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Part 12D: An [Upright] Scholar Experienced Many Affairs- For Many Years- Related to The Different Circumstances of The People And This Cannot Be Acquired Merely By Reading Books

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In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy

Shaikh Muhammad Baazmool [may Allaah preserve him] said:

An [upright] scholar has precise understanding of the Qur’aan, the Sunnah and the various sciences related to the religion. He has knowledge and wisdom related to nurturing and teaching others, and he has experience. He has [good] awareness of the different circumstances of the people, their daily pursuits and general affairs, which is not found in books. And if a person wanted to acquaint himself with all these affairs, he would need a long time [or many years] to do so; but the scholar came across these affairs during his lifetime- from the very beginning of his path in pursuit of knowledge; so how can all of this be merely acquired by [reading] books?!

Source: [في قلب الحدث مقالات متنوعة   – pages 48-49 Abridged and slightly paraphrased]

Part 12C: Scholars Possess the Oral Skills, Knowledge And Prolonged Experience to Enable Them Give Rulings During a Naazilah And This is Not Possible By Merely Reading Books

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In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy

Shaikh Muhammad Baazmool [may Allaah preserve him] said:

The scholar possesses knowledge and precise understanding to aid him derive [sound] ruling [from the texts of the Sharee’ah]. So, when a Naazilah [i.e. an affair related to public safety or fear] occurs, he is able to quickly derive a ruling, teach the people, disseminate the ruling and explain the Sharee’ah ruling related to that [particular] Naazilah. The ability [to do this] is not acquired by merely reading books when a Naazilah occurs, without the oral skills, knowledge and prolonged experience possessed by the scholars.

Source: في قلب الحدث مقالات متنوعة   – pages 48. Abridged and slightly paraphrased

Benefit of Contemplating on the Qurān – Al-Uthaymīn

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Shaykh Uthaymīn (rahimahullāh):

Everytime a person ponders upon this Magnificent Qurān and is reminded by way of that which is in it [i.e. its commandments, prohibitions, admonitions etc], then indeed he receives blessing in his life, his deeds, his certainty and in all his affairs.

At-Ta’līq ‘alā al-Qawā’id al-Hisān by Shaykh Uthaymīn Pg. 16

Signs of a Sound Heart and a Sick Heart – Shaykh Rabī

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‎إِلَّا مَنْ أَتَى اللَّهَ بِقَلْبٍ سَلِيمٍ
Except him who brings to Allāh a clean heart [clean from Shirk (polytheism) and Nifāq (hypocrisy)]. Ash-Shu’ara:89

Shaykh Rabī ibn Hādi Al-Madkhalī (hafidahullāh):

Ponder, is your heart sound?

What is the sound heart?

The sound heart is that which fights Shirk and rejects falsehood, it accepts the truth and refutes falsehood with all its might, this is the sound heart. So, if you notice that you accept the truth from whoever brings it to you (you accept the truth; the truth guides you and your goal is the truth) then by Allāh your heart and intellect is sound.

What is the sick heart?

And, if you realise that you reject the truth when it comes to you from a certain direction, and you accept falsehood when it comes from another direction and you behave as if it is the truth; then know that your heart is sick.

Majmu’ Ar- Rā’iq Pgs. 485-486

Is Your Heart Hard and Unresponsive

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Mālik ibn Dīnar (rahimahullāh) said:

“A servant is not afflicted with a punishment greater than hardness of the heart. “ (1)

Jāmi’ Bayān Al-Ilm wa Faḍlihi Vol.1 Page 565

See the following links for details on how hardness of the hearts occurs, and the means we can take to cure our hearts. BārakAllāhu Fīkum

 

Trials and Tests Distinguish the Believer from the Hypocrite – Shaykh Fawzān

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Shaykh Ṣālih Al-Fawzān (hafidahullāh):

From the Way of Allāh – The Glorified, The Most High – with his creation, is that he trials and tests them. He does not leave them without trials and tribulation, for if he was to leave mankind without trialling them, then the believer would not be distinguished from the hypocrite and the truthful would not become clear from the liar.

Source: Official Website of the Shaykh