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IN THE NAME OF ALLAH THE MOST GRACIOUS THE MOST MERCIFUL About four weeks ago I call Shiek Faalih to ask him about going to Bahrain and taking knowledge from Shiek Fawzee. The following is a transcript of the conversation. It is recorded. Rasheed: As-salaamu alaikum wa rahamutu ALLAHU Sheik Faalih: Wa laikum salaam wa rahamtu ALLAH. Rasheed: I am requesting to speak with Sheik Faalih. Sheik Faalih: Na'am Rasheed: Na'am, I'm sorry for disturbing you Sheik, I have one very important question if you have the time. Sheik Faalih: Na'am, please Rasheed: Some brothers wish to go to Bahrain and take knowledge from Sheik Fawzee Al Athari. We don't have doubt about our Shiek; but after the fitna of Abi Hasan, we are afraid to travel to any land without asking the People of Knowledge first. So is it good if I go to Bahrain and sit with him? Shiek Faalih: You can sit with him and gain knowledge from him, but he is not from the Major Scholars. Now, we are making clear for the brothers the difference between the Major Scholars and returning the affairs back to them and the students of knowledge, those that are upon good and upon the minhaj. So he (Sheik Fawzee) is upon good and upon the minhaj. You can benefit from him. He is salafi. But he is a student, he has not yet reached the level of the Major Scholars, those whom the affairs are returned to from Ahlus Sunnah. You know this, if you know this then you can get benefit from him. And if you find something that needs to be returned to the Major Scholars then return it to the Major Scholars. You can benefit from him, you can call him, you can read what he writes from books. He is NOT from the people of bida, he is not from those who have a deviant minhaj. But it is possible that he could make a ruling where he will not have the same understanding as the Major Scholars, those that have the precise understanding. This is the same speech that we have said about Ali Hasan Al Hameed, and Saleem Al Hilaali, and Abdul Malik Ar Ramadanee. It is obigatory that the brothers know the difference between the Major Sholars and the students of knowledge. So (they will not be mislead) if a students opposes the Major Scholars, especially in the affairs of minhaj, and aqeedah, and wala wa bara and things like this. And Fawzee Al Athari is better(ahsan hala) than those I just mentioned(ie:Ali Hasan, Saleem Al Hilaali, Abdul Malik). His condition is better, and his is better with clinging to Salafiya, better than them in minhaj. His minhaj is better, better than them. Na'am. Hayaka ALLAH. Rasheed: Tayib jazaka ALLAHU kharain Ya Shiek, Ya Sheik we love you for the sake of ALLAH. Sheik Faalih: He is better in minhaj than them. huh Rasheed: I said, we here in America love you for the sake of ALLAH Shiek Faalih: May ALLAH love you. May ALLAH guide you. {end of kalaam} Rasheed Barbee
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