Suhaib Webb – The Foundations Of Shari’ah lesson One Shari’ah’s Eight Characteristics

Suhaib Webb
AI: Summary ©
The speakers discuss the importance of owning one's own religious literacy to protect against irrational conservatism and irresponsible behavior. They stress the need for authentic narratives in sharia and the importance of sharia guidance, which is a touring sharia focused on the creator and his actions. The sharia is seen as a source of life in the desert and provides guidance and guidance on actions of worship. The speakers also discuss the importance of obtaining necessary permits and maintaining the vital center, as well as the importance of not overburdening people and legal expressions in sharia.
AI: Transcript ©
00:00:09 --> 00:00:11

Welcome to a journey now through,

00:00:12 --> 00:00:12

Sharia

00:00:13 --> 00:00:14

as well as the foundational

00:00:15 --> 00:00:17

principles in general, which are generally seen as

00:00:17 --> 00:00:18

such,

00:00:19 --> 00:00:19

of the Sharia.

00:00:20 --> 00:00:22

Why is this important? Well, number 1 is

00:00:22 --> 00:00:25

it's important to own your own religious literacy.

00:00:25 --> 00:00:27

When you own your own religious literacy, it

00:00:27 --> 00:00:30

protects you from irrational conservatism

00:00:30 --> 00:00:31

and irresponsible

00:00:32 --> 00:00:32

kind

00:00:33 --> 00:00:33

of lackadaisical

00:00:34 --> 00:00:37

ease as it looks or liberalism, if you

00:00:37 --> 00:00:39

will, as it looks at religion. And I

00:00:39 --> 00:00:41

use these terms here linguistically, not politically.

00:00:42 --> 00:00:44

And and, you know, this is unfortunate. We

00:00:44 --> 00:00:46

don't see the

00:00:46 --> 00:00:49

kind of functional literacy amongst Muslims anymore.

00:00:50 --> 00:00:52

Many times people are asking questions that are

00:00:52 --> 00:00:54

very clear, very very open.

00:00:55 --> 00:00:57

They don't really need to ask, but they

00:00:57 --> 00:00:59

ask anyways and that's perhaps because of a

00:00:59 --> 00:01:01

a low self esteem coupled with the the

00:01:01 --> 00:01:04

bully scholarship that exists out there. But, for

00:01:04 --> 00:01:06

example, if we look at at the life

00:01:06 --> 00:01:06

of the prophet

00:01:08 --> 00:01:08

his companions,

00:01:08 --> 00:01:10

for example, Amr ibn A'as, who was not

00:01:10 --> 00:01:12

known as one of the major scholars of

00:01:12 --> 00:01:13

Islam, who

00:01:13 --> 00:01:15

when he has a * and he

00:01:15 --> 00:01:17

realizes that it's an extremely cold night and

00:01:17 --> 00:01:20

authentic narration, he says, you know, I was

00:01:20 --> 00:01:21

scared that I would that I would I

00:01:21 --> 00:01:23

would perish, so he makes.

00:01:24 --> 00:01:25

The prophet salallahu alaihi wa sama does not

00:01:25 --> 00:01:27

censor him for trying to think through an

00:01:27 --> 00:01:29

issue. He has the tools,

00:01:29 --> 00:01:31

if you will, to think through an issue.

00:01:31 --> 00:01:33

We find also the authentic narration in Sahih

00:01:33 --> 00:01:36

al Bukhari when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa

00:01:36 --> 00:01:37

sallam tells the people to pray

00:01:39 --> 00:01:41

and, of course, they become delayed. And a

00:01:41 --> 00:01:42

group says the prophet did not know

00:01:44 --> 00:01:45

that we will be delayed, so let's pray

00:01:45 --> 00:01:47

asr. Now the other said, no. Let's stick

00:01:47 --> 00:01:48

to the letter of the law. No matter

00:01:48 --> 00:01:49

when we get

00:01:50 --> 00:01:52

to even after Maghrib, we'll pray Asar. The

00:01:52 --> 00:01:53

prophet

00:01:54 --> 00:01:55

does not censor,

00:01:56 --> 00:01:57

either of them for using

00:01:58 --> 00:02:00

their mind and thinking through issues.

00:02:00 --> 00:02:02

This happens on numerous

00:02:03 --> 00:02:05

occasions and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

00:02:05 --> 00:02:07

is empowering people

00:02:07 --> 00:02:10

to use guidance to think through challenges. So

00:02:10 --> 00:02:12

it's very important that we have a base

00:02:12 --> 00:02:13

literacy,

00:02:13 --> 00:02:15

base literacy of our religion. As Imam al

00:02:15 --> 00:02:19

Qarafi says very beautifully, whoever understands these foundations

00:02:19 --> 00:02:19

of sharia

00:02:20 --> 00:02:22

is really going to achieve a profound,

00:02:22 --> 00:02:25

you know, literacy of Islam, understanding

00:02:25 --> 00:02:26

of the functionality

00:02:27 --> 00:02:30

of Islam, not dysfunctional scholarship, but proper

00:02:38 --> 00:02:41

The unity amongst a community that is wrought

00:02:41 --> 00:02:42

with disunity,

00:02:43 --> 00:02:45

and infighting. And then finally, that we can

00:02:45 --> 00:02:45

correct,

00:02:46 --> 00:02:49

the constant kind of attacks thrown at Sharia,

00:02:50 --> 00:02:53

that that have made the Sharia an object

00:02:53 --> 00:02:54

of commodified hate,

00:02:55 --> 00:02:56

in this century. And and I lived that

00:02:56 --> 00:02:59

when I converted to Islam in 1992. One

00:02:59 --> 00:03:01

of the reasons that I was attracted to

00:03:01 --> 00:03:03

Islam is that there was an effort to

00:03:03 --> 00:03:05

stop a mosque from being built in the

00:03:05 --> 00:03:09

city that I lived in because of sharia,

00:03:09 --> 00:03:11

because of their fear of sharia.

00:03:11 --> 00:03:13

So if we do that, then we fall,

00:03:13 --> 00:03:15

of course, into the general guidelines

00:03:16 --> 00:03:17

says

00:03:30 --> 00:03:31

So we ask Allah

00:03:33 --> 00:03:34

as we begin this very important journey.

00:03:36 --> 00:03:37

First of all, the word sharia is from

00:03:37 --> 00:03:38

the word shara'a

00:03:39 --> 00:03:39

umashra'a.

00:03:40 --> 00:03:41

Well, mashra'a tulibul

00:03:42 --> 00:03:43

is actually the place

00:03:44 --> 00:03:47

where a person would take camels an oasis

00:03:47 --> 00:03:48

in the middle of the desert for water.

