Ramadan Special: Tales of Sufi Wisdom

He was concerned with seeking reports and he traveled for that purpose. With regard to fiqh and examining and analyzing reports, he was the ultimate and people depended on him in that, as Imam al-Dhahabi said: “It would take two volumes to tell the story of his life, may Allaah be pleased with him and have mercy on him.�

He was an imam who was eloquent and well spoken. His student Abu Yoosuf described him as follows: “He was the most well-spoken of the people and the most clear in expressing himself. He was pious and very protective with regard to transgression of the sacred limits of Allaah. He was offered worldly gains and a great deal of wealth, but he turned his back on it. He was whipped to force him to accept the position of judge or controller of the bayt al-maal (treasury of the Islamic state) but he refused.

Answer:
Praise be to Allaah.

Imam Abu Haneefah is the great faqeeh and scholar of Iraq, Abu Haneefah al-Nu’maan ibn Thaabit al-Taymi al-Kufi. He was born in the year 80 AH, during the lifetime of some of the younger Sahaabah and saw Anas ibn Maalik when he came to them in Kufa. He narrated from ‘Ata’ ibn Abi Rabaah, who was his greatest Shaykh, and from al-Shu’bi and many others.

Some people claim that wahabis disrespect the greatest faqeeh of all times..Imam abu hanifa of kufa...i searched this from www.islam-qa.com..the same wahabi site....


Question:
We hope that you could give us a brief overview of Imam Abu Haneefah and his madhhab, because I hear some people criticizing this madhhab because he relies too much on qiyaas (analogy) and ra’y (opinion).

even a very fine joke cannot made me laughed to an extent when i heard that in pakistan there are mosques in which from other" maslak" namazi entered by mistake and offer prayer , the "grand ulema committe" set up an emergency meeting on this " serious issue" and as a result the "decision" taken usually is that to wash the whole mosque with water in order to "pure" the mosque.................Remember when "Banu najran" christians aked our
prophet(peace be upon him) to worship in masjid_e_nabwi , he happily allowed them..................

How foolish we are !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If 95% of our population do not say prayer (even in home , not to ask about a mosque) , then this is not a matter of any consideration....................!!!!!!!!!!!!

the real matter is """" if you do rafa yadain """"" or """aameen billjahar""""
or not...............

or """"where you put your hands on chest or little below"""""""""""


you see , these are the """"real matters""" but we keep ourself busy in other"" minor matters""

we are happy because..............
*In every summer vacation ,we have "Umra trip" in which we enjoy shopping at dubai , take some gold jewellery of ARY gold , visit shopping malls of Jeddah as well as " remove our sins" per year.And on retun we say that with great humbleness " Ji Allah ka bara karam hai"

*in our groceery stores we make black money , zakeera andozi , less weight , but you see , we are not 100% fraud , we give ""ZAKAT" and ""SADQA"" out of it
to purify these "minor" things in our stores and on the face of the store , the bright green and red Neon sign lits on night to say""""HA ZA MIN FAZL_E_RABBI""""

in pakistan,
* no body knows his neigbour is hungry from two days
* no body cares about the poverty which took the youth to robbery and mobile snatching
* no body bothers about how many young girls become over-age because of lack of money for dowry.(jahaiz)
* no body thinks about how many poor children are compelled to child labour for poverty.
*no body likes to talk about the consequence of cable tv and blue films in every nook and corner of this country due to which rape cases have increased to alrming rates
*no body wants to talk about difficulties middle class family in this age.
*no body consider the due to cable tv the youth has shattered psychologically, mentally and in every aspect
* no body take care about the roads flooded with" new cars of leasing froms bank" as interest(sood) is minor thing.
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no body bothers about that because these are "" minor "" issues.
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the "major" issues are " are prophet(peace be upon him) noori or not?
or is he know the knowledge of " ghaib" or not?

so we all keep our nerves burning in "these major issues".........

