Ask Mufti Tariq Masood Question: Should a Hafiz become a scholar
or gain professional education- This question has been asked before- Punishment for those
who speak ill of Islamic scholars- Saima Ali from India- Some people say that those who
speak ill of Hafiz and Scholars, their 7 generations will never become a Hafiz, is it true?
Answer: There is no such hadith or experience that the personwho speaks ill of scholars,
his next 7 generations can not become one.
For those who speak ill of scholars, he has 2 dangers around him all the time , first
that Allah may snatch his faith from him.
There is a huge risk of this.
The reason is that scholars mean those people who know and preach Islam, obviously I am
referring to those who guide to the right path.
When you speak ill of scholars it means that you do not respect and honour Islam.
Such acts have the effects on you gradually.
Because scholars teach you Islam.
Like you want to get treated by doctors, your house designed by civil engineers, and every
field has its experts.
Politicians are for other things.
So when it comes to learning deen, no one can teach it like them So when you speak ill
of them day and night and disrespect them then the respect of scholars will end from
your heart first.
And when this happens, respect of Islam ends too.
And when respect of Islam ends in your heart, Allah may take away the blessing of imaan/faith
from you.
Allah says in Quran Majeed that when one of you leaves the deen then Allah sends those
people who love Allah, this shows that when there is love ,the person doesn’t leave
the deen.
So love of scholars means love of religion.
This is something very dangerous.
The first riskis that your iman/faith may be taken away from you before your death.
2nd is that your children will not respect you.
When you do not respect the honorable people,your children will learn this behavior.
See the households of liberal people who speak Ill of scholars, their own children do not
respect them.
When you honor the scholars, your children will honor you too.
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Hadith says to value the people what they deserve.
When your children do not respect you then they will be deprived of deen.
As when they see their mother and father, that they both do not respect the scholars
then they lose the respect for Islam aswell.
So there is the risk that blessings and righteousness may be taken away from your children and they
may not become scholars or Hafiz and the result will be like that of most cases; scholars
and Hafiz are not born in their generations usually.
This isn’t the routine but it may be a curse.
So these 2 are the dangers for those who speak ill of scholars.
This is a very sensitive matter.
Senior scholars should be treated with utmost respect and you should never leave the boundaries
of honour.
Question: Why are muslims in a downfall?
Quran says that if you are a momin then you will stay above.
But nowadays we are in a downfall.
So does this mean that no one among us is a momin?
– Muaaz from Karachi Answer: The reality is that
the momin that Allah wants us to become, we are not that.
Yes we are momin as we have faith in Allah, Prophet,Day of judgement.
As Quran mentions Allah will bless you if you are a momin so it refers to being a complete
momin here.
Muslims do not have that uniformity in levels of faith nowadays.
Individually you may see a lot of people who are pious but collectively, we are not acting
on deen.
The majority doent even pray salah.
The majority abandons the rules set for inheritance.
Majority of women don’t do purdah.
Lying is common.
There is bribery aswell.
So how are we muslims ? Allah will fulfill the promise when we correct ourselves and
our actions.
Once we do it, Allah will make us rise.
Correcting our acts includes that we need to see what ways we are using to gain prosperity
. IF we do not choose the right path then this act is also eligible for punishments.
A man once said that I am so pious but still I face trouble in earning livelihood.
I asked him why don’t you search for some work?
Why don’t you do a business?
He said that Allah says whoever practices to become pious, I will bless him from sources
that he can not imagine.
Taqwa here includes that when it is farz to earn, you have to try for it.
So if you do not try for it, it itself is a sin.
So becoming a pious man includes that you for that work what you want.