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That is decided by consulting ulema Ahlesunnat who have spend their whole life in attaining religious education and whose saying seems to be in accordance with Holy Quran and Hadees .i disagree with khadim rizvi on many matters when he speaks opposite to teaching of Islam like when he abuse others or use comments which have risk of shirk .Remember true ulema have firm belief in Tauheed and they avoid shirk in any form and also love Prophet (P.B.UH)
Thank you for answering.
That is a reasonable approach however, just remember that the ulema of all sects and religions have spent a great deal of time studying their sect/religion.
We have to have sufficient understanding of the basic rules of interpretation to be able to understand the strength of the
daleel being presented.
It's important to know where the Quran and Sunnah's direct order ends and the opinion of the Aalim begins.
Remember, there are a few matters in which the Quran and Sunnah give explicit orders. Most of the time it is a matter of deducing lessons from the Quran and Sunnah and being able to apply to the situation at hand.
This requires not just a good comprehensive understanding of the Quran and Sunnah but also a good understanding of the situation into which it must be applied.
So for instance, if you read the Saudi fatwa behind barring women from driving you'd see they used the reason that it would spread fitna as the main reason. Then when it was allowed, the ulema gave the reason that if women could ride camels then, they can drive now as well. Both used Quran and Sunnah as basis and got opposite results. Because a lot of issues of today rely on deduction and the opinion of the one deducing.
So many ulema have a reasonable understanding of the Quran and Sunnah (a whole lot, I've seen do not) but not a great number seem to understand how the modern world works. The intricacies of the way the socio-economics of our world are not understood by them as these are absolutely vast subjects now, and people who understand both the Quran and Sunnah as well as the modern world are very few indeed.
An example of this was the recent video of how K.H Rizvi thought simply refusing to pay our financial obligations to the international community by saying Interest is haram, and as for the principle amount we shall pay whenever we feel like it, would be a viable strategy.
Point is that it is very important to understand how Islamic jurisprudence works so we can exercise some diligence ourselves.
Remember when a companion Adi r.a asked RasulAllah pbuh about the Ayah
اتَّخَذُواْ أَحْبَـرَهُمْ وَرُهْبَـنَهُمْ أَرْبَاباً مِّن دُونِ اللَّهِ
(Quran 9:31)
They took their rabbis and their monks to be their lords besides Allah). `Adi commented, "I said, `They did not worship them.''' The Prophet said,
«بَلَى إِنَّهُمْ حَرَّمُوا عَلَيْهِمُ الْحَلَالَ وَأَحَلُّوا لَهُمُ الْحَرَامَ فَاتَّبَعُوهُمْ فَذَلِكَ عِبَادَتُهُمْ إِيَّاهُم»
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Yes they did. They (rabbis and monks) prohibited the allowed for them (Christians and Jews) and allowed the prohibited, and they obeyed them. This is how they worshipped them.)
We should be careful lest we too fall into the same trap as the people before us did.
May Allah have mercy on us guide us all
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