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Taqlid, Fatwas and Scholars of the End Times
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Imam Ahmed Al Hassan a.s. stated in the book, The Calf Volume 2 that one of the things that the Islamic nations have deviated from the straight path is in regards to Issuing [Islamic] Laws Using Intellectual Evidence.
Excerpt from a Paltalk session with Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (as) on Nov 5th, 2017:
Anwar al-Sawirawi: Do you believe in the narrations of Ahlul Bayt a.s?
Al-Talibawy: the proof is their shameful and suspicious actions.
Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (asking about a hadith that was put forth): If you understand, then what did you understand from this narration?
So the meaning of your words is that everyone who claimed to have seen [the Hujjah a.s] is a slanderous liar... Which means that all of your scholars who have claimed to have seen [the Hujjah a.s] are liars. And this is the best proof for the one who asked before you about what is the proof that the Hawzas are corrupt
Whoever from them knew that Taqlid is false, and still practiced Taqlid, then yes they are to hell fire. And whoever did not know from them, then the scholars whom they were doing Taqlid of are to hell fire, they carry their own sin and the sins of the ones who did Taqlid of them, and to hell fire and the most wretched destination.
Whoever says to the people "I am knowledgeable" or "I am the most knowledgeable", and says to the people "Do Taqlid of me", or accepts/approves of Taqlid, then he is in hell fire.
The curse of Allah is upon all of them without an exception.
All of them without any flattery or hypocrisy.
Whoever acknowledges Taqlid is in hell fire.
All wonder is especially regarding you O Mutashay'a (the ones who claim to be Shia) of Iraq!
I ask you by Allah, do you not see their actions and theft? ..." - See Paltalk transcript as pdf
Let us hear what Imam Al-Askari (as) has to say on the topic of 'scholars'. The following hadith is famous and well-documented - interestingly preachers only relate its first half usually, but not its second half…
Imam Hasan Al-Askari (as) narrated that Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (as) said,
"…As for those among the jurisprudents who are guarding themselves, safeguarding their religion, opposing their desire, and obeying their Master, then it is for the common people to imitate them…"
This so far what is preached by the scholars, but the narration actually continues until it arrives at the following words…
…Some of those jurisprudents are more harmful to our Shia than the army of Yazid ibn Muawiyya was to Hussain and his companions, because the army of Yazid ibn Muawiyyah took away from Al-Hussain and his companions their lives. But those jurisprudents take away the religion from the weak of our Shia."
– Tafisir Imam Al-Askari; Bihar al Anwar, Book 1; Hashem Al-Bahrani, Tafsir Al-Burhan, Vol 1; Fayd Al-Kahshani, Tafsir Al-Safi, Vol 1, Al-Huwayzi, Tasir Noor Al-Thaqalain
The idols of this age are the non-working scholars whom have been described in the ahadiths of our Holy Prophet (sawas) as being the most evil of creation.
There have also always been a few scholars who called at least to some of the truth, just as Imam Ahmed (as) mentioned in the Sermon of Hajj:
"I did not come to call to the whole truth, the absolute truth, without facilitation and preparation from Allah (swt). Allah made known to you the reality of those deviant clerics when He had sent scholars who called them to some of the truth, so the deviant clerics opposed them by killing and expulsion. They killed their identity and paved the way for the tyrants to kill their bodies and expel them, and right in front of you is Sayyed Khomeini, Sayyed Muhammad Baqir Al-Sadr and Sayyed Muhammad Muhammad Sadiq Al-Sadr."
But unfortunately the majority of the popular clerics of nowadays calls to themselves by obliging their followers to imitate them while they are fallibles (taqlid) and through issuing fatwas giving their opinion on the ruling of Allah (swt), only an Imam from Ahlul Bayt (as) is capable and allowed to deliver the correct ruling to the people.
Both 'taqlid' and 'fatwas' are illegitimate and harmful innovations – mistakes into which the corrupt (non-working) as well as the working scholars fell.
Thus the scholars took part in what is Allah's (swt) domain only – divine legislation – and put themselves in the position of the Ahlul Bayt (as) – as the the true infallible scholars and doors to divine law whom one actually has to imitate.
- 1 Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan warns us from the deviant clerics
- 2 Non-working End Time Scholars are the enemies of the Qaim
- 3 Scholars trapped the Muslim Ummah through taqlid
- 4 Refutation of taqlid of the fallible
- 5 Scholars have taken away the religion from the weak through fatwas
- 5.1 Illegitimate derivation of Islamic Law
- 5.2 Who are those whom Allah gave them authority and are to be obeyed beside the Prophet (sawas)?
- 5.3 Ahlul Bayt (as), the Prophets and Messengers are the only ones who are able to intepret the Quran and to give and update the rulings of Islam
- 5.4 About those who extended Islamic Law through imagination and opinion
- 6 Conclusion
- 7 The marjority of the scholars are always corrupt
- 8 The stance of Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan on various scholars, the hawzas, and taqlid
- 9 Who was the Hujjah before the appearance of Ahmed al-Hassan if Taqlid is false?
- 10 Do not be fooled by the scholars of misguidance
Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan warns us from the deviant clerics
In "The Sermon of Hajj" Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (as) speaks a lot about the stance of the deviant clerics towards him as the successor of Imam Mahdi (as). He says…
"I am calling you, oh People, to save yourselves from the test of those deviant misguided misguiding clerics.
Ponder the situation of the nations which preceded you. Do you find the deviant clerics supporting a prophet from the prophets, or a successor from the successors? So do not repeat the same thing again by following those deviant clerics and fighting the successor of Imam Al-Mahdi the way the nations before you have followed the deviant clerics and fought the successors and the sent prophets.
Be fair to yourselves for once and ask yourselves this question, "Have you asked the Messenger of Allah and the Imams about the End of Time Clerics before you ask the End of Time Clerics about the successor of Imam Al-Mahdi?" Have you asked the Quran about the clerics that if a prophet or successor is sent, what their constant attitude would be? Have you asked the Quran who kindled the fire for Abraham and who wanted to kill Jesus and who fought Noah, Hud, Saleh, Shuaib, Moses, Jonah and all the prophets and successors?
If you are not fair to yourselves and do not answer this question now, then surely you will answer it in hellfire by the answer,
{And they say, "Our Lord verily we obeyed our masters and great men and they misled us from the Way."}
And if you ask Allah in the Miraj narration you will find the answer, where the Messenger asked Allah in the Miraj in a long narration until the Messenger of Allah said,
I said, "Oh Lord, so when will that be (referring to the rising of the Qaim)?" So He revealed to me, "That shall be when knowledge has disappeared and ignorance has appeared, the reciters increase and the practicing ones decrease, the murders increase and the guiding clerics decrease and the treacherous Clerics of Misguidance increase." (…)
I am calling you, Oh People, to leave worshiping those Idols as they have made halal what Allah has made haram and they have made haram what Allah has made halal, so you obeyed them therefore you worshiped them besides Allah. (…)
I call you to acknowledge the Supremacy of Allah and reject the Supremacy of People. I call you to obedience of Allah and to reject the obedience of Satan and the obedience of his counterparts from the deviant Clerics. (…)
Proceed towards the bitterness of the truth as in the bitter remedy is the cure for the chronic disease. Proceed towards the truth which shall leave you no friend. Proceed towards the truth and the light while you want for nothing but Allah and the hereafter, away from the ornaments of this world and its darkness."
And in "The Sermon of the story of Meeting Imam Mahdi (as)" Imam Ahmed (as) says…
"And I am not waiting for support/victory through the scholars, and how can I wait and expect for the support of the scholars when Imam Sadiq, peace be upon him, confirms in more than one hadith that many of them will fight Imam Mahdi, peace be upon him, with their tongues and teeth to the point that if the matter became imminent he eradicates 70 of their big scholars and 3,000 of the small Scholars.
How can I await support from them when Imam Al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, said "Allah will support this matter with the one who has no innovations?
And if this matter came today, the one who is set upon the worship of idols shall exit out of it. "And the idols as Imam Al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, says are the non working Scholars, for there was no idols in the time of Imam Al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, except Abu Hanifa and the likes of him.
