 Knowledge positions are derived in Islam.

 Muhaddis- a female scholar of Hadiths.

 Faqi- an Islami Jurist.
 What exactly is knowledge in islam?
 How do you take tafseer from Quran?
 What is Hadith?
 How are multiple positions derived in islam?
 How is the scholarly and non-scholarly divide?
 Alamat of qiyamat: riba, zina, alcohol, and music.
 negative type of ilm will be comman
 There are two approaches to understand islam. Knowledge approach, ideology approach.
 knowledge approaches to islam:
o Read first, position later. (you read first, then you figure out your position later). Start
with quran and hadith, then support their position.
o They’ll stress the use of ilm with aqal. Become a person of ilm or follow someone who
has Ilm.
o It says that other scholarly positions maybe valid. They’re open to possibilities that
others’ position could be valid.
o Says that don’t disagree with something before you have understood it.
o Says that don’t leave hadith, tafseer, Islamic law, spirituality unless you don’t
understand it.
o It’s a long road which needs time and effort.
 Ideological approach to islam: (Literalist ideology and Reformist Ideology)
o Position first, read later. (Opinion first, then quran hadith. See anything then, that’ll then
support their position.). they’ll start with position first.
o Use aqal without ilm. *State Bank of Pakistan wali example*
o Human aqal is deficient. That’s why we need revelance (wahii).
o No. only I am correct, and everyone else s wrong. Here only one position can be valid,
and that is mine.
o don’t agree with something before you have understood it. They will cut you off from
tafseer, hadith, spirituality, and everything because you don’t have the aqal to
understand to do so.
o They gradually give you their own ideoalogy that’ll eventually match your aqal.
o Ideological approach is easy and short.
 What happens when a knowledge person meets a ideology person: there’s a fallout.
o If you want to seek ilm, go ask the fuqaha, instead of ideologists.
 What happens when an ideology person meets a knowledge person:
o First, they will give their own version, deliberately, of their knowledge position to you.
And create a straw man argument.
o They will engage in sweeping generalizations that are completely unsubstantiate. Like
don’t believe in this hadith bcz it doesn’t follow teachings of quran. If I say that I don’t
believe in this hadiths bcz it doesn’t resonate with understanding of quran. Whereas the
actual truth is that hadith doesn’t mean what they want it to mean.
o If nothing works out for them, they will discredit you, defame you. They’ll say that youre
being emotional or intolerant.