Why Shia's follow one scholar/marjah - Sayed MohammedHassan Alsheraa - The Noor Podcast #13

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In this segment from the 13th podcast, Sayed MohammadHassan Alsheraa explains why a Shia muslim follows one particular scholar/marjah, as opposed to a council of scholars. Watch the full episode on our channel!

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[0:00][Music] you mentioned one thing where I want to Del in more

[0:16]to deeper which is yeah of course we have the rise of

[0:21]Jet gbt and I've seen many scholars talking about why we still

[0:25]need in spite of having jbt but jbt because jbt is not

[0:30]the answer to questions especially not when it comes to Islamic Heritage

[0:37]and knowledge and scholarly projects but one of the things uh the

[0:44]youth nowadays ask questions about why do we need to follow one

[0:47]jurist one why are we limiting ourselves because say just from a

[0:56]lay man logical perspective when we go to a doctor we get

[1:00]an opinion from the doctor but we get a second opinion sometimes

[1:05]because we doubt maybe the doctor's uh conclusion is not the right

[1:10]conclusion we go to a second one or a council of doctors

[1:11]always better than just one doctor who looks at it because at

[1:16]the end he is one human being right correct and human beings

[1:19]are notum they make mistakes correct correct but on the other hand

[1:23]the grass is always greener on the other side they say we

[1:28]have a system with one Mar with one Islamic jurist with follow

[1:31]but another school of thought has a council for example they have

[1:37]a council of multiple according to their yeah yeah they have they

[1:42]have Scholars from their worldview who gather and determine the F was

[1:48]for new issues that they all have eat on the same day

[1:53]most of the time we don't have it that's the symptom of

[1:55]having you know one yeah right um You raise a good point

[2:00]it's because look on the outset I can understand people might say

[2:04]well two heads are better than one man if uh what about

[2:06]three heads if four people come together and agree on some issue

[2:12]that's using the power of four great thinkers on one issue wouldn't

[2:16]that issue become more clear there's more confidence more um strength behind

[2:21]it celebrate eat on the same day for example and then those

[2:23]who come from the non Shia school ofit you know like in

[2:29]Saudi Arabia they have a fi Council Council in of Egypt they

[2:32]have multiple people come and say regarding Bitcoin the following conclusion is

[2:37]the fwa um so why don't we have that the concept Roots

[2:45]itself in the Holy Quran that if we are ignorant on matters

[2:50]in our life then we refer back to means the people of

[2:57]knowledge now in life why can't I take the the opinion of

[3:00]multiple of why do I have to bind myself to one because

[3:07]no two people in Earnest will have the same conclusion on multiple

[3:14]most issues they probably will no one's going to deny the metric

[3:22]of Purity in that tar for certain liquids needs two washes of

[3:26]flowing water others needs one but maybe with like a rinsing these

[3:30]things are the of the Holy Quran are quite clear so a

[3:34]vast majority of the opinion of the from the school of you

[3:39]look at the mar of or or or M or they be

[3:44]in or wherever throughout the centuries from the likes of all the

[3:51]way to the very end all of them there's a consensus major

[3:57]consensus now some might say how come they have a difference of

[4:02]does compensate for had a different opinion than may Allah bless them

[4:07]and prolong say's life and bless all the mar that have left

[4:09]us in this case it's because no to scholars in the more

[4:16]comprehensive issues especially in the newer issues again Bitcoin and what have

[4:20]you cloning and let's say stocks and business related things like of

[4:25]that nature interest connected uh concerns the jurisprudentially will have the same

