Post by Deoband on Apr 16, 2016 8:46:04 GMT
IJMA’ (CONSENSUS) ON ADHERING RIGIDLY TO ONE MADH-HAB
With virtually all the minor signs of the last hour prophesized by Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) having already materialised, it is manifestly clear that we are currently living in the worst of times as described in detail in the Ahadith, during which the true, original and pristine teachings of the Deen will have become Ghareeb (lone, strange, and forlorn), and the vast majority – both “Ulama” and laity – will have become enslaved to their desires.
And since the soul of a man that is enslaved to its bestial desires and bloated with Kibr (satanic pride) naturally recoils with absolute horror at the very thought of having to submit itself to a sacred, immutable set of rulings and values – adhered to diligently by the whole Ummah (minus deviant groups) for over a 1000 years – it is no surprise that the Ijma’ (consensus) enacted by the early Mujtahidoon on the obligation of Rigid Taqleed (tightly binding oneself) to one of the Four Madh-habs is becoming increasingly neglected and long forgotten.
In fact, it is the natural instinct of a Slave of Nafs (one’s bestial desires) to clutch at every straw possible, in order to acquire flexibility to escape the ruling of a Madh-hab – wherever such a ruling is particularly unpalatable to the Nafs – and opt instead for a ruling that conforms closer to the Nafs, whilst simultaneously being able to dwell under the self-deception that a “better” interpretation of Qur’an and Sunnah is being reached. And where a particular ruling is adopted which, on the surface, appears to entail some degree of difficulty and sacrifice, it is merely for the purpose of maintaining the self-deception that the Slave of Nafs is not following the Nafs at all – of course not.
Thus, each and every deviant group – whether it be the Salafis today who use “Qur’an and Sunnah” to justify the Takfeer and mass-killing of countless civilians just like the Father-Figure and “Mujaddid” of ALL Salafi sects, Ibn Abdul Wahhab, originally did – as documented by the Wahhabi historians themselves – or whether it be the fraudulent pseudo-sufis who justify their break-dancing, music-listening, hooka-smoking shenanigans by scavenging for minority opinions – ALL of them (deviant groups) acquire enough flexibility to justify their deviances only by first escaping the rigid inflexibility of having to adhere to the officially accepted rulings of one of the Four Madh-habs.
This article will provide a snapshot of the Ijma’ (consensus) that was enacted by the early Mujtahideen on the obligation of Rigid Taqleed to one of the Four Madh-habs – an obligation that was whole-heartedly accepted by each subsequent generation of the Main Body (Jama’ah) of the Ummah for over a thousand years, and which carry the full force of Rasulullah’s (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) proclamations that:
“My Ummah will never unite upon error.”
and“Whoever leaves the Jam’aah (Main Body) or separates himself from it by the length of a span, dies the death of the Jahiliyyah (the period of Kufr prior to Islam).”
The Jama’ah refers to the great body of Mujtahidoon, Fuqaha, Muhaddithoon, Mufassiroon, Auliya, throughout the ages who all adhered to one of the Four Madh-habs ever since the Ijma’ was enacted. The Jama’ah never refers to the glut of deviate groups today whose abject Kibr (satanic pride) is amply exposed by their claim, implicit or explicit, of being able to understand the Way of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) and his Sahabah (radhiyallahu anhum) better than the galaxy of Stars of Uloom who had originally enacted this Ijma’, and the galaxy of Fuqaha, Muhaddithoon, and Auliya who constituted the Jama’ah of each subsequent age, and who faithfully abided by this Ijma’ – leave aside refuting it – for a period stretching well over a thousand years.Discardence of such an emphatic Ijma’ falls under the purview of the following Ayat of the Qur’an:
“He who follows other than the path of the believers, We will hand him over to whatever he has turned to and We will roast him in the Fire. What an evil destination.”
The “path of the believers” has been for the past millennium, and shall always be, Rigid Taqleed to one of the Four Madh-habs – a path treaded by the righteous of the entire Ummah throughout the course of Islamic history. And the path of the Ahlul Bid’ah (deviates) and Zindeeqs (heretics) will always be the path that seeks loopholes, excuses and ploys to abandon such Rigid Taqleed.
One such ploy employed by modernist deviates and heretics is scouring through Islamic history for the rulings of a minority of scholars which might have conflicted with the Ijma’. The futile, deceptive and plainly inept attempts of modernist deviates to portray such a minority as the majority will be dismantled in a separate article insha-Allah.
For now, we shall suffice in stating that despite such minority opinions having existed in the same way as isolated and minority opinions do exist for the permissibility of music, drinking alcohol, forms of zina, killing civilians, and countless other transgressions, such errant, minority opinions have absolutely no impact on an Ijma’ that had already been enacted earlier and which was then clearly and explicitly transmitted by reliable and truthful authorities as shall be demonstrated below – an Ijma’ that subsequently went onto acquire the categorical and undeniable acceptance of the Main Body (Jama’ah) of the Ummah – the righteous scholars and authorities – of each and every age, and will continue to do so till near the End of Times, during which only the Ghurabaa (strange, lone, forlorn ones) will constitute the Jama’ah.
THE IJMA’ ENACTED BY THE EARLY MUJTAHIDOON –
A SNAPSHOT
We shall begin with Imam Nawawi, one of the most authoritative and unquestionably reliable transmitters of the rulings of the early Mujtahidoon, particularly those of the Shafi’i Madh-hab. In the following statement, Imam Nawawi explicitly ascribes to the “As-haab” the view of rigid adherence to one Madh-hab:
Continued in link below and much more to be added soon insha-Allah:
reliablefatwas.com/ijma-consensus-on-adhering-rigidly-to-one-madh-hab/