Post by Admin on Jan 11, 2016 18:15:22 GMT
One of the biggest predicaments we are currently facing as an Ummah is the upsurge of people talking about matters they are unqualified to discuss. What exacerbates the problem is when, due to the extensive grip of social media, even people who wish to steer clear from such nonsense are exposed to the ridiculously off-target statements of such people without proper 'ilm. And to add insult to injury, these pseudo-scholars utter their erroneous statements with such deluded confidence, that you can't help but feel overcome by a suicidal cringe.
In the recent comical series of exchanges between Dawah Man - who has gradually evolved, or perhaps mutated into Expert-in-Every-Field Man - and Asim Hussain, on the topic of Mawlid and its permissibility, Dawah Man has made a colossal embarrassing mistake. Yes, every human is prone to error and mistakes; that's not an issue. Dawah Man could and should have been excused if it was just a slip of the tongue or a genuine error. But what's happened here is that he has launched an unrelenting attack on Asim Hussain on his "mistake" and ridiculed him, without realising he's stabbed himself in the foot, in fact taken his own foot off with one clean swipe.
Check the link below:
Dawah Man (and no, this isn't a fictional character from the X-Men) claims that: فليفرحوا in the verse of Surah Yunus is a fi'l mudaari' and tries to expose Asim Hussain for referring to it as an 'amr (command).
For anyone who has studied elementary Arabic, especially morphology (sarf), it is clear that the mudaari' يفرحون has been preceded by the Lam al-amr, which renders it an 'amr (imperative command). So to labour on about it being "present" tense (mudaari') - by the way mudaari is both present and future in case Dawah Man didn't know - is a point which loses its relevance totally. See Sharh Shudhoor al-Dhahab and Sharh ibn Aqeel under the jawaazim al-mudaari'. The point here is not to defend Asim Hussain's substantiation of his stance through the verse, but to note that he has not made the "silly mistake" Dawah Man has excitedly claimed.
Qazwini (d.739 AH) states in الايضاح:
ومن أنواع الإنشاء الأمر والاظهر أن صيغته - من المقترنة باللام نحو ليحضر زيد وغيرها نحو أكرم عمرا ورويد بكرا - موضوعة لطلب الفعل استعلاء
To cut a long story short, Dawah Man is a prime example of what happens when a person begins to speak without knowledge and starts to run before learning to crawl, let alone walk.
I'd advise him to study proper knowledge, coupled with a healthy serving of humility and the adab of the Salaf. How sad that people who don't even have a smattering of knowledge feel worthy of being able to write off the opinion of Sayyiduna Umar (radhiallahu anhu) under the false pretext of adherence to the Sunnah!!
When Imam Abu Hanifa (rahmatullahi alayhi) was asked who is better, Alqamah or Aswad, his response was: We don't consider ourselves worthy of even mentioning them; how can we even compare between them?
This is in no way a defense of Asim Hussain or those who promote some crazy practices in the name of Mawlid and love for Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam), so let that be clear too.
It is a call for both sides, and in particular Dawah Man, to stay within the ambit of their knowledge and not embarrass themselves further through glaring backfiring blunders, all in the vain hope of getting one over the other party.
And the fact that the author of this post chooses to remain anonymous should not be used as a convenient sidetracking technique to evade the objections raised. Perhaps I don't want to be entangled in a cheap attempt to fame by engaging in playground style polemics.
May Allah guide us all to the truth, allow us to accept our mistakes and to display humbleness where and when needed. Aameen.
Note: Imam Bukhari hasn't written an introduction to his Sahih, unless Dawah Man has unearthed a new manuscript or, a simpler explanation - confused the publisher's preface as Imam Bukhari's.
In the recent comical series of exchanges between Dawah Man - who has gradually evolved, or perhaps mutated into Expert-in-Every-Field Man - and Asim Hussain, on the topic of Mawlid and its permissibility, Dawah Man has made a colossal embarrassing mistake. Yes, every human is prone to error and mistakes; that's not an issue. Dawah Man could and should have been excused if it was just a slip of the tongue or a genuine error. But what's happened here is that he has launched an unrelenting attack on Asim Hussain on his "mistake" and ridiculed him, without realising he's stabbed himself in the foot, in fact taken his own foot off with one clean swipe.
Check the link below:
Dawah Man (and no, this isn't a fictional character from the X-Men) claims that: فليفرحوا in the verse of Surah Yunus is a fi'l mudaari' and tries to expose Asim Hussain for referring to it as an 'amr (command).
For anyone who has studied elementary Arabic, especially morphology (sarf), it is clear that the mudaari' يفرحون has been preceded by the Lam al-amr, which renders it an 'amr (imperative command). So to labour on about it being "present" tense (mudaari') - by the way mudaari is both present and future in case Dawah Man didn't know - is a point which loses its relevance totally. See Sharh Shudhoor al-Dhahab and Sharh ibn Aqeel under the jawaazim al-mudaari'. The point here is not to defend Asim Hussain's substantiation of his stance through the verse, but to note that he has not made the "silly mistake" Dawah Man has excitedly claimed.
Qazwini (d.739 AH) states in الايضاح:
ومن أنواع الإنشاء الأمر والاظهر أن صيغته - من المقترنة باللام نحو ليحضر زيد وغيرها نحو أكرم عمرا ورويد بكرا - موضوعة لطلب الفعل استعلاء
To cut a long story short, Dawah Man is a prime example of what happens when a person begins to speak without knowledge and starts to run before learning to crawl, let alone walk.
I'd advise him to study proper knowledge, coupled with a healthy serving of humility and the adab of the Salaf. How sad that people who don't even have a smattering of knowledge feel worthy of being able to write off the opinion of Sayyiduna Umar (radhiallahu anhu) under the false pretext of adherence to the Sunnah!!
When Imam Abu Hanifa (rahmatullahi alayhi) was asked who is better, Alqamah or Aswad, his response was: We don't consider ourselves worthy of even mentioning them; how can we even compare between them?
This is in no way a defense of Asim Hussain or those who promote some crazy practices in the name of Mawlid and love for Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam), so let that be clear too.
It is a call for both sides, and in particular Dawah Man, to stay within the ambit of their knowledge and not embarrass themselves further through glaring backfiring blunders, all in the vain hope of getting one over the other party.
And the fact that the author of this post chooses to remain anonymous should not be used as a convenient sidetracking technique to evade the objections raised. Perhaps I don't want to be entangled in a cheap attempt to fame by engaging in playground style polemics.
May Allah guide us all to the truth, allow us to accept our mistakes and to display humbleness where and when needed. Aameen.
Note: Imam Bukhari hasn't written an introduction to his Sahih, unless Dawah Man has unearthed a new manuscript or, a simpler explanation - confused the publisher's preface as Imam Bukhari's.