[4:29]what we call they might have a different metric in determining the

[4:37]following ruling if their metric differs their way of then they're going

[4:43]to have different conclusions at the end of the day get five

[4:45]of these people who all have five different metrics of determining jurus

[4:51]Prudence how can they agree on one thing if they all have

[4:56]a different way of attaining the conclusion I'll give an example I

[5:02]had a specific way of validating narrations that would then conclude X

[5:13]is either or or acceptable but not a on Etc whereas before

[5:22]by a few years they've also met each other say Hussein is

[5:28]a senior to say had his own unique approach he looked at

[5:34]what is called the style of the Holy house and the Quran

[5:38]their their the spirit of the Holy Quran the of the Quran

[5:44]he looked at context clues and he also relied heavily on traditional

[5:48]standards as well but is what we would call he really relies

[5:55]on the chain of 1 plus 1 equals two if this guy

[5:56]is reported in the early books of biographies as being if found

[6:01]in the is not I'm just going to say that black or

[6:03]white whereas someone like say will take a different perspective he's like

[6:09]yes but this Hadith is also narrated elsewhere in a different way

[6:13]with aah chain so that makes the earlier Hadith with a weak

[6:17]chain work workable workable not a but workable and so I'll give

[6:24]you an example there was a narrator um who was a companion

[6:26]of IM by the name of was a narrator and in the

[6:35]books of these early the earlier Scholars biographies who lived during the

[6:46]times of the had an advantage that didn't have which is they

[6:53]had access to the possibly great grandchildren of the sahab yeah they

[6:58]met some of the companions of the imams they had resources that

[7:01]later Scholars didn't have so when they research and they put people

[7:05]in their encyclopedias of biography fan individual so and so is because

[7:11]we've studied his life because of the axis of resources that I

[7:15]have that you don't have the privilege of having because he just

[7:18]born a different time period we concluded that he is very reliable

[7:22]this guy all the earlier resources of biography said he's mul mul

[7:30]from the term we're not sure yeah we're not saying he's weak

[7:33]but we're not saying unnown exactly but we're not saying he's also

[7:35]we can't throw a conclusion on it a definite there's a big

[7:39]question mark on it question mark yeah we haven't seen anything bad

[7:41]but we haven't seen anything good so we don't know what to

[7:43]say so what was the concl looks at this man and says

[7:48]I've seen your narrations you're in a chain that narrates aith about

[7:52]the rest of the people in the chain are strong and reliable

[7:58]but you're mul for that reason theith is not it's just not

[8:01]it's not binding on Allah is not going to ask why don't

[8:05]you follow that so I'm just going to do away with it

[8:07]say has a different approach says wait I while I use the

[8:15]early Scholars during the time of Etc and I do look at

[8:20]their opinion in regards to determining whether X Y and Z is

[8:22]reliable or not I have context clues that give me a different

[8:28]conclusion about what look at his name just first of he is

[8:31]his name is guy that gives number one he was a back

[8:38]then the guys that did Adan are not like the same people

[8:41]today who just make the Adan get paid it's a it's a

[8:45]position it's a job we have to wake you have to wake

[8:46]us up you have a responsibility if you don't do Adan and

[8:50]scream loud on the Mina should be a trustworthy person then we're

[8:53]not going to pray yeah so we're going to pay you so

[8:57]he's trusted enough to wake people up for Salah they trusted him

[9:01]on well they can't trust them Oni then if he's reliable on

[9:05]prayer timing at least he's reliable you can just conclude he's reliable

[9:10]on being someone who's always say they say the meeting is 9:30

[9:17]he's there 9:29 he's like that furthermore he's a for who is

[9:22]a sh family uh I believe from kufa so he's a aan

[9:28]maker for a Shia family so what does that make him is

[9:34]he an clearly he's probably a sh furthermore say says look at

[9:39]the mettin the content of what he's narrating says I don't care

[9:42]about what the Met is if the Hadith chain is weak or

[9:46]is not all in my standard the met doesn't apply who cares

[9:50]about it's irrelevant says I need to look at the Met the

[9:54]content of what he's narrating indicates to me if he's reliable or

[9:59]not so better looks at the chain and he looks at the

[10:02]content he looks both directions he then says he's only narrating a

[10:06]about would not narratees issues to non because it's very sensitive the

[10:13]government uses the discussion of holes as a threat collecting money and

[10:19]the money goes to the IM that's a threat to the government

[10:21]and so he only narrates about homes that's another clue furthermore look

[10:25]at theith is it what he's saying is this or not yeah

[10:29]yeah yeah as in is what he's saying IM said the following

[10:31]is that something IM said in regards to the legal aspects of

[10:37]what he said it is so not only is he narrating true

[10:39]things he's reliable in the sense of Salah timing he works with

[10:43]a Shia family the earlier Scholars didn't say he's weak and they

[10:48]didn't say he's reliable but they just we don't know in my

[10:52]conclusion he's he's he's and I will use his whenever I see

[10:58]him as well so has a strong point says what you don't

[11:02]think the Nashi and S thought about all of that you think

[11:05]they didn't see his name and said okay he's a they probably

[11:10]saw all that but they still made that conclusion maybe they had

[11:14]other reasons so I will stay firm on my opinion if what

[11:17]they said I will apply you say that I have contact schools

[11:20]it makes a lot of good sense yeah both of them have

[11:24]a strong do you agree both of them have a strong argument

[11:26]very different yeah both of them are so strong in their claims

[11:33]yeah put them both in a council now yeah forget to put

[11:35]five of them in a f Council each one has his own

[11:40]Meb or metric of Juris prudence and see can they agree on

[11:43]the same exact thing can they that's why impossible it's impossible that's

[11:48]why especially on newer issues yes that is why if you have

[11:51]five Scholars and they're all told to hey use your reasoning your

[11:56]come to a conclusion on this issue um how are you going

[11:58]to force them to have the same conclusion and if they issue

[12:02]a fwa at least half of them are going to say that's

[12:04]not reflective of my opinion yeah but you're going to issue it

[12:09]in my name as well you as an adherer to this fatwa

[12:11]are you in good conscious comfortable knowing that fwa isn't representative of

[12:17]how can you live your life feeling you know at least that

[12:22]fwa is is out there in my interest it wasn't even accepted

[12:24]by half of the guys on the board for example for that

[12:28]reason we can't have a we can have councils on social issues

[12:35]we can have councils on Modern decisions that concern um Society Community

[12:39]but on the intricacies of it's a complicated one by the way

[12:47]he studied under both of these and together he uses both of

[12:57]these aspects that's why in his book by our teacher say in

[13:03]many of his opinions involve and involve for example definition of is

[13:11]not the same definition of even though he got his opinion of

[13:15]the meaning and definition is amazing means the proof of is the

[13:25]definition of that's opinion yeah yeah he takes so much of opinions

[13:34]as well that's now take him and bring another from who has

[13:38]his own style okay throw them in a council add five more

[13:43]scholars in good heart could you say they'll agree to the same

[13:46]exact thing no nearly impossible no but how can we not do

[13:50]it and the Sunni School of can what's the difference there's going

[13:53]to be a lot of um conforming uhhuh there's going to be

[13:57]a lot of conforming okay I'll just conform to the majority democracy

[14:02]this was the ruling by Allah based on Democracy so would you

[14:06]say they're more flexible un giving in unaccepting as much as I

[14:15]have utmost respect to All by the way all of the Quran

[14:19]absolutely absolutely you have to say is this reflective f is what

[14:25]it's not just rules it's God's expectation expectation yes are you sure

[14:28]that this is reflective of God or is it reflective of a

[14:30]majority we don't want s or micro to happen just because the

[14:38]majority felt I don't want to hear that anymore I so exactly

[14:40]we enjoy this totly and it was a bit detailed I understand

[14:47]bit detailed very very detailed but alhamdulillah the you

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