Question: Mufti Muhammed Tosir Miah is a “renowned” scholar from the UK. He is in SA currently on a tour, please advise. He is having a program tomorrow on the topic: Mental Health & Spiritual Well Being. I do not want to advertise as yet but he is introduced as:
“MUFTI SAAB GRADUATED FROM DARUL ULOOM, BURY AS A QUALIFIED HAFIDH, ALIM AND MUFTI UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF SHAYKH HAZRAT MOULANA YUSUF MOTALA SAHIB, IN ADDITION TO HAVING THE HONOUR OF BEING TAUGHT BY LEADING UK SCHOLARS MUFTI SAAB IS THE PRINCIPAL AND FOUNDER OF DARUL ILM BIRMINGHAM AND DARUL IFTA BIRMINGHAM. HE IS PRACTICALLY AND THEORETICALLY CONVERSANT AND KNOWLEDGEABLE IN THE FIELD OF ISLAMIC STUDIES AND THEOLOGY.”
Answer: The topic is on mental health and spiritual wellbeing thus it is imperative to ask yourself who is it that actually needs a solid mental prgram. Despite exhausting you with all these titles if any sane person said, “it is fine for any son to look at the breasts of his own mother”, would you trust such a person to educate you for even a few seconds. 
Awrah of slaves – IslamQA
These basics requires a little bit of sense. Such people are totally out of touch with the reality. A gynaecologist at one of the local hospitals in South Africa has warned our families with great importance to caution the Ummah regarding the issue of Mahram uncles raping their nieces. Yes, we are speaking of Muslims. Now who do you think needs a mental check up? These people are totally out of touch with the reality of incest being so rife and rampant. Thus it is totally Haraam to attend the program of such people who copy and paste texts for their benefits. Read the refutation of this on the Majlis website:
https://themajlis.co.za/books/opening-the-gateway-of-zina-with-technicalities/
He has been invited by Jamiatul Ulama South Africa, those who are suffering from humiliation due to closing the Masaajid as well who have become so desperate. they now using all these fancy topics and imported scholars to gain back reputation. Recently, since Musallees are ignoring their Masjid posters regarding their mental issues, they have now turned to the newspapers for advertising:
Copying and pasting texts which is not mansoos (Quraan and Ahaadith) or inaccuracies in applying it has become the job of scholars to accommodate their specific needs. The Shariah is pushed aside and the dunya is sought.
Regarding this Moulana Ahmed Sadeq Desai Hafidhahulllah said today:
“The Mufti has to be aware of his community. He has to keep his finger on the pulse. He has to see which masalah is applicable for that time”
It is a principle in Fiqh to understand the conditions of people as not to open up instances such as the covid shaytaaniyyah but rather to understand the Faucis and Firouns and educate people to take them out of their darkness and lead them to noor.
Ibn Aabideen Rahmatullahi Alaihi quoted this statement in Raddul Muhtaar;
“whoever is unaware of his people is a jaahil (ignorant).”
۔ونقل ابن عابدين في رد المحتار (٣/٧٢٤) عن شيخ مشايخه السائحاني قال: ومن لم يدر بعرف أهل زمانه فهو جاهل، انتهى
Qadhi Khan Rahmatullahi Alaihi also quoted this statement in his book:
قال شيخ الحنفية العلامة قاضي خان المتوفى سنة ٥٩٢ه في فتاويه (١/٢٠٩)
Faqīh Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī (d. 373/983) quoted from Abū Muṭīʿ al-Balkhī (d. 199/815), a student of Imam Abū Ḥanīfah (d. 150/767) also quoted this statement:
قال الفقيه أبو الليث السمرقندي في “النوازل” المطبوع باسم “الفتاوى من أقاويل المشايخ في الأحكام الشرعية” (ص ٨١):
قال: من لم يكن عارفا بأهل زمانه فهو جاهل، انتهى۔
Many fatawaa is presented in a twisted manner leaning towards their agenda. Do not get carried away with Darul Iftaa’s and titles. Look at the reality.
A student from Canada today commented on why he has come to benefit from Moulana Ahmed Sadeq Desai Hafidhahullah and commenting on the condition of Canada says:
“In Canada, we go to the Masjid to gain for Salaah to strengthen our Taqwa but then we get the perfume smell of a female in Salaah. So on one side, we are trying to focus on the verses of the Quraan and on the other side this stench of zinaa is penetrating the heart. This is all done due to scholars such as Yasir Qadhi and Omar Suleiman who promote this. These scholars surely are out of touch with the reality and are the internal enemies killing your Imaan in the very house of Allah Ta’alaa, the Masjid.