And he, peace be upon him said, "And if the Qaim emerges, the ones who see themselves as the people of this matter exit out of it. And ones who were like the worshipers of the sun and moon enter into this matter (i.e. they become supporters of the Mahdi)."
And the ones who do not support the Qaim, peace be upon him, are the non working scholars even though the people expect that they are supporters of the Qaim, peace be upon him.
And how can I expect support from those scholars when the Imams have said that it is these scholars whose fault it is that the Ummah is separated and broken?
And Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan's "A letter to their leader, lest they may return to Him" is one big shout out to the Muslims to oppose the tyrant and to clear themselves of following the corrupt scholars and to return to Allah (swt).
Non-working End Time Scholars are the enemies of the Qaim
According to the Prophet (sawas) and the Imams from his Ahlul Bayt (as) the scholars in the time of Imam Mahdi (as), especially the scholars of taqlid, will really be the enemies of the one, to whom they seem to call. They will not recognize Imam Mahdi (as) when he appears, and will instead see him as a threat to their position and therefore fight him (as).
Many outstanding scholars of the past from Shia and Sunnah agreed upon this and documented narrations about this fact in their books.
Before inspecting the history of taqlid and fatwas let us look into the alarming narrations which show how the scholars in the End Times will oppose the Qaim (as), and be his fiercest enemies, and call people to themselves and will belie the Qaim (as)…
- Reported on the authority of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh), he said: "A time will come for my Ummah during which nothing will remain from the Quran save its scripting, and nothing will remain from Islam save its name. They will be called Muslims while they are as far as one can be from Islam. Their mosques will be filled with people but they will be void of right guidance. The jurists of that time will be the most evil ever under the sky; they have sown disorder and disorder they shall reap." – Al-Bihar, vol. 52, p. 190, h. 21
- The Prophet (sawas) said to Ibn Masud: "… O Ibn Masud, there will come a time when the person who is still adhering to his religion will feel as if he were holding an ember in the palm of his hand. Therefore, he should act like a wolf, otherwise he would be eaten by wolves. O Ibn Masud, their scholars and jurists are dissolute traitors. Even worse, they are the evil creations of Allah and so are their followers, visitors, people who deal with them, love them, sit with them and counsel with them. Behold the Evil creations of God, the fires of hell find their way through them and they are deaf, dumb and blind and would not return. We shall assemble them on the Day of Resurrection and squeeze them deaf, dumb and blind because they belong in hell. Whenever the fires start to die out we shall boost the blaze, and whenever their skins ripen we shall substitute them with other skins so they would feel agony. If thrown in the fire, they would hear its inhalation ripping through, and the fire would flare up almost furious whenever they want to get out of it, anguished, but they would be thrown back in it and doomed to taste the excruciating pain of burning. In it they have an exhalation but in it they do not hear.
O Ibn Masud, they claim that they follow my religion, my Sunnah, my way, my laws but they have nothing to do with me, neither do I have anything to do with them.
O Ibn Masud, do not sit with them in public! Do not pledge allegiance to them in the markets! …" – Ilzaam an-Naaseb volume 2 pages 131-132
- Fudhail Ibn Yasar narrated:
I heard Imam Al-Sadiq (as) saying, "When our Qaim (as) rises he will face the ignorance of people more severe than what the Apostle of Allah (pbuhaf) faced during the days of Al-Jahiliyya." I asked, "Why should it be so?" The Imam replied, "The Apostle of Allah (pbuhaf) came to people who were worshipping the stones and the carved wood. However, our Qaim (as) shall come to people who will all interpret the Book of Allah against his interpretation, and will argue with him by that. By Allah, al-Qaim shall enter his justice inside their houses, just as the heat and the cold enter them."
- Reported on the authority of the Prophet (pbuh), who said:
"Allah revealed to some of His prophets: Say unto those who study jurisprudence with aims other than religion, learn with aims other than action, and claim this life with aims other than the Afterlife; and who come forth before people wrapped in scapegoat cloaks while their hearts are similar to hearts of wolves, their words sweeter than honey, their acts bitterer than aloe, deceiving and mocking Me, that I shall inflict upon them an affliction that will throw the wise into confusion." – Bihar Al-Anwar, vol. 1, p. 224, Iddat Ad-da'I, p. 70.
- Reported on the authority of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) from his instructions to Ibn Mas'ud:
"…O Ibn Mas'ud, a time will come when observing religion will be to people similar to carrying firebrand in the palm of the hand. Thus, they must be wolves; otherwise, wolves will devour them. O Ibn Mas'ud, their scholars and jurists will be immoral and traitors, they will be the most evil of Allah's creatures, as will be those who follow them, resort to them, take from them, love them, sit with them and discuss with them. They are the most evil of Allah's creatures and will be sent to Hell."
- As-Sadiq (as) says:
"When Al-Qa'im comes out to take revenge on the jurists for issuing fatwas in what they do not know, they and their followers will suffer misery. Was the religion incomplete for them to complete it? Was it deviated for them to straighten it? Did people want to oppose Allah so they obeyed Him? Or did He command them to do right and they disobeyed Him? Did the chosen one (the Prophet) misconstrue what was revealed to him so they warned him? Did the religion remain incomplete in his time so they completed it? Or did another prophet come after him, and so they followed him?" – Ilzam An-Naseb, vol. 2, p. 200
- Imam Al-Baqir (as) said: "If the Riser emerges from Karbala intending to go to Najaf while the people are around him, he will kill between Karbala and Najaf 16,000 faqeeh (scholar) and the people around him from hypocrites will say: He is not from the son of Fatima or else he would have been merciful to them,and when he enters Al-Najaf while he stays there one night he will then emerge from the door of Al-Nukhaila intending to go to the grave of Hood and Saleh (pbut), 70,000 people from Kufa will encounter him because they want to kill him, so then he (Mahdi) will kill them all and no one will survive out of it." – Noor Al-Anwar p.345 v.3 Bihar Al-Anwar v.52 p.389
- In the book of Al-Yanabi', it was mentioned: "When Al-Qa'im (as) appears, he will not have any apparent enemy save for the jurists, in particular. He and the sword will be inseparable, for if the sword were not in his hand, the jurists would issue Fatwas ordering his death. However, Allah will bring him forth endowed with the sword as well as with generosity, so they will obey, fear and accept his rule without faith therein while harboring disobedience." – Yanabi' Al-Mawaddat, vol. 3, p. 215
The situation of the scholars of the End Times is how Imam Ali (as) described 'the non-working scholar':
"O you who carry knowledge around with you; are you only carrying it around with you? For surely knowledge belongs to whoever knows and then acts accordingly, so that his action corresponds to his knowledge. There will be a people who will carry knowledge around with them, but it will not pass beyond their shoulders. Their inner most thoughts will contradict what they display in public, and their actions will contradict what they know." – Imam Ali
Note: The supporters of the Fake Office in Najaf, which claims to represent the Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (as) and has imitated Ahmed Al-Hassan to usurp his position through setting up a Fake Imam on facebook, be aware that these traditions also apply to the scholars who dominate the Yamani Dawah in the apparent.
All signs point towards that these are the the End Times. The how else did the non-working scholars of the Islamic nation come to embody that much corruption that the Prophet (sawas) calls them "the most evil of creation"?
Scholars trapped the Muslim Ummah through taqlid
While it was the obligation of the scholars to advise the Muslims and to be at their service the scholars invented the concept of 'taqlid' obliging the Muslims to imitate them and to follow them in each of their footsteps.
While it is perfectly correct to imitate an infallible – we could call it 'taqlid of the infallible' – the scholars took this privilege from the Ahlul Bayt (as) and unrightfully applied it to their fallible selves (taqlid of the fallible). After that whenever they made a mistake in religious matters people followed them, and thus they took away the religion from the weak.
According to wikipedia 'Taqlid' means:
" following the decisions of a religious expert without necessarily examining the scriptural basis or reasoning of that decision, such as accepting and following the verdict of scholars of jurisprudence (fiqh) without demanding an explanation of the processes by which they arrive at it."