But i must say that according to hadees out of 73 sects 72 will go to hell and 1 will go to jannah and this will be the one who follow the prophet((peace be upon him) and his sahaba.So we all sould try as much as possible to follow the prophet (peace be upon him) and sahaba and if their is conflict in sahaba follow anyone will inshallah will be correct as in hadees " my sahabas are like stars in the sky , follow anyone will give you the true path"
And most importantly is , if their is conflict in hadees some say it is "zaeef" and some say it is "shaeeh" then if your intention is to follow sunnah then inshallah Allah will definitely reward you if you act upon anyone , for( inna mal aamalo binniyat ) that is" ammakl ka daromaar niyatton par hai."

once written this on paklinks...again producing it here..


will we keep on fighting on issues like deobandi , brelvi and such stupidities?????

if a man who truly follows a quran and ahadees we call him a wahabi.???I am myself a "sunni from hanafi school of thought" but why world oppse wahabis so much....because they strictly follow quran and ahadees.But they follow mostly Bukhari and Muslim shareef , a 100% true texts of hadees and we all also consider ahadees which are not 100% shaheeh say 70 or 80% saheeh .In examinations you even pass of 33% or 40% so this is the only difference but "yaar log to rai ka pahar bana daitay hain".so plz. go on these minor issuses of " rafa yadain" and " ameen biljahar" , there are ahadees in their favour and not in their favour.But the degree of shaheeh is different.So in my opinion , all are correct , as far as your intention is , to follow the sunnah of prophet(peace be upon him).With this in mind , in my humble opinion , Allah will definitely reward you.Inshallah.

No majumdar sahib..i am really very sinful ...cannot do anything...i am not equal to dust of thier feet...

now..see..this is an answer from pure wahabi site..but see ..how he is praising the greateness of this great saint....

point is...we should not go opposition to such extent that ...just start fatwas of kufr and deviants on others...

By comparing the actions of those who claim to follow the shaykh with what is narrated in the Qur’aan and Sunnah, what was narrated from the righteous salaf and even what was narrated from the Shaykh himself (may Allaah have mercy on him), we will clearly see that there is a huge gap between the two, and that the Qaadiri group has deviated from the path of its shaykh whom they claim to be following. That is because they have introduced so many innovations (bid’ahs) into the religion of Allaah, that the Shaykh would never have approved of. It has been narrated from the respectable scholars that they regarded this group as extreme, for example what was said by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah have mercy on him) in his refutation of al-Bakri concerning the issue of ziyaarah or visiting graves (1/228), and in the fatwas of Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ibraaheem Aal al-Shaykh, indicates that they have committed some actions of shirk.


See: Fataawa Ibn Ibraaheem, 1/276, 109

Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 2/250-252

Al-Durar al-Sunniyyah, 1/74

There is a point which we must make here, which is that praising Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qaadir does not mean praising everyone who claims to follow him. Not everyone who claims to follow a shaykh or a tareeqah or anything else is to be believed. How often has it happened that a person who is thought to be a true follower turned out to be the farthest removed from what was thought to be the case? How many misleading people don the cloak of asceticism and piety when they have nothing to do with either of them? Hence the Sufi tareeqah which is known nowadays as the Qaadiriyyah is not following the straight path which the Shaykh (may Allaah have mercy on him) followed, rather it is a deviant Sufi tareeqah which has deviated from the guidance of the Qur’aan and Sunnah; it exaggerates a great deal about Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qaadir and even attributes to him things that can only rightfully be attributed to Allaah. Some of them exaggerate concerning his grave, seeking help from it, and some of them exaggerate about his attributes and miracles (karaamah).

Moreover, it is not right to make one Muslim scholar, let alone anyone else, the sole source of what is true and correct, in the sense that one takes what he says as being true and what goes against that as being false – not Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qaadir and not anyone else. Rather the truth is that which is in accordance with the Qur’aan and Sunnah, no matter who says it, and what goes against the Qur’aan and Sunnah should be ignored and avoided, even if it is said by ‘Abd al-Qaadir al-Jilaani, Maalik, al-Shaafa’i, Ahmad or anyone else.

Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qaadir agreed with Ahl al-Sunnah wa’l-Jamaa’ah – the followers of truth – concerning all issues of ‘aqeedah (belief), namely Tawheed, faith, Prophethood, and the Last Day.

There are some minor mistakes and errors in his books, and some innovations which are relatively insignificant when compared with his achievements. To find out more about them, along with an explanation of where he went wrong, please see Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qaadir al-Jilaani wa Araa’uhu al-I’tidaaqiyyah wa’l-Soofiyyah, by Shaykh Dr. Sa’eed ibn Musfir al-Qahtaani, 440-476.