Ahmad Kutty – Islamic Legal Maximsepisode 04

Ahmad Kutty
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The third Grand Law of Islamic history is the concept of harship, which is used to describe the difficulty of life. The Sharia law is relaxed and designed to make things easy for individuals, including during fasting and quarantine. Visits to avoid illness, travel, and consuming swine fresh pork are factors contributing to relaxation of the law. Representatives invite listeners to share their own experiences and thanks them for their contributions.
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This is related Rahmanir Rahim

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Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala so you did a mia

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you will will Celine.

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surgery Omri are highly regarded assignee of Coco colony.

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Brothers and sisters. It's my pleasure to welcome you to another

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episode in our series on our inner hamster Cobra, the grand five

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grand legal Maxim's

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in Islamic rules, in this session we are going to discuss

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the third of the foremost grand legal Maxim's

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namely, our Masha cadeau Tajiri with tayseer

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hardship begets facility

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hardship brings ease or facilitates relaxation.

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We are going to discuss the definition of this car ADA or

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legal Maxim its significance and sources and the authentic sources

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of Islam the Quran and the Sunnah and its applications and a few

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subsidiary rules inshallah.

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First Coming to the definition, let's take the words there are two

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important words are Musharaka and the other is a tasty

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Masaka Masaka in Arabic means difficulty hardship

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to see is making easy relaxing or mitigating the difficulty

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this car does say is where there is genuine hardship

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that low and tears ease or brings ease

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by introducing relaxations.

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So, of course,

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every obligation you have a duty that we are required to perform

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there are some difficulty because you know the laws are against the

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whims of the corner soul. So, when we say difficulty here we are

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talking about difficulty that

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is not normal. That cannot be it's not bearable.

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So, when there is a genuine hardship

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the rigors of the law are relaxed.

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Examples shorten, you're combining prayers during journey this is a

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relaxation.

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Another example is allow us to use time Moon

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using you know ablution, the the symbolic ablution Lee of versal.

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And whoa, when water cannot be used due to sickness, or water

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simply not available, or water is too short and then you need to use

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it for drinking or cooking. In that case, tire mommies is the

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substitute.

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Now coming to the significance of this car Ada, it's very, very

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significant.

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As we need to understand that the universe is Sharia is universal.

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It is for all times and places is practical. And Sharia is barends

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take into account all of the legitimate needs of a human being

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of human beings.

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Then Sharia caters to the Felicity

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and well being of humankind, at our times, Felicity in this world

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and the next world.

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So the laws of Sharia takes into account the facts of human nature

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and life

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changing circumstances there are changes in customs and habits.

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We're changing life is ever changing. The life is evolving,

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circumstances change. So, if the law is rigid and fixed, and cannot

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be adapted, then the Sharia becomes not practical. not

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universal. But that is not the case with the Islamic Sharia.

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There is a built in mechanism in the Sharia, to make it adaptable

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to varying circumstances.

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So the rule

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All forever heritage removal of hardship is buried into the system

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of the Sharia. And you can use this based on this rule of course,

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there are subsidiary rules

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use it in jurisprudence in order to make sure that way there is a

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genuine hardship, the rigor of the law is relaxed.

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The maxim this maxim are carried

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out in Masaka to digital bootay. See, one may ask Where is the

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evidence for it in the sources? The answer is it is based on

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evidence, the textual evidence of the Quran and the Sunnah, dividend

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tradition so the Prophet, here are a few examples Allah says in surah

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number two was 185. You read Allah will be common use Where are you

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read we come across Allah intense ease for you and not hardship. So

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this is when Allah prescribed fasting and then exceptions. You

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know when you are allowed to skip the fasting or postpone it.

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Substitute for something well Ma Ri COVID Dinniman highridge In

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Surah turn this to was ata 78 Allah says he has chosen you. He

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has no place no hardship is not there is a mistake there. He prays

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no hardship in your religion for you.

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Now you can look for Allah who knows some Illa wasa God does not

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bother any soul beyond its capacity. That is surah number two

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verse 286.

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And come into the traditions of the Prophet these are well

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attested traditions. The Prophet sallallahu sallam said, I am son

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with a natural easy way

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or estable Hanifa yet is somehow

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an end another Hadith The Prophet said in nama barista Maja serene,

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who you all Muslims have been sent to make things easy.

