Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Ifta Specialisation Program (Takhassus fi lfiqh wa lIfta) at Whitethread Institute
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The ILot program is a two-year program designed to create specialists and create a facilitation to study in sources of books and provide a response. The program is flexible and involve learning and development, with a focus on understanding the hierarchy of the system and applying it to learning. The program is designed to teach specialists to be present for two years in the Muster program, and shala research and government policies are important areas of study.
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So, the Iftar program,
the hustle skill is that we just want to try to avoid the whole
Mufti name, because that's a bit intoxicating. Sometimes, once you
have that title, and you just think you've, you've got it,
you're done, you're sorted. So what we want to do is we want not
just to create a few more of these on the streets.
What we want to do is, we want to create specialists. That's the
whole idea.
So us as the teachers,
we want to just create a facilitation a place where they
can come and study, bring in experts, so that the students who
are here can become specialists go way beyond where we are,
go way beyond and become complete specialists. That's the whole
idea. So it's a two year program, generally, in a number of other
places, one year program, we want to keep this as a two year
program.
And
the whole idea is, of it of this is that they become confident
enough to look into the source books. And then to provide a
response, one of the biggest complaints that I get, and which I
sometimes use as an excuse as well, somebody asks you a question
that you're not confident about, what do you say? I'll check in and
look into it?
I'll do some research. I'll
call me later. Now you can give that answer once or twice. But if
you do that all the time, then what relevant relevance do you
hold anymore?
So there was a number of places that I go, and that's the biggest
complaint that people have. And I know I'm part of that as well. But
that I said, Why are you asking me that question? You've got so and
so so and so and so and so in your area, right? Now, they always say,
we'll tell you later, we have to look into it, and they never give
you an answer. So what's the point of having an Iftar, if you can't
do it, just don't call yourself a move the nobody will come to you
them. The symbol, you want the title, but you don't want the
effort, it's an effort, believe me, it's an effort, sometimes for
a simple issue, two hours of your time are taken, and you're not
being paid for that.
And now in this modern world of capitalization where everything
matters, time is money, and you know, like you use everything for
money. You just just wonder, you know, like I'm spending two hours
on this issue.
Right, so for the, for the Iftar program, this is Inshallah, I
mean, we don't have the whole syllabus in front of you, but
these are the main areas that we're going to be dealing with,
right, and show you how this is different from probably any other
Iftar program that that I know of so far, because we made it
specifically for here. I mean, a lot of this stuff is similar.
We'll sort of cover it
will soon if the right how you give it to us, right? What you
have to look at what kind of rewire because, you know, 100
females and what you have is you have various different levels of
rewire. You have the hero rewire. Then you have the noir, then you
have the fatawa. And you have the moon. So there's a way there's a
hierarchy that you have to observe that typology needs to be
observed. So there's a method of you can't just say, oh, that's
what it says in I've seen it in factual Kadeem, that's not enough.
It has to be looked at as in a wholesome manner to see what is
the I remember once inside on pool, I, we got a question. So I
looked into Hindi and martial law, I found the particular Ybarra that
was relevant and I wrote that my answer based on that that was the
biggest mistake I made. Because when the start ready says you've
only looked at India. Look at the others. When you look at Xiaomi
Xiaomi. Ignore everything, Rahim Allah, he's actually quoted this.
He's criticized it. And he's mentioned the other opinion.
You can't just give a fatwa based on one thing you see. So if you're
teaching Hidayah, for example, you study for tilaka leave as the
shop.
That's not enough to give a fatwa from because the that may not be
the coal for fatwa.
