Said Bak   I'll be Bak

- as Summarized by Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi of Syria

Shaykh Muhammad (hafidhahu Llah) sums up his way in the following words:

“The main focus of Muslim activists in the field of Da’wa should be on making people aware of the importance of learning the Deen, studying the Shari’ah, and diving into the depths of the Sacred Knowledge in order to ultimately live upon it. The key to the success and triumph of the Muslim Umma unequivocally lies in Sacred Knowledge. Only through studying the Sacred Knowledge may we increase the fear of Allah in our hearts and precisely emulate the exemplar of the Prophet salla Allahu ‘alayhi wa sallam and follow the steps of the ‘Ulama. In order for the Umma to regain its intellectual consciousness and reinstate its sense of civilization, we need, beside following the Qur’an and the Sunna, to adhere to the way of the ‘Ulama that spans over fourteen centuries, a way that, in reflecting the Qur’an and the Sunna, articulated the corpus of fiqh and the exegeses of the Qur’an and Sunna, thus introducing the way to the following generations.

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Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali (rahimahu Llah) said in the Kitab al-Tawba of his Ihya’,

“It is an obligation for scholars to make themselves known to the masses, to enjoin the good and forbid the evil, and grant people access to their knowledge and example.”

Imam Ibn ‘Abidin said,

Fiqh was planted by Ibn Mas’ud, watered by ‘Alqama, harvested by Ibrahim al-Nakha’i, trampled down by Hammad, grinded by Abu Hanifa, kneaded by Abu Yusuf and made into bread by Muhammad (al-Shaybani). Thus all the people are now eating from his bread.