How the concept of taqlid came about
Until the appointment of Ahmed Al-Hassan (as) as the Yamani for more than 1000 years clerics of all sects had been the last stronghold of religion…
Over the course of this time people of the Sunnah as well as Shias saw the need to draw further conclusions from the established Islamic teachings in order to answer to the questions of their time.
Sunnis felt the need to expand the Islamic teachings much earlier than the Shia, because they inherited much less knowledge from the Prophet and his family (as) in comparison to the Shia who were guided through the 12 Imams after the Prophets death.
Therefore they started to do taqlid of Hanbal, Malik, Shafi'i, and Abu Hanifa. In these times Sunnis extended that concept to Ibn Taymiyya, Ibn Uthaymeen, Ibn Baz or the Sheikh of their mosque. Many Sunnis who actively practice and study their belief today believe that it is obligatory to decide for one school of thought or follow a living scholar.
As for the Shia their lack of knowledge began with the Major Occultation (ghayba) of their 12th Imam – Imam Mahdi (as) – starting with the death of his last deputy Muhammad al-Mahdi to Ali ibn Muhammad al-Samarri in 941. Thousand years of occultation of an Imam brought up many questions for which the Shia had no answers, too. This led their scholars to take over and come up with answers from the Islamic teachings and their own minds. Unfortunately they introduced the concept of taqlid, so that today the unlearned as well as the learned Shia believe that imitating a scholar is obligatory (taqlid of a Marjah).
The unlucky outcome of all this is that the majority of both Sunni and Shia scholars either outrightly said or implied that one, who goes against their rulings lacks faith (iman) and falls into polytheism (shirk). All Muslims who study religion a little deeper will find that this is the predominant opinion in the Shia as well as the Sunni school of thought.
To support their concepts they misinterpreted the following verse from the Holy Quran…
While scholars like to claim, that the following verses refer to themselves, they actually refer to the Ahlul Bayt (as) as we can see from the respective ahadith…
- Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad from Mu'alla ibn Muhammad from al-Washsha' from 'Abdallah ibn 'Ajlan from abu Ja'far (as) who has said the following about the words of Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High. "Ask the people of Dhikr if you do not know." (16:43, 21: 7 Holy Quran). The Holy Prophet (as) has said, 'I am the Dhikr and the Imams are the people of Dhikr.'" About the words of Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High that says, "It is a Dhikr for you and for your people and you all will be asked questions.' (43:44) The Imams (as) said, "We are his people and we will be questioned." – H 543, Ch. 20, h 1
- Narrated by Mirza al-Nouri, and also by Sayyed Barojardi, that Ali ibn Hussein(as), and Muhammad bin Ali(as) said: "It is upon you to obey those whom you have no excuse not to obey-the obedience of us Ahlul Bayt- for Allah has tied our obedience to obedience of him and his messenger. And he has said this in the ayah in his book, from us from Allah, he has obligated obedience to himself, his messenger, and those in charge from his household, and he has ordered you to ask the people of Dhikr, and we, by Allah, are the people of Dhikr, nobody claims that besides us except a liar, for Allah says in his book: {Allah has sent to you a messenger reciting upon you ayat of Allah to take the people who believe and do good from the darkness to the light}, and then he said {So ask the people of Dhikr if you don't know}. So we are Ahlul Dhikr, so accept our order, and stop at our inhibition, for we are the doors that Allah ordered you to enter the houses with, we are those doors, this is not for anyone but us, and nobody says this but us." – Mustadrak al-Wasael Vol. 17, p.28
In the sermon to the companions of Hurr Imam Hussayn (as) clarifies: "We, the household of Muhammad have precedence over those claimants in taking charge of this affair (amr) over you." - Biharul Anwar, 44:377
This aya is obviously not a general statement about scholars but about specific people who please Allah (swt) by truly working for Him. But if we want to apply this aya to scholars we know, that there are upright as well as corrupt scholars – 'working' as well as 'non-working' ones.
Scholars furthermore based their concepts on the following ahadith…
The high station of a person who acquires knowledge for the sake of Allah (swt) and shares it with others is stressed equally in Sunni and Shia ahadith:
- Umar ibn Hanzalah asked Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq, peace be upon him, about the legality of two Shias seeking a verdict from an illegitimate ruler in a dispute over a debt or a legacy. The Imam's answer was that it was absolutely forbidden to do so. Then Ibn Hanzalah asked what the two should do, and the Imam replied: "They must seek out one of you who narrates our traditions, who is versed in what is permissible and what is forbidden, who is well-acquainted with our laws and ordinances, and accept him as judge and arbiter, for I appoint him as judge over you. If the ruling which he based on our laws is rejected, this rejection will be tantamount to ignoring the order of Allah and rejecting us is the same as rejecting Allah, and this is the same as polytheism."
- Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi (as) answered to Ishaq ibn Ya'qub: "As far as newly occurring circumstances are concerned, you should turn (for guidance) to the narrators of our ahadith, for they are my proof over you just as I am Allah's proof."
- The Prophet of Allah (sawas) said: "The scholars of my ummah are like the prophets of Bani Israel."
- It was narrated that Qays ibn Katheer said: "A man came from Madeenah to Abu'l-Darda' in Damascus and he said, 'What brought you here, my brother?' He said, 'A hadeeth which I have heard that you narrate from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him and his family).' He said, 'Have you come for any other reason?' He said, 'No.' He said, 'Have you come for trade?' He said, 'No. I have only come to seek this hadeeth.' He said, 'I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him and his family) say, "Whoever follows a path to seek knowledge, Allaah will make easy for him the path to Paradise. The angels beat their wings in approval of the seeker of knowledge, and those who are in the heavens and on earth pray for forgiveness for the scholar, even the fish in the water. The superiority of the scholar over the worshiper is like the superiority of the moon over all other heavenly bodies. The scholars are the heirs of the Prophets, for the Prophets did not leave behind dinars or dirhams, rather they left behind knowledge, so whoever gains knowledge has gained great good fortune.'" – Al-Tirmidhi, 2606; classed as saheeh by Sunni scholar
- Muhammad ibn Yahyā relates, on the authority of Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Īsā, who was told it by Muhammad ibn Khālid, to whom it was narrated by Abū Al- Bukhturi, that Imām Jafar as-Sadiq (as) said: "The scholars are the heirs of the prophets, for although the prophets bequeathed not a single dinār or dirham, they bequeathed their sayings and traditions. Whoever, then, acquires a portion of their traditions has indeed acquired a generous portion of their legacy. Therefore, see from whom you may acquire this knowledge, for among us, the Family of the Prophet, there are in each generation just and honest people who will repel those who distort and exaggerate, those who initiate false practices, and those who offer foolish interpretations [that is, they will purify and protect religion from the influence of such biased and ignorant people and others like them]." – Shia scholar Kulayni, Al-Kāfi, I, 78-79
- Imām as-Sādiq (as) relates that the Prophet (sawas) said: "For whomever travels a path in search of knowledge, God opens up a path to paradise, and the angels lower their wings before him as a sign of their being well pleased [or God's being well pleased]. All that is in the heavens and on earth, even the fish in the ocean, seeks forgiveness for him. The superiority of the learned man over the mere worshipper is like that of the full moon over the stars.
