Hujjat Podcast14 Mar 2019

Where do I go for my knowledge? Whom do I trust when there are so many opinions out there? (Part 2)

Whom are we prohibited from taking knowledge from and why?

- 2 + 2 = 4

- Water boils at 100 Celsuis

- Grass is green

- Mixing red and blue makes purple

- Liverpool will win the Premier League this season

Each of these statements represent a different type of claim. Where are they rooted? One claim is from mathematics, one is from physics and chemistry, others are by trial and observation. One is from the Bible, one is from the books of Ahadith and the last is a belief.

But what makes us claim these and why should they be believed? What happens when the Bible tells us the world is 6,000 years old but archeology or carbon dating may tell us the world is 4 million years old, for example. Whom do we believe, when do we create a hierarchy of beliefs and why?

In our previous two Friday Sermons we addressed the question: ‘Why is there a problem finding sound knowledge?’ This is because firstly, there are so many people claiming expertise yet all claiming different positions and secondly, because we live in a time when truth is purposefully convoluted with falsehood.

"O Ibn Mas’ood, from amongst the signs and conditions [of the end of times] will be that people will trust treacherous people and consider trustworthy people treacherous and the truthful one will be called a liar and the one telling the lie will be called truthful."

This week, I will present the first set of verses in which the Qur’an provides us with categories of people we are forbidden from taking our knowledge from – whether this be religious knowledge or political knowledge – because they are not qualified, worthy or trustworthy in order for us to lend them our ears. Each of these categories mention qualities of people who should be abstained from.

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