PakFactor
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My father used to say that, for example, if there are four children in a family and one of them is disabled or unable to keep up with the others, the father would get angry and say, “Send him to the madrasa.”
In essence, a significant number of religious individuals are those who were rejected by their families… people who struggled to succeed in state schools or in their careers.
We also see a fair number of so-called scholars whose only qualification is that they come from a Peer (religious) family, even though their actual understanding of religion is quite basic.
I find very few who possess sound knowledge of both Deen and Duniya and who sincerely preach the faith… but sadly, they often become easy targets of these “rejected people” who studied in Madrissah’s and couldn’t comprehend the true meaning of deep knowledge shared by learned people/real scholars because of their limited IQ. Thats why my father also used to say “always listen to what Maulvi is saying but never do what the maulvi is doing”.
Your father is one hundred percent correct. To add to what your father said, always verify any information that a scholar gives; it's incumbent on a Muslim to research and learn, and you can't blame the misinformation solely on the Maulvi. Lastly, as Dr. Israr Ahmed said, there is no Maulvi profession in Islam; the sooner the people learn, the quicker we can come out of the medieval mindset; the same applies to this peeri and moridi nonsense, too.


