Suhaib Webb – Usul al Fiqh (Lesson Fourteen) Commands
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The knowledges of what you need to get
there, and then and that means the actions,
and then the knowledges of the attitudes and
ideas that you need to make it easy
for yourself. The first is
aqeedah. The the second is fiqh.
Fiqh is the application
and
employment of the commands of Allah Subhana Wa
Ta'la in our lives. The third is tasawaf.
That takes us now to the next chapter
in Al Warakat of Sayyidina Imam al Juwayni,
that is the chapter on commands.
Because
if I want to get to the destination
then I better be able to know what
the commands are.
I need to know what I have to
have like the priorities in my life. Imam
Siri Ahmad al Zorukh, Siri Ahmad Zorukh, he
says, you know taqdheemal
ahamalalmuhim,
shatnu sadiqinafiqulishay.
To have priorities is the way of the
righteous people in all things. Today we're gonna
talk about commands. The word for commands in
Arabic is Amru.
Its plural is awemir,
khalas.
And under this
concept of commands,
we're going to touch on the following issues.
Number 1, identifying what is a command.
Number 2, and I I wrote it here.
I'm getting old. Can't see no more, man.
That's the the second thing I wanna talk
about is if we find a command in
the Quran and Sunnah, what is its default
meaning? Is it an obligation,
a recommendation,
and so on and so forth?
The third thing that that we're gonna talk
about, and
the different type of connected and disconnected commands.
And then the third thing,
Right? That does does a command
in its default mean something you have to
do over and over and over again? And
then we're going to talk about
when you come across a command, does it
mean does it mean you have to do
it immediately?
And then finally, and this is very important,
we're gonna spend some time on it, inshallah,
it's called mukaddimatulwajib.
Those things that are not necessarily
obligatory, but they are intrinsic to completing a
command like wudu for salah. Do they also
then take the ruling
of the command, meaning,
is an obligation?
I have a very important axiom, says,
Whatever draws nearest to something takes its ruling,
Insha'Allah.
So we're gonna talk about that
.Imam Al Haramain, he says
Now I want to talk about the definition
of amr. He says,
Imam Al Haramain he says that
means to demand. From the word dua.
But the sin and the ta'a add
some intensity to the meaning because we know
the sin and the ta'a is called talavia.
Sometimes it means tawkid,
sometimes it
means
request.
In Al Hudud
of Imam ibn Arafa Al Maniki he talks
about Tahara he said istibaha.
Istibaha means
to like with tokhi
to really seek to make something permissible.
But here
here it means to like means
request. So here it means like to command,
to demand.
Right?
This request comes with a lot of intensity.
To demand an action.
Bilqaul. And the the the ba here is
used to
restrict
and show exclusivity
that the Amr is coming through
through speech,
not through writing,
not through gestures
gestures, not through signs. That's a different discussion.
From someone who or something which is greater
than something else.
In a way that shows it is obligatory.
So its form,
shows it's obligatory.
Again, you should try to memorize this. What
is Al Amru? Al Amru
When I was in
my my my student days. I'm still a
student, but like full time.
I used to take the tazbi,
and I would memorize these things like this.
Alhamdulillah it stayed with me. Alfi Tadimariq
I memorize it like
100 times, 200 times. So that was locked.
Same thing here.
So when I read it, it comes back
to me
I'm not no super intelligent
genius.
So if if guy from Oklahoma can do
it, you can do it, man. You got
You know, one of the biggest challenges I
see with students of knowledge
is either they're overly arrogant, which makes them
lazy,
and most of the time what I see
is a lack of healthy self esteem.
Don't have big dreams, man. Have big dreams.
If you do stuff like this, it's it's
locked in your head. And don't don't listen
to people who tell you,
The only person who says that is someone
that doesn't memorize
and doesn't understand
that one day if they put us all
in concentration and can't smell or protect us,
is what we memorize is gonna save us
and our knowledge and who we are as
a community.
So we ask Allah to protect us
So the Sheikh he says
the command
is a demand.
The demand of an action
Shali, you don't understand this. Don't worry. But
for those students of mine who do, this
is very
important. So all of these statements that he's
saying are slowly restricting the meaning.
It's not a recommendation.
Right? It's not permissible. You have to do
it.
Let's see what Saydna Imam Al Muhari, he
says,
He says He comments. He says
Right? So means you can't stop it. You
can't you can't abandon like
So is
the
right
immutable command
to pray. So
is the form is the order.
So here you go. Akimu salah.
You must establish a prayer. That's why the
translation, I don't like it, it says establish
a prayer. La la, you must.
You have no choice.
So let's take it again.
Afala.
Akama Yokimu.
Akim.
Is she?
Akimu Sola
is a command.
That command, that's.
Wakathirik
Akhimu is demanding what?
PM
al Salah.
That's a feil.
It's with a qawl, Quran.
So here you see in the in the
command,
right, the
definition of imam al Haramain. Now when you
do this on your own, you wanna go
and find verses of the Quran which command
things.
You wanna take what I the what I
just did for you, you wanna do that
over and over and over and over. I
used to do this in Dala Iftar in
Egypt
over and over and over till you is
stuck in your head.
And it's just coming, boom, boom, boom. You
don't have to think about it anymore.
You gotta have those reps.
Nobody's nobody's so good that they don't need
to study. There's nobody like that. We're not
we're not
MBA.
We have to study. We have to work.
So
this is a command.
A command to what? To an action. With
a yes.
Then say no Imam Al Haramain, he says
the form. How do you recognize what is
the commands?
That's why Sayna and Mahali says
is Ithal. Ithal has a order.
So
When I first started studying,
I was so confused by this. I said,
well, I, Sheikh.
I don't I don't understand, man.
There's a lot of different forms for
Sheikh, he said, no. No. No. No. In
what he means here, he's just giving you,
like, a generic example. Ifal
in any other
form of a verb which is a command.
So he says, here's the the great explanation
of saying the Imam
Ali
Well, it's
a great statement.
And and and it should be
He says that,
you know, the meaning here is not that
this is the only form ifal,
but any
of the forms of verbs that carry with
them the meaning of an order.
Then
he gives some examples.
To strike.
What Akrim
to honor. Akrim is from Afala.
Right? Afala, you
Islam
to
When Allah said to say to Ibrahim Islam
is a order.
Right? But it's not the form if al,
it's a fail. Ruba, Yani, Afala, you fail.
But the meaning is in order.
But that that meaning there is a order.
So any of the verbs when you find
their form in the order
form
This also you're gonna find it with
when it has
prophet said Whoever believes in Allah in the
last day
must speak well or remain silent.
Must speak well or must
remain silent.
That's the true translation of the word. So
Alhamdulillah, Yani Akhadna.
We took, quite a bit here
and I think another question maybe people ask
as well. You said, me man who had
done a who but sometimes like in the
Quran people say
does that mean we are commanding God
But when it comes from one who is
Adanat, one that is Allah as mentioned by
Saidi Imam
this means what a dua.
So one that is less to one that
is best or greater is dua.
One who is in a greater place of
authority to one who is less, this is
Al Amru.