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were always called liars and magicians, and today the verse which mentions Ahmad that when he brings clear proof the people call it magic has come to life. Al-Huda employs the viewer to be cautious where their religion is taken from, urging them to take the religion from the Qur’an and the Pristine sunnah (lifestyle) of the Prophet (s.a.w) and that they are to refer to the scholars that have their best interest at heart. And we agree in totality, we have the Qur’an and the sunnah (lifestyle) of the final Prophet (s.a.w), but we need to be serious and real about whether we really are following what the Prophet (s.a.w) stood for and brought forth. “O you people, those non-working scholars have fascinated you and they have resembled the invalid by the truth, as resemblance is named by resemblance for its resemblance to the truth”. Ahmad Al-Hassan (a.s). So basically just because you name your group sunni (meaning you follow the sunnah), and just because you have the name does not make you automatically following it. Al-Huda claims that we should take the middle way, yet they refer to themselves as sunni and as shia, was it not the role of Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) to abolish sects? For those who claim to be shia in this day, perhaps they are adding a sin to themselves for to be considered to be a shia of the Prophet (s.a.w) and his Ahlul Bayt (a.s), we must resemble them in perfection of morals and conduct and we are far from these Godly manners, how dare we have so much self-love to elevate our status to be amongst them?? We can only pray that we be the dust on the shoes of The Prophet (s.a.w) and to have such proximity with him InshaAllah Ameen. Al-Huda claims that the scholars have the communities best interest at heart, yet did you hear the many narrations from the Prophet (s.a.w) concerning the scholars of the end times? The Prophet (s.a.w) said; “All that remains will be an ignorant body of people. The people will ask them about their religious needs, and they will will issue fatwas (religious opinion on a matter) in the light of their own ideas and desires (ignoring the Qur’an and hadith) and will both deviate themselves and lead other into deviation” (Sahih Bukhari, Tajrid as-Sarih: 2174; Muslim; Tirmidhi; an-Nasai; Sunan ibn Majah; Ahmad, alMusnad, 2/162, 190; Darimi, asSunan; ibn Hibban, as-Sahih, no. 4571, 6719, 6723; Hadith narrated by Abd Allah ibn Umar (r.a) "O people do not be tricked by the scholars of Falsehood and their helpers, read, search and verify. Learn and know the truth by your own selves. Do not wait for the Day of Judgement and they would say: 'Our Lord! We obeyed our chiefs and our great ones, and they misled us as to the (right) Path.' ”(33:67) "Don’t rely on ignorants who call themselves acquainted, so they fill your eyes and ears with mud, and pull you into this materialist, transitional world, and into its ornaments. Don’t rely on them, because they can’t see their own hands, and t \