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**PHOTOSHOPoem** · 05-10-2010, 09:40 PM

Same verse answers both questions.

وَمَآ أَرۡسَلۡنَا مِن قَبۡلِكَ إِلَّا رِجَالاً۬ نُّوحِىٓ إِلَيۡہِمۡ*ۚ فَسۡـَٔلُوٓاْ أَهۡلَ ٱلذِّكۡرِ إِن كُنتُمۡ لَا تَعۡلَمُونَ

[16:43] We did not send (messengers) before you other than men whom We inspired with revelation. So, ask the people (having the knowledge) of the Reminder, if you do not know.

Allah (SWT) has commanded me to ask the Scholars about what I don't know.

All Scholars around me are Hanafi therefore I follow the Hanafi Madhab.

Otherwise my choices are to either rely on "Shaykh google" or go out of my way and seek Scholars who are not Hanafi. Both choices are not substantiated from the Qur'aan & Sunnah i.e. :

a) I am supposed to seek trustworthy sources of knowledge and I don't know who runs what on the Internet

b) Islamic Shariah does not oblige me to ignore many Scholars around me (for no reason) and seek other ones i.e. that sort of hardship has not been stipulated in the Shariah.

JazakAllah khayr,
Brother what about people living in Western Europe for example Belgium/Holland/Deutschland countries heavily dominated by the ''Salafee religious scene'' no traditional religious scholars around i can pretty much say i am in such a situation. i have to rely on the internet and translated books for example.

05-10-2010, 09:40 PM	#12
PHOTOSHOPoem Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 369 Senior Member	Same verse answers both questions. وَمَآ أَرۡسَلۡنَا مِن قَبۡلِكَ إِلَّا رِجَالاً۬ نُّوحِىٓ إِلَيۡہِمۡ*ۚ فَسۡـَٔلُوٓاْ أَهۡلَ ٱلذِّكۡرِ إِن كُنتُمۡ لَا تَعۡلَمُونَ [16:43] We did not send (messengers) before you other than men whom We inspired with revelation. So, ask the people (having the knowledge) of the Reminder, if you do not know. Allah (SWT) has commanded me to ask the Scholars about what I don't know. All Scholars around me are Hanafi therefore I follow the Hanafi Madhab. Otherwise my choices are to either rely on "Shaykh google" or go out of my way and seek Scholars who are not Hanafi. Both choices are not substantiated from the Qur'aan & Sunnah i.e. : a) I am supposed to seek trustworthy sources of knowledge and I don't know who runs what on the Internet b) Islamic Shariah does not oblige me to ignore many Scholars around me (for no reason) and seek other ones i.e. that sort of hardship has not been stipulated in the Shariah. JazakAllah khayr, Brother what about people living in Western Europe for example Belgium/Holland/Deutschland countries heavily dominated by the ''Salafee religious scene'' no traditional religious scholars around i can pretty much say i am in such a situation. i have to rely on the internet and translated books for example.
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