Dr Ali bin Muhammad bin Nasir al-Faqihi, when asked about the
reasons for the presence of doubts about the scholars – in the context of ruling
by the Shari’ah of Allaah and the desire of the political activists to establish
it, replied: "Verily, the way of these people is just like those of the very
first times in that they desire to separate the youth from the Scholars when
they say, ‘the scholars do not understanding anything’ and when they speak evil
about the key figures of the Ummah from amongst the Scholars. They also cause
doubts about these scholars by their actions, so they say, ‘they do not
understand anything of current affairs, and nor of the affairs of the society or
what Islaam requires [in the current times], they only understand specific
issues’ such as what is said for example, ‘the issues of womens menses and
impurities’.
Something similar was stated by their likes (of the earlier
times) as occurs in the book of ash-Shatibi ‘al-I’tisam’ when he mentions about
a person from the Innovators that he said, ‘the thought of Ibn Seereen and
Hasan al-Basri is one that does not extend beyond the cloths of
menstruation!! And another one said, ‘Certainly, the thought of
ash-Shafi’ee and Abu Haneefah does not go beyond the women’s
undergarments’!!
This is what is meant, that those scholars, such as Hasan
al-Basri, Ibn Seereen, Imaam ash-Shafi’ee, Imaam Abu Haneefah, those who are
leaders of the Ummah, they say about them that they do not understand anything
but that.
As for these contemporary ones, then they have come out with
the same claims but with different ways and means. So they say, ‘These scholars
do not understanding anything of current affairs, fiqh ul-waqi’, all they know
is this particular fiqh, that of women’s menses and impurities.
So the purpose behind this is to separate the youth from the
scholars, for when they have achieved such a separation between the youth and
the scholars who give them understanding of the religion of Allaah, it then
becomes possible for them to make them confused and enter them into whatever
ideas they wish. And in such a manner have succeeded, because they have
separated the society from this particular scholar or that one.
And the mischief-makers are capable of spreading whatever ideas
they wish amongst the youth – because when the minds of the youth are corrupted,
they fall into errors by which they harm themselves, the society they live in
and the da’wah too. This is because these youth begin to seek understandings
from each other, reading the hadeeths to one another and extracting the rulings
from them (by themselves), and then begin implementing all this, in their views
and in their desires. Yet if they had returned to the scholars, they would have
explained all of this to them.
And the Khawarij, when they read the hadeeth, "One who
fornicates, does not do so while he is a believer…", they said that such a one
is a disbeliever, and they built their principle upon this. However, if there
was a scholar amongst them, he would have said, "Come, there is another hadeeth,
reported by Abu Dharr himself, ‘Whoever dies upon Tawhid will enter Paradise,
even if he fornicated and stole’."
Therefore, the scholars are the ones who explain matters to the
youth. But as for these people, then they cause doubts about the key figures of
the Ummah, their goal being to separate the youth from the scholars so that they
eventually do not understand anything and then begin to follow them in whatever
they desire." (al-Furqan no. 101)
The Stratagem of the Activists in Ascribing Ignorance to the Imaams of Ahl us-Sunnah