Are you a blind follower?

Are You a Blind Follower?

The Prophet ﷺ in a hadith recorded by al-Tirmidhi teaches us a very, very important point:

(Jami' al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 2007)

Don't become blind followers. Doing as you see people do. Saying as you see people say. Following blindly without thinking.

The Filter Every Believer Must Apply

What's the filter you should apply when you see something — an idea, a video? No, it's not an Instagram filter.

Any idea you come across — whether it's a feminist idea or a meninist idea, whether it's telling you that your woman should be doing X or your man should be doing X, whether it's telling you the red pill or the white pill or the pink pill — every idea, a believer looks at these ideas and thinks: Hold on a second, should I accept this?

And there is a certain thing you are comparing it against, and you're saying: Is it true? Is it not true? You are comparing it against the revelation — the Qur'an.

The Pure Water

That is the pure water that we drink from. Somebody comes by and says, "Here, look — I'm selling you some rose syrup, let me put that in your water." You say: hold on, I don't know if it agrees with my water or not. Somebody else comes to you: "Look, I'm selling a special type of tea." You say: hold on, my friend — I don't know whether that's going to dissolve in my water.

I want to drink from the pure.

The Qur'an and the Sunnah are pure. They came with no pollution, no contamination. That's what we should be drinking from.