Hatem al-Haj – FJT07 Fiqh of the Judiciary & Testimonies – Those Whose Testimony Is Rejected

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			I'm about to proceed, how chapter on those whose testimony is rejected in
		
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			his book,
		
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			which is very primer
		
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			said under bad mantra do that to whom not to Sabine whereas at
		
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			Casa Catherine, what a second what a
		
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			testimony is not accepted from the child of the mentally incompetent the mute the unbeliever, the
facet, or one who has heart condition in terms of credibility is unknown.
		
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			So
		
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			as much to unpack here,
		
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			but
		
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			we will talk about these issues in some detail. testimony is not accepted from the child. So, you
have to be an adult, for your testimony to be accepted. And that's my agreement, the proud of the
acknowledgement of the child when, with regard to the transactions that they are allowed to partake
and is accepted. The acknowledgement of that child with regard to transactions they are allowed to
partake in is accepted, is endure here, kid to the grocery store to buy something, your kid is 10
years old, discerning, not an adult, but discerning child, you permitted them to purchase something,
that acknowledgment of this transaction will be accepted. But the testimony of the child is not
		
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			accepted even if the child is,
		
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			you know, the best of you know, it's just keep in mind, you can have like a 12 year old that is much
more trustworthy than a 20 year old or a 16 year old and more pure bomber, but we're establishing
standards here. And the standards have to apply across the board, because it is impossible to
customize and tailor for every particular scenario or circumstance.
		
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			One is at
		
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			the mute.
		
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			Know I'm sorry, the the mentally incompetent or the mentally incompetent, except when they are
mentally competent because some people
		
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			have, they are in and out. And if they're in and out when they are competent mentally, that
testimony won't be accepted. In the wild, they are competent.
		
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			What are for us the mute the mute testimony was not not be accepted. But there's some detail to
this. If he writes, we will accept his testimony.
		
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			But we will not accept sign language in testimony. We will not accept sign language and system
morning we will accept handwritten ham bellies
		
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			while
		
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			the unbeliever What are fast, the faster because the wretched who are the wicked person who commits
sin without any sense of remorse or piety.
		
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			That's the first step
		
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			it does not have any is not conscious of God at all
		
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			over one, so, what is the so if you flip this and we talk about conditions not hindrances, flip it.
So what is the first condition below? puberty? Or like majority majority? He flipped a second what
is it sanity? He flipped the third with a candlin capable of speech he flipped the fourth Catherine
facet together flipped them
		
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			which means what? trustworthy
		
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			Okay,
		
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			what would have happened or one who was conditioned in terms of credibility is unknown.
		
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			Certainly you could flip the capital alone as Islam and flip the faster can met who the * has had
to say Islamorada and make two out of them. Or you say Nadella includes in Islam, and he may come
		
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			One out. So now we have majority, we have
		
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			sanity, being able to speak Islam
		
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			and have have the means what?
		
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			accuracy,
		
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			accuracy, competence, competence in the sense of, you're able to recall accurately.
		
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			Then he talks about other hindrances from accepting your Shahada. He says what I dabble in EDA and
I've seen enough on what that
		
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			Shara
		
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			likewise it is not accepted from someone who will benefit himself or repair harm from it benefit
himself or repel harm from it
		
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			benefit himself or if I, you know, they give an example, it's like a weird example, but if someone
who owns a person from whom I would inheritance
		
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			and that person becomes sick, they may die from the wound, I cannot testify in this case, because
eventually when they die, I will be entitled to that their
		
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			blood money. So, I have conflict of interest here. So, I cannot testify in this case. So, we will
just have to make sure there is no conflict of interest what Jared and Ilan FC in Africa, like why
it's not accepted from someone who would benefit himself or a peon harm from it.
		
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			Well as I have to add it in what in the what are the what I wanted in legality?
		
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			Wanna say it in the app T one v. One as to whom Allah who was dangerous or heavy.
		
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			Okay. So he says here, the parent However, many generations removed for the child, his shadow will
not be accepted. The child for the parent not accepted the master for his or her own slave or more
Khatib or more Khattab contracted slave, for their testimony for him or her.
		
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			one spouse for the other. All of this is not accepted. We said in the previous chapter, your
testimony for your brother or friend would be accepted, not your ancestors, not your descendants,
not your spouse's, not
		
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			your mouth, whether it is the master or the slave for each other.
		
