Question
A Salafi once requested to take bay`t with Haji Imdadullah on condition he remains a Salafi. Hadhrat agreed. Hadhrat was later on informed that this person (Salafi) has left off loud Aameen and raising the hands. Hadhrat asked him if this is the case, and he said yes. Hadhrat said to him, "If your view and research has changed then I shall not prevent you because not saying Aameen loudly and not raising the hands is also Sunnah. However, if you have abandoned because of your relation with me, and you regard your past practice as Sunnah, then I shall not take the responsibility of abandoning a Sunnah on myself."
Answer
We too will adopt the method of Haji Imdaadullah if we are placed in a similar situation. A Shaafi may not abandon what he believes to be Sunnah merely for the sake of his Hanafi sheikh. A lackadaisical attitude towards the Math-hab's practices is to trifle with the Deen. It is haraam to abandon a practice one
believes to be Sunnah merely to appease one's sheikh or ustaadh. The muqallid has no daleel for abandoning what his Math-hab teaches to be Sunnah.
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- Source
- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- The Majlis Vol 24 No 08
- PDF page
- 10
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