Shaykh
Ahmad ibn Bazmool
Transcription
by: Umm Yusuf min Sri Lanka
The shaykh
hafidhahullah then stated that this issue of knowing merely the groups and the
likes is a very important subject. It is taken from the statement of Muhammad
ibn Sareeh rahimahullah this is a matter or this knowledge is a matter of deen,
so be careful who you take your deen from. This matter is a matter of deen, so
be careful who you take your deen from. So this is how important this issue is.
Is that the knowledge when one takes from someone or one hears from someone
or one learns from someone that knowledge is going to be deen something that
is going to weighty on the Day of Judgment something that he is going to meet
Allaah with so it is important that he takes his knowledge only from those who
are known to have knowledge. And who are known to have taqwa and who are known
to be upon righteousness, because what he takes is going to be his path to the
Hereafter so look to who you take your deen from means that a Muslim must look
and takes his deen from Ahlus sunnah, the salafiyoon the ones who follow the
salaf us salih and secondly that the one that he takes his deen from is
someone who has knowledge, known for knowledge, known for being upright and
known for having taqwa. This knowledge is a matter of deen so be careful who
you take your deen from.
Then the
shaykh Ahmad bin Bazmool hafidhahullah ta’ala stated that Imaam Malik
rahimahullah mentions in the introduction of Saheeh Imaam Muslim that there was
in Madinah a hundred men that were pointed to by the people as being
worshippers and being people who were righteous and being people having
abstinence from the dunya but no one would take knowledge from them. This
statement by Imaam Malik rahimahullah is saying, that it is not enough for a
person to be known for worship and being known for having abstinence from the
dunya and being known for the outward expression of his worship that you take
from him. That these people were known for that and these people pointed to
them for that but no one would take their affairs from them because it was not
from their affair. Their affair was worshipping and righteousness but their
affair was not knowledge. He said that if we would understand that any of us who
would see a brother who has his thobe properly clad and the length of his beard
is long we would think that he is a scholar of his time of the mufti of his
area and this is a great mistake.
Then the
shaykh Ahmad bin Bazmool hafidhahullah ta’ala states that there is no doubt
that is obligatory upon the people to learn ilmi shar’ee, Islamic knowledge and
this is based on the Quraanic verse, Allaah subhana wata’alah says “Ask the
people of knowledge if you do not know.” And it is based upon the statement of
Prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam “that seeking knowledge is an
obligation upon every Muslim”. And a man came to Imaam Malik rahimahullah and
said, “I want to seek knowledge” and Imaam Malik rahimahullah told him start
with that which you needfor your night and your day because he means that the
areas of knowledge are many and extensive and what is important is what you
need is for your night and your day. And of course the first thing that you
need is Tawheed, because it is the basis for all actions. And then you need
taharah the proper way to purify yourself and then you need the proper manner
of how to make salaah and like this.
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 individuals from whom we should take are knowledge from.
Shaykh
Ahmad bin Bazmool hafidhahullah ta’ala then went on to say that in reality the
weakness of this ummah and the humiliation of this ummah is because of the
ignorance of the ummah regarding this deen. It is not like some people say that
the weakness of the ummah is because it does not have the physical strength or
the weakness of the ummah is due to the fact that the disbelievers are
conspiring against it. The shaykh says no, the weakness of the ummah is from
inside the ummah, that the ummah does not have knowledge of deen . This ummah
does not support Allaah so Allaah does not support it. As Allaah says in the
Qur’aan, “If you support Allaah, Allaah will support you and will make your
foothold firm. He said that the scholars say, that supporting Allaah means
learning the deen, the ahkam the regulations of the deen, acting upon the deen and
studying the deen. He says it is not like those people think that what we need
to do is concentrate on the materialistic issues and if we knew about the
strategies and conspiracies of the disbelievers and their political plans and
we had a system arranged with all sort of leaders and the like that that will
solve our problems. He said no, it is clear that humiliation comes from
ourselves. 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 into 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.
Shaykh
Ahmad bin Bazmool hafidhahullah ta’ala went on to say so we know and
understand this. There is a very important point that we must understand and
that is that it is forbidden for anyone who does not have knowledge to talk.