00:03:49 --> 00:03:51

And this is the literal meaning. Mashra'a

00:03:51 --> 00:03:54

al Ibl. Of course, figuratively, it is applied

00:03:54 --> 00:03:55

to Sharia

00:03:55 --> 00:03:57

because religion is a source of life for

00:03:57 --> 00:04:00

us in the desert of this dunya. That's

00:04:00 --> 00:04:01

why Allah

00:04:01 --> 00:04:02

says in

00:04:07 --> 00:04:08

after

00:04:13 --> 00:04:15

Oh, you who believe, answer the call of

00:04:15 --> 00:04:18

Allah and his messenger when you are invited

00:04:18 --> 00:04:20

to what will bring you life. So the

00:04:20 --> 00:04:20

sharia,

00:04:21 --> 00:04:23

is seen as a source of life in

00:04:23 --> 00:04:25

the desert of this dunya, and this becomes

00:04:26 --> 00:04:27

increasingly important

00:04:27 --> 00:04:29

as the secular world begins to grow,

00:04:30 --> 00:04:31

begins to metamorphosis,

00:04:31 --> 00:04:33

if you will, that it is experiencing

00:04:33 --> 00:04:36

and change in ways that are very subtle.

00:04:36 --> 00:04:37

And we see now the creeping,

00:04:38 --> 00:04:38

secular

00:04:41 --> 00:04:43

really really starting to take hold of the

00:04:43 --> 00:04:46

Muslim community through things like nomenclature and other

00:04:46 --> 00:04:47

things that we can talk about inshallah in

00:04:47 --> 00:04:48

another time.

00:04:50 --> 00:04:53

When it comes to sharia as defined by

00:04:53 --> 00:04:53

scholarship,

00:04:55 --> 00:04:55

everything

00:04:58 --> 00:05:00

that was revealed to the

00:05:05 --> 00:05:07

prophet Everything that was revealed to him

00:05:09 --> 00:05:11

And this of course includes the Quran

00:05:11 --> 00:05:13

as well as the sunnah of the Prophet.

00:05:15 --> 00:05:17

Alaihi wasallam. What we wanna talk about now

00:05:17 --> 00:05:19

are the unique characteristics

00:05:19 --> 00:05:20

of sharia

00:05:20 --> 00:05:23

as mentioned in the books of law.

00:05:23 --> 00:05:24

Right? So

00:05:24 --> 00:05:27

when we talk about defining who we are,

00:05:27 --> 00:05:29

it's very important that we do not allow

00:05:29 --> 00:05:30

ourselves to define be defined

00:05:31 --> 00:05:34

by anti Muslim bigots or those outside of

00:05:34 --> 00:05:36

our community. We have our own definitions of

00:05:36 --> 00:05:38

who and what we are, and we need

00:05:38 --> 00:05:40

to be proud and bold and, in fact,

00:05:40 --> 00:05:41

stern

00:05:41 --> 00:05:44

on owning our own identities and definitions.

00:05:45 --> 00:05:46

This is very important. The first thing that

00:05:46 --> 00:05:47

Allah

00:05:54 --> 00:05:55

taught Adam are the names of things.

00:05:56 --> 00:05:59

When may when Muslims become unfamiliar with their

00:05:59 --> 00:06:01

own nomenclature and religious terminology,

00:06:02 --> 00:06:03

then that is going to be filled by

00:06:03 --> 00:06:05

other sources of definitions

00:06:06 --> 00:06:08

and terminology. And this is one of the

00:06:08 --> 00:06:10

ways that we find ourselves falling into kind

00:06:10 --> 00:06:11

of the creeping

00:06:11 --> 00:06:14

sharia. So it's very important that we

00:06:14 --> 00:06:17

a sharia from our own perspective

00:06:18 --> 00:06:20

as mentioned by ancient as well as contemporary

00:06:21 --> 00:06:23

scholars. So what we're going to talk about

00:06:23 --> 00:06:24

now are some of the unique,

00:06:26 --> 00:06:29

the unique qualities of a sharia. Number 1

00:06:29 --> 00:06:30

is arabaniyah.

00:06:31 --> 00:06:31

And arabaniyah

00:06:32 --> 00:06:34

is a form of mobileara.

00:06:35 --> 00:06:38

It's a form which means emphasis,

00:06:38 --> 00:06:40

of course, from the word

00:06:40 --> 00:06:43

Rub. Rub, of course, is our sustainer, our

00:06:43 --> 00:06:43

creator.

00:06:46 --> 00:06:47

And Allah

00:06:48 --> 00:06:50

who in Surat 'ari Imran

00:06:50 --> 00:06:52

commands us to be the people who are

00:06:52 --> 00:06:54

constantly connected to him.

00:07:04 --> 00:07:04

There's also

00:07:06 --> 00:07:07

a

00:07:08 --> 00:07:10

which is sahiyah. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa

00:07:10 --> 00:07:12

sallam, the Quran says very beautifully

00:07:13 --> 00:07:13

that,

00:07:14 --> 00:07:15

we are

00:07:16 --> 00:07:19

commanded to be the people of Rabbaniyin.

00:07:20 --> 00:07:21

We are to be commanded to be.

00:07:22 --> 00:07:23

So the first quality is.

00:07:25 --> 00:07:26

And is

00:07:27 --> 00:07:28

a form of

00:07:29 --> 00:07:31

of emphasis, which means that we are people

00:07:32 --> 00:07:32

associated

00:07:32 --> 00:07:33

with God,

00:07:35 --> 00:07:38

that in everything we do, we are people

00:07:38 --> 00:07:40

who live a life

00:07:41 --> 00:07:43

connected to and related to

00:07:44 --> 00:07:46

being dedicated in the service of the creator.

00:07:47 --> 00:07:48

The word

00:07:51 --> 00:07:53

Allah is the creator of all things,

00:07:54 --> 00:07:55

And Allahu

00:07:56 --> 00:07:57

in the Quran

00:07:58 --> 00:07:59

commands us to be

00:08:00 --> 00:08:01

people who are

00:08:02 --> 00:08:04

constantly connected to Allah. Allah says,

00:08:08 --> 00:08:09

however, you must be

00:08:10 --> 00:08:12

meaning men and women of god.

00:08:20 --> 00:08:21

By teaching

00:08:22 --> 00:08:23

and studying

00:08:23 --> 00:08:25

the book, the Quran.

00:08:25 --> 00:08:27

Another narration which is

00:08:27 --> 00:08:28

of the Quran,

00:08:31 --> 00:08:33

Right? So the idea is that you are

00:08:33 --> 00:08:34

like public educators

00:08:34 --> 00:08:37

and actively engaged in studying and learning the

00:08:37 --> 00:08:39

Quran so that it reminds you and teaches

00:08:39 --> 00:08:41

you through the stories of the prophets and

00:08:41 --> 00:08:44

the righteous people how to be people who

00:08:44 --> 00:08:46

live for something greater, who live for Allah.

00:08:46 --> 00:08:49

So one of the qualities of a Sharia

00:08:49 --> 00:08:51

is that it is from Allah

00:08:53 --> 00:08:54

that is from God.

