Faraz Rabbani – Weekly Q&A What Level of Certainty Is Required for Waswasa

There's a question. What's the level of surety

needed for?

Does one need to be absolutely certain before

acting

such as in matters of? No. It's the

opposite.

The assumption is of purity.

The assumption is of validity.

The assumption is

that

so therefore the assumption is you have. The

assumption is that it is not filth. The

assumption is that the filth is only a

little bit if you're sure that it's filth.

Then if you have a doubt,

the doubt is ignored.

Doubts are ignored. Possibilities are ignored.

Inclinations are ignored. Everything short of certainty

is ignored.

Right?

Allah wants ease for you.

And Allah does not want hardship

for you.

So in these matters,

we

that is the teaching.

And we have an excellent reader on purity

and,

and miss and, you know, the issues of

misgivings.

And

so even if you think, I'm pretty sure

I lost my no.

Unless you know that you lost your you

didn't lose your

I think that's filth.

It's not

unless you are sure.

But surety

needs clear proof.

It looks exactly like filth. It smells exactly

like

filth. Right? Then it's filth. Allah says, it's

a stain. A stain could be anything. You

don't need to prove why it's not filthy.

You have to you have to have undeniable

proof that it is filthy.

The operational certainty about things is that they're

pure. Certainty is not lifted by doubts or

possibilities. Certainty rather is only lifted by certainty.

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