TEN Shaykh al-Qaradawi’s Advice to Scholars & Preachers Of This Ummah
TEN Shaykh al-Qaradawi’s Advice to Scholars & Preachers of the Ummah, taken from the last of what he wrote in the introduction to his published works. I advise my brothers – scholars and preachers – to follow these instructions, so that they can carry out their duty towards their Lord and their religion, and towards their Ummah: 1 That their allegiance is to Allah, glory be to Him, and to His religion alone, not to nationalism or patriotism, or to regimes, or to parties, or to people, except to the extent of their connection with Islam and their proximity to it. 2 To make their reference in every case to the Book of Allah and what is authentic from the Sunnah of His Messenger ﷺ, being guided by the guidance of the righteous predecessors of this nation in their understanding of the spirit of Islam, and their following of its methods, working to liberate Islam from what is invented in it over the centuries from the distortion of the extremists, the imitation of the impost...