00:08:54 --> 00:08:57

We believe that the Quran is revealed from

00:08:57 --> 00:08:57

Allah

00:09:02 --> 00:09:04

As well as the sunnah of the prophet

00:09:04 --> 00:09:06

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, Allah

00:09:06 --> 00:09:07

says

00:09:12 --> 00:09:12

that the prophet

00:09:13 --> 00:09:16

is not astray or misguided, but what he

00:09:16 --> 00:09:17

speaks, what he teaches

00:09:18 --> 00:09:20

is revelation from Allah

00:09:21 --> 00:09:23

So the first is that we believe that

00:09:23 --> 00:09:23

Allah

00:09:24 --> 00:09:26

revealed the Sharia and, thus, when we have

00:09:26 --> 00:09:27

disputes

00:09:27 --> 00:09:28

or,

00:09:29 --> 00:09:32

arguments and issues, then we return to the

00:09:32 --> 00:09:32

sharia.

00:09:38 --> 00:09:40

Allah says then return it

00:09:40 --> 00:09:42

back to Allah and his messenger.

00:09:43 --> 00:09:43

Right?

00:09:44 --> 00:09:47

So when there's issues that pop up, return

00:09:47 --> 00:09:48

it to the sharia.

00:09:48 --> 00:09:51

SubhanAllah. And this is a very important thing

00:09:51 --> 00:09:53

because clinging to the sharia is an act

00:09:53 --> 00:09:54

of

00:09:55 --> 00:09:56

deliberate worship,

00:09:56 --> 00:09:58

but also an act of deliberate resistance and

00:09:58 --> 00:09:59

liberation

00:10:00 --> 00:10:02

from the impact of colonialism,

00:10:02 --> 00:10:03

as well as the

00:10:04 --> 00:10:07

ever encroaching secular that I talked about earlier.

00:10:07 --> 00:10:09

The second quality that we believe of the

00:10:09 --> 00:10:12

about the sharia is a shamulia, that it

00:10:12 --> 00:10:12

is comprehensive.

00:10:13 --> 00:10:15

So when we look in, for example, sot

00:10:15 --> 00:10:18

abaqra, we find the issues of of sharia

00:10:18 --> 00:10:20

guidance pertaining to acts of worship.

00:10:20 --> 00:10:23

We find sharia guidance on things like marriage,

00:10:23 --> 00:10:25

like on divorce, on writing contracts,

00:10:26 --> 00:10:29

giving charity, acts of altruism.

00:10:29 --> 00:10:32

We find acts related to how we talk

00:10:32 --> 00:10:34

and engage others. We find warfare.

00:10:35 --> 00:10:37

We find fasting and so many things just

00:10:37 --> 00:10:39

in Surat Al Baqarah itself.

00:10:39 --> 00:10:41

So we believe that the sharia

00:10:41 --> 00:10:44

has what's called shumulia. It is comprehensive.

00:10:44 --> 00:10:46

It doesn't just teach us how to live

00:10:46 --> 00:10:48

in the masjid. It teaches us how to

00:10:48 --> 00:10:50

live in all aspects of our lives.

00:10:50 --> 00:10:51

SubhanAllah.

00:10:51 --> 00:10:53

That's why the Quran says

00:10:56 --> 00:10:58

at the end of Surah and Am. It

00:10:58 --> 00:10:58

doesn't say

00:10:59 --> 00:11:00

It says

00:11:01 --> 00:11:03

mahiya wama mati. This is called mastarmimi

00:11:03 --> 00:11:05

which means my entire life

00:11:06 --> 00:11:08

and my entire death

00:11:08 --> 00:11:10

are for Allah When we look at, for

00:11:10 --> 00:11:12

example, the different,

00:11:13 --> 00:11:13

types of

00:11:14 --> 00:11:16

tafsir explanations of Quran,

00:11:17 --> 00:11:19

We find tafsir related to language. We find

00:11:19 --> 00:11:23

tafsir related to narrations. We find tafsir related

00:11:23 --> 00:11:25

to Allah. We find tafsir of verses that

00:11:25 --> 00:11:27

deal with marriage, that deal with divorce, you

00:11:27 --> 00:11:28

name it.

00:11:28 --> 00:11:31

We find every kind of aspect of life

00:11:31 --> 00:11:32

there is a tafsir for it,

00:11:33 --> 00:11:35

found in in the Quran.

00:11:36 --> 00:11:37

Also, if we look at the books of

00:11:37 --> 00:11:38

the sunnah, for example, if we look at

00:11:38 --> 00:11:41

the Muwata of Imam Malik, we find that

00:11:41 --> 00:11:42

the majority of the chapters

00:11:42 --> 00:11:45

are actually dealing with aspects of life,

00:11:45 --> 00:11:47

right, outside of the masjid and that the

00:11:48 --> 00:11:50

minority of the chapters are dealing with specific

00:11:50 --> 00:11:51

acts of worship.

00:11:52 --> 00:11:54

So Shamulia is taking this

00:11:55 --> 00:11:56

expansive definition of worship.

00:12:00 --> 00:12:01

Everything that Allah loves

00:12:02 --> 00:12:04

falls under the acts of worship. And because,

00:12:04 --> 00:12:07

as we'll talk about later, the importance of

00:12:07 --> 00:12:09

intention, everything we do

00:12:10 --> 00:12:12

from spending time with our families to working

00:12:12 --> 00:12:14

to sleeping to eating to working out to

00:12:14 --> 00:12:17

prayer with a proper intention can be

00:12:17 --> 00:12:19

an act of worship.

00:12:19 --> 00:12:22

The 3rd unique quality of a sharia is

00:12:22 --> 00:12:23

a taisir

00:12:23 --> 00:12:23

warrafulharaj,

00:12:25 --> 00:12:25

is facilitation

00:12:26 --> 00:12:27

and removing hardship.

00:12:28 --> 00:12:31

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the Quran says

00:12:36 --> 00:12:36

Allah

00:12:36 --> 00:12:39

wants ease for you. He doesn't want hardship

00:12:39 --> 00:12:42

for you. And talking about Sayna Muhammad sallallahu

00:12:42 --> 00:12:44

alaihi wa'alehi wasallam,

00:12:45 --> 00:12:47

Allahu subhanahu wa ta'ala says

00:12:51 --> 00:12:54

That the prophet removed the shackles and burdens

00:12:54 --> 00:12:56

from them. And here's talking specifically

00:12:56 --> 00:12:59

about the Mosaic law and just the,

00:12:59 --> 00:13:03

you know, infinite number of particulars found in

00:13:03 --> 00:13:05

that law that made it almost impossible for

00:13:05 --> 00:13:07

people to live live it,

00:13:08 --> 00:13:09

in ease and in a way that brought

00:13:09 --> 00:13:12

about, like, you know, a connection to Allah.

