Brother with all due respect Where did you find "worshipping shcolars" here? Demanding justice & asking legitimate and logical questions seems worshipping to you? Or are you so blinded by nationalism that you refuse to see the truth. Its natural to feel a bond to your country but when that affection clouds your judgement so much so that you blindly defend the injustices of your government that's when it becomes blameworthy and despicable tribalism that does NOT behoove a human let alone a muslim that too someone who have been blessed with an Arabic tongue by Allah (swt). Your whole narrative if verbatim saudi state propaganda. Alzazerra is terror channel? You expect non-saudis to believe that absurd propaganda?
P.s: as a muslim I passionately respect saudi scholars of orthodoxy who have been unjustly arrested. Scholars are the inheritors of the prophets. MBS even arrested scholars like Salih Al munajjid (may Allah preserve him). If people like Sh. Munajjid & Sh.Salman al-Ouda are extremist, then 99% of all islamic scholars are extremists. It seems MBS took his ijaza from Abu Ivanka al-Amriki and Sh.Jared kushner. I just hope this loose canon do not sell off KSA to US corporations and brain-dead UAE royals.
First of all you need to realize that all scholars regardless of country, especially if acting in a official capacity, are in line with the people of power. That has almost always been the case even during the era of the Caliphate (Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid and Ottoman).
My opinion is that scholars should not involve themselves in the affairs of the state that have nothing to do with religion.
Clerics who for whatever reason are more aligned to political group x or y home or abroad, to regime ruling country x or y, should keep such views to themselves especially if they risk creating instability or potentially harm for their own country and people.
I am not a Saudi Arabian nationalist but rather a patriot. I am an Arab nationalist (like the majority of the 500 million Arabs, especially those of us very familiar with our history and history overall) in the sense that I want the best for the Arab world and increased cooperation.
Al-Jazeera (in my view) has lost all its credibility a long time ago. Here I am referring to the Arabic version that you might not be familiar with. A channel that openly supports terrorist acts against numerous Arab countries. Most recently the attack that killed 305 people in Sinai.
I suggest taking a look at the Qatari Leaks.
https://twitter.com/qatarileaks?lang=ar
They have turned into a propaganda channel that posts nonsense, lies and utter propaganda against KSA. From claiming that Qataris are banned from performing Hajj and Umrah (they were exposed by their own citizens in this case yet they did not report on this), to their double play and ties with the Iranian Mullah regime to being the biggest hypocrites out there as they host the largest US base in the region and moreover have a long history with dealings with Israel dating back all the way to the 1990's where the likes of Shimon Perez was gifted an Arabian sword as a thank you for slaughtering Palestinians.
The current al-Thani regime is utterly despicable and their actions harm not only Qatar itself but the unity of the GCC and the wider Arab world. I cannot stand side by side with such a regime albeit the House of Saud is not perfect but which Muslim regime is that? There are none.
I do not worship any clerics. If those individuals have been arrested there are good reasons for that which the public and wider Muslim masses are not aware of. There are plenty of more orthodox scholars and less orthodox scholars who are free to preach. The Council of Senior Scholars is left unharmed.
This blind loyalty to some scholars remind me of the worship of Mullah's in Shia Twelver Islam. I rather have nothing to do with that. We have a perfect example of that in Iran and among the Shia Arab sheep in Iraq and Southern Lebanon (not to mention the worst cases which are found in Afghanistan and Pakistan) and now most recently a cult emerging among the Zaydi Shias (who are otherwise the most close to Sunni Muslims) in Yemen in the form of Houthis where untouchable Mullah's are in "action" as well for all to see.
I understand and respect that you are an Orthodox Muslim (or whatever we shall call it or what you want to be called) but you need to realize that the Muslim world and Muslim masses by large are not educated enough. Islam in many countries have been mixed with local practices that orthodox locals now defend with their lives. Yesterday millions of Sunni Muslims were celebrating a birthday (the exact date is not know with certainty) that never was celebrated by the Prophet (saws) himself, his family or the Sahabah. This is where we are today and that is not even mentioning groups like Daesh that unfortunately have attracted 1000's of Muslims from across the world and even more native Iraqis and Syrians and 100's of other such groups regardless of claimed sect allegiance.
That ignorance is not only limited to regions outside of the Peninsula. Within KSA we had so-called "Orthodox" scholars who defended the moronic and anti-Islamic 20 year old ban on women driving that King Salman wisely removed for it to never return. Just one example.
Muslims need to study their actual religion more rather than following cultural aspects found native to their lands blindly. They should also stop mixing religion with politics in this day and age (2017) when politics has everything to do with influence of nation states and regimes in power rather than the well-being of Islam or good of Islam or any religion for that matter, I am afraid.
I faced the harsh reality a few years back and changed forever. I am no longer fooled by empty slogans or words regardless whether it is a cleric or a non-cleric uttering them.
BTW what separates Islam from Judaism and especially Christianity, is that clerics ("holy men") do not have monopoly on Islam or as important a position (historically and currently) as we see in those two other Abrahamic religions.
Clerics, especially the good ones, should be respected for their knowledge and service but they should not be turned into unchallenged figures or turned into "saints" as many of them already have been by millions of Muslims. No need to elaborate on this part on a Pakistani forum.