Truly the scholars are the heirs of prophets (as); the prophets bequeathed not a single dinār or dirham; instead they bequeathed knowledge, and whoever acquires it has indeed acquired a generous portion of their legacy." – Kulayni, Al-Kāfi, I, ii, 85-86
- Prophet Muhammed said: "The ink of the scholar is more precious than the blood of the martyr." – Bukhari, Book of Knowledge
- Imam Hasan al-'Askari, the eleventh Imam, (as) said: "The scholars of our followers (Shi'ah) are the guards of the bounds of Islam. Then, anyone of our followers who undertakes this (duty) is superior to the one who fights in the battle against the Romans, (because this one defends the theological bounds of our followers)." – Al-Ihtijaj, vol. 2, p. 155
- Imam Husayn (as) said: "… Verily, the paths to Muslims affairs and the religious ordinances are in the hands of the godly scholars who are the trustees of Allah in His lawful and unlawful things…" – Tuhaful-'Uqul, p.172
- Al-Kulayni narrates from Muhammad ibn Yahya from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ibn Mahbub from Ali ibn abi Hamza, who said: "I heard Abul Hassan, Musa ibn Ja'far (as) saying: 'When a believer dies, the angels, the parts of the earth on which he used to worship Allah on and the gates of heaven from which his actions elevate will weep for him. Similarly a crack appears in Islam that will not repaired by anything, because the learned believers are the fortresses of Islam, just as the walls of a city are its fortresses'" – Al-Kafi, 1:38
- Prophet Muhammed (sawas) said: "The most learned of men is the one who gathers knowledge from others on his own; the most worthy of men is the most knowing and the meanest is the most ignorant." – Source unknown
- Al-Saduq has narrated in Kamalul Din: Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Isam al-Kulayni narrated to us from Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni from Ishaq ibn Ya'qub: "I asked Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Amri to take a letter of mine in which I had asked about issues which were problematic for me. An answer came to me in the handwriting of our master, the Present Imam: As for the upcoming affairs, refer to the narrators of our narrations, for they (i.e. the narrators) are my proof against you and I am God's proof against them." – Kamalul Deen, 2:483
Note: In the last hadith Imam Mahdi (as) warns the narrators of hadith (a description that is nowadays applied to the scholars) that while they are a proof upon people he (as) is God's proof against them. Meaning they are in charge of narrating the ahadith while he (as) will hold them responsible for any abuse.
Refutation of taqlid of the fallible
The ahadith which tell us to follow the scholar can refer to fallible scholars actually only in a limited way, because they refer only to Ahlul Bayt (as) in an absolute way who the only true scholars of God as the following narrations clarify…
- Ali ibn Ibrahim, from Muhammad ibn Isa, from Yunus, from Jameel, from Abu Abdillah (as):
"I (Jameel) heard him saying: "The people are in three categories: The scholar, the student, and the scum. We are the scholars, our Shi'a are the students, and the rest of the people are scum." – Kitaab al-Kafi
- The Commander of the Faithful (as) said: "the running of the affairs and the laws are in the hands of the scholars of God, who are the trustees over his halaal and haraam… O Allah, you know that what occurred was not a competition for power or seeking the vanities of this world, but so that we could return the truths of your religion and bring about good in Your land and so that the oppressed among your servants may feel secure…" – Tuhaful Uqool: 172, sermon 131 in Nahjul Balagah is similar to this
Consequently all the positive narrations about scholars either describe the Ahlul Bayt (as) themselves, or the 'working scholars' who carefully advise the Muslims.
And they do not describe those who intentionally overstep their authority out of greed for power over followers.
Note: Of course there are working scholars who fell into the mistake of taqlid without having this evil niyya.
And because Imam Al-Askari (as) warned us about the scholars that Some of those jurisprudents are more harmful to our Shia than the army of Yazid ibn Muawiyya was to Hussain and his companions, because the army of Yazid ibn Muawiyyah took away from Al-Hussain and his companions their lives. But those jurisprudents take away the religion from the weak of our Shia'." it is important to realize that the authority of a fallible and the authority of a fallible are two different dimensions. And if one ponders on the topic it doesn't make sense that the Ahlul Bayt would have transferred their authority to scholars at large.
Scholars have taken away the religion from the weak through fatwas
Illegitimate derivation of Islamic Law
The scholars developed different methods in order to derive further answers from the Islamic teachings.
Sunni and Shia scholars derived answers through "Ijtihad" (research/ careful and analogical reasoning done by a scholar). Sunni scholars furthermore used the method Qiyas (analogy: deducing a ruling from another ruling because of a percieved similarity between the two matters), "Ijma'" (agreement of the Muslim scholars), "Istislah" (finding an answer through deciding what serves the 'public interest'), and many more.
The scholars called their works "jurisprudential ruling" or "Fatwa" ('islamic legal opinion from' the verb أَفْتَى 'aftā = "he gave a formal legal opinion on") – outwardly pretending that a fatwa is not binding on the person seeking the fatwa but only recommended to be heeded as religious advice, while in fact the meaning 'islamic legal opinion' already strongly implies its binding nature.
If one looks at the reality of a fatwa it is not more than an assumption, an opinion, a personal conclusion – and the blunt claim: This is haram – this is halal.
In fact the Prophet (sawas) has warned us from people who will make haram halal and halal haram through giving their opinion:
Narrated Awf ibn Malik: The Prophet (sawas) said: "My Ummah will divide into a little above 70, and its majority will be a fitnah (calamity) over my Ummah. 'There will be a group doing qiyas (guess work) in the (religious) matters with their personal opinions, and thereby making halal what is haram and making haram what is halal." – Al-Haythami, Majma Al-Zawa'id, Vol. 1, P243, H841
And on top of that through the concept of taqlid the fallible scholars obliged Muslims to imitate them in their opinions without questioning and thus people followed them in their mistakes and worshipped them unconsciously.
The truth is that no one has the right to claim to know the right ruling except if they get it directly from Ahlul Bayt (as) – and in this case it wouldnt be a fatwa, it would be "the" only correct ruling because it comes from the infallible.
But every scholar gives fatwas, which a lot of times contradict each other, so that people do "ijtihad" to decide which ruling is correct. This is absolutely wrong because this encourages the people to abandon knowing the Imam of the Time and taking the ruling from him (as), and encourages them to let their minds and opinions be the decider on the religion of Allah and His rulings.
An infallible Imam is the only one who has the right from Allah (swt) to command people and guide them and interpret the Qur'an for them.
No one else is allowed to give their opinion or judgement on the ruling of Allah (swt) except for the Ahlul Bayt (as).
The Ahlul Bayt (as) are the only ones who are able to fill that position. Their unmatchable station with Allah (swt) is clear for everyone, who wishes to see:
- The Messenger of Allah said:
"The stars are amnesty for the inhabitants of the heavens, and if the stars go away (i.e., become non-existent), the inhabitants of the heavens will be destroyed. And my Ahlul-Bayt are amnesty for the inhabitants of the earth, and if my Ahlul-Bayt go away (i.e., all die), the inhabitants of the earth will be destroyed." – Sunni references: Fadha'il al-Sahaba, by Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, v2, p671, Tradition no.1145; Dhakha'ir al-Uqba, by Muhibbuddin al-Tabari, p14; Manaqib Ahmad, and many more…
- And the Messenger of Allah said:
"The stars help prevent the inhabitants of the earth from being drowned, and my Ahlul-Bayt are the protectors of my community against disputes. Therefore, whichever groups among the Arabs opposes my Ahlul-Bayt, shall be split up by dissensions and will become (a party of) Satan." – Al-Mustadrak, by al-Hakim, v3, p149; Al-Tabarani; Al-Manaqib Ahmad
- Also the Messenger of Allah (sawas) promised:
"In every generation of my followers there are going to be just and righteous members of my Ahlul-Bayt to counteract the alterations and corruption's which the misguided people will try to make in my religion, to remove the false allegations of the untruthful and contradict the misinterpretations of the ignorant. Be aware! Your Imam shall be your representative before Allah, so be careful whom you adopt as your representative." – Sunni references: Al-Sirah, by al-Mala; Al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah, by Ibn Hajar, Ch. 11, section 1, p231 under the commentary of verse: {And stop them, for they shall be questioned!} (37:24)
Ahlul Bayt (as), the Prophets and Messengers are the only ones who are able to intepret the Quran and to give and update the rulings of Islam
Allah (swt) says in the Qur'an that no one knows the interpretation of Qur'an except Him (swt) and those who are firmly grounded in knowledge:
- {It is He Who has revealed unto you the Book wherein are Muhkam (explicit and clear) verses— those are the Mother of the Book—and others [which are] allegorical. But those in whose hearts is doubt pursue that which is allegorical seeking [to cause] dissension and seeking its interpretation. None knows its interpretation except for Allah and those who are firmly grounded in knowledge, they say, We believe therein; All is from our Lord; but only men of understanding really remember.} - Holy Quran 3:7
And there are numerous hadiths from Ahlul Bayt (as) emphasizing that they are the ones who are firmly grounded in knowledge. And the Prophet and his progeny (pbut) stated that the allegories of the Quran are only known by the Messenger (pbuhap) and the Imams from his lineage (pbut), and the allegories are never known except through them (as):
- Abu Jafar pbuh said, "We are the ones firmly grounded in knowledge, and we know its interpretation." – Wasail Al-Shia Vol. 27 p198
- And Abu Abdullah (pbuh) said, "The ones firmly grounded in knowledge are the Prince of Believers (pbuh) and the Imams of his children." – Wasail Al-Shia Vol. 27 p179
The Ahlul Bayt (as) are the ones who have the knowledge of the Quran until the day of Judgement as we know from the famous 'Hadith Thaqalayn' in which Rasulullah (sawas) said:
"Verily Allah, the Merciful, the Aware, has informed me that these two (Quran & Ahlul Bayt) will never separate from each other until they meet me at the Fountain of Abundance (the Hawdh of Kawthar, a spring in heaven)." – Sahih Muslim, 2:238; Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal, 5:181-182; Sahih Tirmidhi, 2:220, and others
And furthermore the entire Quran is Muhkam (explicit and clear) to the Ahlul Bayt (as):
- Harwal Bin Hamza narrated that he heard Abu Abdullah (pbuh) saying, "{It is clear verses in the hearts of those who were given knowledge} (Holy Quran 29:49), they are the Imams in particular." – Wasail Al-Shia Vol. 27 p180
- Also there is the verse: {And if they had referred it back to the messenger and those of authority from among them, then those of them who derive it would have known it} [Holy Qur'an 4:83], Imam Al-Sadiq (as) said: "they are the Infallible Imams (pbut)." – Wasail Al-Shia Vol. 27 p200
The Ahlul Bayt (as) also clarified that the words of Allah (swt) are not like the words of humans, therefore these words of Allah (swt) cannot be estimated by humans:
- Al-Mala Bin Khanees said that Imam Abu Abdullah (pbuh) said in a letter
"Verily, the Quran is examples for people who know while others do not, and it is examples for people who recite it as it should be recited, and those are the ones who know it and believe in it. As to the people other than those, they are greatly confused by it and it is greatly far from the paths of their hearts. This is why the Messenger of Allah (pbuhap) said, 'Nothing is farther from the hearts of men than the interpretation of the Quran, and this [the interpretation] has been a confusion to the entire creation except whoever Allah wills', and Allah has done this so that people pay attention to His door and His path, and so that they would worship Him and obey the people of His Book and the ones who speak by His command, and so that they would refer to them in deriving what they need from the Quran rather than referring to themselves, {and if they had referred it to the messenger and to those of authority, then those among them who derive it would have known it}. And no one other than those people would have this knowledge and they never will. And I knew that it would not be right for the entire creation to be people of authority, because in that case, they would not have anyone as a follower to preach to him about the commands of Allah, therefore Allah (swt) has made the successors particular people to be followed, so understand that if Allah wills. And do not ever, ever recite the Quran by your opinion, because people are not associates in its knowledge like they are associates in other matters. They cannot interpret it, except by its door which Allah has made for them, so understand that if Allah wills. And request the matter from its rightful place, and you will find it if Allah wills." – Wasail Al-Shia Vol. 27 p190
About those who extended Islamic Law through imagination and opinion
Let us look at the famous ahadith about those who preached to people and interpreted Qur'an by their own opinion:
- Abu Baseer said that Abu Abdullah (pbuh) said,
"Whoever interprets the Quran by his opinion, if he is right [in his interpretation] he is not rewarded, and if he is mistaken he moves even farther from the sky." – Wasail Al-Shia Vol. 18 page 149
- In his sermon about "The most detestable of creatures" Imam Ali (as) condemns people who assume the status/title of a Qadi (judge) without having qualification or enough knowledge for this kind of responsible work:
"… If Allah has left religion incomplete and the reason for leaving it halfway was that He desired that the people should assist Him in completing the religious code and share with Him in the task of legislating, then this belief is obviously polytheism. If He sent down the religion in complete form the Prophet must have failed in conveying it so that room was left for others to apply imagination and opinion. This, Allah forbid, would mean a weakness of the Prophet and a bad slur on the selection of Allah.
Allah has said in the Qur'an that He has not left out anything in the Book and has clarified each and every matter…" – Najul Balagha, Sermon 17
- Imam Al-Sadiq said: "When Al-Qa'im comes out to take revenge on the jurists for issuing fatwas in what they do not know, they and their followers will suffer misery. Was the religion incomplete for them to complete it? Was it deviated for them to straighten it? Did people want to oppose Allah so they obeyed Him? Or did He command them to do right and they disobeyed Him? Did the chosen one (the Prophet) misconstrue what was revealed to him so they warned him? Did the religion remain incomplete in his time so they completed it? Or did another prophet come after him, and so they followed him?" – Ilzam Aan-Nasib, part 2, p.200
- Imam Jafar As-Sadiq (as) was opposed to using Qiyas (reasoning through analogy) for deriving Islamic laws. The following is a dialogue between As-Sadiq and Abu Hanifa…
Ibn Shubrama, one of the pupils of Abu Hanifa, has reported this. He said that he and Abu Hanifa visited Jafar ibn Muhammad. He said to as-Sadiq "This is a jurist from Iraq."
As-Sadiq replied, "Perhaps it is he who makes analogy in religion with his opinion. Perhaps it is al-Numan ibn Thabit?"
Ibn Shubrama commented that he had not known the name of Abu Hanifa before that day.
"Yes, I am that man", replied Abu Hanifa.
"Fear God", the Imam told him, "and do not make analogy in religion with your opinion. The first who made analogy with his opinion was Satan when he said that he was better than Adam. His analogy was wrong and he went astray…"
Then As-Sadiq asked Abu Hanifa, "Which is more dreadful in the eyes of God: Killing someone which God has forbidden without there being a right or committing adultery?"
"Indeed, killing someone" replied Abu Hanifa.
"However", said the Imam, "God accepts the testimony of two witnesses for killing someone. Yet in the case of adultery, He only accepts the testimony of four witnesses. How does analogy help you?
As-Sadiq continued]: "Which is greater in the eyes of God, fasting or prayer?"
"Prayer," answered Abu Hanifa.
The Imam said, "Then why does the menstruating women have to make up the days she missed fasting while she does not have to make up the prayer she missed? Fear God, O servant of God, and do not make analogy in religion with your opinion. Tomorrow we, and those who oppose us, will stand before God. We will say, We used to say that God said and the Apostle of God said. You and your Companions will say, We heard and we held the opinion. Then let God do with us and with you what He wishes."
- And Abu Abdillah (Imam Jafar Al-Sadiq) (as) told Abu Hanifa:
"Are you the faqih of the people of Iraq?"
Abu Hanifa: "Yes."
Imam (as): "And in what are you knowledgable?"
Abu Hanifa: "In the Book of Allah and the Sunna of his Prophet."
Imam (as): "Oh Abu Hanifa, do you know the Book of Allah in its true knowledge, and know the nasikh from the mansookh (copier and copied)?"
Abu Hanifa: "Yes."
Imam (as): "Oh Abu Hanifa, you have claimed knowledge - woe to you - Allah has not given that except to the People of the Book to whom the Book has been revealed to, woe to you, for this is only for the chosen ones from the decendants of the Prophet (sawas) and Allah has not given you from the Book one letter." – Wasael Al-Shia, Vol27, p48
Aba Sadiq (as) said:
"Another thing that I would like to point attention to, is the fact that Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (as) has said and has received in this past and I have received in the past, some questions from some Ansar, concerning certain verdicts, issued in Jurisprudence matters and other matters and they said that they received these verdicts from other brothers or sisters. And I want to let you know that issuing a verdict in a matter without knowledge, is a serious crime."
Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (as) is also urging the believers to never make a Fatwa without knowledge.
He (as) said: Do they not know that whoever makes a Fatwa without Knowledge, Allah swt will make him sit on the Day of Judgement on a chair of fire. - - See Paltalk Session, 17.05.2016 transcript as pdf
So we understand, that the only righful way to derive the needed knowledge from the Holy Quran is by asking the Ahlul Bayt (as) or a prophet or messenger, who speaks by Allah's command – and that normal humans shall never attempt to interpret Quran, except by this door.
And we understand that because Allah (swt) gave us an infallible Imam in each era and it is haram that fallibles extend the Islamic teachings further and derive religious law through imagination and opinion. Therefore it is one of the tasks of the Qaim to take revenge on the jurists who issued fatwas in what they do not know.
The marjority of the scholars are always corrupt
'And they will say, "Our Lord, indeed we obeyed our masters and our dignitaries, and they led us astray from the [right] way.' (Holy Quran 33:67)
What we know is that at all times the 'workings scholars' are few while the marjority of the scholars are corrupt just as they are discribed in the Holy Quran and in the ahadith…
- On the authority of Abu Basir, who reports on the authority of As-Sadiq (as): He said I told him: {They have taken their men of religion and their monks as lords beside Allah}. At-Tawba: 31
He (as) said: "They did not call upon people to worship them for had they done so, people would not have obliged. But they allowed them the Forbidden and forbade them the Lawful, thus they worshiped them without knowing." – Al-Burhan, part 10, p. 120 – Usul Al Kafi, Part At-Taqlid, vol. 1, p. 53, h.1
- Reported on the authority of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh), he said:
"I do not fear that chaos destroys my Ummah, or an enemy invades it. But I fear that misleading Imams bring to my Ummah hardship and disagreement if it obeys them or annihilate it if it disobeys them." – Ilzam An-Naseb, vol. 1, p. 196
- The Holy Prophet (sawas) said: "There are two groups of my Ummah that when they are pious, my Ummah will be upright and when they are immoral my Ummah will be corrupt."
The Messenger of Allah (sawas) was asked who they were, and he answered: "The religious scholars and rulers." – Bihar-ul-Anwar, vol. 2, p. 49
And according to the narrations of the Ahlul Bayt (as) the scholars of the End Times play a very negative role during the time of the appearance of the Qaim (as). This prediction completely contradicts what the majority of Muslims is taught today! So who is a good scholar?
Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan adivsed us to use the scale of Al-Hussain (as) to remove the veil of fake sainthood from the non-working scholars' faces:
Imam Ahmed (as) said with his honorable voice in "A Sermon to the Students of the Hawza":
"As for the non-working scholars, verily Al-Hussein (pbuh) exposed them and removed the veil of fake holiness from their dark rotten faces.
So the stance of Al-Hussein (pbuh) in Karbala has remained to be the scale of truth and justice and monotheism, whoever wishes to use it shall use it in every age, in order to see through it the deformed faces of the non-working scholars of misguidance from behind the veils of fake holiness."
What is this scale then?
In the paragraph right before that one the Imam (as) talks about the stance of Al-Hussein's (as) regarding the Supremacy of Allah. He (as) said:
"As for the oppressive rulers verily Al-Hussein (pbuh) has killed them, and he clarified/ made apparent the falsehood of the Supremacy of the People with all its forms whether it was by the shurah among them (voting) or by the appointing from people. And Al-Hussein (pbuh) clarified that the Supremacy is for Allah, the Almighty, for He Owner of Rulership, so for Him (swt) is that he appoints, and upon the people is to accept his appointment… [until the end of the paragraph]."
So the scale of Al-Hussein (as) is the firm unshakable stance regarding the Supremacy of Allah.
And Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan (as) said:
"And Al-Hussein (peace be upon him) faced the non-working scholars: Shurayh al-Qadi, and Shibth ibn Rab'ee, and Shimr ibn Thil-Jawshan and the likes of them. And they were the most dangerous of the confrontations, for they dressed themselves in the clothes of religion, and they falsely and by fraud had deceived the people into thinking that they brought out the sword of Muhammad (peace be upon him and his progeny) against Al-Hussein (peace be upon him), and they claimed to represent the Divine Religion, by deception and lies against Allah the Almighty." - A Sermon to the Students of the Hawza
Note: Know that the Illegitimate Office required from Abdullah Hashem (Minbar of Masr) to edit out parts from a series which mentioned the Scholars of the End Times.
The stance of Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan on various scholars, the hawzas, and taqlid
Your scholars have no need in Imam Al Mahdi
Someone said what means this: "There are famous scholars that will give the good news not you on a live broadcast in this stupid way."
The Imam (a.s) said: If you wait for the Imam (a.s) to come through your scholars, then neither you nor a thousand from your progeny will ever see him.
Your scholars have no need in Imam Al Mahdi (a.s), they care about gathering money, Mut'a marriage, and destruction of the religion.
I leave you in the protection of Allah the Exalted.
Assalamu alaykum warahmtullah wabaraktuh."
Ahmed Al-Hassan was asked: Why do you insult Muqtada al-Sadr?
mahdee-al all haider: "Why do you insult Muqtada al-Sadr?"
foon_mik: "Have trust in Allah, we have not done wrong to him, nor other than him.
We are just even to the ones who hold enmity against us.'
We speak the truth and expose the falsehood. Do you seen those criminal groups that are spread in Iraq. Who caused it? Who established for this criminality? All of that is because of him.
Have you forgotten what his criminal groups did to the people?
Do you think Allah will leave him (the imam as is still talking about muqtada alsader) without punishment? Far away is Allah from that. By Allah this will not pass without punishment and torment."
- See answer in Paltalk transcript from June 19th, 2017 as pdf
Ahmed Al-Hassan about the Marjas and Sistani
NorhanKQ: Imam Ahmed alhassan a.s said about the Marjas "By Allah the High the Great they will not pledge allegiance because they are not Muslims in the first place."
This was after the guest asked that we give Dawa to those Marjas.
Also the Imam a.s said about Sistani: "By Allah if I give him a thousand proofs he wont pledge allegiance. This dajjal will be destroyed soon."
- See quote in pdf
Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan about Khomeini
Read here.
Who was the Hujjah before the appearance of Ahmed al-Hassan if Taqlid is false?
[A guest by the name Karrar al-Sadrawi al-Zerijawy said: "Ahmed alHassan did not answer the question. I am not going to defend the scholars. Who was the Hujjah before the appearance of Ahmed al-Hassan if Taqlid is false and the scholars are false and everyone is in hell fire?!"]
So Imam Ahmed al-Hassan a.s said: Do you want names, O Karrar? If you want names then I will not mention that to you. But if you want the name of the ones who preceded me, then I will give you two names. The first is Eesa, Aba Ahmed, and the second is Abbas Aba Muhammad. And I do not believe that you will know any of them. And I do not believe that this will add to you anything nor benefit you
[The guest Karrar al-Sadrawi al-Zerijawy said: The Answer is not enough. I want an answer with a text from Ahlul Bayt a.s. So they are not Hujjahs on the people and the Taqlid is absolving.]
So Imam Ahmed al-Hassan a.s. said: You live now in this time. If you have an atom of light in your heart you will see that I am the Hujjah upon the creation in this time
[The guest Karrar al-Sadrawi al-Zerijawy said: If it was as you said then why did Imam Mahdi (a.s) end the ambassadorship?]
So Imam Ahmed al-Hassan a.s. said: What ambassadorship O Karrar?! I fear for you and others than you from speaking. Go and research with the mind and not with the heart. Did you understand what I mean by the mind?
[A guest by the name Sakr al-Shimri said: SubhanAllah, an Imam who withholds an answer, is he failing to answer or there is no answer to the question? Those names that you mentioned are Hujjahs upon who then if we do not know them according to your words?]
So Imam Ahmed al-Hassan a.s. said: Upon the ones before you, the answer is clear. Even if you were present during their time you would not have believed in them.
[A guest by the name Abu Mustafa alKhaz'ali said: Can you mention to me an incident that will take place soon, other than the Sayha, and especially in Kufa mosque of Kufa or in Najaf].
So Imam Ahmed al-Hassan (a.s) said: Abu Mustafa yes I can inform you that one of the clergymen/priests will be destroyed soon there in Najaf
[The guest Karrar al-Sadrawi al-Zerijawy said: And does he know the unseen for him to say if you were present in their time you would not have believed in them?]
So Imam Ahmed al-Hassan (a.s) said: Karrar... does Muhammad sawas know the unseen?