00:13:12 --> 00:13:14

So Allah sent Sayna Muhammad

00:13:17 --> 00:13:20

to remove that hardship and to make religious

00:13:20 --> 00:13:23

and facilitate religious expression. As the prophet said,

00:13:26 --> 00:13:28

As related by Imam Muslim, I was sent

00:13:28 --> 00:13:29

as a teacher

00:13:29 --> 00:13:30

and a facilitator.

00:13:32 --> 00:13:33

And that's why here,

00:13:34 --> 00:13:36

the sheikh in the book that I'm reading

00:13:36 --> 00:13:37

from, he says, You

00:13:41 --> 00:13:43

know, and that's why the majority of rulings

00:13:43 --> 00:13:45

actually in Sharia are permissibility,

00:13:45 --> 00:13:48

and the minority of rulings in Sharia are

00:13:48 --> 00:13:49

things which are forbidden.

00:13:49 --> 00:13:51

And I remember prior to conversion, I was

00:13:51 --> 00:13:53

like yo, if I become Muslim, I can't

00:13:53 --> 00:13:55

do anything. And one of the old school

00:13:55 --> 00:13:56

brothers was like no no no no. The

00:13:56 --> 00:13:58

things that you can do are a minimal,

00:13:58 --> 00:14:00

But the problem is in your life right

00:14:00 --> 00:14:02

now, the majority of what you do is

00:14:02 --> 00:14:03

the forbidden.

00:14:04 --> 00:14:06

Right? But the majority is permissible. You just

00:14:06 --> 00:14:07

don't do them.

00:14:08 --> 00:14:09

But in your life right now, the majority

00:14:09 --> 00:14:11

of what you do is the forbidden. So

00:14:12 --> 00:14:14

the the goal of sharia is to ease

00:14:14 --> 00:14:16

and facilitate and I heard, subhanAllah,

00:14:17 --> 00:14:18

when we were reading Naylu'otaro,

00:14:18 --> 00:14:20

Sheikh Ahmed Taharayan in

00:14:21 --> 00:14:23

in Egypt, and I asked him, you know,

00:14:23 --> 00:14:26

what madhab should I answer questions with? And

00:14:26 --> 00:14:27

he said, a taisir.

00:14:27 --> 00:14:29

Right? You should make sure that you facilitate

00:14:30 --> 00:14:32

things for people. And when I was training

00:14:32 --> 00:14:33

in Dala Ifta in Egypt, and I talked

00:14:33 --> 00:14:35

to one of the scholars, Sheikh Imer Iffat

00:14:36 --> 00:14:37

and doctor Mohammed Wissam, and one of the

00:14:37 --> 00:14:39

things that they taught me was that when

00:14:39 --> 00:14:42

answering questions, you have to facilitate

00:14:42 --> 00:14:45

and not make things difficult for people when

00:14:45 --> 00:14:47

possible. That's why the prophet said,

00:14:49 --> 00:14:49

right,

00:14:50 --> 00:14:53

bring happiness to people and don't push them

00:14:53 --> 00:14:55

away. And that's why Imam al Shahl Tibi

00:14:55 --> 00:14:58

in al Muwaffaqat in talking about the etiquette

00:14:58 --> 00:15:00

of the mufti, he said the job of

00:15:00 --> 00:15:02

the mufti is to carry people like a

00:15:02 --> 00:15:04

physician. He doesn't over medicate.

00:15:04 --> 00:15:07

He doesn't under medicate. If he over medicates,

00:15:07 --> 00:15:09

then this will lead to liver poison, And

00:15:09 --> 00:15:11

if he under medicates, of course, this is

00:15:11 --> 00:15:13

going to aggravate the illness. So he says

00:15:13 --> 00:15:16

so that the mufti then carries people on

00:15:16 --> 00:15:17

what's easy

00:15:18 --> 00:15:21

as long as it does not lead to

00:15:21 --> 00:15:22

what we call isqaatatakif,

00:15:24 --> 00:15:26

as long as it does not lead to

00:15:26 --> 00:15:27

someone losing

00:15:28 --> 00:15:30

right, the religion. Right? That's not taisir.

00:15:30 --> 00:15:31

That's tasil.

00:15:33 --> 00:15:35

Right? So when we talk about and we're

00:15:35 --> 00:15:37

gonna talk about this in the future

00:15:37 --> 00:15:40

when we talk about facilitation in sharia,

00:15:40 --> 00:15:43

not to the point also that, a sha'at

00:15:43 --> 00:15:45

Aviv mentions where there's nothing left of religion.

00:15:45 --> 00:15:49

Right? So it's not about ease. It's about

00:15:49 --> 00:15:50

achieving the haqq,

00:15:50 --> 00:15:52

about achieving the truth in a way that

00:15:52 --> 00:15:54

facilitates for people

00:15:55 --> 00:15:57

and allows them to grow. We see Sayidina

00:15:57 --> 00:15:59

Mu'ath radiAllahu anhu, and I remember reading this

00:15:59 --> 00:16:00

hadith with Sheikhmatuhariyan

00:16:01 --> 00:16:04

when, you know, the people complained about him

00:16:04 --> 00:16:05

leading isha too long.

00:16:08 --> 00:16:09

I believe the the hadith says and I'm

00:16:09 --> 00:16:11

getting old now, so I may have forgotten.

00:16:13 --> 00:16:15

Like, are you a source of fitna for

00:16:15 --> 00:16:17

the people? And I remember Sheikh Ahmad Tehran

00:16:17 --> 00:16:19

telling us, like, the job

00:16:19 --> 00:16:21

of people is to make sure that they

00:16:21 --> 00:16:22

do not overburden

00:16:23 --> 00:16:24

others to the point that it pushes them

00:16:24 --> 00:16:28

away from their religion while maintaining the vestiges

00:16:28 --> 00:16:31

and the foundation the foundations, excuse me, of

00:16:31 --> 00:16:33

the truth of the truth.

00:16:35 --> 00:16:36

The 4th is riyatmosaleh

00:16:37 --> 00:16:38

al bashar.

00:16:38 --> 00:16:41

The 4th unique quality of the sharia is

00:16:41 --> 00:16:42

to look after

00:16:42 --> 00:16:44

what benefits people.

00:16:44 --> 00:16:46

And, of course, we're gonna talk about this

00:16:46 --> 00:16:49

later on, but benefits within the Islamic legal

00:16:49 --> 00:16:52

framework fall under 3 areas. Number 1, abbururiyet.

00:16:53 --> 00:16:56

Those things, without them, we could not survive.

00:16:57 --> 00:16:59

Those things, without them, we could not survive,

00:16:59 --> 00:17:00

like food.

00:17:01 --> 00:17:02

So, of course, we have the axiom

00:17:06 --> 00:17:08

right? That that the the the

00:17:08 --> 00:17:09

the necessities

00:17:09 --> 00:17:11

permit even the the impermissible

00:17:12 --> 00:17:13

according to their measure.