Others, that's what Hanafi Muslim is quite extensive. There's one
scholar in Syria, when I was studying there, he was a Shafi
scholar. He was in a bookstore, and he used to he was a really
nice guy to speak to. And then he started studying Hanafi thick and
this is one thing his This was his observance. He said to become a
master in Shafi. If ik it takes you two years, if you work hard,
you can be a master chef a few. The reason is that it's also
based, primarily soul based, if you understand that also, and then
it's just easy to apply them. That's why sometimes you get some
weird rulings. The very example if those of you remember or sushi in
Missouri Shashi, there's a masala that is quoted from the Shafi is
that if a person had Zina with a woman and he had a biological
daughter from technically he could marry her, but
Because because she's the daughter of his mother's Nia, as he calls
it, the honor of Nikka is not provided to them. And thus she's
not really his daughter. Now just seems
I couldn't even be if it was just 100 views having a poke at them,
taking a shot at the opinion of them. But I, I did consult a Shafi
Scotland, that's exactly what it is. It's a very straightforward or
soulbeast
might have in that sense, because it's not as simple as that. But
where the Hanafi is, he said, it will take you 20 years to master
it. The reason is that we are primarily Furu based, our soul
came afterwards. So while it also will help to kind of understand
the underpinnings behind the mosyle, but you really have to
know a lot of Furu as to what it is.
So, then we're going to be studying selections of these main
books within that
research methodology and the FDA process in depth, attaining
proficiency in Shala in research and answering questions. And once
you understand this, you can do research in any topic in any
subjects. Because the whole research methodology we want to
impart as opposed to just how to do it for Fick is just the reason
how not to leave any stone unturned. Don't just give a quick
fatwa, or a quick answer a quick judgment, but to look at
everything. And that's what makes a good scholar out there. Even in
the PhD academics, the best scholars are those who, you know,
have read everything on that topic. They they've read
everything on that topic, they've not left anything you can't say,
but what about, they've read it and they've dealt with it and
they'll tell you, they've dealt with it. That's what that's what
you do.
And Inshallah, as we did in silent bull, in one year, they make you
do between five to 600 fatawa, in one year. So inshallah in two
years, we should have a good 1000 photos we hope Inshallah, of
answering and the way we intend to do it here is very different from
many other modalities. We're doing the sovereign booster, which is
you take one chapter, and the students will answer questions
based on that chapter. So by the end of that chapter, you've got a
good understanding of that chapter, especially the main ones
that you're going to be dealing with on a day to day basis helps
hugely.
Now, in terms of the second year, this is where the program is
unique. What we want to do in this case is, as you said, we want to
create specialists. So we want to teach we want you to be here for
two years in the Mufti program. So these are the areas that we have
identified, that there is a special need for specialization
that if somebody can pick one or two of these areas and just become
a master in that topic, so for example, if you take the first one
Islamic bioethics, medical ethics, medicine, and of life issues,
medical ingredients, can you Tada, we will haram and the various
stoma bag, bag problems,
leakage,
chronic disorders, purity impurity issues, everything related to the
hospital medicine, and and bioethics. It's a massive area.
It's a massive area, and you need somebody pretty much full time to
deal with all of those aspects in there. Because all of these areas
have just become extremely extensive. Islamic family law,
marital law, this marriage, divorce, etc, all of that. I mean,
that's okay, people are already doing that. But that's another
area
citizenship integration and political issues. I mean, starting
from Are you allowed to vote, too? Can you be a magistrate's? You
know? How far can you take part in an interfaith program? How far can
you get into politics? And just numerous other issues related to
that, right?
Of course, is women issues, very important.
Don't look at the astronomy in prayer time. Just the last issue
that really though we need experts on it, because unfortunately, a
lot of the so called debate that's taking place, it's just seems to
be heritage debated opinions that they're holding on to without
really understanding the issue. I dealt if the majority of such
people have actually, there are few, but the majority have
actually understood astronomy, and I've actually undertaken a study
of it. So
if we can Sharla do that that would be something Islamic food
and dietary law massive area on its own
ingredients, chemical reactions, molecule change transformations,
massive area on its own, just to understand that
of course Islamic inheritance law, Islamic trade and commerce. That's
one area Marcia, we got lots of experts in the it's a very
lucrative field. And that's why I think the majority of experts in
that field if you notice, all represent Islamic finance experts,
and anybody new I don't think there's even any place for them
anymore, because there's people sitting in all of these bank
boards and I get
A lot of money in that right
a lot of the other stuff is is a thankless job the only thanks you
get is from Allah subhanaw taala and the person you help but that's
really what's gonna matter in sha Allah