Suhaib Webb – The Role of Fiqh

			If we're to look at life as a
		

			weight bar, there is so much weight on
		

			the lives of Muslims right now militarily, politically,
		

			economically, socially,
		

			and we have to help each other. We
		

			have to spot each other to be honest
		

			with you to help us pull through.
		

			But subhanAllah, one of the things that allows
		

			us to stay balanced and not put too
		

			much needed weight on that bar is the
		

			science of filk, the science of mizan, the
		

			science of measures, the science of balance, the
		

			science of
		

			that may sound strange because the post colonial
		

			mind sees religious legislation
		

			as an opportunity to be enslaved, limited and
		

			restricted,
		

			where Islam looks at filk as the science
		

			of the emancipation
		

			to be free from the gunyah,
		

			to be free from unhealthy attachments so that
		

			a person could be light and move quickly
		

			in worshiping Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. That's why
		

			the prophet said in the context of general
		

			understanding, whoever Allah intends good for, he gives
		

			them an understanding of religion.
		

			Religion vis a vis the corrupt nature of
		

			this dunya and its its corrosive impacts on
		

			our lives that keeps us away from worshiping
		

			Allah.