00:17:18 --> 00:17:20

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said whoever is under

00:17:20 --> 00:17:23

compulsion, under necessity to engage in the forbidden

00:17:23 --> 00:17:24

to eat, to live,

00:17:25 --> 00:17:27

then there's no sin in this as long

00:17:27 --> 00:17:28

as they don't exceed and so on and

00:17:28 --> 00:17:30

so forth. So the first is

00:17:31 --> 00:17:33

which is seen as a necessity,

00:17:33 --> 00:17:35

which we have to have in order to

00:17:35 --> 00:17:36

live.

00:17:37 --> 00:17:38

Okay.

00:17:39 --> 00:17:42

A contemporary example of this is sometimes people

00:17:42 --> 00:17:43

have to amputate limbs

00:17:44 --> 00:17:45

in order to stay alive. If they didn't

00:17:45 --> 00:17:48

amputate their limb, they would die. So, of

00:17:48 --> 00:17:50

course, you know, amputating limbs for no reason

00:17:50 --> 00:17:52

is not allowed, but here it's a dorora.

00:17:53 --> 00:17:53

It's a dorora.

00:17:55 --> 00:17:57

So so that that's an example, but we'll

00:17:57 --> 00:17:59

get into that later on. The second is

00:17:59 --> 00:17:59

alhaji.

00:18:00 --> 00:18:01

It's something which is

00:18:01 --> 00:18:02

a need but not

00:18:03 --> 00:18:04

a doroora. So for example,

00:18:05 --> 00:18:07

a good example would be like in certain

00:18:07 --> 00:18:10

situations where the climate is, you know, not

00:18:10 --> 00:18:13

of course overly hot towards killing people like,

00:18:14 --> 00:18:15

air condition.

00:18:16 --> 00:18:18

Right? People can live without it, but without

00:18:18 --> 00:18:19

it, life may be hard.

00:18:20 --> 00:18:21

So that's a Hajjah,

00:18:21 --> 00:18:24

and and there are certain principles that touch

00:18:24 --> 00:18:26

on al Hajjah because life could continue. It

00:18:26 --> 00:18:28

may be a little difficult without it.

00:18:29 --> 00:18:29

And,

00:18:30 --> 00:18:33

there's an axiom very profound that says when

00:18:33 --> 00:18:35

the Hajjah when this need becomes

00:18:36 --> 00:18:36

communal,

00:18:37 --> 00:18:38

right, it reaches the tipping point,

00:18:39 --> 00:18:42

then it can reach the the the the

00:18:42 --> 00:18:43

the level of

00:18:48 --> 00:18:48

doroor.

00:18:49 --> 00:18:50

As mentioned to me, one of our teachers.

00:18:50 --> 00:18:52

And and this is a very interesting thing.

00:18:52 --> 00:18:54

So here, we're not trying to give all

00:18:54 --> 00:18:56

the answers and go through all the difficulties

00:18:57 --> 00:18:59

and and negate, and create, like, you know,

00:18:59 --> 00:19:02

different discussions. I just wanna introduce to you

00:19:02 --> 00:19:03

the foundational issues.

00:19:03 --> 00:19:06

Right? So number 1, when we talk about

00:19:06 --> 00:19:06

al maslaha,

00:19:07 --> 00:19:09

what is beneficial, Imam Al Ghazari

00:19:09 --> 00:19:11

says very beautiful in al Mustasfa

00:19:11 --> 00:19:14

that al maslaha is what benefits people. We

00:19:14 --> 00:19:16

talk about it in the light of sharia,

00:19:16 --> 00:19:18

which benefits the people without contradicting

00:19:19 --> 00:19:22

the sharia. Of course, and that's an important

00:19:22 --> 00:19:23

discussion that we'll have in the future

00:19:24 --> 00:19:26

as we go through this journey together. And

00:19:26 --> 00:19:27

we said that the masalih,

00:19:27 --> 00:19:29

right, the iDuraq al masalih,

00:19:30 --> 00:19:32

you know, reaching the masalaha is really what

00:19:32 --> 00:19:35

sharia looks after, the general benefit of people.

00:19:35 --> 00:19:36

That's why Allah says

00:19:39 --> 00:19:41

Like, we sent you, oh, Muhammad, with what

00:19:41 --> 00:19:42

benefits all people.

00:19:45 --> 00:19:46

And even

00:19:47 --> 00:19:49

Abbas says that every time Allah says,

00:19:51 --> 00:19:53

oh, you believers, you're going to find a

00:19:53 --> 00:19:56

a command that either brings a benefit or

00:19:56 --> 00:19:58

protects you from harm, which brings the

00:19:59 --> 00:20:01

which brings the benefit. And we said that

00:20:01 --> 00:20:04

the maslaha is divided into 3. Number 1,

00:20:04 --> 00:20:04

necessities,

00:20:05 --> 00:20:07

talked about it. Number 2, needs

00:20:08 --> 00:20:11

Needs. And then finally, attahsinet. Those things that,

00:20:11 --> 00:20:13

you know, you don't really need it. You

00:20:13 --> 00:20:15

don't have to have it, but it improves

00:20:16 --> 00:20:18

your life and makes life better. And for

00:20:18 --> 00:20:19

each one of those, there are a set

00:20:19 --> 00:20:22

of principles and ideas that govern the Sharia

00:20:23 --> 00:20:25

in the sense of how we employ and

00:20:25 --> 00:20:25

engage,

00:20:26 --> 00:20:28

the sharia. The 5th unique quality of a

00:20:28 --> 00:20:29

sharia is

00:20:31 --> 00:20:33

is that it is current

00:20:34 --> 00:20:35

and that it is contextual.

00:20:35 --> 00:20:37

And that's why, for example, if you look

00:20:37 --> 00:20:39

at some of the major 5th councils, you

00:20:39 --> 00:20:41

find them addressing issues that are happening,

00:20:42 --> 00:20:44

and, in fact, in many cases, trying to

00:20:44 --> 00:20:46

to guess what happens before it happens, for

00:20:46 --> 00:20:49

example, in financial markets, right, what happens,

00:20:50 --> 00:20:52

in certain areas. And this has been stifled

00:20:52 --> 00:20:54

largely by dictatorships

00:20:54 --> 00:20:56

and the continued

00:20:56 --> 00:20:57

military

00:20:57 --> 00:21:00

and economic and political aggression largely led by

00:21:00 --> 00:21:00

the west

00:21:01 --> 00:21:03

that, you know, we we we tend to

00:21:03 --> 00:21:06

blame scholars, but look at Sheikh Salman Al-'Audah.

00:21:06 --> 00:21:06

Where

00:21:07 --> 00:21:08

is the world trying to free him?

00:21:09 --> 00:21:10

People like to blame scholars, but where are

00:21:10 --> 00:21:11

the people

00:21:12 --> 00:21:14

to help those scholars? Right? Where are they

00:21:14 --> 00:21:16

to to support those people who gave their

00:21:16 --> 00:21:17

life to the deen?

