بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
I decided to make this article to give an Advice to every Muslim as the prophet (peace be upon him) said :
In the book of sahih Muslim:
narrated on the authority of Tamim ad-Dari that the Apostle of Allah (may peace and blessings be upon him) observed: Al-Din is a name of sincerity and well wishing. Upon this we said: For whom? He replied: For Allah, His Book, His Messenger and for the leaders and the general Muslims.
And before I begin I must set up some basics which are :
Originally to talk and mention someone behind his back is considered forbidden and it is known as being “Gheiba” Backbiting as in the hadith :
In the book of sahih Muslim:
Chapter : The prohibition of backbiting.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Do you know what is backbiting? They (the Companions) said: Allah and His Messenger know best. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: Backbiting implies your talking about your brother in a manner which he does not like. It was said to him: What is your opinion about this that if I actually find (that failing) in my brother which I made a mention of? He said: If (that failing) is actually found (in him) what you assert, you in fact backbited him, and if that is not in him it is a slander.
But there are six exceptional cases which it is allowed to do Backbiting “Gheiba”
See this link for detailed explanation from the book of Riyad-us-Saliheen by imam an-nawawi
http://www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/hadeeth/riyad/17/chap256.htm
one of this cases is to warn the Muslims from someone who commits innovations or speaks wrongly speeches concerning the Islamic laws.
And I would like to say that I will not speak about any scholar unless I know that some of the trusted scholars already has speaked and warned about this him. Because otherwise as the scholars say that “the flesh of the scientist are poisoned”
Many times I meet some Muslims and I find them having wrong thoughts as some one told me before “that he ask multiple scholar for fatwas and then he choose whatever fatwa he likes” and that is surely wrong doing and it’s a prohibited act.
Its like doing as the Jews and Christians do, as the following verse in the Quran was explained by the prophet :
In the Quran meaning translation (two translations) :
009.031
YUSUFALI: They take their priests and their anchorites to be their lords in derogation of Allah, and (they take as their Lord) Christ the son of Mary; yet they were commanded to worship but One Allah: there is no god but He. Praise and glory to Him: (Far is He) from having the partners they associate (with Him).
PICKTHAL: They have taken as lords beside Allah their rabbis and their monks and the Messiah son of Mary, when they were bidden to worship only One Allah. There is no Allah save Him. Be He Glorified from all that they ascribe as partner (unto Him)!
And here is what the prophet said about this verse (I didn’t find a translation so I will do my best):
In the book of sunan al-tirmidhi the chapter of explanation of the Quran and sheikh Al-albany said this hadith is authentic:
narrated on the authority Adi bin Hatem said :I came to the prophet - may Allah’s mercy and peace be upon him - and in my neck there was a necklace (collar) of a golden cross so the prophet said:” O adi, throw away this idol” then I heard him reciting the verse of the Quran in sorat bara`a (another name of surat alTawba , and the companion Adi is referring to the previous verse 009.031 that I have quoted) then the prophet said they where not worshipping their rabbis and their monks but they were obeying them even when they make a prohibited thing as lawful or when they make an allowed thing as prohibited.
So we Muslims must seek the right knowledge and be careful while seeking this knowledge to make sure we are really walking in the right path because as the prophet said :
my community will be split up into seventy-three sects. (in the book of Hadith of Abu Dawud ,Tirmidhi and Musnad Imam Ahmed ,and the shiekh Alalbany mentioned this Hadith in his Authentic Hadith book)
and we all want to be from among the good sect and we want to be as the prophet and his companions used to be.
And concerning the fatwa ,there is a very important law that the scholars of FiQh say which is :
Do Not do an Igtihad (making a fatwa) that is against the verses of Quran and sunna.
And any one that does that is contradicting with the infallible verses and texts of Allah and his messenger.
And as we know there are two conditions for any deed to be right and accepted which are :
1- is to be a good deed with the following of the prophet muhammad (or else it will be bid`a or inventioned )
in the book of sahih muslim:
Chapter : Rejecting of the wrong things and the innovations (in religion).
Narated By 'Aisha said that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: He who does any act for which there is no sanction from our behalf, that is to be rejected.
2- is to the deed to be clearly and sincerely FOR Allah's sake not for any thing else (you can realize it in the first Hadith mentioned in Authentic Sahih Bukhary) it says:
Narated By 'Umar bin Al-Khattab : I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "The reward of deeds depends upon the intentions and every person will get the reward according to what he has intended. So whoever emigrated for worldly benefits or for a woman to marry, his emigration was for what he emigrated for.
So I will start soon by mentioning those wrong fatwas and the verses of the Quran and sunna that shows the right Islamic law.
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