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Not to make it hard, but shiru Allah to not feel who is true or

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to assume the prophets or a strict order to Muslims is make things

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easy for people and don't make it hard. Always give good news, and

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do not turn people away from religion by making it hard and

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rigid on them. And another beautiful example Hadith the

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prophets own example is when his wife Aisha, beloved wife, Aisha

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and lo Nasir Bahu, Yura Sula Salallahu Salam by the unready

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Elektra Elektra icera Houma, when the Prophet is left to choose

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between two options, he will always choose the lesser of the

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two, the easier of the two, the most practical of the two.

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Now, coming to the applications, there are according though he

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wants you to enable Jim rahamallah There lists seven mitigating

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situations that call for relaxation of the law and

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travel, sickness, comparison, forgetfulness, ignorance, rampant

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or unavoidable necessity condition, lack of competence.

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Some scores are another eight category namely error or slip up.

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No one should no one has to be careful that the above conditions

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situations

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can only amount to relax the law when they are deemed excessive.

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When they are accessing beyond normal, they call for relaxation

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of rivers and here are various forms of waste introduced into the

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law. Because of this circumstances. Number one is

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omission.

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Woman while menstruating are relieved of prayer and fasting. So

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the prayer is kept out together and the first thing is scattered

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but it should be made up later

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and decrease in other because of hardship.

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There is a shortening and combining operators while

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traveling

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and substitute

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pay a mum Ely of ablutions, hostel or Willow, when water cannot be

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used due to illness or

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similarly, water is not available or water is too little. And we

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need to use it for drinking or cooking.

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And in a way, where the law is relaxed postponement,

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Sharia allows postponing the fast that is obligatory, the first year

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of Ramadan when one is sick, or traveling, and it allows women

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during menstruation to postpone it. Even in pregnancy, if you know

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fasting would adversely affect their pregnancy, or the baby or

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postnatal period of bleeding in this times, they postponed the

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fasting to make up for it later on. Thus far, Ramadan fasting I'm

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talking about

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and necessity, there is another condition that allows for the

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relaxation of the law

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that allows example is allowing consuming swine fresh pork, in

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order if there is no other food available, or drinking wine, if

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there is nothing else, no liquid other than wine.

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And the way of relaxation in the Sharia is change. The obligation

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is altered in some way, like the example of prayer during the in

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war, if the form is altered is shortened and altered the

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Methodist Church and there are dozens of subsidiary rules derived

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from the IDA Arbor chakra to take you live with Tracy, we mentioned

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only a few especially that relate to the concepts of necessity and

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need number one, a lot or are to be hauled by Laura necessity makes

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the unlawful law

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the rule applies to emergency situations like somebody starving

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to death is allowed to lead to Korean or swine flesh. And also

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somebody is faced with a religious life threatening illness or

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illness that is very very serious and there is no medicine other

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than the medicine containing you know ingredients from pork or

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whatever that is forbidden. So, in this case, this medicine can be

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used, there is no other alternative. However, to apply the

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rule, certain conditions must be fulfilled, number one, the

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necessity must be real, should not be imaginary or assumed and there

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should be no alternatives available and it must be used must

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not lead to another danger equal or greater than the present one.

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Finally, while resorting to this car EDA and this one must one

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should not excuse this role one should not exceed the limits

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of necessity hands another role is prescribed Allura to to cut the

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robot factory ha necessity is measured according to true

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proportions. An example is a male physician,

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of course, female should be treated wherever available by a

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female physician, but if she has to go to your male physician, she

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he should only allowed to see the affected part of her body for

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treatment. No other part can be seen. Number two El Dorado law you

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will to have a lawyer necessity does not invalidate the rights of

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another person. If somebody is starving, and then he is allowed

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to eat the food of another person without his permission. If that is

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an extra food,

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yes, he can take it but he ought to pay the cost of that food

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because otherwise you will be denying the right of the other

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person. Okay.

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Another final rule in this that we are going to subsidiary rule under

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this maximum or Masaka to the jury booth Tracy. This is a rule

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mentioned by Imam Shafi Ramallah in our locker rombro is

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an opening must be found when the situation becomes extremely

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difficult and unbearable.

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An example is killing a predatory animal, which has come to attack

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the purse. What a while and robot Raja intruded into the house. And

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this robber or this animal is threatening one's life and there

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is no other way to stop them than killing them. killing the animal

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or while and Rober is allowed in Sharia and these are

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Are some of the subsidiary rules. May Allah Swan will help us. Bless

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us in our pursuit of Islamic knowledge. And may Allah subhanho

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wa Taala bless us in our intervals last one author accept all of our

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good works. And forgive us our shortcomings according to Holy

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harder was tougher reliably welcome was Salam alaykum

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Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh

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