When some young people rediscover their faith they end up rejecting their default religious practices as inherited by them through their parents. Whilst many non-Islamic cultural practices may have crept in, the foundations of what they were already upon are solid and established and rooted in the Quran and Sunnah and should not be dismissed out of hand without serious study and contemplation.
Heresiology, whilst necessary, is dangerous. Rebuttals of erroneous aqida (tenets of faith) positions are necessary. The danger lies in the approach, the means and manner in which such things are conducted. There is also a major danger in the heresiologist’s own limited reading and understanding of the the issue at hand or the person they are investigating. Such things as context and situation are disregarded. They first start with sincere intentions and apply themselves to issues that need clarifying and…
UPDATE 4: Mufti Abdurrahman ibn Yusuf analyses the evidence – http://www.zamzamacademy.com/2010/09/feet-to-feet-toe-to-toe/ UPDATE 3: Shaykh Hamza Yusuf explaining the “feet to feet” – the narrator for the hadith was an 8 year old boy as elucidated by Ibn Hajr al-Asqalani. See http://youtu.be/Q8AdSuKKrwY UPDATE 2: al-Talib’s blog has an excerpt from the 3rd edition of Fiqh al-Imam [published by White Thread Press] by Mufti AbdurRahman ibn Yusuf “Feet to Feet, Toe to Toe?” which discusses the hadith that the Salafis rely on…