I also watch his videos to see his opinions and to know what many people watch, but I don't have to take his words literally as a true aqeeda, because that will be very dangerous, because muslim youth may get influenced by a certain sheikh and will follow all things he says withought discussing, even if it's against true aqeeda.