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			Okay, for and against, you could testify against your relatives,
		
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			but you cannot testify for them. You can testify for your enemy, but you cannot testify against your
enemy. So the Prophet sallallahu Sallam said,
		
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			and that's how he was reported by the lab and
		
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			talk about how to have the two
		
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			in
		
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			one,
		
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			Enter.
		
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			And here he talks about male or female
		
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			for the Shahada
		
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			via Cameron
		
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			wanna
		
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			cry now?
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			And by
		
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			Porter, why don't I have an invite?
		
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			Or come on?
		
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			So the testimony led up but will not be accepted. She had a testimony
		
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			in one of our
		
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			tractors, male or female.
		
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			Yeah. What are the Xamarin one with animosity,
		
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			one with animosity
		
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			against against his brother,
		
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			or the servant or the sort of someone who has, you know, could be your lawyer could be your servant,
it could be just
		
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			the servant for the house, the people of the household, and the entire household.
		
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			His Shahada will not be accepted for them. Here it says against them. So if you have animosity,
		
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			here's how that will not be accepted against your enemy. If you are
		
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			Servant or piano like the father and the child,
		
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			the spouse and the other spouse, your Shahada will be accepted
		
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			against them, but not for them. If you come and testify against your father, we will accept your
Shahada. If you come and testify for your father or your child, we will not accept. If you come and
testify against your enemy, we will not accept. If you come into the fight for your enemy, we will
accept
		
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			that's personal enmity, not religious enmity, by the way.
		
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			When it says here,
		
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			when asked how that was a female CEO, and he will work here the female who are keen on fee
		
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			or the testimony of the Guardian, about that which he which is under their custody, the agent about
that which is within his power of attorney,
		
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			what I've said he want to set up my machete confy or the current partner about the partnership.
		
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			Why don't we had our other way
		
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			Moreover, the testimony of enemies against each other is not accepted.
		
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			One more often because it will account for the nor that of one who's known for frequent errors and
oversights. As I said that have competency is condition.
		
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			One amandla, Maru Allahu
		
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			wa, medulla, at low caste, so karate Cassiopeia karate here, another ENFP, her mom. And
		
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			finally, testimony is not accepted. For one who has no moral
		
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			high translating rumors, integrity and rumor comes from humanity By the way,
		
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			I translated as integrity because that's what it means here.
		
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			Like the one who acts foolishly, causing himself to be mocked,
		
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			tells jokes all the time they say the one who exposes his private parts in public and the like.
		
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			Not only that, but keep in mind that our data and our data is what comes from largely means what
fair just but in this regard, it would mean what a pride
		
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			that comes from fairness and justice, fairness and justice comes from what
		
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			in order to align the two equal to equal like slides from that, that come down from the
		
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			when you have like, what is it called, I forgot that
		
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			when you put something on top of your beast of burden
		
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			to carry stuff in it sculpted the headline
		
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			What is it called, you know,
		
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			when you put something on top of a mute or a horse to carry stuff in the pockets, the two pockets on
both sides, I guess are called that because of their equality, you know, so, it has, so justice and
equality are intertwined that word has to do with justice and equality are intertwined in the same
word. So that comes from all of this. So is more attended via Hawaii, it has to do with straightness
and uprightness, and it has to do with justice and fairness. But when they take give you the
technical definition of raw data, it goes beyond this. And they say that this data which is
uprightness
		
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			is two parts. One part has to do with Salah had Dean
		
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			that's not Dean who would agree to that, but he uprightness in the religion
		
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			and the other part has to do with Salaam Salaam and Carmen Maru. So in Adana, in the Hanbury method
has two parts, Salah had Dean
		
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			which is
		
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			religiosity
		
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			or uprightness, and uprightness in the religion, uprightness
		
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			and religion
		
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			and the other one is
		
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			salamah min fo Rm
		
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			palmu.
		
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			So, how do you
		
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			how do you define this? is basically integrity.
		
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			integrity as a salon owner in Harlem and co animate howden means compromise the things that
compromise Marula is integrity. Salama has to be free or clear of the things that would compromise
your integrity. So at the end of the day integrity Okay, now Salahuddin is two parts one part is
		
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			for roads
		
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			and the other part is talkin haram
		
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			or unfounded target Mohamed Salah is what can performance commitments to obligations
		
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			here fulfillment of obligations torquing is abandonment of harm
		
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			founded for roads 100 found that for roads they will add something called
		
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			you know that you should not abandon
		
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			a
		
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			few abandoned sooner robotic completely like you don't pray as soon as the routine centers if you
completely abandoned center they will not accept your testimony. Because he you are not careful
about your the
		
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			you're just running on like the edge. So doing the fara ad, but you're not giving yourself any
cushion.
		
