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To SASLAMS/sh.Abdoeragmaan,Colonel_Hardstone n co.

I have noticed that there is a trend developing here,that whenever I post something,people deem it necessary to derail the thread by bringing The Majlis into the picture.I encourage people to read The Majlis for amongst others:

the author generally does not pass any fatwa under any pressure.he does not care who it is,and says it as he sees it.

as far as I know,he is financially independent,which allows him to do what he does.

I have found very few ulama who have researched and authored as extensively as he has done.hence I quote from him many times.

I have no affiliation with him,and have only met him twice or thrice,coupled with greeting him when I see him at the eid gah.

If I follow a different mufti's fatwa on a certain issue than it would be really ludicrous to make claims like 'the majlis crowd are 2 faced'.besides it is downright stupid to suggest that it is hypocracy to acknowledge and promote the fatwa of a scholar whith who there are difference on another issue.I wonder where the ummah will be if we all the scholars adopt this approach.

A certain member of SF posted this:

'One of their affiliates in one lecture spoke against secular education in totality including the islamic schools. It’s easy for a millionaire mufti with a change stores all over the country selling clothing that entices men. He doesn’t want dunyawi knowledge but his dunya is built on haraam clothing.'[/QUOTE]
I challenge this member to tell us who this majlis affiliate is or at least name the 'change' store he has.It's easy to go around making blanket unsubstatiated slanderous,sensationalistic and scandalous statements regarding a particular group to play with people's emotions and score cheap points.I'd also challenge this individual to provide proof that majlis has sanctioned the supposed wrong actions of the said aalim.Don't throw around words like swine,varkvleis and petticoats e.t.c. without context.They should be reproduced with the sentence they were placed in and their respective contexts.
[edit:]on that point, Is this the criteria of halal/haraam that the MJC uses when raising funds?

This is the advice of Mufti Ebrahim- http://www.askimam.org/fatwa/fatwa.p...3f423e610832d4

It should also be pointed out that differences of opinions among academics is regarded as academic honesty. This is common even among academics in secular qualifications. The different views among the Ulama, based on academics is a mercy upon the ummah and should be tolerated. If other Ulama have differing views from Hazrath’s views and both are based on academic substantiations, then it will be incorrect to brand any one view as being an extreme view. While we concur with Hazrath on the issue of television and open wrongs of television and radio stations, we may differ with him on other issues. However, we will respect his view and tolerate it as Hazrath’s views are generally substantiated by Shariah. I've personally heard Mufti A.K.Hoosein and read the writings of Mufti Elias,both who have come under severe cticism from the majlis,definitely more than that directed at Mufti Taqi and iirc,more than that directed to even Ml.Taha,stating to the effect that Ml. is a scholar of high calibre and praising his scholarship.btw,because that a similar view was shared to me by Ml.Ighsaan Hendriks days before the MJC condemned the majlis at a press conference.
Ml.Desai did not appear on the scene last night.His been serving the deen for decades and at 71,is one of the senior ulama.You might not know,but in the days when Islamic literature were few and far between,and many of us were not yet born,and when most of our parents and grandparents were ignorant of the deen,and when the community was completely infested with bid'aat,those were the days when majlis was either translating/publishing/authoring books on aqidah,fiqh,ahlaaq e.t.c. which were used to teach children in madressah or which were used in the publishing of later books by others.The days when ulama were not open against bid'aat e.t.c. those were the days majlis openly condemned it,and today we are where we are.multitudes learnt how to perform salaah,ghusl and aqidah from the efforts of the majlis in S.A. and abroad.He even spent time in prison and had his liberties curtailed because of his service to the deen.As far as I am concerned,I won't take part in condemning the man and I make an effrot not to take part in condemning any aalim for that matter.Majlis has nothing to prove to anyone,he has done his fair share for the ummah.

I do not need a mufti on SF or SASLAMS and his like to indicate to me that I should not consider the particular scholar.I would also challenge the mufti to spend half the wealth and time Ml.Desai has spent in the service of the deen and to match the scholarship of Mufti A.K. before he deems appropriate to indicate whether anybody should consider the said scholar or not.


My parting point is that please do not derail threads in which I post by deflecting attention to irrelatives.And I frankly don't care if you don't care what majlis says.my above post is in defence of an aalim of the deen and Allah will reward me for it.


was salaam.