10.9 Ilimi Da Bayyanar Ilimi
10.9 Knowledge Vs. The Appearance Of Knowledge
Idan aka ce musu, "Ku yi imani kamar yadda mutane suka yi imani," sai su ce, "Shin za mu yi imani kamar yadda wawaye suka yi imani?" Lalle ne, su ne wawaye, amma ba su sani ba.
And when it is said to them, ‘Believe as the people have believed,’ they say, ‘Should we believe as the fools have believed?’ Unquestionably, it is they who are the fools, but they do not know.
Al-Baqarah [Q2:13]
Al-Baqarah [Q2:13]
A yau akwai mutane da yawa da ke kiran masu bi da wawaye. Allah ya ce ba shakka, babu tantama, waɗannan mutane su ne ainihin wawaye, kuma su da kansu ba su sani ba, ba su kuma san gaskiya ba. Abin takaici, Musulmai da yawa ma ba sa fahimtar haka. Maimakon ganin masu musun gaskiya da masu ƙaryatawa a matsayin wawaye, sau da yawa ana ganin su a matsayin ƙwararru da malamai masu daraja, masu hankali da ilimi, da sauransu, har ma ana yaɗa ayyukansu a tsakanin Musulmai har ya kai ga Musulmai su fara gyara da canza imaninsu don su dace da ra'ayoyi da akidun waɗanda a fili kuma da tsananin ƙarfi suka ƙi imani. Kuma Musulmai da yawa ba sa ganin wani sabani a cikin haka.
There are many people who call the believers fools in this day and age. Allah tells us that unquestionably, undoubtedly these people are the real fools and they themselves are unaware of this and do not know the truth. Unfortunately, many Muslims do not realize this either. Instead of seeing the rejectors and deniers as fools, they are often seen as respected experts, scholars, intelligentsia, etc., and their work is even promoted among the Muslims to such an extent that Muslims start modifying and editing their beliefs to conform to the theories and ideologies of those who have very explicitly and adamantly rejected iman. And many Muslims don’t see any contradiction in this.
Kuma abin baƙin ciki da tausayi ya fi tsanani a nan shi ne lokacin da Musulmi suke girmamawa da yin koyi da irin waɗannan mutane, sannan saboda sha'awarsu da girmamawarsu gare su, sai su fara raina malamansu na gaskiya, suna kiran manyan malaman Al'ummah a matsayin wawaye, masu ƙarancin hankali, waɗanda suke magana ne kawai bisa son rai da sha'awa, ba su fahimci ma'anar Alƙur'ani da Sunnah ba da gaske, da sauransu.
And where it gets really sad and really pitiful is when Muslims look up to these people and because of their admiration and respect for them, they start denouncing their own scholars, calling the great ulama of the Ummah as essentially fools, who had limited intellects, were just speaking out of whim and desire, did not truly understand the meaning of the Quran and Sunnah, etc.
Mene ne sanadin wannan? Ɗaya daga cikin manyan dalilai shi ne cewa waɗannan Musulmai sun shiga cikin ra'ayoyin da ba su fahimce su sosai ba. Idan mutum bai fahimci wani abu sosai ba, yana da zaɓi biyu. Zai iya ƙi shi kai tsaye (ko da ba ya san dalilin ƙinsa ba). Ko kuma ya auna darajarsa bisa bayyanar abin. Shin wannan yana kama da abin da yake halal? Yana sauti kamar ya fito daga wurin ilimi? Shin mashahuran mutane suna goyon bayansa? Talakawa suna karɓarsa? Shin yana shahara? A takaice, idan wani abu yana da dukkan alamun ilimi, to wannan ya isa a karɓe shi. Yawancin abin da Musulmai a yau suke karɓa daga waɗannan akidun zamani ana yi ne bisa wannan tushe. Akwai wasu kaɗan da suke ƙi komai ba tare da bambanci ba. Wannan hanya ce mafi aminci, amma ba ta taimaka wa al'ummar Musulunci baki ɗaya ba. Saboda haka, abin da ake buƙata shi ne a fahimci waɗannan akidu sosai. Gogewata da kuma da'awata ita ce idan hakan ta faru, zai bayyana sarai yadda suke da wauta da raini. Sa'an nan za mu san ba tare da shakka ba ko wane ne ainihin wawaye.
What is the cause of this? One of the main factors is that these Muslims have been enchanted with ideas that they do not fully understand. When you do not fully understand something, you have two options. You can just outright reject it (even when you don’t know why you are rejecting it). Or you can judge its value according to appearances. Does this look like something legitimate? Does this sound like it is coming from a learned place? Are reputable people endorsing this? Do the masses accept this? Is it popular? Basically, if something has all the appearances of knowledge, then that is good enough to accept it. Much of what Muslims today accept of these various modernist ideologies are done on this basis. You do have a handful who will just reject things regardless. That is the safer path, but it does not help the wider Ummah. Therefore, what is needed is to fully understand these ideologies. My experience is and my claim is that when that happens, it will be very obvious how foolish and contemptible they are. And then we will know indubitably and unquestionably who are the true fools.