Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Ifta Specialisation Program (Takhassus fi lfiqh wa lIfta) at Whitethread Institute

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