The Place of Taswawwuf in Traditional Sciences
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following is taken from The Place of Taswawwuf in Traditional Sciences by Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller. Perhaps the biggest challenge in learning Islam correctly today is the scarcity of traditional ‘ulama . In this meaning, Imam Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Isma’il al-Bukhari ( r.a. ) related the swahih , rigorously authenticated hadits that the Prophet ( s.a.w. ) said, “Truly, Allah does not Remove Sacred Knowledge by taking it out of servants, but rather by taking back the souls of scholars, until, when He has not left a single scholar, the people take the ignorant as leaders, who are asked for and who give legal opinion without knowledge, misguided and misguiding.” This is found in Fath al-Bari . The process described by the hadits is not yet completed, but has certainly begun, and in our times, the lack of traditional scholars, whether in law, in hadits , in tafsir , has given rise to an understanding of the ...