Mufti-e-Azam Pakistan Mufti Rafi Usmani (HA) on being Deobandi!

Two key differences between the actions of B-Boys and Allamah Qasim Nanotwi (RA):

1. B-Boys ascribe reward and religious significance while Allamah Qasim Nanotwi (RA) never believed, uttered or wrote any religious significance to the matter; it was his personal practise
   
2. B-Boys encourage others to follow a “Sunnah” which is not Sunnah i.e. Nabi (Sallalaho Alaihe Wassallam) never made it obligatory to wear GREEN Turban only.
   

There is a key difference between B-Boys and DeoBAND. The DeoBANDees practise things out of love and honour of Nabi (Sallalaho Alaihe Wassallam) without any other intention.

The key matter in Islam is intention.

You can choose not to wear green shoes and it is your personal choice and prerogative. We leave the matter to Allah Ta’ala.

The minute someone refuses to wear green shoes with the intention of reward and categorisation (to Sunnah), we term it as Bid’ah.

1. A person can dutiful follow each and every detail of prayer (without intention) and their Salah is not done.
   
2. Another person can make intention and then make 10 mistakes but it is classed as Salah.
   
3. A person can remain hungry during fasting hours without intention and it is not fasting.
   
4. Another person can make intention of fasting and then (accidentally eat/drink by mistake) and he/she will still be fasting.
   

It is not the action but the intention and categorisation which matters.

Distraction:

This was one of my first lessons in Hanbali Fiqh under my teacher Imam Abu Yusuf Al-Dimashqi (HA) who has now lost his memory due to old age so I request all to make Dua for him. You need to distinguish actions from intentions, actions are nothing without intention.

When Maulana Yusuf Kandhalwi (RA) wrote Hayatus-Sahaba he sent it to my teacher’s teacher in Damascus to write the foreword.  He (RA) refused and sent it back to India and said, “It is an honour beyond my stature to write a foreword on this book”.

Imam Abu Yusuf Al-Dimashqi (HA) told us during the lesson that we were young boys and our teacher held the book (during the 1950s) in his hands and he kept repeating in astonishment (to the best of my recollection).

Woe to the Arabs, Indians have surpassed the scholarship of the Arabs.
Woe to the Arabs, Indians have surpassed the scholarship of the Arabs.
Woe to the Arabs, Indians have surpassed the scholarship of the Arabs.
What is this book, the like of which was not written by an Arab!

B-Boys and DeoBAND

These two are superficially very similar in actions. Hanafees, Ashrees/Maturidees, Sufees but when we delve into it there is a different of night and day because of categorisation and intention. The hallmark of DeoBANDees was to abandon matters which were even remotely close to Bid’ah.

Today, we have PINK DeoBANDees who are basically nothing but cousins of the B-Boys.

Khatam, Meelad, Birthdays, Madrasa Graduations, Dodgy Ta’weez (Ruqya), Hazrat-Worship the PINK DeoBANDees are at it...