Yasir Qadhi – Pseudo Preachers

			One of the more troubling matters that I find more and more increasing in our times, is the
predominance of strange and unorthodox and heretical interpretations of Islam.
		

			It is so common to find our people in the congregation and especially our youngsters. Here's
something online from some random person without any training in Islam. And he plants in their minds
a bizarre understanding of the origin of our tradition, and this person begins to believe it. And it
goes against the mainstream beliefs of our faith in our tradition. And what we have seen
historically, and I've encountered this myself, when a person begins to deviate from mainstream
Islam, this is the stepping stone to deviate from Islam itself. When a person abandons traditional
beliefs, and they start tinkering and believing in the fringe types of understandings. Typically,
		

			you find this person going away and away until finally when a biller, they leave the faith in its
entirety. And there are a number of reasons why these bizarre interpretations are on the rise of
them, of course, and let's be honest here, social media, and Facebook and YouTube. What social media
has done is unprecedented in the history of mankind, where a person in the privacy of his or her
room in the basement of his father's house can put a message that is globally accessible. This is
unprecedented. And so what happens is that eloquence wins over knowledge. Our Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wasallam said that, in the middle of the Angelus era, some types of speeches almost magical,
		

			you lose track of the content, and the person mesmerizes you, the person is able to convince you of
something not because of the content, but because of the style, the rhetoric because of the package,
and the content is swallowed down. And we see here the rise of these pseudo preachers across the
globe, in Pakistan, in Egypt, in Belgium, across England, everywhere here in America, people without
knowledge become authorities in the faith. And by the way, this only happens in Islam. Nobody who
has no training in engineering becomes an engineer online. Nobody who has no training in medicine
becomes a famous doctor, but for some reason, our religion has the least is amongst the masses. And
		

			so a person who has never trained never studied the Quran can't even recite five to have properly
becomes an authority on the religion because that person can mesmerize the audience. I know the
reason as well. Why these types of beliefs are on the rise is because of the lack of real odema and
scholars, fewer and fewer people are becoming scholars of this religion. And even those that are
many of them are not qualified to refute these unorthodox interpretations. And our Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam predicted that of the signs of Judgment Day is that Allah will die and
ignorant people will be boosted up so that finally those ignorant people will be considered to be an
		

			Ummah and our prophets, Allah Larson predicted that of the signs of the judgement day, he said in
Arabic that the railway builder are going to be giving the speeches and the rule and whatnot. And
they asked him who are the railway builder who are these people and the right builder are those who
said they don't have the knowledge they are the johanne they don't have the knowledge and yet people
consider them to have knowledge
		

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