03-24-2004, 07:37 PM
I am not what ppl call salafi, wahabi or anything like that... but i think we all are going off on a wrong tangent here....
you see i have been in this same dilema for the past few weeks... and i realised that there are alot of people saying many crazy things out there... i heard of some really crazy things that these salafs have said...
however in your approach to saying things like this you used a tone that made some things that they do look really bad... when in fact they are not... let me give you an example..
Quote:# One of their worst arguments is asking for a Daleel (Scholarly proof concerning religious matters) from Qur'an or Sunnah, which belongs to the Ulamaa (Scholars of Islam). They do not understand that Qur'an and Sunnah are the pillars on which all other Adillah (proofs) are built including Qiyas, Ijma'a, Q'aul al-Sahabi, and last but not least Maaruf (what people of good morals have agreed upon as being a good practice).i fully agree with what you said here but it came across as though asking for daleel is something bad...
Brother i am confident that your intentions were noble but when referring to other sects that themselves claim to be sunni muslims be careful of what you say....
Quote:# Their way of making Tashahhud by moving their fingers up and down during all the Tashahud. Their pretensions of following Sunnat-Al-Mustafa contradicts all Mathaahib even though they are using the same Sunnah narrated by Ahmad: \"The Prophet PBUH used to move His finger during Tashahhud!\" Some Madhhabs went for moving it once, others (Malikiyyah) went for moving it all the time but from Right to Left NOT up and down. They came up with a new way of doing it that contradicts all that preceded them.with fear of sounding like a <i>"salafee"</i> tell me brother do you have grounds to contradict them on this... if so then alhamdulillah... if not then please think about your meeting with allah... what are you goin to tell allah????
Brother i totally echo your concerns however your approach needs to be revised you may end up getting yourself into trouble with the way that you put things accross...
Please note that i am not a <i>"salafee"</i> or anything like that...
i am no scholar of islam... but what i am saying is that you need to use hikmah... if a <i>"salafee"</i> reads your article he will tear you to shreds.... what i mean is that he will be able to bring his evidence according to quraan and hadith to show you that you are wrong... If he does that then tell me
<b>What will you say when he produces daleel???</b>
brother my words are simply an admonition out of love for you and for fear of allah... please do not take it as being aggressive,i am not angry with you brother... and please do not take it as being a <i>"salafee"</i> ....
if these ppl are wrong then you show them where they went wrong according to the all the sources of knowledge that you pointed out in your post... but do not say these things without properly backing them up... if you do then you will not get anywhere....
wa salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh