Whom Have You Learned From? - Portal Gems #50

Est. Read time: 3 min
Edition Number: 50
Adapted from: Surah Al-Hujurat: Code of Conduct
Instructor: Mufti Abdul Rahman Waheed & Shaykh Abdul Nasir Jangda

Assalamu Alaykum,

Today’s gem is from Mufti Abdul Rahman Waheed & Shaykh Abdul Nasir Jangda’s course, Surah Al-Hujurat: Code of Conduct. In this gem, Shaykh Abdul Nasir explains how important it is to validate where you’re getting your deen from - especially when using technology.

Hope you enjoy!

We begin in the Name of Allah ﷻ, the Most Merciful and Compassionate,
We ask that He ﷻ sends Peace and Blessings upon our noble and beloved
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

I kind of commented earlier about the internet, it's a very tricky thing. I'm not opposed to technology. It's a tool to facilitate things, but it is never the goal and the objective.

For instance, when you benefit from someone like our senior scholars like Imam Majid, Shaykh Ali, when you benefit from the scholars Mufti Abdul Rahman, Mufti Abdul Wahab, you might use technology to benefit from them or to have access to them. You're using the technology, you're logging on to YouTube. You're logging into the live stream. You're signing up for an online class. So what about that?

The thing is, their qualifications and their sanad and their knowledge are something that has already been established previously. But if you just find something or someone online, you have no idea who this person is, where they're coming from, who they studied with. You know the scholars of the old would say to people, "Whom have you learned from?" That's question number one.

You look nice, you look the part - wearing the nice coat and a nice thobe. You look like a Turkish ad. That's great, fantastic, good for you. You speak all fancy, you quote some Arabic words. That's all fine and dandy, but I ain't impressed. I'm not about to trust you with the most precious thing I have, and that is my deen. I'm not.

Where did you learn from? Who are your teachers? Where did you study? What have you studied? That has to be established. Then once that's established, and you have trusted sources like our scholars, now these are tools (the internet) that can help give you a little more access, but the verification needs to happen outside of that. 

May Allah ﷻ grant us tawfiq to get our deen from trusted sources.

أقول قولي هذا وأستغفر الله لي ولكم، فاستغفروه إنه هو الغفور الرحيم

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