{"id":7434,"date":"2015-02-18T16:42:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=7434"},"modified":"2015-02-18T16:42:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:42:46","slug":"seeking-counsel-from-ones-elders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=7434","title":{"rendered":"Seeking Counsel from one\u2019s Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/sea-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"265\" height=\"190\" alt=\"sea 1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7435\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/sea-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 179px; margin: 5px;\" \/><\/a>Spending a little while in the company of one&rsquo;s shaikh is not sufficient. We think that by spending one i&rsquo;tikaaf we will complete all the stages of sulook. However this is only like a scanning machine, where a person&rsquo;s weaknesses and faults are pointed out. Thereafter he will have to keep constant contact to correct and rectify them.<\/p>\n<p>The hadeeth explains that one of the major problems before Qiyaamah is that people will become self-opinionated. When a person feels that I am not competent enough then he will keep asking his elders. But when he feels that I can read in between the lines and I can understand it by myself, he will not ask. This amounts to &lsquo;ujb (self-admiration), which is a major problem and obstacle on the path of progress. It is so serious that in the Battle of Hunain the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu &lsquo;anhum) had to suffer because of it.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/majlis-programmes\/ramadhaan-1435\/2517-asr-majlis-sunday-22nd-ramadhaan-20th-july.html\">Al-Haadi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spending a little while in the company of one&rsquo;s shaikh is not sufficient. We think that by spending one i&rsquo;tikaaf we will complete all the stages of sulook. However this is only like a scanning machine, where a person&rsquo;s weaknesses and faults are pointed out. Thereafter he will have to keep constant contact to correct &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[410,17],"class_list":["post-7434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-mufti-ebrahim-salejee","category-malfoozaat","tag-malfoozaat","tag-mufti-ebrahim-salejee-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7436,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434\/revisions\/7436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}