[The guest Sakr al-Shimri said: Brother, is it logical that Allah sends Hujjahs and the people do not know them? Is this the justice of Allah? And now you come and say even if you knew them you would not have believed in them. Isn't it more of a priority that I know them first?]
So Imam Ahmed al-Hassan a.s. said: And who told you that the people do not know them. Indeed the ones who had light in their hearts knew them.
Here I am, I am present in your time, and I have come by that which no one before me has come with, and here you are not believing It is the same case. What is the difference? Why are you surprised by this condition? Has someone before me come to you by what I have claimed?
- Q&A from 02.12.2017 with Imam Ahmed Al-Hassan & Aba Sadiq (as)
Do not be fooled by the scholars of misguidance
Imam Ahmed AL-Hassan said:
"O people, do not be fooled by the scholars of misguidance and their supporters.
Read, research, scrutinize, learn, and know the truth by your own selves
Do not depend on someone to decide your hereafter for you
thus you regret it tomorrow when no regret shall benefit you
{And they said, O our Lord, we have obeyed our masters and leaders so they have led us astray}."


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Professor Janet Sayers
Emeritus Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology
General research interests
The focus of my research is on psychoanalysis, gender, art, and mental health.
Current research projects
My current research arises out of my recently published book, Art, Psychoanalysis, and Adrian Stokes: A Biography (Karnac Books, 2015). This includes work for several papers, including 'Carving aesthetics: Barbara Hepworth, Adrian Stokes, and psychoanalysis' and 'Chaos contained: Art, psychoanalysis, and Adrian Stokes'.
Past research has resulted in the following books:
- Psychoanalysing Art: The Story of Adrian Stokes (2015)
- Freud's Art: Psychoanalysis Retold (2007)
- Divine Therapy: Love, Mysticism and Psychoanalysis (2003)
- Kleinians: Psychoanalysis Inside Out (2000)
- Boy Crazy: Remembering Adolescence (1998)
- Freudian Tales (1997)
- Mothering Psychoanalysis (1991)
- Sexual Contradictions (1986)
- Biological Politics (1982)
Recent Publications
- Review of Sex versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein by J. Launer. Times Higher Education, 2015, 12 February, p.53.
- Review of Creatures of a Day by Irvin Yalom, Times Higher Education, 2015, 2 April, p.55.
- Review of Art and Analysis by Meg Harris Williams, British Journal of Psychotherapy, 2015, 31(2, May):275-278.
- Review of The Worm at the Core by Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszcynski, Times Higher Education, 2015, 23 July, p.48.
- Adrian Stokes and the portrait of Melanie Klein. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 2015, 96:1013–1024.
- Review of Marion Milner: The Life by E. Letley. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2014, 95:803-7.
- Unconscious. In T. Teo (ed.) Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. New York: Springer, 2014, pp.2025-30.
- Melanie Klein's autobiography. Psychoanalysis and History, 2013,15(2):127–163 .
- 'Dear Stokes': Letters from Melanie Klein about writing, painting and psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis and History, 2012, 14(1):111-32.
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We've all seen those 'perfect' friendship groups on TV – they look happy and they're having fun. They might have the odd argument but nothing really comes between them and it makes it easy for us to believe that they'll be friends forever 'cause that's how it should be, right?
But what if it's not?
Most people make friends in stages throughout their lives. As children we make friends by following very simple rules. If a kid likes the colour purple and you like the colour purple then why wouldn't you be BFF's?! As young teens we begin to develop more of our own identities but we're still a little fickle in choosing our friends. Often, we define ourselves based on stereotypes (even though they are something we complain about). Those stereotypes usually stem from the things we're interested in – music, books, sport, etc. As adults we make friends and acquaintances through college, work and our community. These friendships are quite different from the previous ones. By the time we've reached adulthood most of us have a better idea of what we're all about. We know what we're passionate about, we have stronger opinions, we have particular morals and beliefs.
Then, there are friendships that we develop as children and teens that stay with us through all of the stages of our lives. Maybe those are rare now? (Is that because we're always 'on', always busy, always tired? Or maybe because we feel that some social media messages are a decent replacement for actually spending quality time together when, really, that isn't the case?)
One of the hardest lessons I faced when growing up was that not everyone is in your life forever. Like I said at the start, it's easy for us to have a skewed perception of what friendship should be but the truth is that our lives aren't an episode of Friends or How I Met Your Mother. Real life is messy and complicated and not everything works out. I felt this most acutely as a teenager when I lost a couple of people I had been very close with but for various reasons we all moved apart. Back then I was in disbelief, this was closely followed with total sadness and eventually anger. Now, I can look back on those friendships and simply value them for what they were without any negative feelings messing that up but it took time.
Losing a close friend, for whatever reason, brings about feelings similar to grief and it's important to let yourself experience those feelings and accept them. A friendship break up isn't always someone's fault. Often, friends have simply grown apart. Sometimes it's confusing and there aren't perfect reasons as to why it's happened but if the friendship is truly over then it's important to make an effort to move on and eventually remember that friendship for the experience that it was.


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This book isn't exactly an interview with him. Instead, using the approach Herzog himself uses for his "documentaries," both Cronin and Herzog re-edited the interview to create a new "fake" conversation that they felt more "true." The result is an engaging, fascinating book about Herzog's life, movies and the problems of the modern age. Regardless of how much of it is outright fabrication or exaggeration, it really is a useful guide for people who are struggling with belief and confidence with their art. Regardless of what you might think of Herzog's work, he has been extremely successful, and regardless of whether or not you think he's crazy, his method opens up an extraordinary new path for anyone struggling for recognition: you can do everything yourself (with the help of some committed friends). You do not need the system, you just need determination. This, for me, is the central message here, and it's very inspiring.


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The judge gave up on trying to claim the kid in his final play in the desert. Now his only desire is to kill him, most likely with more flare than we've seen so far in BM. I think he smothered him or crushed his head with his bare hands, an act he performed at least once in the desert, then skinned him and left his body strung as evidence, Hannibal Lecter style, in the jakes. The kid is finally relieved of his 9th life.
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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
Author: Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886)
Profession: American Statesman, Diplomat
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Author: Leo Aikman
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
Author: Noelie Alito
The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.
Author: Louis A. Allen
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Author: Maya Angelou (1928)
Profession: African-American poet, Writer, Performer
Effective action is always unjust.
Author: Jean Anouilh (1910-1987)
Profession: French Playwright
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
Author: John Anster
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Profession: Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian
Action without a name, a ''who'' attached to it, is meaningless.
Author: Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
Profession: German-born American Political Philosopher
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.
Author: Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
Profession: German-born American Political Philosopher
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Author: Aristotle
Profession: Greek Philosopher
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Dr. Brandon Downs is board-certified in orthopaedic surgery with the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery with additional fellowship training in Sports Medicine.
Dr. Brandon Downs comes from a medical family and is a Nashville native. Both Dr. Downs' father and brother have practiced medicine in the Nashville community.
Dr. Downs attended college at Belmont University as a Presidential Scholar. The Belmont University Presidential Scholarship is a full 4-year scholarship based upon academic achievement and leadership and athletic achievement. Dr. Downs graduated Magna Cum Laude from Belmont University.
Dr. Downs attended medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in Loma Linda, California. During medical school, Dr. Downs was a Student Researcher and a Clinical Researcher in the Department of Orthopaedics Tribology Research Laboratory. Tribology is the study of wear, friction and lubrication. In this laboratory Dr. Downs researched total joint arthroplasty implants on knee and hip simulators. Based on this and other research during medical school, Dr. Downs was awarded the Loma Linda School of Medicine Bertakis and Starich Award for Student Researcher of the year.
Dr. Downs graduated from Loma Linda School of Medicine as an Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) scholar. This designation reflects his entrance into an honor society and that he graduated in the top 10% of his medical school class.
Dr. Downs' orthopaedic surgery residency training was completed at the world-renowned Campbell Clinic and University of Tennessee in Memphis, Tennessee. Campbell Clinic is consistently ranked as one of the top orthopaedic residency programs by U.S News and World Report and other ranking agencies.
