Following a mis-guided scholar

There are always two ways of understanding the Aquida (Islamic faith) , one way is to keep our mind initially empty and try to understand the concept in its total reality with proper comprehension, directly from the holy Quran and Sunnah of holy Prophet (Sal Allahu Alaihe Wasallam), by removing all kinds of apparent contradictions, ­ then by taking the guidance from the books of world renowned classical Islamic scholars and finally, studying all the authoritative Islamic material relevant directly or indirectly, to the topic of concern. Then we will be able to form our own concept based on holy Quran & Sunnah of holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).

The other way to understand an Islamic concept can be, with a mind, which is already preoccupied with self concocted or fabricated concepts. Once, our mind is filled with a self fabricated idea, then, we choose only specific Quranic verses or few selected hadith, which substantiate our self concocted ideas, due to our defective or incomplete knowledge. In this way, we are considering ourselves to be the authority of Islam, which is totally unfair and can be very dangerous for our Iman (Islamic faith).

Some people either, due to lack of deep understanding of Islamic concepts or due to lack of comprehensive knowledge of Islam, hide many hadiths of holy Prophet (peace be upon him), which deal with subject of Bid’ah, from their audience. Unfortunately, the same problem is with the concept of Shir’k. The word Shir’k is applied on many Islamic acts, which specifically or technically speaking, do not come under the category of shirk, they can be right or wrong but, do not fall under the category of Shir’k. By declaring those acts to be Shir’k, which are not Shir’k,they are declaring the person performing those ­ acts to be Mushrik (a non-believer), which means, you are kicking him out of the ambit of Islam and out of ummah of holy Prophet (Sal Allahu Alaihe Wasallam). In other words, you are throwing him into hell fire and this is a very bad act in Isalm.

Zakir Naik is one of those misguided speaker who misinterprates the Quran and hadiths on larger scale.He always gives references from quran and hadith but if you check those references you will find that it is different than what Zakir Naik is saying.One will be surprise to know that Zakir Naik claims that celebrating birthday of deceaced person including prophet muhammad Sal Allahu Alaihe Wasallam will lead to shirk.
It shows that how badly he understands Islam.It seems that he even dont know the meaning of shirk.

Imamal-Darimi (Rahimahullah) who reported Ziyad Ibn Hudair (Rahimahullah) saying:
"Umar (Allah be pleased with him) said to me: Do you know what can destroy Islam?" I said: "No." He said:"It is destroyed by the mistakes of scholars, the argument of the hypocrites about the book (of Allah),and the opinions of the misguided leaders." (see Mishkatul Masabih, 1/269, Trans. A.H. Siddiqui).

Same problem is with the concept of Bid’ah, when the so-called scholars with incomplete knowledge of Islam, speak to their audience, regarding the Islamic concepts, the audiences, who are not well verse with Islamic literature, think that the speaker has proved his point through Quran and Sunnah but, they cannot differentiate between right and wrong interpretation of holy Quran and Sunnah of holy Prophet (peace be upon him). They don’t know that, there are several other verses of holy Quran & hadith of holy Prophet (peace be upon him) on the same subject, which the speaker is neglecting or hiding due to his partial knowledge of the subject. They don’t know that he is inferring the same concept as established by classical Islamic scholar in the light of holy Quran & Sunnah or he is making his own newconcept, which is opposing to the authentic Islamic literature of centuries.
May Allah Guide us to the Right path.Path of the rightly guided people(Ameen)