What a waste of life that would be.

What a waste of life that would be. The forger of lies against Allah (s.w.t.) will end up in Hell as he is the most unjust. [Shakir 6:144] Who, then, is more unjust than he who forges a lie against Allah that he should lead astray men without knowledge? Surely Allah does not guide the unjust people. Not only that, they have been regarded as evil people by the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.).

23 AL KAFI - VOL 8 H 479 Ali Bin Ibrahim heard from his father from Nawfil from Sakuni from Abu Abdillah (a.s.) who said: 'The Commander of the Faithful (a.s.) said that the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.) said: "A time will come upon the people when the Quran will only remain as a custom and Islam will only remain in name and the mosques will be full of people but they will be bereft of guidance and the Fuqaha of that period will be the most evil Fuqaha under the shadow of the sky; evil will emanate from them and return towards them"'.

After this Hadeeth if I were to write any more on this topic then I would probably end up getting killed. Anyhow, let me tell you about a funny argument which I received from someone about this. He claimed that the Fuqaha referred to here are the ones from the Sunnis, and not from among the Shiites. Honestly, every time I remember this, it brings a smile to my face. The reason being, that the Sunnis do not have any Fuqaha.

In their entire history they only ever had four of them who all died over a thousand years ago. The entire Sunni population are the Muqallideen (emulators) of these four - Imam Shafei, Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Malik and Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal. QUESTIONS If the Fuqaha are not being recognized by the Holy Imams (a.s.) as Fuqaha then why are we recognising them as such?

If the only Fuqaha being recognised by the Holy Imams (a.s.) are the Muhaddith, the narrators of Hadeeth, then how come we are unaware of any of them these days? If the Fuqaha of the end times are the most evil people then what does that make their followers? Previous…