Asslamo Allaikum
I am NOT a knowledgable person but some of things that have been coming out of Al-Azhar university (Interest, Hijab, Beard etc..) are shocking!
I am not knowledgable enough to critique it; but I do find them baffling; and I find them against the mainstream Islamic opinion and against the historical context...
I have not used the words Qur'aan & Sunnah because I am not knowledgable enough to start debating with Al-Azhar; but I certainly don't follow them and leave things which sound funny to me to Allah (SWT)
Wa AlaykumAssalam
Akhi, Although i'm gradulated from Al-Azhar University but when i wanna Seeking Knowledge i go to some salafi's Scholars who's Sheikhs Albanian's n Ibn Baz's Students..that's All..like ( Abu IsaaQ Alhweini ,Ibrahim Brahmi ,Mohamed Hussein Ya3cob, Ismail Almokadem)..ect..
and but Alhamdulillah i was taken from Al-Azhar Learning Quranby Heart n sciences of Hadeeth n fiq, Tafseer, and sciences of Arabic langauge..But i didn't taken Aqeedah from there...may be i was studies the Basic there..but Alhamdulillah i studies The Aqeedah of Ahlus-Sunnah wal Jamaa'ah from salafi's scholars ..such as Imam al-Nawawi, Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr, Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah, Ibn al-Qayyim, Ibn Katheer, Ibn Rajab al-‘Asqallaani, al-Shawkaani and others; and contemporary scholars such as Muhammad ‘Abd al-Rahmaan al-Mubaarakfoori, Muhammad al-Ameen al-Shanqeeti, ‘Abd al-Rahmaan al-Naasir al-Sa’di, ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Baaz and Muhammad ibn Saalih al-‘Uthaymeen, may Allaah have mercy on them all.
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then i'm agree with u Al-Azhar doing many mistakes..but every place u 'll find the good n the bad ones..
n if u wanna seek Islamic Scienceu should go to salafi's Scholars..may be in Yemen ,Egypt , KAS speacially Makkah n Al-Madinah..
i leave u in care of Allah
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