Brother Brother, I admire your words however I have to comment on one thing to say that he is not a Scholar !! Do you think that just getting a Certificate from Darul Uloom or Al-Azhar etc etc just makes you a scholar ... No Disrespect to the scholars who are practicing however I have known and seen Students and So called minority of certificate holders to go along way astray, you must have come across some in your life-time too.. I have also known & seen People with very little knowledge compared to them however they are very very practical in there Deen Mashallah... There are people who have alot of knowledge who study Islam who look into things further.. The knowledge of Islam is not Bound to just Madrasa's .. .. There was a person called Khidr who once said to Musa AS the knowledge of what me & you have is like the knowledge of a drop of water in the Ocean . . So just because he is not looked upon by the majority of scholars as a sheik that does not mean he is not regarded by Allah as an Ulama ... Know this that there are many elements in Islam that even our Scholars in this will not be capable to Understand or will not have the time and will not put the effort in to find out in this day & Age.. There are many many obstacles stopping them, You can not even compare an Alim of our time even tho they spend 10 yrs of there life in Madrasa to an Alim in the previous centuries.. They spent there whole life studying I mean 30yrs-40yrs and then still maybe all there knowledge may not have been passed down.. However alot of them Documented there research which is helpful. . I am just saying for example you have a Uni Student who has completed his Masters/PHD then you have a person who has not Gone all the way to Uni however has finished High school and then began working for some corporate company etc ... In the 7 yrs the PHD student has graduated this Average person who he will be called has achieved Directorship by working his way up the ladder via Promotion and work experience.. You see Even the West knows this is how the Real world is.. It isnt all about cetificates etc.. It is to do with practicality as well.. I hope i havent bragged on too long...