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Practicality of following a scholar today

“In today's lecture you gave two options: become an alim or follow an alim. But problems are due to misguidance of ulemas. How practical is following an alim when most people don't have the right alim?”Asked by Idris, Raipur

He answers at 1:06:19 in Importance of Peace · 1 min 16 sec

His answer, in his own words
1:06:19
maulana, agla sawal raipur se hai, idrees sahab ka. aur unhon ne likha hai: In today's lecture you gave two options. That is either to become an aalim or follow an aalim. However, the armed struggle and Muslim existing problems are due to misguidance of ulemas and alim s. Under this situation, how practical is the second option, that is of following an aalim, as most of the people don't have the right aalim to follow? nahi, main ne yeh nahi kaha hai. main ne trust ka lafz istemal kiya hai. jis par aap ko trust ho. yeh nahi ke kisi suna diya aafta ko, main ne nahi kaha ke jo suna diya aafta ho, us ko follow kijiye.
1:07:05
yeh main ne nahi kaha hai. jis aalim par aap ko trust ho, us ko ikhtiyar kijiye. to main samajhta hoon ke aise, beharhaal aise log maujood hain jin par aap trust kar sakte hain. un ko trust kar ke un ko follow kijiye. main har giz nahi, main ne yeh kaha hai ke jo suna diya aafta aadmi hai, us ko follow kijiye aap. yeh main ne nahi kaha hai.
1:07:36
maulana, agla sawal Miss Nagma Siddiqui ka hai, dilli se. aur unhon ne likha hai ke "Sabr is very important in Islam.
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