Following residency, Dr. Downs achieved board certification in orthopaedics through the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. Dr. Downs is a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery and many other medical societies.
Dr. Downs pursued additional training in orthopaedic sports medicine following residency. He attended a full-year, accredited Sports Medicine Fellowship at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland Clinic Sports Medicine is consistently ranked as one of the top orthopaedic fellowship programs by U.S News and World Report and other ranking agencies.
Following fellowship training in Sport Medicine Orthopaedics, Dr. Downs achieved a Certificate of Added Qualification in Sports Medicine from the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine.
Orthopaedic Specialists, PLLC includes multiple medical providers. Dr. Downs has Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners and Physical Therapists who are all involved in his practice in the care of the orthopaedic patient.
Dr. Brandon Downs provides care of the orthopaedic patient in all areas of sports medicine, minimally-invasive total joint arthroplasty and general orthopaedics.
Dr. Downs' provides care in all areas of Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy of the shoulder including:
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Today, I'm going to share the best possible anti-fungal creams for treating ringworm. This article will deal with seven best antifungal creams for ringworm so that you pick the best product according to your requirement depending on the seven recommended products and all the information about them to help you make an informed decision.
Ringworm is a type of skin infection affecting different parts of your body. This may occur in children, men, women and even pets and so the best medicine for ringworm would be required.
You will have to go for the best ringworm treatment to cure the infection.
This infection starts by first affecting a small area of your skin and slowly spreading outwards. It will develop into a red, rounded and inflamed patch of skin. It will look like a ring that gradually becomes larger.
You will need to take the correct ringworm treatment to solve the fungal infection. It may be mildly irritating but often it becomes very inflamed and itchy.
It may happen that only one patch of infection occurs for you. But sometimes several patches of infection occur over the body. You would accordingly need best treatment for that.
Also, the doctors may prescribe you the best antifungal cream for ringworm if the infection is on your skin. If it happens on your scalp, then you may be prescribed to use antifungal spray for ringworm or shampoos.
Best Creams to Treat Ringworm
You will easily get antifungal cream from pharmacies or get it prescribed by your doctor. There are various types of cream available that are really good at treating fungal skin infections.
You should apply the cream as prescribed by your doctor.
You may be wondering as to what cream to use for ringworm so that your skin infection vanishes completely and does not occur again. Below is a list of some really effective creams to treat the fungal infection.
Lotrimin Cream – #1 Best Cream for Ringworm for Quick Treatment
Lotrimin Cream is an over-the-counter cream consisting of an active ingredient called clotrimazole that has a strong anti-fungal usage and effectively treats ringworm. It minimizes itchiness, redness and irritation caused due to ringworm.
This cream is clinically proven to cure ringworm infections giving you relief from skin redness, itchiness and irritation. If you have recurring ringworm and are tired of using sprays or taking oral medicines, then this is the right one for you.
It is very easy to apply the cream and it keeps your skin dry and sweat-free by fighting the micro-organisms. It is an odourless and non-greasy cream that does not stain clothes.
If you apply 2-3 times a day after bathing for at least 3 weeks then you are guaranteed relief from the toughest ringworm infections. This will also help you in stopping all types of skin irritations that usually occur with ringworm.
This cream does not have any side effect and it is available at a very reasonable rate in the market.
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Miconazole Nitrate 2% Antifungal Cream
Miconazole for Ringworm is used to treat ringworm, jock itch, athlete's foot and other fungal skin infections. It is an azole antifungal cream that helps in preventing fungal growth in skin.
This cream is meant to be used on clean and dry skin only. Always wash and dry the affected are of your skin before applying. Use it twice daily or as prescribed by your doctor for a period of one to two weeks to get rid of the infection.
Always apply a small amount of the cream to the affected area and rub the cream gently. After using the cream, do not forget to wash your hands as this will prevent the infection from spreading to any other part of your body.
Miconazole is not likely to cause any serious side-effect. Although it might cause some irritation at the first use, it does not have any other serious side-effects.
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Clotrimazole Antifungal Cream 1%
Clotrimazole: This OTC cream works best for ringworm due to the presence of the anti-fungal agent called clotrimazole. This cream inhibits the creation of cell membranes necessary for growth of fungus.
This cream has 1% active ingredient of clotrimazole which is the main anti-ringworm agent and helps in facilitating proper treatment of ringworm. It does not have any side effect due to the presence of just 1% clotrimazole.
It is advised to follow the prescribed usage of this cream to maximize the result. You can apply a thin layer of the ointment on the affected area twice a day, preferably once in the morning and once in the evening, for one or more week.
It is proven to eliminate ringworm. One of the biggest benefits of this cream is that it is very cheap and effective.
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PHYTOZINE Antifungal Ringworm Cream
Phytozine: This is a combination of anti-fungal essential oils and herbs and anti-fungal agent tolfanate ringworm. It consists of tea tree oil, camphor and lavender oil that helps in treating infections on skin.
The formulation of this cream has some natural ingredients to promote skin soothing and healing including almond oil, cocoa butter, rose oil, aloe vera, etc. The results from phytozine usage are almost immediate.
In order to heal your skin infection completely, use it for a period of at least two weeks, applying it a couple of times daily to get faster result. Due to the presence of natural ingredients, it is safe to say that the cream does not have any serious side effect.
This cream has worked on most people with a very high success rate giving you the positive implication of its usage.
The only limitation is that it does not contain undecyclenic acid that works wonders to treat ringworm. The tube content amount is quite small and you will have to spend on more to use it regularly.
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REPARA Antifungal Cream
REPARA Antifungal Cream: This cream consists of 2% active ingredient of miconazole nitrate. The other ingredients present in REPARA are glycerine, purified water, BHT, magnesium aluminium silicate, zinc oxide, etc.
The use of 2% miconazole nitrate makes it a very effective cream and it is clinically tested. This is the ideal amount that any antifungal cream should contain in order to get relief from ringworm and any other fungal infection affecting your skin.
The cream quickly relieves burning, cracking, itching, scaling, redness and any irritation due to ringworm, jock itch and athlete's foot. This is clinically tested cream and has given effective results.
Apply a thin layer of this cream on a clean and dry area twice a day or as prescribed by your doctor.
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Family Care Clotrimazole Anti Fungal Cream
Family Care Clotrimazole Anti Fungal Cream: This is similar to miconazole as it treats fungal skin infections like jock itch, athlete's foot and ringworm and even some kinds of dandruffs. It also treats pityriasis skin infection that causes darkening or lightening of the skin on the arms, chest, neck or legs.
This contains azole antifungal agent and prevents fungal growth. It helps in slowing the fungal growth that causes the irritation on skin.
Apply the cream once a day for about two to six weeks to get effective result. Even if you feel the infection disappearing, continue to use the cream so that it does not occur again and your skin gets completely healed.
However, it might result in some side effects depending on your skin type including swelling, redness or stinging.
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Terrasil Ringworm Treatment MAX
Terrasil Ringworm Treatment MAX: This is an all-in-one skin infection cream.
This is the only ringworm cream available that has patented Activated Minerals which is a blend of silver oxide, magnesium oxide and zinc oxide. These nutrient rich minerals will support your natural growth of healthy skin cells.
Use it for a minimum period of four weeks daily to treat ringworm. You can buy a jar weighing between 14 gram and 44 gram, depending on the infection.
You may wonder what cream is good for ringworm out of so many choices. But this cream combines the latest science with natural ingredients and organic materials for best result.
However, this cream can cause some side effects after using, such as severe skin irritations.
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So, which is the best cream for quick treatment of ringworm?
Ringworm can be easily cured using any of the above best cream for ringworm.
Lotrimin cream can be regarded the best ringworm cream among all the above listed creams. The reason is that very effective result is produced in a short span of time.
The cream also has no side effects in comparison to the some other creams for treating ringworm including ketokonazole, terrasil ringworm treatment MAX, miconazole, etc. Another important reason for this cream to be the best among all is that it is available at a very cheap rate and it is completely sweat-free in nature.
You will easily get the required benefit of treating and stopping ringworm completely as mentioned earlier by using this cream.
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