Suhaib Webb – A Dangerous Platitude
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The speaker discusses the use of scholarship in settling claims and asserts that angst is not scholarship. They also mention a book by the same author, which describes a situation where a person wants a scholarship to avoid damaging their face. The speaker warns against the use of scholarship in shaping and guiding one's thoughts.
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Of the more ridiculous claims we hear from
people which is really an attempt to assail
scholarship and to put themselves in the role
of scholars.
Because angst is not scholarship. As they'll say,
I just want it from the Quran literally
from sunnah literally. I don't want scholarship.
Be careful of these kind of people.
I'll give an example. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
says in the 6th verse of 5th chapter
of the Quran.
O you who believe when you stand to
pray, then wash your faces. If you were
to interpret this literally, it would be a
bitter. It would go against the way of
the prophet. Because if you were to stand
and then wash your face, that means you
would say,
and then make wudu. And nobody prays like
that. That would be an innovation. So here
we see the necessity
of responsible scholarship and the role of responsible
scholarship in shaping and guiding the thoughts of
the Ummah.