Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – EID MUBARAK Whether You Prayed Eid or Not How to Deal With the Differences

Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim hamdulillah Ramana Alameen wa

Salatu was Salam ala so even more serene while he or sabe he he

remain a member,

a belated Eid Mubarak to everybody. And I just wanted to

cover something

very shortly.

hamdulillah Allah subhanho wa Taala allowed us to come through

Ramadan, and through the eat as well. eidl fitter, despite the

lockdown.

Of course, there were various different views that we heard as

we went through whether GEOMAR should be performed, how taraweeh

should be performed. And also, finally, there was the discussion

about either fitrah prayer, since the lockdown there wasn't going to

be much of an access to the masjid for most people. So where do you

do your Eid prayer? Do you even do your eat prayer? So there are

various different opinions about this.

early on about two weeks or so before Eid, we from ourselves, we

put out that our understanding was that just like gym operators

should not be reduced to the homes and it is something which is more

of a congregational prayer. Likewise, it is even more of a

congregational prayer. And that's why our suggestion was that

according to our reading of the texts of the Hanafi school, the

there is no such thing as Eid prayer in the houses because it's

supposed to be done together. However, there were other opinions

as well from respectable individuals, respectable scholars,

and respectable move these from around the world. Now, that is all

fine. Later, we didn't put out anything more because we did not

want to add fuel to the fire because what happened is, and

essentially the point of this discussion today is to explain is

to explain very briefly that differences of opinion are

absolutely inevitable, and they are something historical, that

we've had differences of opinion from the time of the Sahaba after

the Prophet sallallahu Sallam departed this world, there were

differences of opinion among the Sahaba themselves. Differences is

a part of life, there's no way you can do away with differences. The

only way you can minimize the difference is if you're in a

Muslim country, where the scholar counsel, the the leader of the

scholar Council, the Mufti, whoever it is the chief, the arch

mufti, once they give a ruling, then everybody would do the same

thing. But even there, you would probably have Allah Ma, who may

have other opinions, but they will not be able to implement those

opinions. Having a difference of opinion, there being two opinions

out there should be seen in a relaxed attitude. As long as

they're coming from religious, righteous practicing and

knowledgeable scholars, then that is completely fine. So the

suggestion in such a thing is that we follow whichever suits us best

in our situation, according to the strength that we see in that

position. If you have no idea or no way to determine the strength

of certain things,

then it's best that you just adhere to one or two scholars who

you've always trusted. You trust their practice, you trust their

learning, their education, their understanding their piety, and you

just go with that. If you're going to wait for this utopian idea that

they can only there should only be one opinion, why can't they get

together, then you'll just be miserable for a very long time.

Because that's just not going to happen. You have to remember we

are going through unprecedented times. I do not believe that ever

in history. There's probably been a ban on eat, press any particular

place like this the way it was, unless it was for oppression

reasons. Right? Aside from that, in a normal non oppression

situation, purely because of a disease or illness because of

measures that are understood today that people have to take. I don't

think there's ever been a situation like that, as we have

had in England, and some other countries during this occasion. So

you're going to get differences of opinion, people will understand

the text differently. Yes, if it was very clear cut in the Quran,

or in the Sunnah in the Hadith, for example, that in this

particular situation, this is what you do. And anybody went against

that, then that would seem as absurd that why would somebody go

against something so explicitly mentioned, where there's nothing

clearly mentioned like this? A lot of it is in third. In some cases,

we're going to have to determine the best possible recourse in a

situation like this. And clearly, there were two opinions, maybe

there were three opinions.

They are all practicable opinions as long as they're coming from

authority as long as they're coming from Obama. So that's why

we have to get used to this idea that that is what's going to

happen even even among all of the same school schemes, school of

thought, right Hana fees or within Hana fees, various different

schools of thoughts, they have a difference of opinion and that is

fine. Hamdulillah that is fine. As long as you went with

Somebody you trusted, then that should be enough for you, it's

going to be inevitable. So it's not something that you need to

worry about. I didn't want to bring this up beforehand

and contribute further to the flames of the fire because

especially towards the end of Ramadan is the time when you're

trying to win the race with Allah subhanho wa taala, you know, in

his site to try to get the best out of Ramadan. And I think

sometimes, either just the first few days into Ramadan, and the

last few days of Ramadan, these kinds of various different topics

creep up, which seem to just disturb the flow, and the actual

ultimate ceiling and completion of Ramadan. So we just didn't want to

get engaged with that. That's why now that we've relaxed after

Ramadan, now we want to just bring this to that in the future when

there's unprecedented times, especially when it's

unprecedented, right, you're gonna have differences of opinion, you

just find and for this, you should do this in your life for

everything. If you if you need answers to things, you find one or

two aroma that you trust for the various different criteria that

I've mentioned, then you just go with them, and understand that

there will be differences in because this world is created with

differences. It's the nature of everything in this world. That's

what it's gonna be like and may Allah subhanho wa Taala allow us

to follow the best, follow the strongest and follow that which is

the most righteous course of action and may Allah then accept

it from all of us. May Allah then accept it from all of us. So

again, a belated Eid Mubarak to all of you and may Allah accept

all of our Ramadan and may Allah have granted us that full reward

on the day of Eid Jazak Allah here

please remember us in your doors and may Allah subhanaw taala bless

you. Assalamu alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh