brother KS I have been forced to reply because of your comments:
1. This is the 2nd time you have dragged a whole silsila in just because of what some individuals have done. Can't you give it a rest? what's mawlana Ilyas or madni miyan got to do with this thread?
If you had to say something in defence of mawlana usaid sahib (rahimahullah) you should have done that instead of telling everyone else is committing errors too. that 's not news, is it? and you seem to have overlooked Hashmi Miya's meeting with known minhaji supporters. But that's neither here nor there. I think most people on this forum have agreed that we do not follow personalities - WHOEVER they may be.
2. Your are simply parroting DI members about non-scholars not being qualified to refute. there are many other things that non-scholars are not supposed to do but that's not spoken about. anyways, who's the non-scholar?
"Ikkeeswi sadee ki azeem 'ilmi aur roohani shaksiyyat, shaykh-e-tareeqat, ameer-e-ahle-sunnat................."?
doesn't match up does it? besides I have posted elsewhere how Shaykh Asra's own statement that DI was founded at the behest Allama Arshad is not accepted by the DI members. In their 'history of DI' they simply removed his name. I had posted the link, you can check for yourself.
Then listen to this video:
http://sunniport.com/masabih/showpost.php?p=44276&postcount=23 you will note the carefully chosen words - and something else if you listen in objectively. the reason stated by mawlana ilyas as to why he chose mawlana ziyaudeen madani instead of mufti-e-aazam-e-hind for bayah is also quite interesting, you may want to enlighten yourself about it.
and you have read 'fatwa-africa', yeah? can you tell the DI scholars what the difference between a shaykh-e-isaal and shaykh-e-ittisaal is? because in one episode dedicated to discussing the topic of peeri-mureedi they seemed to think that every peer - even mawlana ilyas - is should be given absolute obedience - like the corpse in the hands of the
ghassaal! they apply all those stipulations that are for a shaykh-e-murabbih to others.
and aren't the attaris also ridawis at the end of the day?
then you have mawlana ilyas stating that he is not sure that Shaykh Fariduddeen Attar is a wali-Allah and then saying
'I take back my words in which I called him a wali because no one, to the best of my knowledge, has said that he is a wali!' And what about the DI, across it ranks, calling mawlana Ilyas a
wali-e-Kamil at the drop of a hat?
finally, the only reason a sunni scholar is ever given air-time on madani channel, is when they are praising mawalana ilyas. that's all they are supposed to do. Hsahmi Miyan is good, Mawlana Kaukab noorani is good, Sayyid Muzaffar Hussain Shah is good, Mufti Shams ul Huda is good - but not good enough to be given half an hours of lecture time on their channel, no this
'channel of sunnis' is reserved for the DI only. I don't get it. maybe you can.
3. Anything you want to say to mawlana qasim, can't it be said in another thread?
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I know that all this could have some innocent interpretations and I don't want to destroy my akhira by insisting that the people I talked about above are dunyadaar or bigoted. at any rate, all of them are loads better than poor myself.
the point is: two wrongs do not make a right. I expected you to be more cautious than this. why do you fire up every time someone criticises a non-ridawi? does prudence not demand us to be academic, as both aH and QHR were? at the least this keeps pot-stirrers like nawaz at bay.
I respect you immensely and though my answer might make you feel that I am refuting you rest assured that it is not so, I only want you to be reasonable.
Allah knows best.
Wassalaam.