We have to protect the honour of Muslims.

We should have such habits due to which our subordinates should say that their Nigran is noble.

Importance of Islamic knowledge

Islamic knowledge is necessary for any sort of religious work. A’la Hadrat, Imam Ahmad Raza Khan عَـلَيْهِ رَحْمَةُ الـرَّحْمٰن was asked about performing a Nikah (marrying a couple) by a Nikah-performing person (one who solemnizes the marriages), some of the portion of the answer of A’la Hadrat رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه is presented here in an easy way:

If a person is blind and has no custodian, he can perform a Nikah (marry a couple) and there is no harm in it, but if he is ignorant, it can be harmful because he is unaware of Nikah rulings, so there is a possibility that he may do something that may make Nikah invalid and husband and wife due to their ignorance may remain heedless of it. In this way, مَـعَـاذَ الـلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ, they may suffer from Haraam throughout their life. Therefore extreme care in Nikah is mandatory. Nikah-performing person (one, who solemnizes the marriage) should be religious, pious, well-aware of the rulings of Nikah, because the ignorant may do or say something harmful unwillingly. Whereas, transgressor dishonest person should not be trusted; when he himself has no sense of Halal and Haraam, how could we be hopeful that he will take care for others.

(After this, he رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه mentioned those mistakes which are made by the Nikah-performing persons and then said) The reason for these things is the same—ignorance; apart from them there is a fear of many other mistakes, which are only known to Islamic scholars or those righteous people who are fond of having the company of Islamic scholars, serving them and learning Islamic rulings properly from them. In short, the act of performing a Nikah of a couple by an ignorant person is absolutely against Islamic rulings, as his Imamat (leading prayers) or business partnership because the risk of disturbance and conflict we may have there, the same risk exist in Nikah as well ‘كَمَا لَا يَخۡفٰي’ (as it is not concealed.) (Fatawa Razawiyyah, vol. 11, pp. 188-190)