Suhaib Webb – Fatwa & Taqwa

			So let's first talk about what is fatwa.
		

			The word fatwa is for the word fitya.
		

			Fitya is a young person who is entering
		

			into now adulthood.
		

			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says innahum fityatun
		

			aamanu bi rabbihim wa zidnaahum hudah, short Kaaf
		

			that we read, that they are a fitya.
		

			Why?
		

			Because when you're young, you know, and after
		

			you go through the ugly phase, people don't
		

			really know how we're going to look, how
		

			we're going to act, how we're going to
		

			be, right?
		

			There's some ghomood about what we're going to
		

			be.
		

			And as we come into adulthood, emergent adulthood,
		

			our distinct features become clear, emotionally, intellectually, and
		

			physically.
		

			At that moment of that clarity is called
		

			fitya.
		

			That's why we say al-fatwa.
		

			Al-fatwa is bayan mas'ala fiqiya fiha
		

			ghomood.
		

			That the fatwa is clarifying an issue of
		

			Islamic law, which is ambiguous.