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Your Deen
Shaykh Ahmad ibn Bazmool
Transcription by: Umm Yusuf min Sri Lanka
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So this is understood and this has been explained, it is clear that that man needs what he needs for his day
and his night of Tawheed and of taharah purification of salaah. Then we can see the mistake of those who
want that the Muslims get involved or start without knowledge in siyaasah or political issues upon the
methodology of the hizbiyyah or partisanship or defending the people who are upon shirk and bid'ah. We
see that these people who call to these types of issues are not indi viduals from whom we should take are
knowledge from.
Based on the hadith of Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam that if you deal in eena which is an illegal
transaction a form of usury which means a Muslim will enter i nto which is forbidden regarding transaction
and you follow the tails of the cows meaning will give in to agriculture and these type of issues and get them
more importance than the Hereafter and you leave Jihaad neither do you establish Jihaad nor do you for
Jihaad for Jihaad he said has two types of preparations Roohi wa Maddi, Roohi meaning spiritual
preparation and Maddi meaning material preparation. And this is why you see the mistake of Usaamah bin
Laden among many reasons for his mistakes he is wrong and incorrect is he thinks that Jihaad is only the
materialistic preparation and he has totally forgotten about the spiritual preparation and he has totally
forgotten about many issues in Islaam.
And that which he is doing is nothing to do with the sunnah and which he is doing has nothing to do with
Islaam and he is in ignorance of these issues and the scholars have responded against him. So it is the issue
that the Muslims, the ummah will not learn the deen and will get involved in tijaarah and forbidden trading
transaction and will leave Jihaad and will become pleased with the dunya, then Allaah subhana wata'alah
will send upon him humiliation. And He will not lift this humiliation off from them until they return to their
deen. The scholars say return to the deen is learning the deen, acting upon the deen and spreading the deen.
He says it is not through explosions and bombings and harming individuals who had no hand in any evil and
this type of thing but it is returning to the deen of Allaah learning it, practicing it and spreading it.
Speaking about Allaah without knowledge is worse than shirk, for two reasons o ne is that this speaking
about Allaah tabarakta wat'ala without knowledge is something that is general something that it will affect
everybody but the state of the something he has done regarding himself. So it is forbidden for anyone to
speak about Allaah without knowledge. And there is the narration of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
in which some of his companions was with o ne of his companions o n a journey and he got injured and when
he got injured he also fell into sexual defilement, state of junub and it was a very dark cold night and he
wanted to know if he should take wudhu or tayammum and he asked them if it is possible to do this and
they said no you must take a ghusl you must take a full ghusl, so when he did this, he died. So when this
reached the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam he said, "they killed him they killed him, may Allaah kill
them. Why did they not ask if they were ignorant? Verily the cure for ignorance, is ask ing." So this shows
that it is forbidden for someone who does not know, to talk.
So Shaykh Ahmad bin Bazmool hafidhahullah says if we have understood from what has pre ceded, the o ne
being questioned if he does not know, if he cannot answer it is haraam for him to answer. He must also
know that the Muslim who does not know it, is forbidden for him to ask someone who does not know. It is
forbidden for him in matters of deen to ask someone who does not know. Rather he has to ask an aalim a
scholar someone who has knowledge and this is what Muhammad ibn Sar'ee rahimahullahu meant when he
said this matte r is a matter of knowledge of deen so be careful who you take your deen from.
He said, "By Allaah I don't see anything that we were doing in the time of the Prophet salallahu alaihi
wasallam that the Muslims are doing except that they pray together. Meaning that many of the sunan many
of the practices that they were doing in the time of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam that individuals
were not doing it and what was left was that they were just praying together. This is Abu Darda's statement
while he is at the period which is close to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam and there were a lot of
sahabahs still alive and the re were many tabi'een so what about now one thousand four hundred years after
that are the people the general masses upon sunnah? Are the general masses upon knowledge?
Are the general masses people that we should follow? No! but we should follow the ulemaa Rabbaniyeen,
the scholars who know the deen of Allaah tabarakta wata'la we should not follow what our mothe rs were
upon our fathers were upon our relatives are upon but we should follow that which the scholars are upon.
These people are not right that they follow the general masses but we should follow the Prophet salallahu
alaihi wasallam and the one who directs us to the right. In fact what the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam
was upon are the scholars.
They are individuals that you benefit from but you are never to take their statements over the statements of
the ulemaa, of the scholars. So if we reiterate this point, the awwam the general masses don't take anything
from them but rather they should be taught, for they are ignorant.And those people who are considered
scholars but their methodology is incorrect, t heir a qeedah and manhaj is incorrect they are involved in
siyasah or politics or hizbiyyah or matters that are secretive and things of this nature they should not be
taken from for they are in reality they are part of the seventy two groups that are promised the Hellfire.
The second story is about two individuals, o ne who was righteous and the other was a sinner. And every
time the righteous one would pass by the sinner he would correct him and advice him but he would not
accept. So one day the righteous person said to him, "By Allaah, Allaah will not forgive you." So Allaah
tabarakta wata'la said, "Who is it who is bold enough to go over Me or above Me, verily I have forgiven him
and I have made your deeds nothing." So this is the righteous pe rson be cause he was ignorant he led him to
go into the area that was described by Allaah tabarakta wata'la that he would not forgive o ne of His
creatures. So Allaah tabarakta wata'la wiped away or made nothing the deeds of the obedient o ne and
forgave the disobedient one. So this shows us the importance of knowledge number o ne and that we should
acquire it and the importance of returning to the ulemaa. Don't ask anyone and everyone but ask
Raazikeena fil ilm those who are well grounded in knowledge.
Caution: Why You Should Not Take From People of Hizbiyeah and Mubtadiyah
In closing Shaykh Ahmad bin Bazmool hafidhahullah that someone might say what is wrong with
taking knowledge from the hizbiyeen and mubtadiyah (One who commits bid'ah), if they have something
beneficial to give. I'll just take the good and I will leave the bad. He said there were several issues wrong
with this. one, is that the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam warned against the ulemaa as soo or al jahaal,
taking from the evil scholars or the ignorant. And this is in a hadith in which he said, "That Allaah tabarakta
wata'la does not take the knowledge after having given it by taking it away from your hearts but by the
death of the religious learned men, the scholars, until the re will remain nothing but the ignorant people
who will contort it and will give verdicts according to their opinions and they will mislead others and they
will go astray and will lead others astray.
The second matter is that Allaah tabarakta wata'la and the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam's order of
hizbudeen , preserving ones deen. And the person who goes and sits with the innovator or hizbee is not
preserving his deen.
Thirdly, is that taking from the hizbiyeen or the innovators is that they are from the asaaghir, the small ones
and we have been forbidden or the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam indicated that from the signs of the
hour is that the people will take their knowledge from the asaaghir. And he said that the asaaghir are the
innovators.
Fourthly is that the mubtadih you cannot forsake from the fact that he will not oppose you. You will think
that he is giving you the best, but he will take you step by step until he pulls you and that is the way it has
been amongst the past (unclear).
And the fifth matter is that the person who is going there saying I will get the good and leave the bad is
ignorant. So he cannot protect himself from falling into a fitnah. So he can't protect himself from falling into
a fitnah. So for all these reasons above and more it is important that you take o nly from the scholars who
are known for the knowledge who are well grounded in their knowledge and we do not ask or take from
anyone else. And then he said hadha wa salallahu wa nabiyinah Muhammad.