00:21:18 --> 00:21:19

So al Waqiya,

00:21:19 --> 00:21:23

sometimes the absence of the sharia and and

00:21:23 --> 00:21:24

the teachers of Sharia,

00:21:25 --> 00:21:28

being, you know, contextual is because they live

00:21:28 --> 00:21:30

in systems that don't want the Sharia to

00:21:30 --> 00:21:31

be contextual.

00:21:32 --> 00:21:34

They want the Sharia to be regulated to

00:21:34 --> 00:21:36

the role of the church, right, within the

00:21:36 --> 00:21:37

premodern

00:21:37 --> 00:21:38

kind of Christian,

00:21:39 --> 00:21:39

terminology,

00:21:40 --> 00:21:43

And that's a problem because the sharia, as

00:21:43 --> 00:21:46

we'll talk about, is built to be contextually

00:21:46 --> 00:21:49

appropriate. And that's why, for example, without sacrificing

00:21:49 --> 00:21:49

itself.

00:21:50 --> 00:21:52

So that's why oftentimes the objects or verbs

00:21:52 --> 00:21:54

are not mentioned in the Quran so that

00:21:54 --> 00:21:56

people will place them there. That's why when

00:21:56 --> 00:21:58

we study fiqh, I remember studying when I

00:21:58 --> 00:22:01

was studying aqurban masadiq with Sheikh Mustafa Shah

00:22:01 --> 00:22:02

Hazarir,

00:22:02 --> 00:22:03

in

00:22:03 --> 00:22:06

in Hadal Ubba in Cairo. And I asked

00:22:06 --> 00:22:09

him, like, why does Sheikh Ahmed Dardir say

00:22:11 --> 00:22:12

and like this and like that? He said

00:22:12 --> 00:22:14

because he wants you to put the issue

00:22:14 --> 00:22:15

there.

00:22:15 --> 00:22:17

Right? He listed for you a number of

00:22:17 --> 00:22:19

fiqh issues that were, you know, appropriate for

00:22:19 --> 00:22:21

his age, but what are you going to

00:22:21 --> 00:22:22

put now into Texas? It's subhanAllah.

00:22:23 --> 00:22:23

SubhanAllah.

00:22:24 --> 00:22:25

And and I remember

00:22:26 --> 00:22:28

one of my last conversations with one of

00:22:28 --> 00:22:30

the major scholars of Al Azhar,

00:22:31 --> 00:22:32

when I was coming back to America, and

00:22:32 --> 00:22:34

I mentioned the question I had received, And

00:22:34 --> 00:22:37

he said, you you are better equipped to

00:22:37 --> 00:22:39

answer this question than me because this is

00:22:39 --> 00:22:40

your society.

00:22:40 --> 00:22:42

These are the people that you live with.

00:22:42 --> 00:22:44

These are the people who you understand

00:22:44 --> 00:22:45

in your city.

00:22:46 --> 00:22:47

And that's why Imam

00:22:47 --> 00:22:48

and

00:22:49 --> 00:22:50

will read

00:22:50 --> 00:22:53

hopefully here in the future, which is a

00:22:53 --> 00:22:55

book that deals with these foundational principles. He

00:22:55 --> 00:22:57

knows that it is a farbukifaya.

00:22:58 --> 00:23:00

It is a communal obligation that in every

00:23:00 --> 00:23:01

city, there's a mufti

00:23:01 --> 00:23:03

because that mufti is going to understand the

00:23:03 --> 00:23:04

needs of that city.

00:23:05 --> 00:23:07

Right? So that way, he is contextually

00:23:07 --> 00:23:10

able to answer questions. Imam al Qarafi.

00:23:11 --> 00:23:12

And, of course, we're not talking about in

00:23:12 --> 00:23:15

the foundations of religion. That's very clear. We're

00:23:15 --> 00:23:16

talking here specifically

00:23:16 --> 00:23:18

about issues when there is a debate on

00:23:18 --> 00:23:19

the meaning of a text,

00:23:20 --> 00:23:22

when the application of a text is disputed,

00:23:22 --> 00:23:23

or when there is no text. And here,

00:23:23 --> 00:23:25

the mufti has to engage.

00:23:25 --> 00:23:27

That's why Imam al Qarafi said if you

00:23:27 --> 00:23:28

were to answer questions

00:23:29 --> 00:23:31

of a people and you're unaware of their

00:23:31 --> 00:23:32

language, the slang,

00:23:33 --> 00:23:33

intricacies

00:23:34 --> 00:23:36

of their language, you should lose your law

00:23:36 --> 00:23:36

license.

00:23:37 --> 00:23:40

Right? Because the sharia has to stay. Masha'Allah.

00:23:42 --> 00:23:44

The the carriers of sharia have to stay

00:23:44 --> 00:23:45

contextually appropriate.

00:23:46 --> 00:23:48

If not, then the religion loses its value.

00:23:49 --> 00:23:51

Right? People don't find value in it anymore

00:23:51 --> 00:23:52

because it's not dealing with the issues of

00:23:52 --> 00:23:54

their life. So the sharia

00:23:57 --> 00:23:59

Right? It's something which is going to be

00:23:59 --> 00:23:59

applicable

00:24:00 --> 00:24:01

to certain situations

00:24:03 --> 00:24:06

throughout time and specifically to situations

00:24:06 --> 00:24:08

for which there is no

00:24:09 --> 00:24:12

explicit guidance within the sacred text. For example,

00:24:12 --> 00:24:14

when Sayna Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu and the

00:24:14 --> 00:24:15

Sahaba,

00:24:15 --> 00:24:16

right,

00:24:16 --> 00:24:18

put the Quran in a text. Right? They

00:24:18 --> 00:24:20

put it between two covers.

00:24:20 --> 00:24:22

This is a response

00:24:22 --> 00:24:24

to an to something that has happened,

00:24:25 --> 00:24:27

and here they are, of course, dipping He's

00:24:27 --> 00:24:29

dipping into what's called maqasr al sharia. Right?

00:24:29 --> 00:24:31

The general things that bring about the benefit

00:24:31 --> 00:24:34

of the Sharia, and he's able to stay

00:24:34 --> 00:24:36

abreast of what's going on, subhanAllah,

00:24:36 --> 00:24:38

and address something which has a need at

00:24:38 --> 00:24:39

that moment.

00:24:40 --> 00:24:41

The next is wudu

00:24:42 --> 00:24:42

sharia

00:24:43 --> 00:24:43

finosulsiha

00:24:44 --> 00:24:48

that within the the context of legal verses

00:24:48 --> 00:24:49

and legal hadith,

00:24:49 --> 00:24:51

the sharia is clear.

00:24:52 --> 00:24:53

The expression is very clear.

