Points taken from the talk ‘How to Honour the
Sunnah’
Shaykh Sa’d bin Naasir ash-Shithree [May
Allaah Preserve him]
Jaami’ Ameerah Mawdee bint Ahmad
as-Sudayree
9/4/1434 - 20/2/2013
This is clearly a wrong perception and is from
the ways partisanship appears in the Ummah.
Some people say, ‘I will act upon my intellect
and then accept the Sunnah if it conforms.’
But we say; intellects differ and some people
will agree with one thing and not another. Some people will understand
something but others won’t. Some people's intellect may increase in different
times in their life and at times they may waver. As a result, intellect is not dependable
and not constant throughout the ages.
If this is the case, how can we reject the Sunnah,
rely upon the intellect, especially when there is no benchmark?
However, the Sunnah is clear, if it Saheeh we
accept it and if it is not, then we don’t.
“Then We have put
you (O Muhammad
) on a plain way of (Our) commandment [like the one which
We commanded Our Messengers before you (i.e. legal ways and laws of the Islamic
Monotheism)]. So follow you that (Islamic Monotheism and its laws), and follow
not the desires of those who know not” [al-Jaathiyah 45:18]
Likewise, honouring the Sunnah is not specified
for certain days and doing this creates Bid’ah (innovation, a major sin). For
example, some people take the date they presume that the Israa’ and Mi’raaj
occurred or they take the Mawlid an-Nabawee as days of ‘Eid and honouring of
the Sunnah. As for the rest of year, they have no Sunnah and have no interest
in learning or acting upon the Seerah.
This is evidently against Sunnah. They leave the
Sunnah for the whole year and on a day where there is no proof, they start to
innovate. This is from the very essence of dishonouring the Sunnah and
ridiculing it.
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