U HAVE FULL PERMISSION TO DELETE THIS THREAD ....FORGIVE ME....

[naseeha]

<i>Originally posted by honeycomb </i><b></b>

pardon if i hurt anybody's feelings. & do enlighten me.

We are all here to learn honeycomb... as long as you mean well no offence should be taken....

alhamdulillah... I share your views, and i know that they will be unpopular... But as long as your actions are Fii sabiilillah you can never go wrong...

Like you I dont like when ppl make these divisions among the ummah... It really upsets me...

But sometimes it gets really rough...

I mean this guy came to me when I was in high school a few years ago... and asked me what madhab i follow...

when he asked this i was more confused than anything...

I heard of these madhabs... But i am soo limited in knowledge... How can i say that i follow a particular madhab when i have not fully understood the contributions of each of the four imams, How can i say that i follow any one of them when i have not dedicated any time to actually studying their lives... I recognise that alot of muslim follow madhabs and do not know much about the four imams, they just say "I am hanafi" or "I am maliki" etc... just because they go to a mosque where the imam follows this madhab or because their forefathers followed this...

Now when this brther asked me this question... for days i pondered about it. and finally answered him..

"i follow the madhab of rasul allah (salallahu alaihi wa sallam)"

upon hearing this he turned up his nose in a snobbish manner and said <i>"OH!!! So you are one of those..."</i>

<b>WHAT!!!!!!!!!</b>

SUBHANALLAH!!!!!!!!!

HE BRANDED ME!!!!!!!!!!

YAAAAAAAAAAA ALLLLLAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



brothers and sisters dont get me wrong... I am not advocating that following a madhab is wrong... but what i am saying is.... Do not make a statement saying <i>"i belong to such and such madhab"</i> when you have not fully understood the contribution of these imams....

They were really great ppl Subhanallah...

imam abu hanifa and imam malik.... Subhanallah..... great scholars...

Imam ash shafii... he has one of the most prolific minds in islamic history... <i>he memorised malik's muwatta in a week!!!!</i>

Imam ahmad ibn hanbal he was persecuted for his views....

Please my beloved brothers and sisters.... Please see my point...

Many ppl follow one madhab and do not even entertain the views of other imams...

let us not fall into this trap...

if you say that you follow a madhab then alhamdulillah... go ahead bro/sis good... barakallahu fiiih

as for me i still have to learn more about islam...

i still have to learn about allah

about sunnah

about the imams

before i can say... <i>"i follow such and such madhab"</i>

ma salaamah