00:24:55 --> 00:24:56

Pray as you see me

00:24:58 --> 00:25:02

praying. Right? You'll, meat, animals that have died

00:25:02 --> 00:25:04

of themselves is forbidden to. It's very clear.

00:25:06 --> 00:25:07

Establish prayer.

00:25:10 --> 00:25:12

5 prayers in a day. It's very clear.

00:25:12 --> 00:25:15

And the prophet said al halal bayin wal

00:25:15 --> 00:25:18

haram bayin. Right? The halal is clear and

00:25:18 --> 00:25:19

the haram is clear.

00:25:20 --> 00:25:22

So one of the unique qualities of the

00:25:22 --> 00:25:24

sharia is that when it comes to legal

00:25:24 --> 00:25:24

issues

00:25:25 --> 00:25:28

and versus an a hadith that address legal

00:25:28 --> 00:25:28

issues,

00:25:29 --> 00:25:29

usually,

00:25:31 --> 00:25:32

is very clear.

00:25:32 --> 00:25:35

The expression could be understood by by by

00:25:35 --> 00:25:36

most people.

00:25:40 --> 00:25:41

The 7th is

00:25:42 --> 00:25:42

that

00:25:45 --> 00:25:47

it is not overbearing

00:25:48 --> 00:25:50

and it does not burden people with things

00:25:50 --> 00:25:51

that they're not able to do.

00:25:52 --> 00:25:53

Sayda Aisha as

00:25:54 --> 00:25:56

related by Imam al Bukhari said the prophet

00:25:56 --> 00:25:58

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam did not order us

00:25:58 --> 00:26:00

to do anything except we could handle it.

00:26:03 --> 00:26:04

And Allahu subhanahu wa ta'ala,

00:26:05 --> 00:26:06

in the Quran,

00:26:06 --> 00:26:08

you know, he says very nicely

00:26:09 --> 00:26:10

and very beautifully,

00:26:11 --> 00:26:13

and very profoundly. Right?

00:26:16 --> 00:26:19

Allah does not burden a soul with more

00:26:19 --> 00:26:20

than it can handle.

00:26:20 --> 00:26:22

And the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, as

00:26:22 --> 00:26:24

an example, people ask me, like, if I

00:26:24 --> 00:26:25

bad thoughts in my heart, am I gonna

00:26:25 --> 00:26:26

be judged by it? The prophet sallallahu alaihi

00:26:26 --> 00:26:27

wa sallam said,

00:26:35 --> 00:26:38

The Allah has, you know, forbidden my community,

00:26:38 --> 00:26:40

has excused my community for the evil thoughts

00:26:40 --> 00:26:42

they have as long as they don't talk

00:26:42 --> 00:26:44

about them or put them into action. So,

00:26:44 --> 00:26:45

masha'Allah,

00:26:46 --> 00:26:48

the absence of overburdening

00:26:51 --> 00:26:52

commands and prohibitions,

00:26:53 --> 00:26:53

adamatakleef,

00:26:54 --> 00:26:56

bin mashaqwith those things which are hard on

00:26:56 --> 00:26:57

people.

00:26:57 --> 00:26:59

So not only does it remove hardship, it

00:26:59 --> 00:27:00

doesn't demand

00:27:01 --> 00:27:03

irrational hardship from people.

00:27:03 --> 00:27:06

But it makes things easy, alhamdulillah. For example,

00:27:08 --> 00:27:11

a woman makes up the days of fasting

00:27:11 --> 00:27:12

that she misses while menstruating,

00:27:13 --> 00:27:14

but she doesn't have to make up the

00:27:14 --> 00:27:16

prayers. Why? Because the moshaka.

00:27:17 --> 00:27:18

Imagine if she have to make up every

00:27:18 --> 00:27:20

prayer she missed. That would be hard on

00:27:20 --> 00:27:21

her,

00:27:21 --> 00:27:23

but fasting is easy. It's only one day.

00:27:24 --> 00:27:27

So here we see the sharia is not

00:27:27 --> 00:27:30

trying to create an irrational

00:27:30 --> 00:27:31

impossible

00:27:31 --> 00:27:33

burden on someone and really, mashallah, as we

00:27:33 --> 00:27:35

continue this journey together,

00:27:35 --> 00:27:37

I hope you can see and appreciate that

00:27:37 --> 00:27:40

beauty because it's really, really, subhanAllah, very nice.

00:27:40 --> 00:27:42

And finally, alwa saltiyyah,

00:27:42 --> 00:27:44

right, that the sharia

00:27:44 --> 00:27:46

maintains the vital center.

00:27:46 --> 00:27:48

I don't like to use the word moderation.

00:27:48 --> 00:27:50

Moderation is a subjective word, Right?

00:27:51 --> 00:27:52

Because the word

00:27:53 --> 00:27:54

means the best camel.

00:27:54 --> 00:27:56

Right? Here means something the best.

00:27:59 --> 00:28:01

One of the meanings is the best Ummah.

00:28:03 --> 00:28:05

Not necessarily the middle Ummah.

00:28:06 --> 00:28:08

Right? But out of this, it's understood that

00:28:08 --> 00:28:10

something that sits in the vital center usually

00:28:10 --> 00:28:11

is the best.

00:28:12 --> 00:28:14

Khalas, but we know that the prophet

00:28:16 --> 00:28:18

when those people came to say to Aisha,

00:28:19 --> 00:28:20

and they asked her about the worship of

00:28:20 --> 00:28:21

the prophet

00:28:23 --> 00:28:24

and she informed them.

00:28:25 --> 00:28:27

Their reaction was what? Like, you know, they

00:28:27 --> 00:28:29

said, you know, that

00:28:30 --> 00:28:32

I'm I'm going to never sleep and pray.

00:28:33 --> 00:28:35

I'm going to fast and never break my

00:28:35 --> 00:28:36

fast. I said I'm never gonna get married.

00:28:36 --> 00:28:38

When the prophet heard about this, he he

00:28:38 --> 00:28:40

went to them in haste,

00:28:40 --> 00:28:42

and he said to them, like, I sleep

00:28:42 --> 00:28:44

and pray. I fast and I break my

00:28:44 --> 00:28:45

fast and and and and fast and I'm

00:28:45 --> 00:28:46

I'm merry.

00:28:46 --> 00:28:48

Like, I marry women.

00:28:50 --> 00:28:52

And whoever turns away from my sunnah is

00:28:52 --> 00:28:53

not from me. This sunnah

00:28:54 --> 00:28:55

of, you know, this moderation.

00:28:55 --> 00:28:56

Prophet

00:28:56 --> 00:28:57

said

00:28:58 --> 00:29:00

Islam. Right? There's no monk type lifestyle in

00:29:00 --> 00:29:01

Islam.

