{"id":11937,"date":"2015-11-17T03:49:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T03:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/new\/?p=11937"},"modified":"2015-11-17T03:49:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T03:49:58","slug":"i-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/?p=11937","title":{"rendered":"I Don\u2019t Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once whilst Ali (radiyallahu anhu) was seated on the mimbar, someone asked him a question. Without any hesitation, he calmly replied: \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d The man commented: \u201cHow can you ever say: \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d when you have assumed this exalted position of sitting on the mimbar?\u201d To this Ali (radiyallahu anhu) replied: \u201cI\u2019ve ascended this mimbar based on what I know. Had I ascended any place based on what I don\u2019t know then undoubtedly I would have reached the sky!\u201d\u00a0(Mirqaat vol.1 pg. 528)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Lesson:\u00a0<\/strong>Besides Allah Ta\u2019ala nobody knows everything. Then there are those who have more knowledge than others. In every field, there are experts and there are laymen. Laymen must NEVER take a chance. They must always refer to the experts, whether it be a medical problem, a financial issue or any other aspect. Most importantly, those without sound knowledge of Deen must NEVER take a chance with trying to extract laws of deen from the Quraan and Sunnah. One must ALWAYS refer to the experts \u2013 those who have acquired the detailed knowledge of the Quraan and Sunnah from experts \u2013 via an unbroken chain leading all the way up to Rasulullah (sallallahu alaihi wasallam). Allah Ta\u2019ala clearly commands \u201cAsk those of knowledge if you do not know.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11938,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11937\/revisions\/11938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}