Sayyid Irfan Shah's services and his previous robust stand against shias/tafdhilis should not be belittled.
that would have been the case if he didn't himself undo that very good work of the past.
if he just resorted to galis on a personal matter or another matter, we could've consoled ourselves 'at least he stands up to the wahabis, rafidis and the tafdilis' but he has attacked those very aqaid he defended in the past. he has really done rujoo3 from Sunniyat by attacking the 3aqidah of ma3soomiyat
I don't know whether it's an age/failing faculty issue or Shah sahib's gullibility/poor judgement or his succumbing to the temptation of being the ahl us-sunnah face/spokesman.
i was thinking of the same thing, but then actually giving an interview of 2 hrs with that tasleem sabri, and then giving a 9 minutes long gali of a speech says otherwise. it simply can't be given away to senility or a mere slip
had he just made a case of adab and kept silent, he might have gotten away with it, but he went on to elaborate extrapolations and so on.
he made a spectacle of the Ahlus Sunnah. it looked as disgusting as a family fight spilling on to the street
From there ppl started calling him titles like "Hujjut tul Islam' and so on. Honestly can anyone in their right mind compare him to the likes of Imam Ghazali (ra) to be conferred upon with such lofty titles?
this is the real issue with the Sunnis of the subcontinent.
they give lofty 7 lines long titles to people who don't even deserve to be called mawlana, and kiss just anyone's hands and feet
the other thing is that for all our egalitarianism, and anti-hereditary attitudes, we think that just because someone's father or grandfather was a shaykh or wali, that means any and everyone down the line will be the same.
as the saying goes, 'Allah peer banaye, peerzada na banaye'
it's just that these peerzadas (Sayyids or not) have a very high sense of entitlement. this problem exists in EVERY SINGLE khanwada of scholars/peers, even Ala Hazrat's - heritage above knowledge of deen.
some Sayyids think of themselves as equal to THE Ahlul Bayt of those times or at least the next best person after Ghawthe A3azam. i can see how someone would have felt their own statuses threatened- if the word khata was attributed to Sayyidah Fatimah radi Allahu 3anha, then what about present day Sayyids. people will question them too. (eventhough Irfan Shah himself blasted Mawdudi). sorry but this is something i feel needs to be said.
i'm not Sayyid myself, but closely related to a few.
i know one such peerzada in my extended family. his father was a well known wali. but he's no where close. just cashing in on 'we're x-th generation of Ghawthe A3azam's sons' and parading as a Shah saheb. his etiquettes are similar to Irfan Shah saheb's. just can't stand even the most minor of disagreements.
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that mardood hanif qureshi said in one video, 'when he was defending the sahaba none of you guys got a heartburn. but when he defends his grandmother, you're all up in arms.'
someone should tell that mardood, when Irfan Shah defended the sahaba, he did use the word 'khata' for them (as did hanif beghayrat himself when he was supposedly praising Hazrat Ali). classic case of 'ulta chor kotwal ko daante'. was a very clever sentence to impute that we somehow have a Sahaba vs Ahlul Bayt mindset! he also exposed his latent rafidiyat with that sentence.
also in that gali conference, he tries to induce crocodile tears, 'i ask all you Sayyids, did Jalali's words not hurt your feelings?' and you should have seen munawwar jamati and some chamchas make a sade emoji face
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Sunnis will NEVER get out of this rut, unless and until we stop
1. giving insanely lofty titles to peers/mawlanas or even plain idiots donning mawlana uniforms
2. considering naatkhwani as a source of 3aqidah and knowledge and promote jahil naatkhwan mafia
3. giving precedence to personalities above principles
4. giving preference to shola bayan taqreers full of naarebazi over actual seeking of knowledge
it's all a waste of time discussing these matters till then.