00:29:01 --> 00:29:03

So one of the things that's very beautiful,

00:29:03 --> 00:29:05

and in fact, sometimes it's almost too,

00:29:08 --> 00:29:08

centered

00:29:09 --> 00:29:10

for Muslims,

00:29:11 --> 00:29:13

is that the Sharia is extremely nuanced,

00:29:14 --> 00:29:15

responsible,

00:29:16 --> 00:29:17

and at times,

00:29:17 --> 00:29:18

forbearance

00:29:18 --> 00:29:19

in dealing with issues

00:29:20 --> 00:29:22

to the point that you're like,

00:29:22 --> 00:29:23

people want more.

00:29:24 --> 00:29:25

Allah says,

00:29:27 --> 00:29:29

Do not be extreme. Either they want to

00:29:29 --> 00:29:30

be overly loose

00:29:31 --> 00:29:33

or overly stringent. So Alhamdulillah.

00:29:33 --> 00:29:38

Masha'Allah. Masha'Allah. We we are now talking about

00:29:38 --> 00:29:38

some of the

00:29:39 --> 00:29:42

unique qualities of the sharia as we begin

00:29:42 --> 00:29:43

this journey together.

00:29:43 --> 00:29:45

And I just want to mention them to

00:29:45 --> 00:29:46

you,

00:29:47 --> 00:29:48

one more time

00:29:49 --> 00:29:51

The first we talked about how sharia is

00:29:51 --> 00:29:53

from this word, which means a watering hole.

00:29:53 --> 00:29:55

Right? Something that people

00:29:55 --> 00:29:58

take their camels to in an oasis in

00:29:58 --> 00:29:59

the desert or themselves and they drink water

00:29:59 --> 00:30:00

for survival.

00:30:01 --> 00:30:03

Number 2 we we mentioned the the 8

00:30:03 --> 00:30:06

qualities unique qualities of sharia. Number 1 is

00:30:06 --> 00:30:06

rabaniyah.

00:30:07 --> 00:30:09

Right? That it is related

00:30:09 --> 00:30:12

coming from Allah from coming from God Almighty.

00:30:12 --> 00:30:13

It's God's law. It's God's truth.

00:30:14 --> 00:30:15

And that we as a community

00:30:15 --> 00:30:17

are commanded to be godly

00:30:18 --> 00:30:19

in our lives, and the way that we

00:30:19 --> 00:30:21

live a godly life is by following

00:30:21 --> 00:30:22

a sharia.

00:30:23 --> 00:30:25

The second is that it is comprehensive.

00:30:25 --> 00:30:28

As Imam Sha'afiri said, there's nothing that happens

00:30:28 --> 00:30:31

except there is some kind of implicit or

00:30:31 --> 00:30:31

explicit,

00:30:32 --> 00:30:34

religious guidance on the issue.

00:30:36 --> 00:30:37

The third,

00:30:38 --> 00:30:38

taysir warafrulharaj,

00:30:39 --> 00:30:41

right, is ease in removing

00:30:41 --> 00:30:44

hardship. This is very important, man, and we're

00:30:44 --> 00:30:47

gonna unpack these. So so don't you may

00:30:47 --> 00:30:49

have questions now. It's great,

00:30:50 --> 00:30:53

but let's let's ride the journey. Ride with

00:30:53 --> 00:30:55

me a little as we unpack him, insha'Allah.

00:30:56 --> 00:30:59

The 4th is Riyayat Musali al Bashr is

00:30:59 --> 00:31:02

looking after the general good of all people,

00:31:02 --> 00:31:03

not just Muslims,

00:31:04 --> 00:31:05

of all people.

00:31:05 --> 00:31:07

And and that that one is very profound.

00:31:07 --> 00:31:08

And the 5th

00:31:08 --> 00:31:10

is that it is current.

00:31:10 --> 00:31:13

Right? It is it is contextually appropriate without

00:31:13 --> 00:31:14

sacrificing

00:31:15 --> 00:31:17

its principles, and sometimes we find people

00:31:19 --> 00:31:21

All these have to be taken in in

00:31:21 --> 00:31:23

in in in in in one package here.

00:31:23 --> 00:31:26

Like, I may be contextually appropriate, but if

00:31:26 --> 00:31:27

I'm not involved in

00:31:28 --> 00:31:30

sacrificing the deen for the context.

00:31:31 --> 00:31:33

At the same time, if I try to

00:31:33 --> 00:31:35

employ the deen in a way that is

00:31:35 --> 00:31:35

not

00:31:36 --> 00:31:38

applicable to a given situation in any way,

00:31:38 --> 00:31:39

shape, or form, then, also, I'm doing a

00:31:39 --> 00:31:41

disservice to myself

00:31:41 --> 00:31:44

and a disserve service to others. The 6th

00:31:44 --> 00:31:44

is

00:31:45 --> 00:31:46

is that it is clear

00:31:47 --> 00:31:49

in its legal expressions. And we're gonna talk

00:31:49 --> 00:31:51

about this inshallah in the future. It's beautiful,

00:31:51 --> 00:31:54

man. It's really amazing, the great care that

00:31:54 --> 00:31:54

comes into,

00:31:55 --> 00:31:57

the expressions of law,

00:31:57 --> 00:31:58

in Sharia.

00:31:58 --> 00:32:01

And then the the 7th is Adam Utakleef

00:32:01 --> 00:32:02

Bil Mushak.

00:32:03 --> 00:32:04

Right? That it does not

00:32:06 --> 00:32:08

ask us to do things that are impossible

00:32:08 --> 00:32:09

and overbearing.

00:32:10 --> 00:32:12

Right? It does not it does not burden

00:32:12 --> 00:32:14

us with something we can't handle.

00:32:14 --> 00:32:15

And then finally,

00:32:17 --> 00:32:20

that it's rest in the vital center.

00:32:21 --> 00:32:22

And insha'Allah,

00:32:22 --> 00:32:23

we ask Allah

00:32:25 --> 00:32:27

We ask Allah to bless you and bless

00:32:27 --> 00:32:28

us. Next time, insha'Allah,

00:32:28 --> 00:32:30

we're going to talk about Al Qawait,

00:32:31 --> 00:32:31

the foundations

00:32:32 --> 00:32:33

of sharia.

00:32:33 --> 00:32:36

We're going to review a few of them

00:32:36 --> 00:32:38

really quickly and then introduce the one that

00:32:38 --> 00:32:40

is going to form the beginning of our

00:32:42 --> 00:32:42

discussions,

00:32:43 --> 00:32:43

that hardships

00:32:44 --> 00:32:45

bring about

00:32:46 --> 00:32:46

facilitation,

00:32:47 --> 00:32:48

Bring about ease.

00:32:49 --> 00:32:51

Keep us in your duas. I ask Allah

00:32:51 --> 00:32:53

to bless you and protect you. I ask

00:32:53 --> 00:32:53

Allah

00:32:59 --> 00:33:01

Ask Allah to make this sincerely for his

00:33:01 --> 00:33:01

sake

00:33:03 --> 00:33:04

to bless us and all of the students

00:33:04 --> 00:33:05

of knowledge.

Share Page