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			So you're not being careful. So that that's part of our data. But anyway, said I'm gonna call them
and motto which is integrity.
		
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			What does that mean?
		
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			Okay,
		
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			2 million things.
		
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			That is why remember me or him Allah say that frequently worked in the hospital.
		
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			Because sometimes wonderful could have become too technical. It can result and he was
		
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			I don't want to say I want to use a good word not obsessed. But like a good word like this. He was
obsessed with making the Sharia functional, sustainable
		
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			in all times, so whenever he sees excessiveness, he tries to attack that. So the idea of not
accepting women's testimony, for instance, as we said, when it's something that happens among them,
he finds this to be
		
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			a threat to the sustainability of the city on
		
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			accounts, like being excessive in the requirements of
		
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			that when the threat to the sustainability of the Sharia. So, if, okay, so, for instance, the
cranberries would say,
		
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			if you lean
		
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			way where you're sitting and you lean like this, and then you're basically, you're not on the same
level of any everyone else that said, you're done.
		
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			You're just the one who will not be accepted. So like, we're all sitting and you lean like this. So
		
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			you're now at the same level of everyone else.
		
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			If you stretch out your legs, you're done.
		
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			If you go with your head uncovered, you're done.
		
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			If you eat in the market, except to like one bite or something, but if you eat in the market, you're
done. If you sit in the streets, you're done. If you uncover something that would be unexpected for
you to uncover, that is not your outer.
		
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			But let's say I come here with shorts down to the knees. Done. That's an unexpected.
		
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			I come with wearing a Hawaiian shirt. Done.
		
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			I make jokes too often in done,
		
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			someone who would accept to be slapped like this, if you if you accept someone to slap you like this
done.
		
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			And we can go on and on and about, you know the things that will compromise your integrity
		
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			as a person of Moodle,
		
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			these, all of these things will compromise your integrity. Now, they make it a point to say,
		
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			not what people of affluence consider to be
		
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			considered to be compromising of integrity, such as carrying your child, for instance, or carrying
food for your family. That actually was how,
		
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			you know, it's this person thing, but my father would have never been caught carrying a shopping
bag, because he was like in the Army during the time of King Pharaoh. And if you were seeing
carrying a shopping bag, you were actually fired from the army, because it is
		
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			become an army officer, particularly during the Royal
		
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			era, to be seen industry carrying a shopping bag.
		
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			So in the Hanbury method, they make it a point, they say, no, that does not compromise your
integrity. That's what people of affluence and higher socioeconomic status, consider to compromise
the integrity. These are things that Sahaba used to do regularly. It does not compromise your
integrity.
		
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			But the things that would compromise your integrity are the things that would be considered the knee
or unbecoming can be fitting for a person of
		
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			complete integrity, religious integrity
		
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			would not be doing they make it a point also to make distinctions between different people because
it has different circumstances. They make it a point to say that, that you are having a lowly
profession, nobody in what sense.
		
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			And people's because there is nobody professional Islam as long as but in people's
		
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			understanding or
		
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			perception of your profession.
		
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			If you are a sweeper, for instance, or if you are a janitor or something like this,
		
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			they say that this is not does not compromise your integrity. But the same thing that you may be
allowed to do as a janitor, like let's say you got higher than you sat in the street.
		
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			If you are a scholar, and you did the same thing that will compromise your integrity.
		
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			So they also make room for you know, your circumstances and your social standing. And what
compromises the integrity of someone may not be compromising the integrity of another one. And they
haven't they made him a whole lot had that huge factor of times or different times change. Whatever
applies to one time does not apply to another time. And the whole issue of our data is all too time
dependent. Because if you apply the same standards nowaday nowadays, and someone who does not who
abandons the sun, and he is praying the five daily prayers in the masjid, but he's not doing the
Senate. If you exclude those from testifying,
		
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			who are you gonna have,
		
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			you know, 2% of the population. So you're only having 2% capable of testifying and the court. Does
that. Is that a threat to the sustainability of Sharia it is, so he said, times are different and
this has to be times have to be factored in. You're not even on the Xabi for instance, and they they
talk about, if you if you do something that is wrong,
		
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			based on tech weed, that does not
		
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			hurt your data. If you follow, they mentioned this because this would be would have been a big thing
for them. During those times, Middle Ages, particularly between the honeyberries and shaeffer is you
know, just
		
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			The Japanese would allow you to play chess, unless you're accusing money and like you're bidding
money in the
		
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			course of the game, or you are, it's keeping distracting you from your obligations or something like
this, that combat is prohibited prohibited period. So what if you play chess?
		