That is if he is jaahil ignorant is forbidden to talk in the matters of the
deen. And this is something very clear from the Qur’aanic verses in which
Allaah says, “Do not talk about those matters which you have no knowledge,
verily regarding the hearing, the heart and the talk all of these matters a
person will be questioned about.” And then Allaah subhana wata’alah mentions
the forbidden matters after mentioning al fawaahish outwardly and inwardly and
mentioning other matters and He says and to ascribe to Allaah that which he has
no authority or that you commit shirk and then He says and you speak about
Allaah when you have been forbidden that you speak about Allaah when you have
no knowledge. He said that the scholars have got from this that speaking about
Allaah without knowledge is worse than shirk. Speaking about Allaah without
knowledge is worse than shirk, for two reasons one 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 one of his companions on 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 asking.”
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
preceded, the one 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 matter is a matter of knowledge of
deen so be careful who you take your deen from.
He said
also in our daily life we had a medical situation or whatever, will we go to a
mechanic ?, and if we had a problem with our car will we go to a farmer? and if
we wanted to construct a house will we go to someone who is a specialist in
cleaning?. No, we will go to each individual who has a specialty in which they
are specialist in. So when it comes to an issue of deen we must go to the
ulemaa we must go to the scholars. And it is not right to say ask anybody or to
do what everybody else is doing this is a major mistake also. As comes in a
narration of Abu Darda raliallahu anhu in this in the khilafa of Uthmaan
raliallahu anhu in the time of Uthmaan raliallahu anhu when he went to the
masjid and he prayed and he saw some tabi’een praying but they were not praying
according to the sunnah. There salaah was not the salaah according to the
sunnah. Abu Darda went home angry. And when Umm Darda raliallahu anha saw him
she said, “What has made you angry, what has caused you to get angry.” 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 there 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 mothers 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.
Then
Shaykh Ahmad bin Bazmool hafidhahullah stated that the people are of two types.
The awwam or the general laymen who have no knowledge and the tullabul ilm, al
ulemaa they are together, tullabul ilm students of knowledge and the ulemaa.
Now the ulemaa and the students are of two types. The ulemaa who are not in
reality scholars and those are the ones who have hizbiyyah or innovation or
partisanship or politics or this movement oriented overthrowing governments and
blowing up things and things of this nature and bid’ah and mistakes in their
aqeedah and their manhaj. These individuals should never be taken from
whatsoever. The second is the tullabul ilm and the ulemaa who are upon the
sunnah, salafiyeen upon the way of the salaf us saalih . They are upon the way
of the sunnah and on the way of the salaf us saalih. These individuals the
scholars are the source that you go to. The students of knowledge are actually
made a (unclear ) source. 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, their 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.
Rather the
one that should be taken from are the tullabul ilm and ulemaa who are upon the
sunnah and who are upon the way of the salaf us saalih. But the distinction
must be made that we take the words of the ulemaa over the words of the student
of knowledge. For instance Kibar ulemaa the Great body of Scholars like Shaykh
Rabee for example says something then we take what he has said and what they
have said because they are the greater scholars. And it is not right to take
what a student of knowledge says just because he is salafee unless he has some
clear evidence that he has stated that the scholars have missed. But if
generally speaking the people have of taking the students of knowledge because
he is salafee over the scholars is a great mistake.
Shaykh
Ahmad bin Bazmool hafidhahullah said this issue of importance of returning to
the people of ilm , returning in going to the people of knowledge as a source
in going back to them we have two stories from the Prophet Muhammad salallahu
alaihi wasallam regarding this issue. one is the story regarding the man from
before us from Bani Israel who had killed 99 individuals and he wanted to get
to Allaah tabarakta wata’la so he found an aabid a worshipper, he said notice an
aabid a worshipper not an aalim a scholar. A worshipper who was worshipping in
seclusion and he said to him, “I have killed 99 individuals, is there any means
for me to repent to Allaah to make Taubah”. So this aabid who was ignorant
said, “No”. So he killed him and he completed a hundred individuals. So then he
went to a scholar and saying to the scholar I have killed a hundred individuals
is there any means for me to repent. The aalim said what is(unclear)between you
and making Taubah to Allaah. Of course you can make taubah but you are in a
land that is evil and it is upon you to go to such and such land where there
are righteous people who worship Allaah so you go there and worship Allaah with
them.” So this shows you the issue of going to the scholar verses going to
someone who is ignorant.
The second
story is about two individuals, one 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 person because he was ignorant he led him to go into the area
that was described by Allaah tabarakta wata’la that he would not forgive one
of His creatures. So Allaah tabarakta wata’la wiped away or made nothing the
deeds of the obedient one and forgave the disobedient one. So this shows us
the importance of knowledge number one 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.
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 there 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 only 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.
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