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			They will tell you if you believe it's Haram, then it will compromise your other. If you follow the
shaft is then it will not compromise your either although they will.
		
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			They will be upset, but they will not compromise your data even for a family judge. You know, the
amendment shall be used to play chess and public just so that he can disqualify himself from being
selected, solicited or adapt for judging. Because it was the family that had jobs and to work as a
judge for a judge was, you know, a nightmare. So what he decided to do is he would sit in public and
play chess so that he would be disqualified.
		
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			Anyway, the chairman says, woman say that she had a new term of a Barbie heard that.
		
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			If someone testifies, but is suspected of lying about part of it, then his or her entire testimony
will be rejected. When I asked my friend Jackie, what do you want to hear in Lhasa tonight, to
determine the trustworthiness of a person or have a hover over translation, the testimony of two
people that is required or that are that are what are the Kadima? If there are conflicting
testimonies, the one has certain untrustworthiness will be favored. Why? Because he you know, people
usually you can see their problems, can see their issues, so that those who are testifying that he
is untrustworthy, must have access or knowledge of something that would
		
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			make them testify.
		
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			Now, some people really like use this like haphazardly to say that we're all we will always favor
		
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			that is in the court and you have two witnesses and it was explained to them. What are the things
that will
		
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			make it disqualify you from testifying? This is different from people trying to disqualify
		
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			you know, scholars and their eyes and so on, on the basis of favoring judge over tardy or favoring
the disqualifying testimony.
		
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			When the SEC says we're inside the shiny, don't be unfinished, or be unfeigned. Inside this item,
will be afraid to be unfinished Hello from us at
		
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			Inner Harbor in Colorado alfen, mentor, Denver, Canada affirming semimobile and lantech mode.
		
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			If one witness testifies that someone is entitled to 1000 units of currency and another testifies
that it is 2000, then 1000 will be awarded. If he likes he may take an oath along with the testimony
of the other witness concerning the other 1000. If one of them says the 1000 was alone, but the
other says it was the price of assault commodity, then the testimony is not conclusive. He is
pointing to a large area of the law, which is when can you combine the two testimonies if there are
two variants, testimonies to variant testimonies? when can they corroborate each other? And when
they may not corroborate each other? He's given you two example. One, they they would corroborate
		
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			each other, you say, you know, hi, you know, that hat, whose share new $2,000
		
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			had emotion $2,000 someone else comes and says I know how to pose sharing $1,000 they agreed on
1000 1000 would be a word that they disagreed over 1000 because there could be many reasons why
someone may recollect that, you know, I could have it could have meant community we could have you
know I borrowed 1000 and then another 1000 and then I had made 2000 front of someone 1000 in front
of another one, etc. So can we bring these to testimony
		
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			Nice together and at least established 1000 years. What about the other 1000? I have only one
witness for him. Can I take an oath? Yes, I wouldn't be able to take an oath and get the other 1000
if I take those. So what if someone comes and says, Yeah, hi testify that hadn't borrowed 1000 from
Sharon. I testified that Sharon was sold his laptop to Hatton for 1000. Those two testimonies will
not corroborate each other. We will not they will not corroborate each other because they mentioned
in two different reasons of entitlement. You know, is it a sailor or alone, then, quaver. Xena, I
will say that Nana ncwa, Tara fulfill McCann has a man, our suffered and tekmoto had four people
		
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			testify to fornication, or two witnesses testify to something else, yet they disagree over the
location, time or description of the offense, their testimony is not conclusive. That is why they
get interrogated a lot by the judge. They have to describe everything and inconsistency basically
can be shown
		
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			between them, then their testimony will not be accepted. And this brings us to the end of this
chapter. I'm sorry for going over time. I usually don't
		
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			have an answer for it when I can. We'll start the q&a session right away and go on for 25 to 30
minutes in Sharma.